What has "discouraging a fantasy TV show" have to do with preventing the election of raging populists?

Something that back then was considered normal enough that you could go to a respectable friend's house and be served by their slave, and even if you disagreed you might consider it impolite to bring the argument forth unless you were an extremely dedicated abolitionist.

Well, you need to see it from *their* point of view though. One when even educated people legit believed that blacks had some sort of biological inferiority.

Yeah, humans are well known to let go small grudges following the extermination of what they consider their kin. No way that could have possibly ended badly.

I guess the problem is that to appreciate the effects of subtle changes like that you have to be a bit of a history geek, while everyone can understand how "what if the South had won the Civil War" would be a rather momentous turning point. Granted, if you ARE a history geek, that stuff is pure gold.

Well, hopefully, unless we expand into space to enslave aliens, at some point one would hope they'd run out of places to do that.

The first idea was the Affordable Care Act Bill, but then it turned out the acronym was a bit unfortunate.

Let's face it, this is Nature's way of saying to humanity "you think you're smart? Let's see how you cope with it" and proving that obviously it's not.

Well, worked for the Netherlands.

I mean, you can test it on a smaller scale. Close yourself inside a sealed room, turn a fire on, and wait as all the oxygen transforms into carbon monoxide & dioxide. Will God allow for you to die of suffocation by locally altering the atmospheric composition that He decided at the beginning of time, or will He…

I mean, you just made a deep point that people called 'Chris' seem to actually be the REAL superior race.

It makes sense that they were, and now that I heard it, looking at them, they DO have something mechanical in their looks (what looks like circuits under the skin, mostly). And it makes their comments about wanting to understand human spirit make more sense - why would biological aliens be so radically different they…

Yeah, I think the tone's the real big problem here. The ending could have been perfect if only it had dumped a bit of the exposition (the technobabble to justify a never repeatable one-day clone with original memories really pushes it, may as well have just screamed "PLOT DEVICE!" and left it at that) and it had…