The land votes, don’t you know.

Wow, can that box be any more try hard?

The usual sci-fi trope is that earth is the aggressor towards mars or other settlements. We need a new story about how all the wannabe Atlas Shrugged/40k mechanicum/racial preservation types go to Mars and are now being a bunch of jangoistic fascists.

Putin pulled out new compromat and/or offered little kids to Trump and Musk again.

We going to give theme the Brock Turner treatment?

Not really. Despite the tails you hear about people saying they were dead and came back after seeing heaven, and saying stuff like they had a heart attack and died three times on the way to the hospital, those aren’t dead. Do you think any of those cases would be willing to send all their stuff off to whoever is inheriting it? The laws know this and the sentence is not going away on a gotcha. Otherwise people with life sentences or on death row would be trying to give themselves survivable heart attacks all the time. Not a fan of the justice system or the death penalty in general, but this lady is there for a good reason. It may functionally turn into a life sentence but they sure aren’t letting her go free.

Around here, “evolution” and atheism are considered religions. I have personally heard people preach against “those who worship at the altars of science”.

Well, there’s Cathartic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, New Calvinist, Presbyterian, Fellowship, Chirch of Christ. Yep, I think that’s about everyone. The Muslims know to keep their heads down around here because we do this sort of thing and I think we’re ok with the Jews for now.

-The Council probably.

Well, according to some of my former Christian teachers, that’s because of of the gays.

Yes, they claim that most empires average 250 years and fall when they start normalizing open homosexuality. No I don’t believe any of that crap anymore.

A more educated look showed years ago that the US system was based too much on “gentlemen’s agreements” and lacked clear and real protections for democracy and human rights.

You just have to knock enough of it down so it all burns. In a world with cellphones, getting stop orders out immediately should be expected.

I’m reminded of the early US park service and conservation efforts. The government was trying to save old growth forests and the logging companies were setting up land sales and then clear cutting it before the ink dried. Basically moving faster than communications and travel in that time.

Obvious propaganda is like a Nigerian prince email. It’s only for the people who want to fall for it. I was just talking to racist grandma who would be happy with the idea that Iran bombs California.

There are several ways to get there. One is to draw tha scale so the Clintons are basically communists and the other end is a 1930s radical fascist. Another is to assume that you have the most reasonable, correct, and moderate political opinions. Like all the people who say they are Libertarian while voting straight Republican so they can support bad things without owning up to it.

The really fun thing about the capitalist economy is that only the corporate retail side is allowed to win. The growers are going to get the least, the people who put the label on get the most and the stores get whatever they want.

It’s America wine. Famous for the Californian “Two Buck Chuck”. On the other hand, the Europeans I know complain that wine in the US is overpriced and most of the domestic market is too sweet.

Should be enough time to fix the international trade relations that Trump is currently “winning”

From what I’ve heard and kind of seen, gambling is worse. In a big discussion, all the people who had been in a relationship with a gambling addict were saying to throw them out full stop. Dealing with meth heads, etc was easier.

The old “fagging/prefect” system in British schools. Yes, that’s were the both slur and the Hogwarts house system comes from.

Religious exemptions are always popular with people who write these kinds of laws.

It seems, by itself, people within the target group need to have an opposite sex alibi. In practice, and if anyone can find out what the law says exactly, it’s probably targeting people over a certain age who are not married with kids.

Not sure the Russians can spare the potatoes. They will probably take the North Korean approach and start throwing poo.