For the same reason most politicians get into it; Its the best position to be in if you’re looking to get your palms greased.

He’s not interested in being a part of the government unless he’s the one in charge.

• The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman would be top choice.

• An extremely close second would be a mini-series based on the novel Imajica by Clive Barker (second only because I don’t think anything would be able to truly do that book justice on screen so I’d be hesitant to even try.)

• A longer miniseries of L.A. Confidential that tells the whole story of the novel rather than having to chop and streamline it for a movie runtime. I love the movie and I think how they chose to cut and edit the story down is actually really brilliant, but I’d be interested in seeing the whole thing play out in a mini-series.

I’m pretty sure Sex With Hitler has at least one enjoyable moment during its runtime. Which automatically places it above 76.

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Yeah. I worded that wrong for sure.

The policy of American intervention began in South America going as far back as the early 1900s, followed by the middle east after WW1 and Asia-Pacific after WW2.

“Ramp up” was the wrong choice of words, for sure. “Emboldened” to not try to hide it anymore would be more accurate.

My apologies. Thanks for clarifying.

I’m not going to go into too much detail, as I don’t really have the time for an in depth explanation. But suffice it to say from a sociological perspective, organized religion formed along with more complex societies because complex societies need more rules to manage a higher population that came about because of agriculture and the rise of city states.

it’s not a coincidence that hunter-gatherers worshipped fertility goddesses and totemic gods, and that actual “organized” pantheons came into being alongside the concept of “nations”.

Organized religion was a tool that was invented to exert control and prevent chaos when societies were in their infancy and still figuring out how to live together and share resources. (ie. who are we and who are “others”. Who gets to share our wealth and who doesn’t, etc… etc…)

We don’t need it anymore, and yet it sticks around causing all kinds of trouble.

There has to be more than one superpower. Humanity is too immature to behave itself without the threat of mutually assured destruction.

Most of the bullshit American hegemony really started to ramp up after the fall of the USSR when the US found itself unchecked. It could basically go in and fuck up whatever country they felt like. At least during the cold war, they had to consider the possibility of a power equal to their own countering them. Without a check and balance on the world stage, the U.S. has proven itself repeatedly to be without a doubt, the villain of the story.

Are you by chance the Sudetenland?

Depends on how you’re defining “obscure” and “retro”.

If by “retro” you mean SNES, Genesis, NES etc… the game I was super into for a time was Xevious. A pretty simple top-down space shooter/bomber that for some reason I remember getting absolutely obsessed with completing. It wasn’t even a particularly good game. It was repetitive, and when you DID reach the end it just started all over again. But for some reason I played the absolute shit out of it.

If you move “retro” up to the PS1 era, my favourite seemingly forgotten games of all time are the Colony Wars series (Colony Wars, Colony Wars: Vengeance, Colony Wars: Red Sun) Great story lines and a super fun conceit where in the second game, you’re playing as the now-defeated enemy of the first game, rebuilding after their loss.

The fastest way to make me not download a particular piece of software is to invite me to join their discord to discuss questions and tech support.

It’s the literal definition of clinical depression.

Yes…that’s why we call them “Freedom Fries”… riiiight…

The idiot president of one country can call it whatever he wants. But it doesn’t make it internationally recognized.

simplest answer ever.

No. No. And no.

Like it didn’t occur to her that those “crazy taxes” would also cover someone else’s maternity process

It occurs to them fine. They don’t care. American attitude is “fuck you, I’ve got mine.”

hmmm…I wonder what percentage of the Canadian Population is Albertan and Saskatchewanian…

I live in a province of traitors.

I hate Doug Ford at the best of times, but I have to admit, he’s kind of effective in terms of being a loud-mouthed asshole to clap back at their loud-mouthed asshole.

I realize I’ll get downvoted to hell for saying it, but IMO anyone who says that non-violence works every time is naive.

The French didn’t gain anything until the guillotines started rolling. America didn’t get their freedom until they started fighting back. British/Portuguese/French Colonialism in Africa didn’t come to an end until the locals started rioting and in some cases flat out starting revolutions.

Anyone who says violence never solved anything hasn’t been paying attention to ANYTHING in history EVER.

It’s Tommy Westphall’s world. We’re just living in it.