Absurd that pointing guns at people to get fake support would be seen as any more legitimate than just having the soldiers do the fake voting themselves.

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Yes, it’s not much different from tipping. Puts the burden of responsibility in the wrong place. If a business wants to support charities and use it in marketing, just give money to charities and tell people how much it was. And/or give people the contact details of the charities if you want to promote them.

The biggest state, bigger than many countries. How different can it be from other parts of the same country?

An armed society is a society where people are looking for someone to shoot.

I watched some of the GWB parodies. I never had any interest in watching Trump parodies, and I’d be annoyed to have comedians do them in shows I otherwise liked.

It’s not funny anymore, and it wasn’t really that fun then, although satire is a valid method of political commentary. But week after week, there’s nothing new, nothing that’s more shocking than what was already known. They’re fully and completely terrible persons, who should never have political power. Don’t need to embody them to understand that.

I thought the idea was that Republicans are actively working on destroying what has been working fine and is benefitting lots of people, not just on preventing more progress.

Isn’t that the goal for some people in meditation? Nothingness.

It wasn’t with no regard. They were deliberately giving minorities power over majorities and splitting ethnic groups with borders to fuel conflicts.

While it’s sad to see all these games begin to die a slow death, in reality, many of these titles are incredibly old and on last-gen platforms such as Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Yet much older games are still playable without functionality loss.

You don’t need upgrades to online services. You need to stop locking down games.

One thing Earth has going for it is that it seems to be the by far most populated planet in the galaxy. Don’t know how far back in time that would’ve applied, but most Goa’uld controlled civilizations appear small compared to ancient kingdoms and city-states.

So even with only millions of people, that could’ve been enough to have multiple distinct realms without direct conflict. They could also have been separated by time. Yu and Ra were contemporaries, but Apophis might not have been. We know that all the other System Lords are younger than Yu.

Or most of them didn’t stay for long, they built their empires elsewhere, with slaves from Earth.

That is one of the things I’m uneasy about with shows like Stargate, despite how much I enjoy them.

Instead of just discovering the aliens on other worlds, or arriving in the present time, somehow they were here all along. Instead of humans creating and advancing civilization on their own, they were at best guided by outside influences with vast resources and technology advanced beyond what we even have today.

It also means basing your sciencey story on blatant lies.

I dislike it more when it’s a part of time travel stories, where you basically have your main characters go back to take personal credit for something that real people actually did.

Chances are they’ll be a starving criminal or a homeless person who the police will be spending their limited time and resources on abusing, because they’ll be growing up in the families without the means to travel for healthcare.