Oh yes, like on their stances on War in the Middle East, on economic policy, on states rights, on the government's role in education, on equal pay for women, and on and on. They're exactly the same

It's an inevitability at this point at the rate public perception is changing. Anti-gay marriage laws are going to join anti-miscegenation laws in the dustbin of history.

How many years ago was it immoral to marry outside your race? How many years ago was it immoral to marry outside your religion? How many years ago was it immoral to marry outside your class? How many years from now will we be saying, "Wait, we used to not allow that?"

And that's pretty much the sum of what I have to say.

So, next subject: Why the *** do we let oil companies get away with record profits? And don't say the answer is to raise gas taxes -- that just hurts drivers and gas station owners. It's the oil companies, the ones who supply the gas stations, who need to be taxed to hell and back... (I know, I know; we raise taxes on them, and suddenly our jets and tanks get -very- expensive to keep moving...)

That's where the nuclear-powered drones come in. Only reason the US doesn't have nuclear-powered tanks is because it's so blasted hard to shield the reactor in such a small vehicle. You take the crew out of the equation and you're in business. "Oh, what's that, Exxon? You want to retaliate against the US Army by jacking the price of fuel? I'm sorry, we can't hear you over the hum of our atomic robot tanks." Of course, that leads directly to Skynet, but, you know, can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

We want drones! :D

https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology...one-safeguards

Look on the bright side, once Skynet takes over, we won't have to worry about those pesky social issues anymore.

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328762344762-D: Foolish microb! Allowing positive charge and negative charge to co-mingle in a single capacitor is a greased mainframe! What next, allowing K-9 hunter-killers to commit manual repairs with your bonded pair? ZZZZZZZOTwrkwrk.

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Life will be easier when we're all Cybermen.

Why does it feel so right that this thread turned in this direction?

Since we have a politics section I thought the two Forbiddens were Sex and Religion.

This *is* a Heroclix Web site. I'm frankly amazed that every political discussion here doesn't devolve into a consideration of how a given policy might hasten or forestall the arrival of the zombie and/or robot apocalypse.

For that matter, remember when it was illegal for a human to marry a mutant? Or an alien? That's who Johnny Storm and Lyja's marriage got annulled, I think...

hmm.

Now if we all could all shape-shift like Skrulls.....

You have to be a donor to post there.

You can't put a bunch of cynics in a room, in this case a thread, and expect us to not get pissed off at reality. Then of course, we have whacky ideas.

Personally, I say we take away the lifetime salaries for congress. Then we curb domedtic programs. Stop promoting ethanol. Cap CEO pay at $1 and force then to stock options for money. There is more, but that's a start.