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To me it sounds just like AD&D 2e rules, in which the ability was called “Backstabbing.”

I have not seen the episode or the meme before and I’m confused by your caption. We like 2014 edition better than 2024 edition, right?

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You’re welcome, turkeys!

We were hoping for karma but instead we get shawarma

Made me curious who was the actual monarch of Denmark at the time, so I had to look him up. Here’s Christian X

No worries, Dave Gorman fixed it for us.

I came to comment basically the same thing. I don’t think it’s the end of the road for America even though all signs point to more dark times ahead. The Roman Republic and the Roman Empire both saw a LOT of corruption and strife throughout the centuries before they actually collapsed.

Oh I had no idea. I assumed it was all one creator

Oh wow, I didn’t know Polandball was a webcomic too. Their short cartoons on YouTube are funny. Thanks for sharing

Relevant YouTube short

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Looks like something I would do

Why do you have two Kansases?

Kansas is named for the Kansa Nation that already lived in the area when early American explorers arrived.

Arkansas is pronounced like Arkansaw, silent s at the end. It is apparently the French spelling of an Algonquian word for the Quapaw people, completely unrelated to Kansas.

Why is everything a square???

Because by the time the colonizers made it west of the Mississippi, they were so tired of figuring out logical boundaries such as “geographical features” and “which people already live in which regions” so they decided to take the lazy way out and slice up half of the continent like a sheet cake.

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Definitely not enough sleep

Except for Lola

Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola

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I have the weekend off work and I’m going to a very chill wedding that I have no responsibility to organize, so it’s nice. Also the storm last night took the edge off of the heat

Clearly I have more reading to do, thank you for calling my knowledge and assumptions into question. If he was as outspoken against the Armenian genocide as you say then that already does a great deal to shift my perspective.

By benefiting from the genocide, I meant that his government benefited from the availability of valuable land that had been depopulated, and that it was easier to enforce cultural erasure and ethnic assimilation after the dirty work of mass slaughter had already been done. The “Citizen, speak Turkish” campaign in the 30’s certainly had the effect of strongly discouraging (and in some places punishing) ethnic minorities from speaking their native languages in public.

You also raise a good point that we shouldn’t conflate every act of the government with the views and policies of one man. Just like the President of the United States isn’t my entire government. I ought to examine this period of history much more critically.

Atatürk, “Father of Turks.”

He led his people to so many great achievements - national independence, secularization, democratic elections, promotion of science and education, women’s suffrage, and the preservation/de-Arabacization of Turkish language and traditions.

He also denied the existence of, and actively benefited from, the genocides perpetrated against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and other ethnic minorities under the Ottoman empire. His forces perpetrated bloody massacres against tens of thousands of Greek civilians during the war (though there was far too much of that happening on both sides). His government forcibly assimilated those who remained, requiring minorities to adopt Turkish surnames and banning their languages from being spoken.