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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    As of 2006 (politics limit) and 2010 (point of divergence) the law on the books was Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 which is very confusing (melded a half-dozen prior laws together? may not have contained anything new?) but, IIUC, requires a review every seven years. I don't believe they...
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    You know Harrison Bergeron? Krono had a loudspeaker playing static noise only he could hear making him stupid. They broke the speaker. He's un-handicapped now.
  3. PDV

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Disagree, that's been essentially true on our Earth for over twenty years. There were narrow places where it was only slightly covert (mostly the rapid-growth cities on the Arabian Peninsula) but nowhere it was permitted.
  4. PDV

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Wow, haven't seen one of those since Old Man's War.
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    "So does Chicago."
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Genghis Khan's death toll is estimated at 50 million. Savage has done that at least once.
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Dulls, classically. This isn't 40k. Fascist governments typically make symbolic use of religion, but are very ambivalent about going so far as to believe in them. If you believe in a religion you might have to obey a priest! Worse, your subjects might obey a priest! Either way, worship is...
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    I'd guess it's about her having a broader understanding of avarice now that Xor is tied closely and the OLC is big. But I don't remember how big the corps was last time Snek and Agent bonded.
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Striking OL and failing didn't serve their objectives. That doesn't narrow it down. Best not miss. Mosteel is acting like they want to deny it but expect to be facing a lie detector. Interesting on both sides.
  10. PDV

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Missing close quote.
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    No, no, specifically "wise man (derogatory)". The suffix "-ard" typically means "too much of that." Drunk-ard: too often drunk. Cow-ard: too often/easily cowed. Wiz-ard: too clever for his own good. (Also braggart, laggard, bastard (probably), dullard, buzzard... Really productive suffix back...
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    It's thaumically active enough for Vulcan to be hanging out here, right? So they could have scry wards, the interdiction/Teleport Trap is plausibly magical, and mind control spells are possible.
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    IIRC, historically, the time you usually get fairly rational authoritarians is when there's a total collapse of legitimacy, usually from a monarch descending into utter fucking incompetence without particularly good lineage backing them up. That's how England got Cromwell. (Who was brutal and in...
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Mistake Not...
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    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Well, that would certainly be a way to negotiate independence for Havania.
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