In the Chinese VN White or Black, one of the first things the church guys did after taking control of the US was trim the prison populations. Though I imagine being able to see the future helped a bunch.

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 saw him do it! With my own two eyes! Vance snuck up behind the Pope, and shanked him like this!

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.

That’s why people are interested in the fun way of making a third party.

The country will become the Qax Occupation from the Xeelee Sequence before people revolt.

Untrue. I believe Middle Easterners are officially classified as white.

I was referring to the show made by Mr Beast.

It’s up there with that time a rich youtuber decided to make Squid Game an actual reality TV show.

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.

But I view the Irish to be true heroes, like George Washington of the Revolutionary War. Washington knew that the British had to be stopped. The IRA understood this.

God you sound like my doctor. That dude keeps trying to extort me with prescription medication.

The IRA’s only mistake was that they stopped planting bombs to take out the Imperialists. They were good guys fighting an evil foreign oppressor; of course things wouldn’t be sunshine and rainbows all the time. It’s just as justified as the Revolutionary War.

Think about it: Would you rather take some evil people with you to the Great Beyond, or would you like some evil people to suck away all your savings as you die a slow death?

More than a few Brits had to depart this world to do that though, yeah?

The Irish did pretty well against such odds.

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