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Historical Discussion / Re: Napoleonic art books
« on: December 22, 2021, 10:59:59 am »
Literally state of the art are any of the new books by Paul Dawson. Mind you, they're really academic-level books, which means academic prices. The books include art by Rocco, so well worth it.

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Proud to see this is still going on.

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BCoF wanneer?

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: August 28, 2019, 06:20:16 pm »
Imagine being British right now.

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: June 22, 2019, 12:22:16 pm »
But hey someone please tell me how first-past-the-post single-member districts are such a good system for electing legislative bodies.

FPTP is great so long as you have primary elections that ensures there's a two-party system. For instance there's no need to vote Liberal Democrat if you can instead vote for a centrist to be the official Tory or Labour candidate come the general election.

FPTP is terrible. Looking at the United States, there are few succesful primary challenges on the federal level and barely any challenges at all on the state level or local level. Linking geographical location to political preferences was an 18th necessesity you can easily do without now. Let people vote their actual preference, not the least-worst candidate.

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: June 17, 2019, 09:41:49 pm »
Of course. Johnson's ridicious hardline position is the only thing that will bring back voters to the Conservatives and MP's would like to keep their seats.

But hey someone please tell me how first-past-the-post single-member districts are such a good system for electing legislative bodies.

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: May 25, 2019, 11:31:27 am »
Brexit means nothing.

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: May 22, 2019, 10:56:22 pm »
Tomorrow the Dutch and the British are going to the polls for the European parliament. I'm pleased to announce I am stepping away from my Green tendencies for once. Gun' b gud

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: May 21, 2019, 11:06:43 pm »
God British politics is so cringy.

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Off Topic / Re: Game of Thrones thread (USE SPOILERS)
« on: May 15, 2019, 10:34:28 pm »
Spoiler
Looking at the making-of of episode 5, I grew a little bit more understanding of some of the choices made by the writers, right up to the moment of Daenarys decision to burn shit down. There is absolutely no point in it. I thought the whole point was about whether or not let loose the dragon to fight the soldiers/kill cersei because of possible colleteral damage. But she won her fucking victory, the city surrendered, and yet she decides to just start burning civilians. Not just the Red Keep, not just the surrendering soldiers, but just civilians. You can't say 'Well she said would take what is hers with fire and blood' because she WON. And now, obviously, she lost everything. I mean, what is going to be the subject of the finale? Jon Snow spending 1,5 hour debating people whether or not to stab Danearys in the chest?
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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: April 13, 2019, 08:40:00 pm »
So StevenChilton, who will you be voting for in the European Elections?

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: April 05, 2019, 03:33:31 pm »
Wow another request for extension how surprising.

Gotta love how May's actual plan is to just ask parliament to accept her deal over and over again until they finally do.

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Never forget having to generate a new random map ten times at large events because the first nine were not plains at all.

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: March 30, 2019, 08:07:56 pm »
'struggling'.

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Off Topic / Re: The General Political Thread
« on: March 30, 2019, 11:00:51 am »
Yeah, you know, I don't think a British person has the right to claim some sort of moral high ground in anything related to parliaments right now.

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