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.

In accordance with the Bell-LaPadula model, a significant number of accounts are required to satisfy the security constraints of using reddit. Such a distributed system and lattice model allows for excellent roleplay opportunities.

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.

Someone probably tried to No True Scotsman the mod. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Or maybe the admins were getting too scary. The politics talk on a sub like that must’ve been immense. There must’ve been lots of bans by both mods and admins there. Eventually, the admins would’ve demanded that the mod get things back on track or the mod will be banned as well.

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?

Fanfic Girls’ Frontline.

I could probably do it if I really wanted to. Create a new account at one of my library’s computers, use a separate phone to access reddit with that account, etc. It’s not worth the hassle though, for me at least. Reddit sucked up way too much of my time. Honestly, it feels like January ended just last week.

If Reddit popped out of existence, not everyone would go to Lemmy.

• Most would go to Discord, Twitter, and BlueSky.
• Some would go to various forums (they still exist).
• Some would spend a lot more time on FB, Tiktok, and Instagram.
• Some would spawn their own copies of Reddit (Voat). The copies all die in a month.
• Some would stop bothering with social media entirely.

Reddit is an addiction. You must break yourself of it.

If Lemmy doesn’t have what you’re looking for, you can typically find what you need on Discord or forums (some still exist).

Remember: Reddit has a lot of Americans using it. So where do all the non-Americans operate? The answer is where you need to go.

They gave me one too, but I extended it to perma just to make sure I don’t feel tempted to go back.