Its the "c" in the text portion
Well, I've been losing sleep and having anxiety attacks over the possibility that he might worm his way back into office again, so no sympathy
That does kinda depend on the nature of the dystopia to be fair. Like, the ones that are just "a stratified society where the poor live in the dirt", or "an authoritarian regime", sure, but some dystopian fiction relies on tech that doesnt even exist to run.
disease might be a particular issue beyond just that. Last thing you want is to give the past COVID or modern strains of the flu or whatever else, and in reverse, you dont want to bring back smallpox
Not to mention that, being a decently sizable country, making them is really more a matter of motivation to put in the resources and deal with the diplomatic effects than it is capacity ultimately. Like, North Korea was able to build them with a fraction of the population and economy and as even more of a pariah state, the technology has existed for just about 80 years at this point and while details of the specifics are secret, the basic gist of what they require is well known. Basically any country that isnt a microstate probably could build a few eventually, if they really wanted to spend all the money
Not authentic then, like why a replica of a classic car isn't valued as much as an original one even if you built it to the exact same design schematics.
You would think Israel, of all countries, ought to know how blatantly evil this kind of stuff looks.
To them it probably means "people who don't let anybody else know they're gay or publicly defend the LGBTQ community, so that we can pretend gay people are really rare and don't exist around us"
Iirc the Russian casualty rate was supposedly on the order of 1000 a day recently, so probably implying the former.
the issue with giving someone eternal office work as a punishment is that you cant have them fired without ending the eternal office work, and being dead presumably they cant starve to death, so if they just start slacking off and ignoring their "job", what are you gonna do?
Theres someone I sometimes encounter in a discord Im in that makes a hobby of doing stuff with them (from what I gather seeing it, they do more with it that just asking them for a prompt and leaving them at that, at least partly because it doesnt generally give them something theyre happy with initially and they end up having to ask the thing to edit specific bits of it in different ways over and over until it does). I dont really understand what exactly it is this entails, as what they seem to most like making it do is code "shaders" for them that create unrecognizable abstract patterns, but they spend a lot of time talking at length about technical parameters of various models and what they like and dont like about them, so I assume the guy must find something enjoyable in it all. That being said, using it as a sort of strange toy isnt really the most useful use case.
Honestly, I'm slightly skeptical of that. The man is old, and his health already appears to be visibly starting to degrade a little. That doesn't necessarily mean he'll be dead in 4 years, but barring some medical breakthrough on reversing aging in the next couple years, I suspect he probably won't be in good enough shape to campaign by then. Plus, it would be much more difficult for him to win the nomination in such a case. He's got a cult following that would help, but the republicans also want to win, and if he loses this, that will be 2 elections in a row, almost a decade, that they'll have lost the white house with him on the ticket.
The bigger issue is that his "deny losing elections and actively court bigots while saying whatever inflammatory thing he can to stay in the news" strategy will probably get picked up by whoever replaces him.