[noam chomsky] power systems do not give gifts willingly. In history, you will occasionally find a benevolent dictator, or a slave owner who decides to free his slaves, but these are basically statistical errors. Typically, systems of power will try to consolidate, sustain, and expand their power. That’s true of parliaments, too. It’s popular activism that compels change.
rocker wrote, "political rights do not originate in parliaments, they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without."
@novaugustus The only ass hole I know is Larry David. By the way Larry, just remember it was FDR over staying his welcome. Granted before the 22nd Amendment. My guess, you loved his 4 terms when he pretended to be a king you so claim to hate.
Helaena is the anti-Targaryen. She possesses a massive, ancient dragon (Dreamfyre) and has the literal gift of prophecy, the ultimate Valyrian toolkit, yet she has zero desire for power, conquest, or violence.
If the rest of her family was more like her, the dragons would still be alive.
#hotdrama #HOTD
Am I the only one confused by this? She recalled Rhaenyra’s dragonriders from Harrenhal for no clear reason, and Aemond arrives with zero resistance. Thoughts?
🚨A Modern Epigraphic Discovery unveils an Inscription where Zayd Bin Hassan (The Grandson of the Prophet) Writes the following:
"I, Zaid bin Al-Hasan, believe in God alone with no partner, and I bear witness that there is no god but God alone, and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. Upon this I live as long as I live, and upon it I die when I die. And I ask God to bring me close to Muhammad in the Hereafter as He brought me close to him in this world, and to make me one of his beloved ones, his chosen ones, and his elite. O God, bless us in this abode of ours and ward off from us its evil and the evil of every evildoer."