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I think you are focusing too much on the modern world. You’re ignoring the Middle Ages and before

Also I think you forget that Democracies existed in the ancient world and they didn’t last long either

And they were famous already for being short lived back then.

I just gave you a list of civil wars in England dating back to the 11th century? But with regards to earlier democracies, I didn't forget, I just don't think they're especially relevant since they were not all that similar to a modern democracy like Germany. Even Athens barred most of its population from voting. I think if you want to include them, you need to explain why they are a relevant comparison to a modern democracy. If you're operating solely on whether or not they allow some people to vote, then constitutional monarchies count as democracies for this purpose and the short-lived fascist dictatorships of the 20th century count as monarchies.

also eastern monarchies as well

I'm focussing on Europe because the article is about Germany, which shares much of its monarchic and democratic heritage with its European neighbours. If you want to bring up other examples, go ahead.

petty succession squabbles

Open civil warfare is not what I'd count as a "petty squabble". If there's a years-long war to overthrow a king, that is not stability.

our government can only implement projects on a 4 to 8 year basis which is often not enough to fix problems

While modern democracies haven't been around that long in the scale of human history, they have been around long enough to demonstrate that they don't appear to be falling behind their monarchic peers. Take Finland and Sweden as an example; in the past ~100 years for which Finland has been an independent republic, would you argue it has performed worse than its constitutional monarchy neighbour Sweden? I wouldn't, despite the fact that Finland started in a far worse position and also fought the Winter War and the Continuation War. And similarly, if we look at the the rest of the world, it doesn't seem to me like republics are doing worse than monarchies that have had otherwise comparable histories.

But I'm not even arguing that democracies are especially stable. I'm arguing that monarchies aren't particularly more stable.

the evidence seems to point that democratic states have by their very nature an expiration date

What evidence? Again, we have not seen more than a couple of centuries of the modern form of democracy.

it is on shaky ground only 250 years in.

If you're going to exclude actual civil warfare and overthrow of the government from counting as instability for monarchies, you really can't count a constitutional crisis as the end of a democracy. Maybe this is the end of the USA, but it's hardly the first time a country has seen a constitutional crisis. It's not even the first time the USA has seen one. If the USA does fall completely... alright? Even limiting it to large modern era countries, I can just as easily point towards the Qing dynasty that fell after roughly that amount of time, or the Brazilian monarchy which didn't even make 100, or the Bourbon restoration in France that was even shorter. Pointing to an individual example that hasn't even actually happened isn't evidence of a broader rule.

Here's a list of civil wars just in England and the post-union UK since it's one of the best-known and longest-standing monarchies. Are we counting a monarchy that was overthrown multiple times as "lasting 1,000 years" (which it would now be close to if you count it from 1066 to the modern day)?

It also seems a bit silly to expect democracies to have lasted a thousand years immediately after making a point about the timeframe of social movements. The tradition of European democracies and the related ones that were spread around the world during the colonial era and the aftermath of it are too recent a movement to have lasted a thousand years. If we want to see if a democracy can last that long, we've got about 800-900 years to wait

It was only just a month into the first post-Euromaidan elected government of Ukraine and Russian media tried to pin the shootdown on Ukraine. Petro Poroshenko, the then-new president, was also talking a lot about forcefully ending the conflict in Donbas and Luhansk. To be clear this is 100% me guessing at things, but I could imagine it being an attempt to discredit Poroshenko's government

I don't think that the stability argument really holds. The surviving European constitutional monarchies today are stable, but there's a pretty huge survivorship bias there — the French monarchy famously collapsed in the French revolution and the resulting wars took several others down, the German, Russian, and Austrian ones went down in WW1, the Italian one failed to prevent the rise of Mussolini, the Spanish one got ousted by the Franco regime. It seems to me like it's more of a case of the places that have been stable have not kicked their monarchies out rather than them being stable because they are monarchies. And of course, all of the monarchies fought each other constantly in the times before

True, but I would argue that TLJ actually did substantially better than the Disney and Star Wars averages on the visual front. Not necessarily in terms of the technical execution of the effects since they're always basically as good as they get for the time in both Disney and Star Wars stuff, but in terms of the composition of shots

I'm also pro-TLJ, but I do think it could have done with a few tweaks to the script to catch some stuff. In terms of how it looked and was acted on the moment-to-moment scale they nailed it though, so I'm not sure if that falls under "better execution"

"Did you just switch it to broadcast? Fuck, turn it off!"

Oh shit I've done the same thing with the same modifier for the same reason! We used a "roll 3 6x3d6 arrays and pick one" method and the one with 5 Dex was the only interesting one of the three, so I made him a former shipwright whose leg got fucked up when a mast collapsed on it

I think he passed one dex save in his entire career

• 2: Conall. I played a loud and boisterous bard with bagpipes specifically because I intended on drinking a lot of whisky and not bothering putting on an accent other than my natural one during the one shot
• 3: Kairi. Paladin who was built to make everyone around her as invincible as she was.
• 5: Pech. I played a Pathfinder 2e one shot as a fairy barbarian that I specced into being able to carry a human-sized greatsword. He was more functional than I expected him to be
• 6: I swear the amount of kenku I play is not a furry thing I swear
• 8: Morgan. This one was Lancer rather than D&D, but look up the Death's Head frame from Lancer and you will immediately understand why I picked it when I wanted to be able to simply point at a thing and decide that I did not want it to be there any more
• 12: Absolutely the mischief-making rabbitfolk rogue who once opened a locked door by throwing a bag of spices over a rhino to annoy it and dodging aside when it charged him
• 15: Whistle. Whistle is a monk who grew up under a villain and had his world view shattered when an adventuring party took said villain down. He now travels with his new friends earnestly attempting to un-learn his awful ways. He is visually an emaciated scruffy kenku wearing rags

• Works just fine with anywhere from 1-4 players
• You can have a mix of friends and random players if you want a full team but don't have a group of four to play with
• The game is strictly cooperative so there's no incentive to screw each other over, fostering a generally good multiplayer culture
• There's lots of stuff to unlock but none of it is necessary for a fun and functional build
• Teamwork is encouraged and effective
• Missions are randomly generated but you've got years of additions to the random pools for lots of variety
• Absolutely no pay to win stuff
• There's cosmetic DLC, but there are still absolutely loads of great cosmetic options in the base game

Edit: also, rock and stone

You've got the details a little wrong. The original two were the Whigs and the Tories, as you say. The Whigs became the Liberals who became the modern day Liberal Democrats, who still exist but haven't been in power outside of being a junior member of a coalition for a century. Tories became the Conservatives, who are still one of the major two and are regularly still called the Tories. There was a faction that broke away from the Whigs called the Liberal Unionists, who merged into the Conservatives, but they're separate from the Liberals. Labour is not a successor to either of them, though they did make some strategic agreements with the Liberals early on. In the early 1900s, Labour replaced the Liberals as one of the two major parties.

It is still consistently a two-party system. One of the historic parties got replaced and there is a stronger presence for minor parties than there is in the states (see especially the SNP in the past decade and the Tory-LibDem coalition in 2010), but still a two-party system

I doubt it. This is the third time that India and Pakistan have started shooting at each other over this same area and not gone to a full-scale war. They've got form

It'd have to be something silly given that it would necessitate the ships going via the Atlantic

Can you not tell the employees that you have it earmarked for that and ask for suggestions?

Ahh fair enough

The movie has nothing to do with the tree being cut down. They're saying that the tree was used in a movie, and the "moronic mission" was the two men deciding to cut it down

Paladin build

Your instance isn't federated with hexbear, you won't see them