Judging relationships is God’s work. The faithful need only pray, and they shall have their answer on how good a relationship is.

It is my life’s dream to die clutching my heart as I’m giving a presentation in front of hundreds of people.

I don’t think Quebec will recognize Trump’s rule if he takes control of Canada. It may result in some occupier deaths.

You misunderstand.

Yes, one Canadian with an assault rifle can’t do much against 5 American drones.

But one Canadian with an assault rifle can do much against 5 off-duty American soldiers relaxing in a restaurant.

It is extremely effective at making sure people behave the proper way. It’s the same philosophy behind small, weak prey being scared of big, strong predators.

I read a VN where aliens were asked to intervene, and solve the problem of humans being evil.

The main idea behind the aliens is that emotion is literally toxic to them. If you persistently shout at one in anger, the alien can actually die.

After some major periods of civil unrest, half of humanity started to advocate a symbiotic relationship with the aliens. They’re inserted into a human subject, replacing most of their biological functions, but also adding the weakness to strong emotion.

You can see how people bound to an alien wouldn’t support Tate. Tate wants to spread hatred, or strong feelings of superiority, but those feelings could actually hurt someone bound to an alien. Therefore, people bound to aliens would rather exile or imprison Tate instead to end the threat he poses to their health.

Amusingly, the alien people get so powerful in the VN that Tate and a bunch of supremacists who hate him have to work together so they don’t get wiped out.

How else can the US learn how to inflict the maximum amount of pain on people it doesn’t like?

All I know about Tate’s views are that he’s a male supremacist of some sort.

Now hold still as I apply this giant drill to Number Whatever.

Yep. All of them. They’re considered a joke at first, but things get a lot more serious when they elect a Pope to run the US. China holds out for a while, but things turn south for them when they legalize conversion to the White Lords’ Church faith.

So yeah. Jesus was brought back to life by an alien. Muhammad spoke to an alien named Gabriel. The Buddha is actually an alien inhabiting a human body (they can do that in the story).

We’re on course to becoming the White Lords’ Church from the VN White or Black.

In that world, Trump is dead by the 2030s. Unrest and political troubles killed an alien attempting to make first contact. But religious MAGA, looking for a leader, decides to support the aliens. They claim that the aliens are angels sent by God, pointing to various events in the Bible as clear evidence of their influence. And then, since the people are eager to overthrow Musk, they decide to sign up with the aliens. Musk and his buddies are all dead/converted when the Church assumes control of the US in the late 2060s/early 2070s. And then they take over everything else by the start of the 22nd century.

The Church is Gilead if they favored Brave New World over 1984. And they’re a lot more stable, and rule a lot longer than Gilead, lasting until the 27th century at least.

I wonder what a cage match between Trump and a locust from the Book of Revelation would look like.

It is legal for prisoners to be enslaved - perhaps you missed that little gotcha in the amendment.

If the goal of prison isn’t to turn criminals into better citizens, then why not put all prisoners in a hard labor camp?