It kinda reminds me of light side sith in SWTOR, like yes you do serve the evil empire but you aren’t an asshole nor are you crazy.

The SAVE act is too much of a wild card variable to accurately predict, too wide reaching with too much general fuckery. Most Republican fuckery requires precision so as to prevent back firing, slow well tested and generally easy to control. This is the equivalent of calling an arty bombardment on yourself, sure you may just kill your enemies or you just blow yourself up.

Wouldn’t factor too much of it before it passes, which I suspect it never will simply because the Republicans with brain cells probably want it to stay in limbo. It’s basically a no lose situation for them if it stays just a bill they support openly even if backrooms deals have effectively killed it.

Righteous hatred vs fear based hatred. It’s the difference between a John Brown and a Klansman, both hated but the type of hate was different.

Diminishing influence doesn’t mean no influence nor the potential for collapse of said influence. The influence of Rome was diminishing by Constantine but the last holdout of Rome did not fall till the 1400s. Regardless we live in interesting and ever changing times, meaning any view of the future is basically just guess work based on current events.

I think they’ve been trying to phase out the damned things but who knows whats going on with the back end shit. Wouldn’t even be surprised if kegsbreth specifically kept them in commission because the look kool.

AIPAC has diminishing influence, while it isn’t gone by far there a solid chance they may be ignored by 2028. Assuming the US doesn’t go into total economic collapse due to Trump before then since at this point I’m pretty sure that’d be the nail in coffin of the US continued existence.

China does it ever couple hundred years, the Roman Empire by its end in the 1400s had been effectively reorganized dozens of times and could hardly be considered the same state, Britain and France more or less collapsed to their core territories by the 60s, the Spanish and Portuguese Empires imploded economically before being picked apart by the Dutch and newly independent colonies. I could go on but those are the big ones where the empires in question had notable territory loss or effectively reorganized in totality, there’s a couple smaller examples like with Sweden becoming Insular or how Islam transitioned from an imperial institution in a lot of ways into a religious one, but those examples rarely are as impressive or went on for centuries without any real turning points.

There’d still be a five or so yeah buffer on it, and who’s to say that won’t be worse. Fun fact I read a pre fall of the eldar fanfic with this basis, it just kept getting worse until Slaanesh was murder fucked into existence.

Even if that was the case you’d think they’d give a tax break for those who “volunteered” their slave or even have the state aquire their own. Regardless my point was moreso that they didn’t do so for ideological reasons since they did do it eventually but we’re resistant to doing so due to ideology and pride.

Remember fascist have always been fucking braindead, due to how their political cults tend to work they are far more interested in grand standing than getting effective results even within their own so called ideological framework. For example the Confederates had to start losing the war before they started using slave labor for things like logistics, which the abhorancy of slavery aside I thought that was one of the reasons to keep slaver, ya know to do the work noone can or wants to do.

Technically Korea was a stalemate at worst. The North Koreans initiated the invasion and the goal was to push them back a bit then end the war. MacArthur fucked that up and pushed too far spooking the Chinese but the pre-war borders were more or less reestablished, so not victory but sure as shit wasn’t defeat given how bad the war was going for awhile.

Personally I’d be in the mindset of “Damn I got lucky better keep my head down” but I wouldn’t be in that situation to begin with so… I guess your probably closer to their headspace on that one.

Yeah but like, you can just cut the lines. Also pretty sure there are ways of blocking even directed wireless signals.

Id personally hazard a guess and say about 15-25 percent is the makeup of the christo-fascist coalition.

Who said anything about court rooms? A lot of these pissants would be prime meat for a lynch mob, especially if the economy implodes like it’s looking like it will.

Like look at him. Pretty sure the only reason he isn’t dead is because he has access to some of the world’s best medicine. Strip that and he probably dies during COVID.

Quick add that to my list of things to abuse elected and appointed officials with if we can force reforms, no medical assistance.

Same with Autism, I will hyperfixate Rome, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany and I will call out the similarities between them and the United States. I also got into a verbal fight with some kid in middle school because I wasn’t going to play nice with his creationism BS unlike the teacher who danced around it, the only reason he didn’t attack me was because I would probably throw him around like a ragdoll.

It’s because everyone fucking hates ICE, the problem Republicans have is that their wins are tainted since they only appeal to their base if even that. Everyone else who isn’t batshit even more conservative folks see how much of a mess they are and shy away from it. I suspect this is why they are starting to show only MAGA polling now because if they polled any wider grouping that wasn’t self identified they’d show far far worse numbers.

Hey amateur student of history here. The fuck do you mean? The only worst instances that compare would be the Native American genocides, Ghengis Khan putting a dent in the carbon footprint, the African slave trade, The Holodomor, and the Cambodian Genocide.

I get the want to counter the focus on the plight of Jews during the Holocaust feeding into Israeli support but this ain’t it chief, if you want to do this bring focus on everyone else killed in the Holocaust like the Romani, Gay folks, Trans folks, non-german minorities as a whole, and political dissidents. Don’t try to be edgy with the whole “the Holocaust wasn’t so bad shtick” that’s how you help uplift literal fucken Nazis.

A yes a prime example of the failures of the legal situation, seriously would it kill them to send a patrol car to the area in case something happened at a minimum. Also yeah these bounty guys are probably on the good side of the bounty hunting profession mostly cause they usually are just there to keep the court system moving, unlike their cowboy wannabe kin who just seem to cause problems.