Real. One of my Very Lib coworkers was talking about, "what if Trump declares martial law in Minnesota", and I had to point out that he essentially already had.
Europeans aren't a race, and absolutely deserve any and all criticisms possible regarding their several-century-long project of brutality known as 'colonialism'.
It's nock: "To fit an arrow against a bowstring". Also the noun for the notch at the back end of an arrow that fits onto the string (hence where the verb comes from).
Do it