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Chapter 2
My head hit the ground, splattering the area around me with mud. A dull ringing filled my ears as my vision swam. Not wasting time, I struggled back to my feet only for a fist to slam into my stomach. Back to the ground I went, wheezing.
Isu shook his head, "You still don't respond...
It's not that such things cannot be touched on in story, but I just want to keep out IRL stuff. The problems with the hyuga for example my come up, but I don't want that to devolve into a lecture on real world slavery. Again, I am human and will have bias that may shine through, but I am not...
It wasn't before?
Seriously though, I think the staff may be leaving this thread open to contain the handful of people that would DoomPost new threads about the end of QQ and what steps need to be taken every time another government stooge said they want to moderate the internet.
Sure, but the first step in avoidng a trap is knowing of its existence.
To compare the situation with prohibition, it wasn't just the various feminist and religious groups and progressives thet pushed for alcohol bans.
Various industrialists wanted to ban alcohol because they saw it as a way...
The quote is modified to fit reality, not the idealistic fantasy that was flying around in the 1990s thanks to the 'End of History' hazard. Look up Electronic Communities: World Village or Cyber Balkans by MIT back in 1996/1997 and come back and say that it's latter half isn't prophecy.
It also...
The truce was hashed out pretty quickly, and we shared our information without reservation. They all looked unsettled, and I didn’t blame them. I wasn’t exactly feeling balanced and carefree myself. Being here without any backup bothered me. Not that I didn’t like Alys and Derrick and the...
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POV: Thor.
As the communication from President Arriston ended, I immediately called for a meeting of the High Council.
The Covenant. They were an… interesting group. Religious societies were always the most difficult to communicate with.
My transporter activated, and I once more...
It is not only that.
Governments all over are hitting record low levels of popularity while a bunch of special interest groups like all the usual Silicon Valley New Thing ™️ Sellers and their wall street buddies need to sell governments and other tech companies the solutions for problems that...
Nah, none of these things happened.
Instead, we had long campaign of fear mongering that prepared the ground for the change and people were being gaslighted into believing that their freedom can only be protected by taking the freedom away.
I am not too familiar with the spell and I don't know how to put its limits so I may have had accidentally misinterpreted its uses. Also, HP magic is so utility heavy that this particular spell would have become a bit redundant