Exactly, they couldn't possibly be anything like kings.

You see, the small group of ultra wealthy people in America who control the government and make the laws, due to their hereditary power and vast holdings, aren't from the Aristocrstic region of Europe or the Oligarchy region of Western Russia.

So, its a totally different thing. Although, I was a little confused when I first heard about Bush II or that something the Kennedy dynasty could exist. Luckily, I saw a play all about it in the Rockefeller Palace in new York, not far from Trump's.

In the history of politics

They do realise that there were political ads during the suffragette movement, right?

Your viking analogy is bizzare. Not that many people know that vikings didn't actually wear anything like that in battle, unlike how everyone knows Jesus was a homeless middle Eastern man and, depsite this, continue to draw him as northern European. More so, vikings are known for wearing those helmets. Jesus isn't known for being a white man. Why? Because Jesus wasn't white man and isn't know for it.

Youre really starting from where you want to end up and working your way back. Theres no cogent justification for it, as much I enjoy people trying to sell me an appeal to tradition, with extra steps.

Oh, is that what that thing was? I wondered why i kept getting wet.

Work has never been so unstressful, if you look back at the history of mankind.

I agree that it was even worse before. Although, I'm a little puzzled as to what point is being made. Are you agreeing with me or not? I can't tell.

Industrialization killed workers with 60 hour shifts in unsafe environments. Middle ages made you work 18 hours a day once you were 7 and made you starve if the harvest was bad. In the stone age your family died from hunger after you got killed on the hunt.

Life expectancy was never as high as today.

Looking back at what I wrote, what point is all this agreeing with or refuting?

To me, it seems like you're arguing that the passage of time is a good thing. I don't remember saying that the passage of time wasn't good.

We should build some kind of a moat around the UK. If we manage that, while not full proof, I have no doubt that banning it in the UK will be easier to do than somewhere without a moat.

Honey covered iron fists

Lol, Republicans tried this before under bush, right about the time his brother was running for reelection in florida. Bush whacked huge tariffs on a number of things coming into the US from the EU

The EU "florida hey? Nice oranges you guys have out there. Wouldn't it be a shame if someone was to, oh I dunno, put astronomical tarrifs on those delicious oranges, right in the run up to the florida governor election?"

It cut to the heart of the cronyism in the US political system. Not that anyone else has less or more. We all have it to one extent or another. Its just, imagine if it was your country's exact flavour of it laid bare and made public like that.

The Republicans were very embarrassed have hated the EU ever since.

Who knows, maybe this time it'll work.

Not that surprising. Conspiracy theorists, imo, have a few key features

1. no matter how smart or stupid they might be, they always think they're far smarter than they actually are

2. thinks everyone else is an idiot

3. easy to wind up

4. will take a position, no matter how little info about it they have access to, and will never, ever back down from it no matter how ridiculous where they ended up may be

5. finds real life too boring

None of those are ASD

Are you trying to tell me that the spirit of capitalism won't return to us, dressed in the splendor of new technology, to absolve us of our past planetary transgressions, and take us to a new, perfect place amongst the stars where we will live in profit and harmony for ever?

Well, thats the second time I've fallen for that story......

Its work

Working, in the way that we do, takes years off of our lives and ruins the quality of life of people in their final years too.

I mean, its a meme and the message is put across very well but, for me, an important distinction for the comments section is that wealth increases life, as much as, if not more than poverty decreases it. Its wealth specifically and not wages too. After a certain point, increased wages actually have an inverse effect on lifespan which I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone and the reason is both self explanatory and further supports what I'm saying.

Just so its been said, wealth, in these instances, refers to capital that makes you money. More specifically, wealth gives you money from NOT from working.

The exact point at which life expectancy and QoL increases is always around the exact level of wealth and passive income someone would need to drastically lower their working hours or stop completely.

A second argument: women live longer than men. There are some biological factors for this, such as oestrogen being a vasodilator etc. However, it wasn't really enough to explain the differences we were seeing.

The thing is, this unexplained gap has started getting smaller and smaller. Now, unless there's been a fundamental change in the average womans physiology recently, only one thing has changed in our society to the extent that it could effect something like this. Its also filtering through at around the exact time it should be, were the trend to be caused work.

Nothing else reconciles all of the positions, let alone so perfectly and in one single stroke.

Edit: so many typos

The worst part is, some of us are going to be resurected, only to be forced to labour away in the flaming sword manufacturing department.

What, do you think heavenly, flaming swords make themselves or something?

Oh, oh right, yeah, I see your point now. You're right, I'll probably just end up in flaming sword logistics or admin. Back-office is what I do now. So, that'll make sense.....

Honestly, just leave me dead if ill only be brought back to gods fucking paperwork.

Edit: also, you know someone's gonna be like "OMG daddy Satan, come get me!"