They’ll give the rest of the world a breather which will allow us to finish forming a new economic and strategic structure where the United States plays a substantially diminished role. After that it won’t matter whether the Republicans or Democrats are in power; at least not to most of the world.

Ooooh! I’d be able to watch the first episode of Doctor Who!

You wouldn’t download pants.

Yes. Twenty years ago. Now take a look at what Nintendo and Microsoft have been doing just within the past couple of years (as well as what they were doing twenty years ago and beyond, since they both have long track records of shitty behaviour.)

Yes, Sony is not a good company, but we’re comparing them to Nintendo and Microsoft here.

All game console companies famously keep trying to fuck everyone else over. Sony actually comes off fairly well compared to Nintendo and Microsoft.

Exactly. Never do anything until you can do anything all at once. If you can’t wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere, it’s best to just keep the status quo.

Why would a programmer own a printer? I almost never print anything and when I need to I just go to a library.

Except if the game is designed to be multiplayer-only, but even then we should be able to set up our own servers. If the original Half Life could do it in 1998 then why can’t we do it now?

Star Trek (at least from TNG onwards) is a dystopia who’s inhabitants have convinced themselves is a utopia.

Maybe some government officials will keep you company by inviting you into their war-plan discussions.

Up the butt.

He doesn’t have a goal, he acts purely on emotion. He’s an overgrown child throwing a decades-long temper tantrum.

Behold the power of cheese.

It’s the prequel to Thirteen Ghosts.

I know, but it’s the “never thought” part that I’m disputing. People have been thinking of this situation for a long time.

Really? People have been talking about it since the Bush administration. Until now things hadn’t gotten bad enough for people to actually do it in large numbers, but people saying that if the Republicans win they’d move to Canada has been repeated so often over the decades that it became a bit of a joke.

is it possible that fascism is the only logical conclusion a nation which was founded solely by white landowners to do wholesale on genocide on native Americans?

No, but it is the only logical conclusion of a nation that continues to venerate those genocidal landowners as heroes.

What about a salt flat?

Fucking magnets.