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Now though his beacon creates the astromomicon beacon that all of humanity uses to navigate the warp (And attracts the Tyranids into the Galaxy) so if he where to die and not be reborn it would essentially cripple humanity.

Well, until they got off their arse and went and ganked the tau's FTL tech like they should have done ten seconds after the space commies showed up. Or maybe yoink the necron's. Whoever, really. Non-astronomicon/chaos sided FTL travel is a solved thing in the WH40k verse, it's just humans, at this point, are intensely lazy in regards to advancing technology.

Italy actually seems to be doing pretty good, yeah. Russia seems to just be outright sucking, though. Not even on the list reelya was looking at (though the actual OECD website has average information -- russia is doing hilariously poorly -- but not median), and stuff like per capita gdp has them getting beat by such luminaries as Croatia, Seychelles (I don't even know where the hell that is), and latvia, depending on the source and metric.

As has been noted elsewhere, and one of the primary driving forces behind why putin is getting away with so much, the only people, outside of those russia is actively screwing with, that care about russia is russia. Which is kinda' why it could really stand to stay the buggery out of the USA politics thread. We don't care about russia, we don't actually give a damn about what russia does, and other than occasionally laughing at its idiotic tin-pot dictatorship shenanigans and its hopeless attempts at flailing around and trying to look important (which it can't, because its economy is effectively shit and its military is irrelevant to anyone that matters to western politics), russia is never a concern to the american political process. And almost certainly never will be. The soviet union is dead and gone, probably forevermore, and with it the meaningful impact on the world stage russia can actually make. It is now the eurasian equivalent to an OPEC nation, so far as the rest of the world is concerned.

#russiahappensinrussia #andthatisinfinitelymoreterrible

Can we stop now, or are we actually going to try to get into a pissing contest russia does not possess the bladder capacity to even attempt a showing in? Seriously, being outperformed by italy is just embarrassing.

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Submissive person in a full-face latex mask A fairly powerful, and free, photo editing program. Like photoshop, without the profit. Ninja'd, but have a link. Everyone should have a gimp in their bookmarks and their home.

Eh, just remember that "we keep shitty records" bit is in part because we've got folks that are actively and substantially undercutting any attempts to keep records. Damn hard to collect and collate data when parts or the whole of the data collection, collation, and retention, is illegal or utterly resource starved.

Always suggested to me that whatever data exists is not favorable to the NRA-style folks, but who can say?

Flat out, you understand neither oaths, nor the constitution, then.

Then someone will have to explain things a bit. Calling the constitution "people" is actually not something I've ever heard before, and is one of the odder formulations of the concept I could imagine. Especially considering parts of it are specifically directed towards curtailing the actions of the general population. An idea, the framework of an ideology, sure. But "people", not so much.

As for oaths, I've only very, incredibly rarely met or heard of people that actually hold to them in anything approaching high stress situations. Or even for any particularly lengthy period. Certainly, they might hold to some other, deeply held, principle -- but an oath? An oath is but words, and for the vast majority of people I've seen that make them, they're words forgotten minutes later and only invoked, at most, when convenient, and often even then only nebulously.

Don't get me wrong, I understand and appreciate the sort of mystique and fantasy of the unbreakable oath and all that junk, I just massively, incredibly strongly, doubt that's anything even remotely resembling reality. It happens, but not in anything approaching significant numbers. I trust action well enough, but an oath has genuine worth equal to the length one can throw it.

Um... the constitution =/= the people. Flat out? It's a document, an idea, a set of strictures, but. Not people. The people of the united states are regularly in contravention of it, and insofar as I'm aware they never actually got around to enumerating anything about succession or violent rebellion. Soldiers siding with the constitution doesn't really tell us a single bloody thing about how they'd partition in the case of revolution. Still, I'd definitely say that particular oath presents a lot more fealty to the federal government (by and large the actual manifestation of the constitution) and its officers (like, y'know, the president, and everyone and thing else described in the oath) than any portion of the US citizenry.

Regardless, like you say, soldiers are people. If the country did schism to the point of wide scale violence, there's not going to be some malarkey majority-of-military-sides-with-one-group bull. The military will almost certainly splinter to whichever side their family and friends are on, more or less like what happens in every other case of major civil war when there's no major mitigating forces preventing it. Almost no one will put some half-assed oath over the lives and safety of their children, family, and home.

But no, I certainly don't think the fed's going to flip out and declare military ascendancy or some stupid shit like that. There's absolutely no need when partisan politics and careful (and not so careful) sociological engineering is happily eliminating any use for doing so. I just think the idea that the soldiers' oaths are going to have a major effect on the decision making of even a large minority of the soldiers to be honestly kinda' farcical.