Once you’re in power you can rationalize/justify their loss against the greater good that your leadership has brought to the people. There are concrete examples of human progress to defend. If there are significant counter examples, then it’s you that’s the problem to be dealt with, just like any other.

I could make the hard choices if needed, once there. Because at that point it’s about what is the greater good. Even if you really can’t say for certain, someone making a bad call is most often better than no one making a decision.

The problem is that in order to become a benevolent dictator, you have to chose to hurt people that don’t matter to the greater good, or very likely are important to the well being of the population. With the only justification being that maybe by consolidating power you can make the world a better place. And there is just no way to square that circle other than violent narcissism.

I could BE a benevolent dictator, I could never BECOME a benevolent dictator. The process of getting there would exclude me, because I would reject the power structure needed to form the dictatorship in the first place.

There will be an activity called an election. It won’t be free, or fair, or allow everyone to vote. The simplest method would be restricting voting locations to those deemed ‘safe from insurrection’ aka counties that voted for Trump.

Insurrection is grounds to declare martial law, remove those in power, and halt elections. He has to push hard enough to force people to fight back.

No, for rubbing up against.

Because other humans will pay for the feel of genuine humans.

Just think what a company could do with a full motor control interface to their workers. The worker themselves could be asleep or in a virtual world and not have to worry about all that pesky work.

Same situation with cybernetic implants. The rich would have infinite eidetic memory and computation power built into their skull. The poor would be forced to have muscle implants if they wanted a job, or worse, much much worse.

Don’t worry, the NRA will be all over stopping this…

Yup, they’ll be totally on top of it…

Any minute now…

Most likely the only ones getting refunds are those joined to the law suit that got the tariffs removed. Everyone else is SOL.

I grab my go bag and step outside to wait for the fire trucks. Lived on a boat for years, so i always keep a waterproof go bag handy.

I’d bet the reason it took them a year to get engaged is half because it took all the lawyers that long to negotiate the terms.

About 250,000 to start, probably closer to 1.5 million by the time responses start.

He’s better than a republican, and he better be getting primaried.

The expense of a delivering the nuke is negligible in comparison to the cost and effort of building a nuke. So much so, that large rocks are more economical than building a nuke at this point.

Use a bigger rock. I might change the cost by hundreds of millions, and still be less than the billions in development and production for a nuke.

Yes, but at this point it would be cheaper and quicker to have spacex fly to orbit, capture a 5 ton rock and drop it on a city.

There’s a reason Iran has been ‘weeks’ from making a bomb for decades now.

That’s not like new, it’s dull as shit. And really hard to sharpen.

It’s the tidal current throwing the swimmer around. They swam along the same heading the entire time.