Asparagus or something related to it maybe?

You have to make somebody suffer first.

On our side or theirs?

Agreed. I’m either the youngest Millennial or Oldest Gen-Z at 29 nearly 30. Gen-Z hasn’t reached the previous enlistment age of 35, so it’s entirely targeted at millennials. That said, it might be caused by Gen-Z’s unwillingness to enlist, so sorry our government reacted that way.

I can translate 'merican to English.

To be fair, I’m not convinced these people think long term. They might well have just made a place to “store” people while they wait to legally deport them. Not that it actually makes a difference given the horrific conditions they’re placing people in, but as always with MAGA it’s difficult to distinguish malice and stupidity.

Can we ban fascists, theists, and other right wing boot-lickers from the US? We seem to have an infestation.

Value of the 2nd Amendment

Rich people can be fools, and a fool and his money are soon parted. That’s why much of the economy is just everyone trying to scam everyone else.

There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.

These systems and safeguards exist, but they remain inactive due to political capture and entrenchment. You can make all the laws you like, but they mean nothing when oligarch rule prevents enforcement or encourages inconsistent enforcement.

This is what I’m talking about when I say we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of our interference in foreign affairs. The people do not rule in the United States. We’re not a democratic republic, we’re an electoral oligarchy.

Worse, we seem to be choosing this. States choose how their elections work. We could switch to a ranked voting system with a lottery option without the federal government being able to do anything about it. Heck, a lot of individual cities could do it, but people aren’t engaged enough to overcome local entrenched powers much less state and federal ones.

You know how Americans were making fun of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine because it revealed that Russia had a super out-dated and under-maintained military? Yeah, about that… Turns out, we’re not so different after all. Not that I think we should be investing in the military, frankly we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of anything beyond non-interventionism.

Are we just grouping the whole EU as one entity then calling it a tie with china?

Well, the Drone Autonomous Warfare Groups (DAWG) requested a budget larger than the Navy’s, so I’m thinking it goes to whatever’s the current financial grift going around. AI these days.

For real, free house just because there’s a poltergeist of an eldridge daedric god? Who hasn’t had roommates like that?

What? No, Sims is way more fanciful than D&D. Which sounds more realistic riding a unicorn or owning an entire house? Exactly.

there would mechanisms in place to educate

Could you imagine if he was quietly black sited and came back from lake laogai all “there is no war in ba sing se” upstanding citizen?

Also, I think this is more vocational training anyway, so probably not far off from the educational system you want anyway.

I don’t really know about term limits. Maybe people should be forced to take a break now and then no more than two consecutive terms in a row and not more than a third of the terms over some period of time just to prevent entrenchment, but I don’t want to stop people from voting for whoever they want to vote for generally.

I care about term lengths far more. Life terms? Yeah, no. To me, 6-8 years would a lot more reasonable maybe ten years if you really believe it’d be too unstable otherwise, but these lifetime appointments are insane. Honestly, I’m surprised terms that long don’t make them assassination targets. We should shorten their terms to prevent them from becoming targets for people who target those with too much power.

Eh, give it twenty years.

In that order or …?

Very true, failed to turn Vance away from evil though.

350 square meters is a mega structure? Is that like just the ground floor? That’s like a large house or small mansion. Aren’t there mountain ancient villages? Surely they’re larger?