was Mulan’s tactical masterstroke on the mountain actually a strategic miscalculation? she fires the cannon and deliberately misses Shan-Yu in order to trigger an avalanche that wipes out his army, but he actually survives the disaster along with enough soldiers to mount a covert attack on the imperial city that almost succeeded in decapitating the emperor and hence the empire.
and that’s just it: why defeat the army if you can just defeat the leader? if Mulan had taken out Shan-Yu with the rocket, the Hun/Mongol/Xiongnu army still presented a formidable threat, but leaderless they would likely not have proceeded to attack the capital, and might have even collapsed into infighting or retreated to their home territory to elect a new leader.
Is Shan-Yu’s army an army that belongs to Shan-Yu, which is bound together and led by him, or is it an army that he happens to be in command of and which has an established chain of command with fallbacks and a coherent strategy? A mob led by a charismatic leader may lose cohesion and splash against the rocks of the imperial moat, but a well-trained army, having lost its head, will grow a new head to overcome the imperial strategy.
difficult to say as the story never clearly establishes the time period or the nature of Shan-Yu’s rule. I was thinking of the tension following the death of Genghis Khan and more significantly his son:
The empire began to split due to wars over succession, as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from his son and initial heir Ögedei or from one of his other sons, such as Tolui, Chagatai, or Jochi. The Toluids prevailed after a bloody purge of Ögedeid and Chagataid factions, but disputes continued among the descendants of Tolui. A key reason for the split was the dispute over whether the Mongol Empire would become a sedentary, cosmopolitan empire, or would stay true to the Mongol nomadic and steppe-based lifestyle. After Möngke Khan died (1259), rival kurultai councils simultaneously elected different successors, the brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai Khan, who fought each other in the Toluid Civil War (1260–1264) and also dealt with challenges from the descendants of other sons of Genghis. Kublai successfully took power, but civil war ensued as he sought unsuccessfully to regain control of the Chagatayid and Ögedeid families.
what the fuck are you even talking about
well it’s a nerd thing innit, to take a flimsy premise and discuss it with unnecessary seriousness as if it was an important event in the real world and not merely fiction written for maximum drama; much like the cliched question of whether the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars could defeat/escape the Enterprise from Star Trek, it’s less about the actual issue under debate and more about giving people an opportunity to pontificate and grandstand and demonstrate their command of the subject matter and the ability to drag in seemingly unrelated facts from other fields in a form of friendly yet competitive nerd peacocking japery.
was Mulan’s tactical masterstroke on the mountain actually a strategic miscalculation? she fires the cannon and deliberately misses Shan-Yu in order to trigger an avalanche that wipes out his army, but he actually survives the disaster along with enough soldiers to mount a covert attack on the imperial city that almost succeeded in decapitating the emperor and hence the empire.
and that’s just it: why defeat the army if you can just defeat the leader? if Mulan had taken out Shan-Yu with the rocket, the Hun/Mongol/Xiongnu army still presented a formidable threat, but leaderless they would likely not have proceeded to attack the capital, and might have even collapsed into infighting or retreated to their home territory to elect a new leader.
Is Shan-Yu’s army an army that belongs to Shan-Yu, which is bound together and led by him, or is it an army that he happens to be in command of and which has an established chain of command with fallbacks and a coherent strategy? A mob led by a charismatic leader may lose cohesion and splash against the rocks of the imperial moat, but a well-trained army, having lost its head, will grow a new head to overcome the imperial strategy.
difficult to say as the story never clearly establishes the time period or the nature of Shan-Yu’s rule. I was thinking of the tension following the death of Genghis Khan and more significantly his son:
The empire began to split due to wars over succession, as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from his son and initial heir Ögedei or from one of his other sons, such as Tolui, Chagatai, or Jochi. The Toluids prevailed after a bloody purge of Ögedeid and Chagataid factions, but disputes continued among the descendants of Tolui. A key reason for the split was the dispute over whether the Mongol Empire would become a sedentary, cosmopolitan empire, or would stay true to the Mongol nomadic and steppe-based lifestyle. After Möngke Khan died (1259), rival kurultai councils simultaneously elected different successors, the brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai Khan, who fought each other in the Toluid Civil War (1260–1264) and also dealt with challenges from the descendants of other sons of Genghis. Kublai successfully took power, but civil war ensued as he sought unsuccessfully to regain control of the Chagatayid and Ögedeid families.
what the fuck are you even talking about
well it’s a nerd thing innit, to take a flimsy premise and discuss it with unnecessary seriousness as if it was an important event in the real world and not merely fiction written for maximum drama; much like the cliched question of whether the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars could defeat/escape the Enterprise from Star Trek, it’s less about the actual issue under debate and more about giving people an opportunity to pontificate and grandstand and demonstrate their command of the subject matter and the ability to drag in seemingly unrelated facts from other fields in a form of friendly yet competitive nerd peacocking japery.
