Stalin was a man of steel who surrounded himself with tough guys like Felix Dzerzhinsky and Lavrentiy Beria.
Trump’s cohort will crack like bamboo when he passes and they have to stand on their own.
Can you actually imagine JD Vance lasting eleven hours under interrogation? Hilary did it without having a hair out of place.
It doesn’t have to work forever, it has to work for now.
Yeah, couldn’t get through a year of community college, but he’d tell people he was rejected by West Point because of DEI.
There’s a book series I like a lot. ‘Berlin Noir’ by Phillip Kerr. The stories are set from 1934 on to the 1960s. The hero is an ex-cop turned private eye. In one of the books the hero is talking to one of his old police buddies. “Last year we executed about 30 people in all of Germany. This year we’ve already had over 200 executions. I don’t know where this is going to end…”
The Nazis came out of a time of hyperinflation. Germany was having real problems when they took over.
Trump got elected in 2016 at a time of prosperity.
Also, Kirk was born in 1993. He was old enough to serve during the ‘War on Terror.’ For some reason, he felt he could better serve his country by arguing with other Americans instead of actually hurting the terrorist.
I did a quick search, I couldn’t find out if the Nazis sold merchandise at their rallies.
Offhand, I’d think that the Nazis probably gave things like posters and armbands away, but wouldn’t take money for it. I think that in economic hard times it would have seemed like a bad idea.
I believe the plural for of Chris is “Chrisii”
Scotty to Doohan. “Och, what Klingon taught you to do a Scots accent. Never mind, have a wee drink and I’ll teach to speak proper.”
William Shatner has entered the chat…
The whole reason you have skin is to protect you from nature.
Your body is a tube; anything you swallow is subjected to all sorts of processes designed to break that thing down into tiny pieces that get checked over and over by the guardians in your body.
Anytime the doctor injects you they sterilize your skin and make sure that the vial the product comes has been sterilized.
tl, dr - it’s a really dumb idea
Some people have to wear leather collars or dye their hair or get facial tattoos to proclaim themselves.
I tell people I like a 1,200 page comedy novel about the founding of the english banking system.
I’ve never been as angry as when I got to the end of the first book and found that the bastard had hidden the glossary!
https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=tanith+lee
Tanith Lee. British writer of the same time and mindset. The first book listed “Night’s Master” is set in the time when the world was still flat. A mighty demon prince spends the daylight hours in his underworld kingdom, and spends his nights tormenting and/or seducing humans.
Enjoy!
‘The Difference Engine’ by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. Forty years after Lovelace and Babbage perfected their mechanical computer, the British Empire is more powerful than ever. But all is not well! A great alterate history
It’s called the ‘Gish Gallop.’
The best way for the Right to defeat the Left in an argument is to unload a torrent of lies, half truths, complete nonsense, and other disinformation. The idea is to overwhelm the other side’s ability to form a coherent response, because there’s too much to unpack.
Trump knows Kennedy is an idiot, but he’s a useful idiot in that he forces the Left to deal with him.
Off the top of my head. Say there are five new members. Planet A’s uniform is worn for half a year, then the Bs get a turn, and so on and so on…
Remember the argument the creators had about giving Patrick Stewart a wig? One said said that in the future there’d be a cure for baldness, and the other side felt that in the future people wouldn’t care about baldness.
The new races would see that it was a symbolic thing. Kind of like teams wearing pink to support breast cancer awareness.
This is my head canon.
When a new race/planet joins the Federation, they get to design the new uniforms. Troi’s people were responsible for the TOS miniskirts.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/sabella-tanith-lee/13457595?ean=9780756411008&next=t
Sabella by Tanith Lee.
Best vampire novel you never read.
Hitler had one Minister of Propaganda and a thousand hardcore road captains.
Trump has a thousand propagandists and no one next to him who could actually make a fist.