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Originally I was going to reply in the thread this quote came from; however, I quickly realized this discussion would be well outside the scope and purpose of that thread for any lengthy discussion, and so instead decided to spin up a new thread to discuss this idea. So, while I do not disagree...

Chapter 1 You never know what is out there in the world. We like to think we do, we like to think we know it all, that the material world is all that there is. That science can explain everything. Even the religious tend to think in this manner, at most they see God and the supernatural as a...

Chapter 1: An Unexpected Shadow The streets of New Monmouth City were ill kept; piles of trash swarmed with rats and flies even in the dark night. The downtown was long ago abandoned by everyone who could only afford to flee, leaving behind only the poor, the desperate, the...

International Technocracism – The Emergent Ideology of the 21st Century Introduction Over the last decades since the fall of the Soviet Union but seeming to accelerate the most in the decade of the 2010s, there has been the rise of a new ideology among the elites in the Western World. Many see...

So, it seems Senator Warren has introduced a proposal for a wealth tax. Leaving aside the effectiveness or how bad or good of an idea this is, I got to mulling it over and, well... I'm wondering if a Federal Wealth Tax would even be Constitutional on its face. The Constitution actually gives...

That will do nothing to limit megacorporations and would in fact actually advantage them over little folks. Yes, right now our copyright laws are kinda fucked up and in some ways favor corporations, but if you just go and eliminate them entirely? You utterly remove the capability for small...

CHAPTER 1 Phelan stood near the wooden bow of the Swiftwave’s Call looking out over the sea taking in the visage of the decaying city of Kaer as they approached its harbor. The city stood desolate and tired, the burned-out dome of her once great library and the dirty and worn facades of the...

For folks who want to go full bore into discussing the ins and outs of Rise of Skywalker, here's the place to do it. There's no expectation of spoilers being marked here, so feel free to discuss the movie in depth as you like!

So, trawling through the various blogs today I came across a link to a progressive proposal for a Constitutional Amendment called the "We the People Amendment". The text of the proposed amendment is as follows: Please note especially the second clause in section 1, "Artificial entities...

For those few who might not be aware, every November is NaNoWriMo. As a place for creative talent, I'd encourage folks who want to pursue the challenge, feel free to post here with updates, excerpts, or support. Good luck.

So it turns out that, according to researchers the "Youtube alt-right pipeline", doesn't exist. In fact, the supposed entry level personalities to the alt-right, the milktoast conservatives like Ben Shapiro and psychologist Jordan Peterson actually correlate more strongly with deradicalization...

2019 Welfare, Work, and Wealth National Survey by the CATO Institute was recently released. It is a doozy of a survey with huge amounts of data to go through and unpack. The thing that jumped out at me though was a theory of underlying motive for many Progressives was not simply due to...

I came across an article recently that I thought folks might find interesting: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/disregarding-separation-of-powers-has-real-life-consequences/ I'd suggest reading the entire article, but suffice to say, the anecdotes used by the Justice do draw interesting...

As a way of introduction, this is not a prose story, rather, this is a proper Epic, and by that, I mean a poem that tells the story of heroic deeds and adventures. It is based off an ongoing Pen and Paper Fantasy Bronze Age Savage Worlds Campaign I have been running off and on for the last few...

So inspired by this article on National Review: I figured this would be an interesting policy discussion on if all political donations should be public knowledge, and if so, why and what limits, and if not, why and why not?

OK folks, you know how this goes. Share those funny pictures and memes y'all love to spam out here. Some commentary is allowed by others, but the focus should be on the pictures. Keep things SFW and in general good taste of course.

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