Well, you could just change all the names and remove all explicit references to the original and then sell it. I was just looking at the new game Tempest Rising, which is extremely obvious about copying the plot and design of Command and Conquer, but it’s been changed just enough to avoid copyright.

I’m happy to see a new rts actually getting a good reception. Sometimes it seems the genre is cursed.

Press X to doubt.

Elementary school administrators have more spine than the heads of every US university put together.

he’s living in an 1890s bubble that no one around him is willing to puncture

I think this is a Simpson’s reference. Trump is literally Mr Burns confirmed.

The bar is on the absolute floor, but I’ll take it. Better than that one guy who said he didn’t regret his vote after ICE got his wife.

Why would the US need this access for anything aside from trading with other countries?

To move warships rapidly between the two oceans during the world war he’s going to start, obviously.

It’s almost as though fascists are unreasonable and attempting to avoid their ire by compliance is doomed to failure if they’ve already decided to hate you.

I’m not a fan of the US military, but as a supporter of LGBT rights it is important to acknowledge that military service has historically been an effective means of gaining public sympathy for expanded civil rights in the US. (The most obvious examples being African-American service during the Civil War and WW2.) In the context of the militaristic US culture, forbidding people from the military is inherently a clear declaration that they are lesser and unworthy.

I don’t think the shambling husk of Twitter is a good representation of the U.S. population. My impression is that Elon has driven away most good and reasonable people.

If he were a normal president who cared about Congress and the future of his party in fair and free elections this would matter a lot. Unfortunately he isn’t and his plan is to make certain there aren’t any free and fair elections, so we’ll see what happens.

I’m hoping that Vance won’t be able to hold MAGA together. The thing about cults of personality is that when the dear leader is gone they tend to fall apart. Fingers crossed.

They thought the leopard would eat other people’s faces and not theirs. Remember that one lady from his first term? “He’s not hurting the right people.” That quote tells you everything you need to know about his voters.

Biden isn’t quite as bad as the soundbites make him seem, but he is slowing down (physically and mentally) in his old age and was just generally an extremely uninspiring candidate. Trump, if anything is worse than you portray. He’s way more senile than Biden, in addition to the blatant corruption, rulebreaking, childishness, and being horrifically and openly racist and sexist. He has literally quoted Hitler! No decent and reasonable person who is paying the slightest attention to what he says and does would think he is remotely qualified for any position of authority. The fact that he is polling roughly evenly with an extremely qualified and intelligent person like Kamala Harris is indeed an absolute clownshow.

This is NOT a purity spiral

Right, because that’s exactly what people who are not in a purity spiral say.

At this point Putin’s goal is pure personal survival. He needs to not lose the war because that would make him look weak, which is very dangerous for a dictator. To keep himself alive and in power he is willing to throw any amount of Russian soldiers into the meat grinder.

Of course they saw it coming, that’s why they banned abortion in the first place. It’s all about control.

All South Korean male citizens are required to perform 18-21 months of military service.

While this is true, the fact that war would be a bad idea doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t happen. People make bad decisions all the time.

it does seem excessively lurid to suggest, without direct evidence, that they have been raped in captivity for the past several months

But you’re just going to do it anyway?