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I've said it before, or at least something like it, and I'll say it again: I'd vote Vader over the last dozen presidents without hesitation. I'd prefer Palpatine, but Vader will do. Either of them have more political experience in their little finger than basically our entire political system put together, and their primary problem is with (force using) jedi and xenos, neither of which we have on earth. In their corner is holding together a galactic scale regime change, largely maintaining or improving conditions for humans on a scale dwarfing anything in current human history, and managing to only be ousted by terrorists with hokey space magic and battleship grade plot armor that doesn't exist in our reality. If they can do that with hundreds upon hundreds of planets, consider what they can manage with only a single one.

Also consider that Palpatine (Vader's mentor, even if V largely left the big stuff to him) managed to get an entire goddamn galactic senate to basically stand up and dance. We're talking shit that can't even physically comprehend human thought, and the guy still managed to get them on board with his stuff. You'd see congress scooting around like turtles with ICBMs shoved up their tukhus, and it'd be amazing.

Also, I won't lie, I'd pay ten bucks to see a man in power armor one-arm choke some folks. Maybe not as good as a force choke, but watching the guy just kinda' stroll up to Kim Jong-un and find his lack of faith disturbing could be worth the price of admittance.

... though I guess to be fair, I'd be pretty alright with Mon Motha or Organa-Solo, too. People never seem to offer them as a choice, though

E: Though in retrospect, being desperate enough for top-tier competence that you'd endorse a set of mass murderers (and yes, that includes Mon Motha and Solo) each with the blood of millions (/billions/trillions) on their hands probably says something. Maybe about me, maybe about our political system, I'unno. Still. It takes some hella' administrative and political skill to bury worlds worth of bodies and come out with huge chunks of a galactic polity actually supporting you.

Pit sounds like a good idea. You should totally use the original NES/famicom sprite, though.

I'unno baff, "clear frontrunner" still has a majority of the party they're running for voting not them, so far as I'm aware (mind, I'm a bit behind paying attention, mostly because I've got zero influence in the republican primaries, but still). Seems to me coordinating to try to get the system to properly represent the constituents is... fairly tasteful?

Not really what I'd call working towards an undemocratic results. Rather quite the opposite, with the system as is being the one trying to functionally disenfranchise millions of republican voters...

... admittedly, the system does that every year, but shit, I'm all for one or both of the parties actually doing something to try to counteract that to whatever degree, no matter how self-serving they may be in the process.

Different strokes for different folks, b. It's not a particularly good romance story, ferex. One can only presume OW's unfettered love of shounen-ai is not sated by Kill la Kill's incestuous yuri infused narrative.

It's pretty good, though, and surprisingly well written and whatnot, even (perhaps especially, as poh sorta' notes) considering the overt focuses.

E: It's incredibly difficult to impart the point that the show's actually decent to someone that's not already pretty well founded in anime, though. The ping pong song showed up on my playlist, and then I spent something like five minutes trying to express to a family member that the show's worth watching, despite (/in part due to) half the cast spends half the show half or more naked. I'm pretty sure the point didn't get across :V

Exterminated from a particular region of the world? Maybe. If you count sub-sub-religions, or ethnic groups becoming indistinct from the general population, almost certainly. If you mean persecution and the like happening to people, as I believe Frumple probably did, then it certainly also happens to a lot of people every year.

Either, really. There's only so much difference from the point of cultural death or extinction. Plenty get bred out of existence, some displaced, others get forgotten, some get just plain slaughtered. It's been something that's been happening yearly for decades, at a minimum. It's unfortunate, but so's a lot of stuff, much of it effecting a significantly larger amount of people.

And TD1, I'm pretty sure no one's saying anything along those lines. Certainly the only thing I've noted in regards to what you're speaking of is that not paying much attention to little ethnic groups dying off for whatever reason is not unusual, nor is it difficult to understand. Wouldn't even call it particularly inexcusable, myself. There's only so many resources that can be expended, and people tend to prioritize closer to home before they start expending outwards. S'not apathy or some shit, it's just prioritization.

I'm too lazy to actually compare the numbers, but here, have some data.

... uh, yeah, that's kinda' messed up. Not exactly sure what you'd do in that situation, though, other than making sure the kids don't go out alone. That don't involve cops, anyway, and I rather imagine you'd strongly prefer to avoid that.

I mean... theoretically you'd just talk to them (maybe over the phone, if they're in the phone book? Or with a friend or two for backup or somethin'.) and find out what's going on, but... yeah.