They mostly lose their money because everyone that finds out that they are suddenly rich, starts sueing to get what “they are owed,” or someone just kills them. The ones that can’t control their spending might never go broke, provided they got the lump sum invested by a fiduciary quickly enough.

That’s 23 years, not 13

Great Britain is specifically why I only called the US one of the oldest. You guys have barely modified your framework since what, the battle of Hastings or some shit around 1200 when the Magna Carta was written?

Yeah, that shit has lasted far longer than it ever should have to be quite honest. I can only chalk that up to Brits and their stiff upper lip. Y’all don’t seem to like upsetting the tea cart.

If you read The Constitution of the Six Nations, you’ll see why I said they had a bit more influence than The Magna Carta, and Commonwealth Law. After all only 2 of the colonies remained commonwealths to the present day, and only 3 in the last century.

Almost the only thing we didn’t directly rip from their constitution, that is in their constitution, was the concept that “all laws passed must directly benefit all children of the next 7 generations of unborn children.”

A kender. All kender society is communist to the extreme. There’s not much in the way of currency, and what does exist, exists because of states outside of Kenderhome. All public property is communal. Hell, the “jail/palace” is only used if you manage to FORGET TO HAVE SEX with another kender, because they are so fucking ADD that is an actual issue.

Most people don’t understand kender at all, and think they are just annoying. That’s not what we are. We’re the counterpoint to the gnomes. We can take anything and make it into something interesting, we don’t really understand private property, and personal property is shared amongst us, so others don’t like us. We take problems apart like there’s nothing that can stop us. That’s why I was picking locks IRL at the age of 2. It’s not to commit crimes, I don’t know if any of us are actually capable of doing that intentionally without a lot of disillusionment. We just want to explore everything, and fix all the problems we see. That makes us extremely annoying to others.

True. We rather quickly stopped using the term. Jefferson, and Madison used it a couple times and stopped. No other American president uttered the phrase after that because the experiment was already done. We achieved self sufficiency.

There’s been some adjustment within the framework, but we are one of the oldest countries that hasn’t thrown out their framework to start over with a new government ideology. I would agree that some of that adjustment comes extremely close to shattering load bearing beams of the framework, but that hasn’t happened quite yet.

Unlike, for instance, China or Russia, both of which have thrown the framework completely out the window in favor of a new framework twice in the last century.

The question of: if we need a new framework, or need to modify the existing framework to be better for the people and humanity is a discussion for a different thread.

Regardless, “The American Experiment,” is what the British, and what became Germany’s aristocracy referred to us as, until after The Civil War, because they saw us as the death knell of “The Right and Proper God Given Rule of Kings, (and queens,)” and were hoping that The US would fail as an idea and political system. I also suspect that the fact that the US version of democracy being based almost entirely on a system that the local Native Americans had been using successfully for over 15,000 years may have also played into their fears about this.

Ironic that you use a monarchist term to describe one of the oldest countries in the world that has retained their current form of government since inception.

Fun fact, those laws got imported into the US, so at least East of the Mississippi River, the same shit applies, though admittedly it is newer techniques than the freaking 800’s like your historical buildings.

Ahh, ok. Sorry for the misunderstanding on my part.

Look at my username. I’m pretty damn far left. There are idiots everywhere, to misquote Mel Brooks, “We’re all surrounded by assholes.”

I actually still have that game, both for Xbox and PC

They passed out a ton of them at the No Kings protest in San Diego. I only took one, after the first, I told the people that I have an ebike and an EV, so I haven’t been to the pump in years.

I would assume they were mass distributed, just like the 3D printed whistles they were handing out.

So when do we get the evidence that this kid wasn’t involved, and is an AIPAC plant?

What’s taters, precious?

Tatters*

Fair enough. My favorite tree falls over in a stiff breeze so yeah, I can see why you like them. (Redwood/Giant Sequoias)

I did as well.

Re: your username: after SDG&E decided that our palm was too close to the electric wires and needed to be removed, I have to disagree. That wood is horrible to try to work with. The tree ate two chainsaws.

Apparently, a bunch of them decided the US was too unsafe and fled back to South Africa.

San Diego, either “shorts all the time” or “what are shorts?” I’m in the “what are shorts,” camp.

You perceive that the target was so short because it was a child!

https://youtu.be/8HqLysSnnlQ

Well the Tau party is basically non-existent.