u/Kroc_Zill_95

And I have a few thoughts.

First off, shout out to Chris Wraight. I think that he just might be the one of the most consistent black library author based on my experience so far. Not necessarily the best, but I'll take consistency any day of the week.

Second, this book (along with Damnation of Pythos being one of my biggest surprises while reading the HH series) has left me even more desperate for more Iron Hands lore. I don't understand why they don't get more books. They are really awesome in their own fucked up way. Also with so many chapters being varying degrees of noble bright, it would be nice to see more from a chapter that's just a bunch of brutally effective, sociopathic bastards. And they are VERY effective.

Third, I think one reason why I really like this book is that while the "good guys" do win and you get a lot of "space marines doing cool shit" that I (and presumably most of us) really enjoy, what really hits home is the tragedy of the iron hands as a chapter. The very thing that technically makes them arguably more effective is also what results in so much unnecessary losses and compounding trauma.

Anyways, a solid read. I hope someone can convince GW to give the Iron hands more love. They deserve it.

Random encounter though both parties know that they each have to kill the other.

Fight takes place in a desert.

https://x.com/i/status/2086428218949607572

By now, I'm sure that a lot of us have either seen or are at least aware of this clip capturing provocative statement being made by a popular Islamic cleric regarding the Muslim - Muslim presidential ticket.

NGL, watching this as someone who currently lives and plans to keep living in this country for at least the next decade or so, this clip was terrifying but also I think it all but confirms and validates every single story that I've ever heard regarding the (for lack of a better word) tribulations that Northern Christian living in Muslim Majority states go through.

I mean, say what you will, this cleric in question almost certainly wouldn't be saying such things so boldly in public and in the presence of multiple senior elected officials if there wasn't at least a large and loud minority that fully supports his views including the idea that non-muslims are infidels. And following that logic, it becomes easy to justify discriminatory policies towards Northern Christians. Because now you don't just have a theocratic justification but now a massive political incentive has been created, especially when absurb degree of power that's concentrated in the office of the president.

What's even worse than everything else I've touched is how this pours fuel to the fire of claims about a Christian genocide in the north (just to be clear, I think there have undoubtedly been acts of genocide against a lot of non-muslim communities in the North and Middle Belt, but I do not believe that this is part of a broader campaign, enough to call it a Christian genocide) and a supposed National Islamisation agenda. I am now finding myself giving second thoughts to shit that I dismissed without even a shadow of thought. I am trying to tell myself that this is probably not as bad as I think it is. That this shit will pass. But the unfortunate tendency is this country so far is for things to get worse and deteriorate even if it's not immediately apparent. I fear that things are much worse than what we can see or how I think they are.

https://x.com/i/status/2079854461002936487

Details

Fight takes place in an abandoned urban environment. Each combatant is determined to hunt down and kill the other.

This is Soldier Class Shepard (ME 3) vs Current Bucky (i.e. Vibranium arm)

Shepard is armed with a standard issued M8 Avenger assault rifle, M3 Predator pistol, Katana Shotgun and his omni blade for melee.

Bucky has his standard medium machine gun, pistol, grenade launcher and combat knife for melee.

Neither side has any knowledge of the other's capabilities.

The level of callousness is frankly stunning, even beyond what I've come to expect from the average Nigerian political office holder. Blud doesn't give a single lonely fuck.

I don't see it often, but whenever I have seen a black person quoting Gandhi, I try to tell them that this man they seem to admire, hated black people more then the British government he is famous for protesting against. The same British government responsible for the famine that killed tens of millions of Indians. His bigotry towards Africans ran just that deep.

https://x.com/i/status/2057553692706930891

Absolutely heartbreaking.