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Ric Stubbs

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National security lawyer (all views strictly my own), TTRPG enthusiast, Tolkien lover, occasional songwriter, and a partridge in a pear tree. He/him. Cover photo: concept art for Númenor in The Rings of Power.

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"New occasions teach new duties/ Time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still, and onward/ Who would keep abreast of Truth." -- James Russell Lowell, "The Present Crisis," 1845

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A reminder that the ancient world was incredibly diverse and interconnected even over thousands of miles, and in TTRPGs—even fantasy TTRPGs—ignoring or excluding this fact is the opposite of "realistic". Populate your worlds with many different peoples. #TTRPG

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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It's a promise to kill people they want and then claim they were fighting back.

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On Jan 6th, at least for a while, there was a silver lining that the fever might just break, enough people would snap out of it for long enough to impose a real consequence, and we would, in fact, emerge stronger.

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Unless they're a Democrat in a Republican administration, of course.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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No no no, whomever the *President* wants.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Hasn't this basically been the goal of the entire Republican project since Nixon, though? It's the culmination of 50 years of grievance politics.

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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.

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Also just tossing it out there, but SCOTUS saying "we need to do this to protect executive authority" when it's literally the executive branch arguing they shouldn't, sort of gives the lie to the idea this was about protecting constitutional departmental interests as opposed to protecting Mr Trump

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Remember in March, when the majority aggressively answered a lot more questions than necessary to ensure no one could keep Trump off the ballot? And now they answer only a very small question and remand the rest to further delay his actual trial?

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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This is because dogs could detect the older models with rubber faces, right?

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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That, kids, is what we call a potion of anti-heroism.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Just realized that the two dwarves with the beard tattoos are sporting tattoos *of each other's beards*! That is both precious and gives the scene more of a story to it, brilliant!

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This. I'm tempted just for the amount of really good-looking art it contains.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Not sure any of the 40k RPGs are really better for tactical combat.

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Neil Gaiman 's avatar Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
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Dead is the only age that's too late to start being an author.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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I honestly can't tell if this is Alito actually endorsing this idea or the usual BS where they strike things down b/c Congress used the wrong synonym for something and mockingly tell Congress to just edit the wording of the law if it's so important knowing that legislation does not work that way.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Whatever happened to "think things, not words?"

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This. Every fascist/authoritarian movement characterizes itself as defending against insidious and overwhelming enemies. It is the fundamental belief that justifies increasingly extreme measures to confront, persecute, and ultimately eradicate them.

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Because 2 years ago all the techbro group chats all convinced each other this was IT! AI had arrived! And then every decision based on that has proven how woefully inadequate techbro epistemology is.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Massive gifts to a government agency and/or official, you say?

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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I think you meant "spellcheck will *knot* tell you..."

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Kind of handy that I've been too lazy to take down the Christmas lights all year... might accidentally plug them in tonight...

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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Yep, no "allowing the party/conservative project to focus on the important causes instead of being a distraction" here. Trump's distractions *become* the core tenets of the Republican project.

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Today is the day Donald Trump became precedent

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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If you're buying specifically D&D content, then there's the Beyond20 add-on that will put buttons in D&D Beyond you can click to roll or display that thing in a Roll20 chat. I also like DDB's character builder a lot more than R20's. So I would say DDB.

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This is exactly right, and also exactly why the media struggles to report on what his admin's plans are

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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To be fair, those are not mutually exclusive.

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If House Republicans can get the nation focused on Ivy League student protesters, Senate Democrats should be able to do the same with insurrection enabling judges

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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No, that's a paladin. You're thinking of the centermost of the seven hills of Rome.

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But how will I know if it's worth paying for unless I get it and eat it first?

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Did the student protesters ever try chanting "Hang Mike Pence" to seem more peaceful?

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Ric Stubbs's avatar Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social
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Now imagine if a student had done this...

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Don Quixote did not immediately return a request for comment.

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