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This is like the teaser trailer for the actual trailer for a videogame.

The allegations against Ronaldo stem from 2009, when the player was still attached to Manchester United. An American woman claims that Ronaldo sexually assaulted her in a Las Vegas hotel in June of that year, and was then paid $375,000 before signing a non-disclosure agreement.

PC Gamer has a new preview Weedcraft Inc. is very much a ‘Tycoon’, game that puts you in the shoes of a business graduate who has come back to the family home to deal with the aftermath of their father’s death due to cancer. Your brother quickly tells you he had been growing weed to help with the pain management, rather than prescribed opiates, and quickly convinces you that starting to sell it is a good idea.

PCGamesN - 80% Odyssey is a better, and certainly bigger, Assassin’s Creed game than any before it. It’s an RPG to rival the likes of The Witcher 3 with a massive historical world that is consistently and astonishingly handsome. The sheer number of moving parts can be intimidating but this is a special adventure that must be savoured.

As to the "who", someone on the RPG Codex forums says that the developer is...(drumroll)...Larian Stuidos.

That is some weird shit.

This is the stuff nightmares are made of.

The plan called for them to move through the Netherlands and Belgium, but they decided to skip the Dutch part.

To a certain extent, it's already started with so-called "sanctuary city" municipalities refusing to share immigration information on those in detention with ICE, but this a pretty insignificant issue. As I mentioned, a definite acceleration would occur if California rejects a Supreme Court ruling declaring its CAFE standards to be unconstitutional. That could be a catalyst for other states to engage in both progressive and regressive forms of rejectionism of both past (homosexual marriage) and future (net neutrality) rulings and laws that they disagree with. In regard to China, I see no evidence that Beijing has any real desire to fulfill the "global arbiter" role that the United States assumed post-WWII. China knows that role is both expensive monetarily and fraught with political risk, so the juice to be obtained from it ain't really worth the squeeze. Beijing will certainly look out for its interests (hence why they are aggressively pursuing a blue water navy and the "Belt and Road" initiative), but they're not gonna be invading/occupying places for...reasons.

Maybe his next stabbing will be fatal.

The greatest threat that we face today is that there is no single "rational" political leader who is willing to entertain what I have outlined even remotely seriously. If I was to suggest it to Barack Obama, this would be his reaction: I don't blame them for recoiling from such notions. I mean, what politician would say "Yeah, maybe we should start planning for the dissolution of the country", but to not at least contemplate this future in private moments seems to me as not-so-benign neglect. I don't have very much going on in my life other than the work, the dog, videogames/reading, and thinking about stuff, so maybe I'm the problem

John Maynard Keynes -- to his eternal credit -- warned everyone about it...in December 1919: If we aim at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare say, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very long the forces of Reaction and the despairing convulsions of Revolution, before which the horrors of the later German war will fade into nothing, and which will destroy, whoever is victor, the civilisation and the progress of our generation.”

The Treaty of Versailles is one of the greatest crimes against humanity ever created.

@Chairslinger @CayceG @Scott If you want to see the roots of what I'm referring to, we have to go to the very colonization of this country which was largely based on "delusion". As @Nokra can attest, I've recommended this book to begin to understand why the very foundational essence of the United States has led to where we are today and where we are going in the future. To answer @Scott's question, I can't exactly pinpoint any specific books or articles that directly inform my worldview as I express it here. It's largely a combination of observation, my reading of multiple texts, and my own passion for history and the rise and fall of great empires/nation-states. While there are some very tangential similarities between the United States of 2018 and the late Roman Republic, the differences are so very significant as to render them all but moot and they are not points worth belaboring. That being said, there are some points of confluence between the United States in 2018 and the late Roman Republic. There have been any number of articles/books in recent years that state that far from being a single unified state, the United States consists of multiple nations with their own separate and unique cultures. This is one such example. The fact of the matter is the United States of America is very much a misnomer in 2018 and I simply cannot see how it is feasible for anybody to continue to indulge the illusion that it exists or is viable. I genuinely do believe that we are heading towards a "soft" dissolution, one where laws/regulations/etc. are simply ignored by those political entities who oppose them. Perhaps there will be some violence here and there, but it won't even be remotely on the scale of 1861-1865. At some point, domestic political entities will cut their own agreements with each other or with other foreign political entities while paying little more lip service to national/state wishes. An example that I can see in the immediate future is the looming political fight over California's fuel emission standards. I could definitely see the Supreme Court ruling against them and the state giving SCOTUS the bird and saying "Screw you, we're keeping them, and whatcha gonna do about it?" and proceeding as if nothing changed.

Oh it absolutely is!

Just as long as you are also comfortable with the level of violence that nullification will ultimately lead to, then cool! Because make no mistake: nullification leads to blood.

Something like that. Hell, I could even see municipalities and other local government bodies either choosing to follow rulings or not, independent of the state in which they are situated.

Then the rulings by an expanded SCOTUS will be valid in about half the country and nullified in the other half.

I'll cut to the chase: expansion of SCOTUS by the Left will result in the outright nullification of decisions by GOP-dominant states.

What does the state level look like?

I'm not talking about now. I'm talking about a hypothetical then. And I don't give a damn about plans. I am interested in exploring the ramifications of court expansion through the larger societal context.

What do liberals control at both the federal and state levels in this scenario?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission hit a snag Thursday after the federal judge charged with approving it asked them to justify the agreement.

The folly is in believing that this entire system of government that was well and truly intended for a small republic composed of a white male landowning elite that largely had more or less had the same philosophical outlook has any political or social relevance today.