"Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?"
#Trump #Economy #Politics #Factions #MAGA #SteveBannon #SiliconValley #RepublicanCongress #Tactics #Strategies #Project2025 #Uncertainty #Tariffs #Power #Corporations #Recession #Industry #Investment #StockMarket #Wallstreet #BondMarket #HedgeFunds #Treasury #StephenMiran #Transactions #Deals #Corruption #Geopolitics
Any great blog posts about writing factions? Specifically looking for advice on giving them motivations, triggering them to do things when they're off screen, and making sure they're pointed at each other to cause fireworks.
My default approach would be to crib liberally from Dungeon World's fronts and grim portents, but I'm sure there's more to be said on the topic.
Yesterday's links
Chardukan Hexcrawl
https://ezorachronicles.blogspot.com/2024/11/chardaukan-hexcrawl-introduction.html
Meanwhile in the dungeon
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/02/d100-while-you-were-out-dungeon.html
What's the story behind this blade?
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/02/d100-whats-story-behind-this-blade.html
Calc treasure in dungeon for AD&D
https://icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-much-is-too-little-calculating.html
Two factions
http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-requiem-and-rooks.html
What does the protagonist want?
http://www.toddalcott.com/
Luthar's Gorean Educational Scrolls
http://goreducation.atspace.com/id2.htm
How The #US Became So #Dysfunctional, #Oligarchic, And #Corrupt – #OpEd
#DomesticPolitics in the #US is, superficially, dominated by incessant #public #fights between different #factions of the two ostensibly rival #PoliticalParties, thanks to the #collaboration of #establishment #media and many #socialnetworks.
Useless quote for 24 Jan:
"Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people."
~James Madison, in Federalist No. 10 (1787)
Link to source:
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493273
#Syria
#HTS
#Factions
@palestine
"Ahmad al-Sharaa [HTS head-chopper in charge]...declared that the authorities would "absolutely not allow there to be weapons in the country outside state control.""
But the southern Syria militants who took part in toppling President Bashar al-Assad are resisting orders and will not disarm. They are not Islamists. Their head Naseem Abu Orra: "We have weapons, heavy equipment." Let's see how long before they start fighting each other
@suqdiq I'd go a step further and say it's #code for #marginalizing an entire #group
or #subset
of the #HumanClass
#progressives, or say, #free #thinkers
that #think for #themselves having #awoke aka #woke from their #slumber much like #Nada did in #TheyLive after having put on the #sunglasses instead of #following the #crowd #asleep
#mindlessly #consuming #conforming
They are free, #FreeThinkers
#marching to a #new #beat ( #ideals )
Typically, those #antiWoke are #white
But there's plenty of #religous #factions that fall into the anti-woke #crowd for the #shared #sentiment of being #different
Plus, it's just easier saying woke than it is #supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Could you #imagine if people broke into #song like that in #mke ???
You'd hear, This ain't #nyc and you're not in #TimesSquare #FancyPants
Chim Chim Cher-ee
#Song from #MaryPoppins #Disney #film
"chim chim cher-oo!"
Where Do Democrats Stand on Major Issues? | with Wintery Knight and Desert Rose https://buff.ly/3MYNQpc #culture #politics #factions #policy
Might We Be Witness to a Political Pole Reversal? https://buff.ly/3BcTAsG #culture #politics #factions
i am pretty upset about what went down at #Bungie, Guardian. i don't know how long this beloved game will live, Bungie's amazing but they're not Blizzard, that's for sure.
No Destiny 3. i did read about their review for #TLOU and i played a _lot_ of #theLastOfUs #Factions and i got really competitive for a while but the networking was atrocious and #NaughtyDog was wise to accept that feedback!
#MarjorieTaylorGreene #demands new #House #speaker #push her #antitrans #bill to get her #support.
#Republicans are #scrambling to find a #speaker who can #appease all #factions. And this is her top #demand.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
“Experts in the literary sphere offer valuable insights into the motivations behind book banning. Madville Publishing owner Kimberly Davis told How To Be Books that books are being banned as part of a broader effort by #conservative #factions to control the population by limiting critical thinking. Such efforts, she argues, targets anyone threatening the status quo.”
Numerous parliaments on the other side of the pond are beset by their own growing dysfunctions. #Political fragmentation is a common trend across the continent. Mainstream parties are flagging in the face of a growing hodgepodge of #factions, many more #radical & #populist than the next. The increase in #angry #partisanship & #polarization is making ruling #coalitions more fragile, & #governance all the more difficult.
#ToryTurmoil as third of voters desert party and #factions launch #rival #manifestoes
Exclusive poll for #Observer reveals #Conservatives have lost support in their southern England heartlands and the #RedWall
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/30/tory-turmoil-as-third-of-voters-desert-party-and-factions-launch-rival-manifestoes
#ToryInfighting #ToryChaos #ToryFailure
Ethiopia declares state of emergency following clashes in Amhara
The announcement comes as fighting across Ethiopia’s second most populous region develops into a security crisis.
I like @LeviKornelsen 's Situations book - those situations plug in nicely to the various faction approaches that are out there on the web.
I've been using a stripped down faction approach based on Mausritter/Crowns [1] and I can see using this to enhance them and help me dig into details.
https://levikornelsen.itch.io/situations1
[1] I told you that I liberally steal from anywhere, if it works for my game.
Members of the biggest faction of the ruling LDP have been intensifying efforts to select their new leader, a position that's been unoccupied since the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a year ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/01/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-faction-next-leader/?utm_content=buffer5ce87&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #shinzoabe #ldp #factions #hiroshigeseko #yasutoshinishimura
