Unfortunately, Mr. Swalwell has already been compromised by the perfidious Chinese and is, therefore, unelectable.

I was shocked at how old some of those clips were, one or two looked like they were from birtherism-era broadcasts.

Who else could feel the sweet release of divine intervention more clearly than someone with chronic constipation?

U gotta hydrate to be great!

It's a strong western tradition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000

You ever read classic Luther? My man was scatological.

I suspect one of the outlets accidentally posted their pre-written obituary (which most wide-reaching publications will do, write Obits well ahead of time) and every other outlet just ran with it using that mistake as evidence.

Probably more specifically, daytime hospital dramas on television.

My brother does all the time, but he is a literal pig farmer so

They're the faction that is least defeatable at the least.

This I totally agree with, at a certain point it would just be too much of a pain in the ass to deal with them, hence why I think they'll end up just being a neoliberal hellhole confined to the California valley.

Is the interior particularly important in the event of a war? Big empty space. As long as what they need to maintain the war effort is placed in more defensive locations it's actually not important territory.

Not really aside from fresh water (there is a separate water table east of the Rockies see image below), air bases, and nuclear silos. There's arable land as well but I don't think that's as important considering the breakup. The most important factor probably being the Nuke silos, and aquifer which will get more important as time goes on.

Aquifer and Climate maps of US

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It's... interesting. Like a genuine cultural artifact, but not conventionally good. I really like it to be clear. The plot is kind of insane and all over the place, but it also has this uncanny knack for always answering 2 previous questions, and raising 3 new ones. The cast did a phenomenal job, and I don't think any other TV show has ever captured me in a "I need to tune in next week" kind of way.

I'd actually argue against this. They have the west coast sure, but their territory is split down the middle by the largest mountain range in the US and deserts. It will be a massive pain in the ass trying to get supplies and troops from the west coast to the interior, especially since I don't think the west has air superiority in this hypothetical scenario.

E) Unless The West has control of the US's Pacific territories, which I don't see why they wouldn't strike out for independence in this situation.

E2) In a prospective conflict, I actually think the west would get pushed back to the rockies by the south/midwest and basically become a merchant republic based out of california with strong ties to China and everybody more or less leaving them alone because at that point it'd be more trouble than it's worth having to sail ships through Panama or whatever.

It's old hat to say at this point, but imagine if libs were this worked up over the 2000 elections

It's not in the image because of the photo angle, but license plate reads "2K4 LYFE"

I have to imagine shields do not stop nukes. The entire social order is built upon the Great Convention, the galaxy-wide No First Use policy.

maybe cross-post to https://lemmygrad.ml/c/sigmarxism

The only people going anywhere across the galaxy are the ones that are being carried on Spacing Guild ships, who follow the spice. Any information is carried on guild ships. Any goods are transported on Guild ships. As far as these feudal holdings are concerned, they are waiting for the next Guild ship to arrive with goods, messages, dignitaries, etc.

The Jihad is the Muad'dib Jihad. One of the major themes of the story is that the Atreides have sullied and stolen the noble struggle of the Fremen, which (textually, tragically) will leave the Fremen as nothing more than a cultural affect, an interesting museum piece where they recreate the Fremen culture behind a pane of glass with plastic crysknives. Stilgar is supposed to personify the way Paul has turned a noble and resilient people into sycophants caught up in the religious ecstasy of his cult. I would say one of the most collar-tugging part of the narrative is the only reason the Fremen follow Paul in the first place is because of a (again textual) millenia-spanning Jewish conspiracy.

If the Palestinians had the sole global supply of gasoline or whatever and were able to blackmail everyone else on earth into accepting their legitimacy or else they will crash the global economy and cause billions of deaths, yes.

That's aside from the fact that Paul is operating within the imperial structure. Shaddam IV abdicates, and Paul is instated on the throne. This is done by the rules of their feudal structure.

This is all explained textually by the spice monopoly / Spacing Guild / feudal empire relationship.