Finally an interesting timeline. Anyone wanna go strategically scatter health packs and ammunition with me?

Not even near term. Trump’s administration here in the US is bankrolling all kinds of fossil fuel investment and specifically curtailing renewables and trying the hardest to cancel renewable contracts, as well as nuclear. Various states are also doing this, for very little discernable reason. Sure, you can pop up a solar array pretty quick, but wind turbine farms take a while to build, same with hydro and tidal power where you can use those.

There’s definitely room for Rule of Cool. I always allow Druids to do magical beasts, with the caveat of “I can say no if shenanigans”.

A lot of people don’t realize that South Korea was a dictatorship until the 80s.

We have a functioning court system, it just has the entire federal government’s collective fist up its ass.

Legitimately it took DECADES after things like baseball and football and soccer were televised to figure out how to make golf watchable on broadcast, and the major tourneys basically had to overhaul large parts of their rules to make it work.

Yup, large automakers bought up a lot of rail lines, especially local inter- and intracities, and tore out the tracks as part of the highway program. My hometown had extensive tram lines (and a halfway built subway that we ran out of money for in the 20s) that got ripped up when I75 got built.

A lot of cities also just did this of their own accord, partially to enforce segregation and redlining. Awful harder for black and brown people to get to your Rich White Neighborhood if there’s no train or bus service to easily take them there.

Much easier to say when you’re not the one invested with massive power, and often massive wealth too. There’s a reason the saying goes that power corrupts.

Prosecutors and state governments love executing people because they keep claiming it “deters crime”. It also looks fantastic on your resume to a certain stripe of voters when you can yell “I helped get rid of XX amount of DANGEROUS CRIMINALS”.

You also want to kill anyone who you’ve already decided to kill, because otherwise they tend to have a habit of being exonerated. It’s awful embarrassing to have to say “yes we framed a dozen murders on this guy who didn’t do anything but steal a bike” or whatever.

Actually, they do this so helmspeople pay attention to the sign and the speed limit. Saying “5” makes people think they can squeeze up to 7-8, etc. That little extra speed might mean something in a busy boating or shipping lane.

Depends on the debt, too. The feds changed things a few years ago so federal student loan debt can’t be discharged in death.

I’m more interested in how many of these people are winding up working for ICE.

Designs should’ve never progressed past the F-104. Change my mind.

The son of Ferdinand Marcos, who literally robbed the Philippines blind, is currently the President of the Philippines. There’s a Mussolini in charge of Italy. The US right, during Trump’s first term, was “joking” about electing either Eric Trump or Don Jr after Trump’s second term, and then electing the other one, and Barron Trump after that. Hell, Bolsonaro was literally openly praising the military dictatorship of Brazil.

Like I said in another thread, this is going to be a black hole where you toss unwanted trans kids, to either rot and die, or get trafficked, or both.

The issue is then we get Vance, who’s nakedly for sale to whomever gets him more power. Yes, he’s got the charisma of a used napkin, but he doesn’t need it by now - the SCOTUS has decided that the President can simply rule by decree, and any approvals will simply be nodded along because the GOP is opposed to TRUMP, not to fascism at large.

Maybe it’s a modified d20 roll to replicate a Deck of Many Things without a deck.

“We released them, it’s not our fault they were found dead in a ditch a mile from the jail”.

“You’re only making it worse for yourself, you know.”

And blessed it, and have repeatedly said that Trump is either blessed by God, or God’s divine instrument.

But this isn’t idolatry.