We've devolved past Idiocracy

"We need to recapture the Apple market share!"

"Got it boss, we'll make it stupid."

You mean modern Christianity?

Why have a child so they can grow up to fight in the water wars or die of famine during ecological collapse?

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

Removing threats to democracy because that democracy is so flawed that it gave you the power to do so legally, and then using that power to eliminate the ability for it to be used again, is heroic.

Their pronouns are cop/cops (or pig/pigs), so their gender should be irrelevant in this case.

Prior to collapsing, Rome achieved a sustained population in excess of a million people.

This did not occur again anywhere else until the mid 1800s.

I'm convinced humans have some kind of natural inherent fetishization of "old knowledge".

If it happened outside of living memory they somehow knew more or had special magical knowledge we just don't understand or can't interpret from our perspective. The older, the more true people can be convinced that it is.

As if there is some kind of "platonic ideal" of thoughts or ideas from which all others are derived from, where the further back something back it is, it MUST be more true

I say it all the time: He isn't actually a person, he has no real human emotions. He's just a sucking black hole of narcissism, and lashes out at his enemies accordingly.

"Please pay this monthly access fee to maintain access to your account."

The executive branch should play hardball with this and order the immediate reassignment of every soldier at the FIVE ACTIVE MILITARY BASES in Alabama, to other bases and make it clear that the collapse of the local economy is Tubervilles fault.

I'm pretty sure that's within the wide latitude granted to the executive in terms of military control.

Make Alabama hurt and I bet this bullshit stops.

The secret ingredient is commun~~al~~ism.