“to get treatment for adhd you (person with untreated adhd) need to schedule and then show up for several appointments” is the kind of shit the greek gods would inflict on a guy who ate his son
“Congratulations on getting approved for ADHD treatment! Here is your prescription, good for 30 days of medication. After 30 days, you have to remember to contact me to get a 30 day refill. Once I approve the 30 day refill, you must remember to bring a form of ID to your local pharmacy to pick it up. If you do not remember to pick up your refill within 10-14 days (depending on the pharmacy), the pharmacy will get rid of it. If this happens, remember to contact me again to start the process all over again!
Treating your executive dysfunction is very important to us.”
people need to realize that dissolving the lines between gender also means dissolving the lines between sexuality. you cannot say gender is fake and then say sexuality is strict and rigid.
there are multigender/genderfluid people who are lesbians and gay men at the same time. there are mspec lesbians/gays/straights who have a complex relationship with gender and their sexuality. there are gay men who are women and lesbians who are men because male isn’t the opposite of female.
“conflicting” labels are a part of many people’s queer experience, because the human experience isnt simple enough to be put into neat perfect categories. if you truly support trans/genderqueer people, you need to accept the fact that gender and sexuality is complex and there will be people whose identities you don’t understand
you have to love trans women more than you hate transmisogynists. and i mean real trans women, not this abstract symbol you’ve created just to defend. the real flesh and blood human beings who are messy and complex and imperfect. you have to love them even when they fall outside of your preconceived idea of what a “good” trans woman must be, when they’re doing femininity “wrong” or “not enough”, when they understand themselves in terms you find unintuitive, when they’re rubbing against your understanding of what a woman should and can be. you have to support the trans women in your life and you have to be kind to the ones you meet and you have to respect the ones on the internet. otherwise you’re not helping, you’re just using them to play hero.
had the wildest interaction today some random woman called me a slag and my dog a fucking faggot because I was using a pink lead/harness and he’s a boy like what the fuck lmfaoo
he did start wagging his tail when he got called a fag so good for him <3
imagine seeing this and being like oh my god oh my god i need to say a slur right now
I just want to say that I am incredibly VERY curious on how Leshy and Theon could even kiss. Because one is a yellow cat, and the other is a walking bush with teeth that look sharp enough to bite through sheet metal.
“i’m not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can’t enjoy it anymore” is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media
“i’m not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can’t enjoy it anymore” is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media
“i’m not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can’t enjoy it anymore” is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media
“i’m not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can’t enjoy it anymore” is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media
Absolutely not a new observation but i love that the toki pona word for animal, “soweli,” is written like this
fuck man that sure is
i showed this post to my boyfriend last time i saw it (because hes a linguistics nerd in general and a toki pona nerd in specific) and i am delighted to inform everyone that all the words for various types of animals are little fuckin dudes
trans people on tumblr celebrating an absolutely rabid zionist being elected to congress simply because she is a trans woman and then utterly shouting down anyone who mentions it is incredibly fucking embarassing.
genuinely losing my faith at an exponential rate in a lot of the people on this website which sucks because i thought it was the last bastion of online progressive principles. and now i’m realizing it’s kind of just woke reddit.
Blunt Rochester has previously been supportive of legislation by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) in favor of placing restrictions on U.S. aid to Israel, one of a series of policy positions that have sometimes placed Blunt Rochester at odds with members of the state’s pro-Israel community, even as they’ve maintained a relationship. McBride, however, told JI she wouldn’t be supportive of legislation like the McCollum bill.
McBride emphasized that federal law already contains protections to ensure that U.S. aid “shouldn’t be used in ways that contradict our values,” and voiced “serious concerns about any policy that would single out Israel and treat it differently than other countries that we support through foreign aid” or hold it “to a different standard.”
Disputes between allies, she continued, “are best handled within our existing relationship.” She expressed support for the continued fulfillment of the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding for U.S. military aid to Israel.
