What if the state you secede from also strips citizen rights from dissenting residents?

I kind of doubt an independent Texas would be any less of a fascist police state.

Seceding was never wrong per se, the issue is the ‘why’. Seceding for slavery is still an asshole move.

Nicolas Cage outfits? Like a suit?

A lot of the time, “dark age” pretty much literally just means that we don’t have much information (i.e. because they didn’t write).

Good for them. I suspect Overwatch is going to get shut down earlier than planned …

Sort of related, I’ve been reading a series of blog posts about ancient Rome and Greece. Super interesting stuff, and it happened so long ago! At the same time, the ancient romans and especially greeks were slavers (Sparta was literally 85% slaves, Rome was comparably egalitarian with just 15%) and were really into the “glory” of battle, which was often really bloody especially for the Romans (in other places/other time periods, battle seems to have had surprisingly low lethality).

If you’re interested, the series on Sparta is a pretty neat (and horrifying) introduction for that blog: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ The blog author is a college teacher who is specialized on antiquity, btw.