User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right part 2/@comment-172.6.60.43-20130603172752/@comment-7371906-20130604081016

"For starts, he doesn't let Argonians (like myself) or Khajiit enter the city".

None of the holds allow the Khajiit caravans to enter the Holds not just Windhelm this isn't anything special even the caravans say this also how did you get into Windhelm if they dont allow Argonians to enter the city the Argonians are not allowed into the city because all of the Dunmer in the city are survivors of the Red Year and one of the events of the Red year was the invasion of the Argonians which is why the Dunmer fled to Windhelm in the first place so allowing them to enter the Hold would likely cause lots of in fighting between the two races from past prejudices since the Dunmer used to enslave the Argonians the Dunmer live in the slums because they refuse to contribute to society in a meaning full way there are three Dunmers and even Altmer in the city to contradict notions that he wants to kill all Mer from Skyrim also most of his Alies are all veterans from the great war so of course they harbor bitter resentment to Elves because the all mighty Empire Sold out completely and allows the murder of any person who worships Talos. The Empire aren't really paragons of a competent government are they.

"Stormcloak Soldiers have the wrong idea. What they forget is that the Empire fought AGAINST the Thalmor, and had to surrender".

The result of the Great War was the fault of Titus Mede II in the first place his inaction during the start of the war and ill preparations after the Ultimatum caused the lives of many Citizens that suffered atrocities and the lives of many Legionnaires that died during the war for nothing and mind numbingly allow the Thalmor to just go around and kill Civilians and cause political strife entirely because they had to sign the Ultimatum in another name without changing any of the demands what so ever.

"the Thalmor would have taken over Skyrim".

Very unlikely seeing that Skyrim is geographically at the opposite end of Tamriel from any Thalmor controlled Provinces with an environment so incredibly unhospitable that a forth of the Entire province is in a state of permanent winter they have to go through the largest province of Tamriel home of the capital of the empire just to get to the miles of mountain ranges that separate Skyrim from Cyrodiil and just to get to the very end of Skyrim on land by sea they would have to traverse an entire army across two hostile provinces one Hammerfell and the other Highrock a Empire controlled Province so to even get to Skyrim they would need to start another war and what advantage they would ever receive by conquering a province so far from any other Thalmor controlled forces to receive reinforcements which is surrounded by two hostile Provinces. Skyrim has survived Independently since the Merethic era where Mer were the most dominant society in Tamriel by attempting to genocide the Falmer after the Night of Tears and was the first province to join the Empire in the first place they have been supporting the Empire ever since Cyrodiil's inhabitants were just Ayleid slaves while they were independent. Hammerfell a Province that didn't take any breaks after the Great war lost the entire southern portion of their Province at the start of the Great war continued to fight them ever since and they are just located next to two Thalmor controlled territories so when a Legionnaires says that the Empire is keeping the Thalmor out of Skyrim that is a complete lie in fact the only reason that the Thalmor are even able to go to Skyrim is because the Empire allows them to entirely without opposition to senselessly murder anyone they claim to be Talos worshipers or anyone that they want for that matter and the Empire cant even enter the Summerset isle for over more than a century so the Empire is the Enabler of a entire force of a genocidal hate group that wants to destroy the world by killing the Entire human race so they can be reunited with the Gods (yes that's the gist of their Beliefs) and kill anyone who rebels just to maintain stability that they have failed to provide since the start of the forth era so if you say that the Stormcloaks are the villains here what about the Thalmor they are just going to continue killing without hindrance if the Empire wins and nothing changes in hind sight if they win and the Thalmor profit even more if the Empire wins why well all the veterans in the war that sided with the Stormcloaks would all be dead, they can still go around killing what ever they want and cause more political strife, and they can map out the terrain for a strategical advantage in any future invasions killing any advantage that the empire has and the empire allows all of this to happen and do nothing to stop this because the just cant because of the treaty. The Empire aren't heroes either they are just henchmen to the true villains.