If she's anything like Phyllis Schlafly, why yes, the moment her husband tells her to get back in the kitchen she absolutely will! Right away! She'll drop everything, her privilege, her power, her perks. Her entire staff will be S.O.L. after just a word from her husband. If he just says the word, why, she wouldn't utter a word of protest. Honest!
I'm often reminded that while Jesus counselled his followers to turn the other cheek, he reviled the hypocrites.
Have you seen Dmge ? It's web based, but it has fog of war and a few other nice tricks, if you've got the maps.
Just a few weeks ago there were left voices mad that the party wasn't preventing Andrew Cuomo's campaign to be mayor of NYC. I didn't see any one on the left crying foul over suggesting the party shouldn't play fair.
The number of warheads each nation maintains is agreed on in the START treaties, and those levels are determined by stockpile effectiveness. The US is recognized to have superior targeting and guidance systems, so they need fewer warheads to maintain parity with Russia's stockpile.
The best possible outcome is for SDI and it's descendants to be a complete waste of taxpayer money. If some clever chap comes up with a practical missile defense system, Russia would immediately generate enough warheads to overwhelm such a system and maintain parity.
Each missile represents a potential fault path to WWIII. We've been lucky with at least a couple near misses in our history. I don't look forward to a future with more.
A lot of the usual suspects, but when my group of grognards plays we reach back a bit. Tomorrow we're playing Traveler. Last few times we played it was Champions.
I'd like to run an OpenD6 game of I can pull a group together. The last few times I ran it was D6 Star Wars, but I like the system for other genres as well.
Let's not forget the endless conversations about which park is Werewolf territory and which is Gangrel Vampire territory. Then the slow realization that you don't live in a place cool enough to attract any supernatural presence.
To make things even more awkward, prior to making promises to the Jewish community, the UK had already made promises to the Arab community to provide independence to Arab Palestine in exchange for fighting the Turks.
What a hottie.
The scientific method is more about falsification than problem solving.
"If you ever succeed, devise and implement a test to see if it was a fluke."
I'd reply that anyone can justify any conclusion if they're allowed to pick and choose the evidence under consideration. We should aim to produce a political theory that accounts for decades of history and change.
From the DNC's perspective, going left lost against Nixon of all people, during a deeply unpopular war. Going left was crushed by Regan. Both Bush presidents won by attacking centrist candidates from the right. Clinton ran very centrist campaigns and won. Obama was at best more practical than ideological. Carter and Biden picked up the pieces of disasters, but that didn't translate in to long term gains, and neither of them got credit for what wins they delivered the left.
I agree the DNC should go left, but I understand it's hard to make the case based on the last 60 years of experience.
Indeed. It feels like a lot of historical context is missing in Lemmy political discussions. The Democratic party was the party of FDR, JFK, and LBJ. The Democratic Leadership Council took over the party after the left candidates failed to deliver election successes, but even then, the DLC had to do the work to take the party leadership positions, build a funding network, and win elections. Before that FDR had to wrestle party control from the the Dixiecrats.
Hopefully Hogg and allies will be successful in reforming the party once again.