Eastern Europe would be the probable exception, due to the ever threat of Russian invasion.

(As for the Okinawan bases... I think all the sexual assault has something to do with it, beyond the fighting in the Second World War.)

British English has a lot more variance than Yankspeak.

We're more likely to use "help V+ing" than "help INF". An average larger vocabulary, atop different usages. Even with US dominated media eroding our dialects faster than ever there's still a lot of difference out there.

I will need a more specific question to give more response. Are you a non-native English speaker living in the UK?

If the base in Okinawa is famously unpopular amongst the Okinawa locals and a political head ache for the Japanese government, I don't imagine that other bases in less allied countries are more popular.

I know even the bases in Europe are famed for being rough and a blight on towns. (but then so are most British military bases in at least England...)

But Purges are a right wing phenomena to attack society, they'd never be able to off a millionaire.
A day or two before Musky gets on his private jet and flies off to a third country, or a private island or somewhere while right wing hate groups kill off minorities, leftists, and political critics.

I remember Maro saying when BLB came out that with modern game speeds 7 was the preferred number after all (originally, post Onslaught they felt 7 was too low iirc).

With BLB in Standard at the mo and GY being an ever-present matters thing now, I can see why it'd be on some cards.

We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.

If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn't seem unreasonable.

To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn't hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.

But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online... And it's actually the less historically accurate one.

Yes, chat gpt deliberately spelt words wrong and kept it's sentences straight forwards and without bizzare, unweildly, clauses. 🤔😂

Or maybe in a post-modern world we use (mostly empty) signifiers to give ourselves meaning and show allegiance to a subculture.

Its why we pepper our speech with allusions and cultural in-jokes - but where in the past they were tied to more concrete ideology, now they are simply signs that one has consumed the same media as someone. And the existing signifiers have more cultural clout than new ones, except to signify an interest in non-mainstream cultural products.
For the self has become simply a vessel for consumption. There is nothing beyond the consumption of product.
Especially as public allegiance to a non-neoliberal ideology is seen as uncivil. Unsurprisingly more peaceful Left-wing ideologies less civil and more incorrect that violent far Right ones, because the Left will always be more critical of consumption as the purpose of life.

Despite being wrong, Fukuyama's inflammatory title has polluted the mind of the Anglophone and European cultural zone.

Thants.

Pretty sure that "dead by 50 thing" includes all the infant mortality.

I bet he's also using the stats from peak mortality of European late middle ages with urbanisation but no good sewers.

Interesting if you read about it, while many were found guilty I think only a woman is being sentences to death while many men are just getting a decade in prison for their involvement in it.

If she was the ringleader, sure... I guess (not that it makes the state's murdering of folks alright). But odd that she gets death while all the men don't even get 20 in jail.

Ah, the rare lesser spotted SFW Oglaf.