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Mythos Friedensbewegung 🧵 Pazifismus als Haltung, Anwendung von Gewalt grundsätzlich abzulehnen, ist ein respektabler ethischer Standpunkt. Warum die Tradition des Missbrauchs dieser Grundhaltung -durch Täuschung und Manipulation- zur Gefahr für unsere Sicherheit wird: 1/25
In einem WDR-Radiointerview bekannten sich Moderatorin und Gast Sigmar Gabriel, als junge Menschen an der großen Friedenskundgebung im Bonner Hofgarten 1983 teilgenommen zu haben. Diese prägende Erfahrung der 80er-Friedensbewegung kann aber zur Manipulation genutzt werden. 2/25
1/6 🧵I’ve given a few talks recently about trans-Atlantic slavery in British history, to people who really don’t want to hear it. I don’t mean haranguing shoppers in Oxford Street, but talks to church, community and business groups comprised of small ‘c’ conservative White people who’ve been willing to hear me out, even if they find it uncomfortable. I’ve kept it factual and based it on two main databases: https://t.co/dvxBzLNT6U on British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave ‘trade’ and https://t.co/ShYr4TXB7W on slave ownership. On every occasion, there have been two main objections. In case its useful for others, this thread sets out what they are, along with my own attempts to answer:
1. What about other slave systems – notably the Muslims/Arabs/Barbary Corsairs. Weren’t they just as ‘bad’? a) The Arab slave trading system along the east African coast, across the Red Sea and the Sahara Desert took some 4-10 million people into captivity over a 1000 year period. The trans-Atlantic system was far more intense, taking over 12.5 million captives across the Atlantic in a 350 year period. b) Islamic systems of slavery largely disregarded ethnicity or race. Captives were taken from sub-Saharan and North Africa and from Barbary raids across the Mediterranean into Western Europe. In the trans-Atlantic system, captivity was exclusive to Black African people, with enduring implications for European ideas of racial difference, developed to ‘explain’ and justify the system.
Bun In The Oven | coupjeong socmed au Eowhyn (jh) an Ω only wanted to get a papsmear for medical reasons. What happens when an obsessed ex gf wanted to tie the knots with Seb (sc) no matter what it takes? With his child, she can finally chain her with him! If that was the case.
- this is just a one shot! If anyone wants a lengthened version of this one then a few likes here and there are all I need, thanks!
God, whenever discourse about "magic in RPGs" and "magic systems in fantasy" and "tabletop powerscaling" come up my mind casts wistfully to my beloved The Lady, who forever reshaped the idea of what magic COULD BE, if only writers weren't cowards, for me
I'm not going to retell the whole story of The Lady - read the Books of the North, the arc starting with The Black Company and going through Shadows Linger and The White Rose, if you want the story. It's too big for me to compress into tweets. Too sweeping.
My favorite version of a monk in OSR games is like, replicating the efficiencies of items without items. Climb like you had a rope. Hit like you had a dagger/a sword/a spear. Deflect like you had a shield. Endure hunger like you had food.
Award-winning TTRPG designer/idiot His Majesty the Worm out now! https://t.co/uM0lozLnxG
🧵1/ I am somewhat dismayed (though sadly unsurprised) by this extremely disingenuous and callous reporting about Palestinian death figures. Claims that the UN have revised down its death toll are absolutely untrue but have been repeated by right wing outlets but also the CFR 🤔
2/ These media are focusing on these two infographics by the @ochaopt . The one on the left, published 6th May, the one on the right published 8th May. As you can see, total fatalities INCREASE, as opposed to decrease. What the propaganda is seaking to do is barely sophistry
