In the game Crusader Kings 3 which just released a short while ago, there was a bit of an ‘exploit’ at release:
Swear fealty to a powerful ruler, like the Emperor of Byzantium
Go down the Stewardship skill tree and pick up Meritocracy; this lets you fabricate a claim on your liege’s title.
Go down the Intrigue skill tree and unlock the ability to Abduct people through a Plot
Plot to abduct the Emperor of Byzantium. Eventually an event will pop up saying all in in place and you can send your agents to abduct the Emperor.
Before confirming the plot, declare war on the Emperor for your claims. You may be outnumbered 20 to 1, but that’s OK.
Abduction plot will fire off and you will take the Emperor of Byzantium prisoner. This gives you 100% war score and you can immediately enforce demands, winning your war and becoming Emperor.
This was patched and it is now much, much harder (nearly impossible) to abduct a head of state while at war.
Kidnap the Governor? Let me guess, it’s those crazy antifa people that Republicans are always talking about. Gotta be, right? I hear those guys are bad news, baby!
while these people talk about America and the constitution, they have no real loyalty to these things.
What they truly believe in and are loyal to is an ethnostate where in groups like themselves (men, conservatives, Christians, native born) are given dominion over everyone else and where their control over politics, society and the public arena is not challenged no matter what the public actually want.
from that mindset, Whitmer is ‘treasonous’ because she is a female Democrat and she rejects the concept of an authoritarian white ethnostate.
The KKK loved to talk about freedom, the constitution, patriotism, etc too. but same thing.
You know what? You guys are reverse racists claiming its a bunch of bearded white men who plotted this. I’m sure there are lots of black women and transgendered people in that group.
Oh wait, my mistake. yeah it is a bunch of bearded white guys.
But to be fair, of the 10 mugshots, only 8 are bearded white men. One of the other white men has a hitler moustache (or an unfortunate shadow) and the last white man is clean shaven. Yay for diversity.
Not sure if this is behind the NY Times paywall, but an excellent piece spelling out that core to the 2nd Amendment is a “well regulated militia”: QFT in the following
In the swirls of disinformation that now pollute our political discourse, one is particularly dangerous: that private militias are constitutionally protected.
Although these vigilante groups often cite the Second Amendment’s “well regulated militia” for their authority, history and Supreme Court precedent make clear that the phrase was not intended to — and does not — authorize private militias outside of government control.
Indeed, these armed groups have no authority to call themselves forth into militia service; the Second Amendment does not protect such activity; and all 50 states prohibit it.