Sounds like a good time to avoid being audited. As in, very easy to do.

Idk man. Depends how racist the guy was being…Situation is fucked.

Well we are well known for invading other countries. Maybe we will make a stop over there to collect our stolen goods.

/s

I don’t believe for a god damn second that WE are the underdogs. We may not be in the government but there are far fewer of them than us.

I honestly don’t believe them when they say they realized they were wrong. In the vast majority of cases, they are just now being affected by their policies. They are the exact same people who voted for trump 3 times. They haven’t changed. I don’t want to walk with them. I don’t trust them.

After the civil war, did we hold anyone to account? After the Nazis were defeated, were all officers and government officials held to account? Beyond that, did we hold any of the people who supported these ghoulish regimes, through bitter war and death, to account? Or did they just fold back in and disappear like snakes in the grass, dripping poison in the ears of society until they could foment more turmoil to take advantage of and seize power. It is generational.

I refuse to allow them back into polite society with but an apology, if we are lucky, as you suggest.

At the same time, if they are able to just skip off into the sunset AGAIN we will be back here before long. Every. Single. Time. This shit happens, the shitty mother fuckers who wouldn’t listen to a fucking word anyone said get to destroy society, enable the deaths of millions, and then go back to doing the crossword on Sundays because we have to give them an out so we can have a society.

Fuck that. I want their faces ground on the fucking gravel. I want them to ALL know exactly how fucking moronic they are and to remember it for their entire lives.

Simple, they just won’t bother. They will vote and take everyone to court. That’s the point.

What I genuinely predict as the future:

In the not so distant future, where America is more a desert with hotspots of population left after the great famines and plagues over the next decade or two, Elon Musk (or some other equally replaceable garbage pile) will be a neo feudal lord with his own fiefdom and collection of peasants. He will launch a nuke at some uppity freedom loving commune simply because they were too successful at surviving in our new hellscape and were pulling too many people from his mines.

That’s where this ends.

Or we could follow the French method.

You mean extremely intentionally deported?

Could?

Ah. The way you phrased that was confusing. It made it sound like you didn’t know what Africa was.

They will be met with machine guns held by hungry soldiers.

Check this out. It is an indepth look at the effects the closure of hormuz will have on the world and the terrible timing with the strongest el niño in 150 years at least. There is no oil to make fertilizer, pesticides, or to transport the food.

Heat stress causes plants to need MORE of these things to survive.

We are looking at the beginnings of the worst famine in possibly world history.

The country of… Africa…?

The clinics are not intended to uplift the people there. It is to prevent an outbreak that could spread to other areas that the politicians do actually care about. That is it. If it were at all possible to keep the diseases contained to Africa, politicians would do that instead.

Like what? Do you have an example?

I don’t really believe that swat is necessary even in theory.

If someone is being held hostage, call in a negotiator. If it’s a bomb, bomb squad. What precisely is the swat team for?

How about the police do, idk, like 5 min of police work to verify literally any part of the story first?

I think that is the best description of the clusterfuck of a world we have.

No one can keep the competing rivalries and poor choices leading to worse ones straight in their heads. Thousands of years of people being absolute morons to each other, and no one will ever untie the gordian knot.

I was hoping someone would throw tomatoes or something at him.

Maybe a brick or two.

They saw W. Virginia making a break for it.