Is there a third option where it’s like “Nobody’s really been planning anything for centuries and everything’s just continuing and everyone knows there ought to be something different but nobody can agree on what that thing ought to be”?

They get elected President.

How do you force people to give according to their ability? What if they don’t want to?

normally you’d have a congress that flexed its power to stop the President from touching rights at all, but over time the Executive has become more and more powerful and Congress more and more impotent.

There’s actually a movie called Look Who’s Back, where Hitler is transported to the modern day, and at the end of the film, he’s gaining political momentum, because it turns out that while the Nazis were driven out of power, their ideology was allowed to continue.

It really is the case that there are a lot of people out there that like Nazi ideology, but just don’t like to be associated with the endgame of their ideology.

MTG’s approach to politics is to say the most outrageous shit to gain attention and clout. She has no principles at all, other than “Any publicity is good publicity”.

Right now, she’s being crowded out by all the other Republicans like Nancy Mace, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem etc. being just as crazy as she is. She can’t go any crazier without losing support, so she has to pivot in the opposite direction in order to stand out and get the media’s attention like she used to.

It’s working, by the way. Until she started saying this stuff, did you see anything from MTG? I didn’t.

I tailor my encounters to what my players like, not what’s going to challenge their dice and IRL luck. If my players are finding themselves having to cheese their build and pick the optimum feats and talents just so they can stand a chance, then I’ve failed as a DM.

If you’re cheesing your build because you want to feel powerful, just tell me, and I’ll do a campaign where you can feel powerful without needing to cheese your build. You should be able to make the character you want to roleplay as without feeling like you’re inadvertently gimping yourself.

It’s why I like Genesys and Powered by the Apocalypse, because those are RP heavy systems that don’t require you to spend ages messing with stats in order to play the character you want to play.

A magical sword that extends, but the longer you have it, the longer the incantation you have to say to get it to extend… Maybe show it some pictures of people cleaved in two, or try stabbing somewhere else to get it going.

…No, it was political convenience, both in the Chinese Famine and the Irish Potato Famine. The British were so convinced that laissez faire capitalism would resolve the issue that they actively got in the way when that turned out not to be true, because it was better to them that the system be seen as working than it actually working. The same applied to the Chinese when Mao was warned that exterminating the sparrows would cause famine, as would ‘deep plowing’ made up by some Soviet guy, but The Party can never be wrong, and if The Party tells you how to do something, you do it that way, even if millions of people die.

It was a situation in both cases where political ideology was put up against reality, and political ideology won, resulting in mass starvation.

When it comes to Israel… I don’t think it really compares because Israel knows Gazans are starving, and that’s actually the goal. They actively want the Palestinians to be gone as quickly as possible. The political convenience is more on the side of anyone who allies with Israel because it’s more convenient for them to have an ally in the middle east, rather than step in and deal with the problem. I guess it would be convenient for Netanyahu specifically, because so long as he keeps the war going, he’s staying in power and most importantly out of prison.

Could be worse… It could be that people are starving because it’s politically convenient for them to starve. Back in 1959 China introduced the Four Pests campaign, which involved exterminating rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows because they kept eating crops.

…Turns out that was a bad idea, and those ‘pests’ were actually pretty important to ecological balance, leading to (in combination with other Maoist policies where central government was telling farmers how to farm, but also lacked the knowledge on how to farm correctly) the Great Chinese Famine, killing anywhere between 15-55 million people by starvation.

He did fight corruption and beat up corrupt judges and politicians in his early career, but it doesn’t work. Gotham is corrupt on a cultural level, like Russia on steroids. There is nothing you can do to ‘fix’ Gotham. There is literally no incentive you can give them that will make it not corrupt. You could go “Everyone in Gotham gets $10,000,000! Free housing, healthcare, everything!” and the guy whose job it is to distribute that money would suddenly be $100,000,000,000,000 richer and exactly nothing would change.

Gotham is so corrupt that it would make Russia blush. If you taxed Bruce Wayne at 99%, nothing would change except the cops would all suspiciously have new supercars.

The price of the spell to undo the invisibility has now gone up to 100,000 gold.

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Just saying “I didn’t vote for Trump” isn’t enough. You have to follow up that question with “Why?” and their answer will tell you more about their politics than their voting record. For example, there are authoritarians that didn’t vote for Trump because he’s simply not their particular brand of authoritarian.

I mean… The fight between Deadpool and Wolverine was basically just a giant sex scene.

If Deadpool wasn’t shitting on canon, it wouldn’t be Deadpool.

They might! Animals don’t always value intelligence, they value other things like “Who is my dad?”

Has there ever been a UBI study that lasted the person’s entire life?