Clearly they send the giant robot defending the harbor to collect, though I imagine this leaves the city vulnerable to attacks from migratory kaiju.

(laudatory)

I appreciate how the use of 'masturbatory' as an adjective is both figurative and literal in this instance.

I think there is too much reluctance to simply not take people’s professed political concerns seriously on their own terms. They’re often just a mask for a desire for a collective identitarian status triumph over an out-group scapegoat, like sports competitions

I've always liked the Starhawk for this reason. Symbolically refashioning the icon of Imperial rule into something new.

Easy to justify the budget for, also, given the amount of perfectly good ISD scrap flowing out of the breaking yards.

The KDY widget makers probably all go out of business.

also you know fucking abolish ICE. abolish DHS. these are rotten agencies. whatever border security we might need must be provided by something new.

People become addicted to misery and will slap away the hand that offers succor.