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[westerosiladies]

[probablybadrpgideas]

Actual Stupid Pointless Bullshit by Game System

D&D: There's a purely good aligned spell that only good people can use. It causes an extremely contagious disease that makes people so horny they straight up die.

World of Darkness: Scientists radiate an aura of pure boringness so strong it kills pixies and that's why you don't see pixies anymore.

Chronicles of Darkness: "Actually, the psychic abuse monsters spawned from our nightmares are doing us a favour by beaming our worst fears directly into our brains until we die."

Call of Cthulhu: Fetishes are on the Insanity Table that you randomly roll on when you lose sanity so there's a chance you see Cthulhu and immediately develop a foot fetish so intense you have to be hospitalised.

Powered By The Apocalypse: Mechanically, everyone is pansexual. Everyone has to be pansexual. If you don't want to be pansexual, tough! We're married and you're in love.

Pathfinder: Inexplicable archfiend who specifically embodies the act of luring children into dark alleyways with candy to kidnap them.

Mutants and Mastermind: "So, we need enemies for a silver age superhero comic book game. What we got?" "Well, I've statted up a super-scientist gorilla, and an evil clown, and the vengeful souls of everyone killed in the very real Hiroshima Bombings. How's that?" "Yeah, that all seems tonally consistent."

Warhammer 40k: Hoo boy, how much time you got?

Warhammer: I don't think I can top vaporizing the fucking setting and killing everyone in the world for copyright reasons.

[on-a-lucky-tide]

I hate how you're not even in the US and feel terrified, but honestly yeah that asshole does give off he wants to go be Global Dictator. I hate what his win has done to the country and world. Good reminder as I work on remembering the shit that's going on in my life is insignificant and how I wish death would find me already.

There's a phrase that you might have heard before: when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.

Your country has been a global dictator for a long time; Stalin called it "dollar imperialism". Trump's just the first president to be so blatant about it.

When people ask me what "the USA" means to me, I always show them these. This is America to me:

I have spent many years teaching American history. I know the Nazis modelled their cruelty on American cruelty, so what your officials are doing now, the cruelty displayed by maga, none of that is a surprise to me.

But don't wish for death. Wish for the opportunity to build a better legacy. If you go now, you're opting out of fighting for those that can't. Don't leave us alone to fight your monster, mate. We need you here picking up a weapon or a first aid kit.

I think Mandela said it best in '64: I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

[matricejacobine]

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[poemsforthetmarchives]

For 137: 'Channel Firing', by Thomas Hardy

That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgment-day

And sat upright. While drearisome Arose the howl of wakened hounds: The mouse let fall the altar-crumb, The worms drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No; It’s gunnery practice out at sea Just as before you went below; The world is as it used to be:

“All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They do no more for Christés sake Than you who are helpless in such matters.

“That this is not the judgment-hour For some of them’s a blessed thing, For if it were they’d have to scour Hell’s floor for so much threatening….

“Ha, ha. It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet (if indeed I ever do; for you are men, And rest eternal sorely need).”

So down we lay again. “I wonder, Will the world ever saner be,” Said one, “than when He sent us under In our indifferent century!”

And many a skeleton shook his head. “Instead of preaching forty year,” My neighbour Parson Thirdly said, “I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.”

Again the guns disturbed the hour, Roaring their readiness to avenge, As far inland as Stourton Tower, And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.

[starberry-cupcake]

day of the dove, or that time an alien put the enterprise and a klingon crew together to manipulate their inherent prejudice into aggression and make them fight each other to feed on their hatred, but jim snapped out of it the second the alien prompted him use a slur towards spock

bonus: jim knocked out his son chekov to get him away from a klingon woman he was trying to assault while reacting to a false backstory the alien put in his head and then carried him to medbay like a baby, feeling super sad about it all

intense af episode all around

[necarion]

One of the Allies' greatest strategic mistakes of WWII was not sending far more resources to fight Japan in Asia. Sure, the Americans defeated the Japanese anyway. The severe conditions on the ground in China led to millions of military and millions of army deaths during the war itself.

But, the war also led to the near-destruction of the Nationalist forces, while Mao's Communists managed to (a) bide their time without suffering as-severe casualties, to be reserved for the coming civil war, (b) gather military equipment designated for the fight against Japan, and (c) put out major propaganda about how they were actually succeeding where the Nationalists were not (complete lies).

Most likely as a result, the Communists won the Chinese Civil War. And that had absolutely catastrophic consequences for the next 50 years of history (Korean and Vietnam wars, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Cambodian Genocide, existence of the DPRK) and continues to massively shape world history today, as one of the major supporters of authoritarian states today.

And, sure. A mainland Republic of China would not have been an automatic ally of the United States. And it wouldn't have been a great democratic force-for-good (just like Korea and Taiwan weren't until the 1980s). But without the major military threat of Communist China, I suspect things would have liberalized earlier in those countries. And more, a China taking part in the Asian Miracle would have had amazing results for worldwide poverty.

And yes, maybe we would have even contributed military forces during additional Communist coup attempts in China itself (although with major US bases there already, things might have gone differently). But there wouldn't have been the massive spread of Maoism that immiserated SE Asia without Mao. And for certain the DPRK wouldn't have received Chinese support during the Korean Civil War.

It's quite likely that the Allied decision to not support the Chinese more in World War II strongly contributed to the deaths of 60 million people during the cold war ("extraordinary" events) and who knows how many additional poverty deaths.