MimicJar

Exactly. The Ministry of Truth says _________ (fill in the blank as needed.)

It will sound like a government agency is providing recommendations, but in truth it's whatever Elon says.

It won't have government employees or have to follow government rules. It's just an expensive government contractor with no rules. It won't have to prove itself. Just "the algorithm" that has the answer to any problem. How did it arrive at that answer? Difficult to say, it's proprietary. Assuming any accountability, it won't be uncovered until years after the decision has already been made.

Trump will just take no responsibility. He'll blame RFK Jr for all the things that go wrong. Maybe he'll eventually get fired but at that point the damage will already be done. Trump will just say "Ah, he screwed me, I would have done the exact same thing but it would have worked, I'm a smart guy, I'll fix it or appoint someone else to fix it." And then it won't be fixed.

So if RFK Jr. is smart he'll just do a little bit of damage over time. Alternatively if there is a ton of chaos on day 1, then just add to the chaos. People can only be angry at so many things at one time.

Looking around online, further rumors seem to lean towards it being a Federation origin film.

That would put us in ENT era, but I don't see them following the existing canon. Maybe following a non-Enterprise ship to recruit an early but non-founding planet. The origin in this case being about how the Federation first expanded.

The other option could be picking up right after First Contact. How mankind adapts to learning about the Vulcans.

I just don't see either of those films getting greenlit.

Is it possible? Sure.

Bruce Wayne is in The Joker as a 10 year old kid, and Bruce Wayne is in The Batman as a 30 year old adult. A 20 year time jump allows for a lot of things to happen. Any inconsistencies can just be explained away over the 20 year gap.

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It's stupid to pay and still get ads, but that is how it's presented.

"check to see if the information is accurate" is better advice.

This is just great general advice for anything you read or post online. A misinformation tweet on Monday, spreads like wildfire on Tuesday, is looked at by professionals on Wednesday, a reasonable take or correction appears Thursday, and by Friday the only thing anyone remembers is the lie.

I'm reminded of "This Video Will Make You Angry" by CGP Grey, https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc

But you don't get likes or whatever by taking time to write out a well thought out opinion.

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Also, Bob's response to why he cheated,

The most likely scenario is Trump/Vance are still selected by the Electoral College but on election day Vance is sworn in as President, without a Vice President. Vance then goes through the standard process (Senate approval) to select a Vice President.

Technically it is possible for the Electoral College to select Vance and whomever Vance selects as VP. Since Republicans (will) have control of the Senate the odds of this scenario is slightly increased just to save everyone time. However given the various Electoral College deadlines and the fact that Vance would likely want time to select a VP, this option isn't likely.

Now if Trump had died 4 weeks before election day and Vance had clearly selected a new VP already, then the second scenario is more likely.

They would join previously announced cast members Matt Damon and Tom Holland.

So yeah. And Nolan did Batman, so it's not unreasonable. But also, I doubt it.

The thing about "always two" is that it's an adversarial relationship. The goal of the apprentice is to replace the master. The goal of the master is to replace the apprentice.

Look at Anakin, Palpatine takes an interest in him early on. He begins to shape him, give him ideas, gain his trust, all while having Dooku as his apprentice. Once Dooku is useless he tells Anakin to kill him (Dew it!).

Dooku in that moment is shocked. What makes Palpatine the Master is that he was able to convince Dooku that he was the apprentice. Sure that may have been true at one point, but Dooku should have seen this moment coming. Especially since he replaced Maul.

One of the big things Maul comes to understand during the Clone Wars is that he is just a piece, a pawn. He may have been a Sith Lord, a Darth Maul, but he was never even close to becoming a Sith Master. We even see this play out with Savage. Maul thinks he can be a Master, he and Savage take on Palpatine and get destroyed.

Also look at Luke. Both Palpatine and Vader know about him (as of ROTJ). Both want to recruit him. If he could be brought to the dark side, then what? Vader says they could rule the galaxy as father and son. Maybe that means challenging Palpatine, someday. And Palpatine? That's a free new apprentice he gets to test out. And as we see in ROTJ he essentially does to Vader what he did to Dooku, his new apprentice is about to replace his old one.

If Notepad is getting AI text editing then it's as good as dead too.

Which is sorta the problem with speculation in these threads. We can say "Trump said X", but really his decisions are based on the number of hamburgers he had that afternoon or which voice whispered in his ear last. We only have wild speculation.