McBride described the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel as “a bedrock of America’s national security and our global values” and as rooted in the U.S. and Israel’s “shared values” and “common goals of global security.”
“I believe it’s a critical relationship. It’s one that I will certainly work in Congress to continue to protect,” she continued. “And I believe that it sits right at the heart of our values as a democratic nation.”
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McBride also expressed her support for the Abraham Accords, highlighting the bipartisan support for the agreements across multiple administrations. She said the Accords could “underpin a future two-state solution” and support regional security for Israel and other nations. Expanding the Accords to include an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, she continued, would be a “significant step forward.”
She said she broadly supports Biden’s foreign policy agenda, which “strikes the right balance of promoting America’s values, advancing America’s interests, and expanding peace and security around the world” — a characterization that she extended to Biden’s handling of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
To address Iran’s nuclear program, which McBride described as an “existential risk” to Israel and security throughout the region, McBride supports a new nuclear deal, ideally one without sunsets, with strong inspection requirements “and other components to ensure that it’s robust as possible.”
so yes, she is a Joe Biden-level zionist who has received money from Pro-Israel PACs. more of the same on the Israel front. if anything, more aggressive than the average House member.
She’s a horrible person, yes. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn’t understand what Israel is doing or actively supports the genocide. The fact that we’ve elected a trans person into Congress is FANTASTIC and has HUGE implications for the future of the trans community, that cannot be downplayed.
The fact that she supports genocide also shouldn’t be downplayed and it’s utter bullshit that people are refusing to acknowledge it.
changed url and hid my blog from search for the reason one might do that. maybe i’ll change it back sometime in the future but i hope yall recognize me by my profile picture in the meantime
Poll results asked for more Narigoat so I decided on making my own lore for them :]
Narinder is much kinder in opposition to the version that is willing to use people. He mourns every single worshiper as a deity of life, and his siblings, attempting to show pity for the young god, restrain him to protect Narinder from making those harsh decisions.
He strikes a deal with the Goat, wanting his freedom to make a kinder world, but soon realizes the debt that will need to be paid for those chains to break.
This is the one thing that I would definitely do regardless of state. For those not in the know, a passport is the way to get an easy name or gender marker change onto your ID without a court battle, and that is highly dependent on the Federal administration.
gender marker on a passport is currently completely self-selection and does not need any evidence, court order, surgeries, therapy, anything, nor does it need to match any of your other documents. you can use a passport (especially a passport card which is less unwieldly for daily use than the book) for basically anything you’d need an ID for except driving. do it now before this changes.
i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp
I think Leshy got a crush on Theon when he gave him a flower and welcomed him to the cult, but since he was still new to mortality and stuff he didnt realized thats what it was, wanting his company by ordering him around. After Theon tells him about his past Leshy stops being demanding and instead is trying to make it up to him (without telling him thats what hes doing of course).
Until then Theon was just trying to help him feel welcome in the camp, after he starts being nice to him Theon begins to fall for him too, spending more time together and getting to know each other a bit more.
For Leshy he probably likes how confident he is.
Theon thinks Leshy’s behavior and reactions are cute.
This is the one thing that I would definitely do regardless of state. For those not in the know, a passport is the way to get an easy name or gender marker change onto your ID without a court battle, and that is highly dependent on the Federal administration.
gender marker on a passport is currently completely self-selection and does not need any evidence, court order, surgeries, therapy, anything, nor does it need to match any of your other documents. you can use a passport (especially a passport card which is less unwieldly for daily use than the book) for basically anything you’d need an ID for except driving. do it now before this changes.
“biblical angels” you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?
and I’m not saying don’t have fun with weird angels. I’m saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.
Nolen is the one in charge of wrapping and carrying corpses to the morgue to avoid sickness spreading to the other followers. She watches over them and waits for the Lamb to gather the bones for the rituals, if not she just buries them as they are.
When not on the job she eats mushrooms, helps clean the camp or looks for Narinder if hes not following the Lamb around
Read and buy books on feminism, anti-racism, pro-lgbt
Attend drag shows
Don’t skip any of your classes
Read and buy history books
Find your out-of-state networks
Learn to carry cash
Get birth control solutions
Support the Biden/Harris administration
Postpone large purchases and save money
Be careful of what you say online, like un-ambiguous attacks against the incoming administration, especially in spaces that contain your full name or personal information
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