And yet Alta California remains American.

You're definitely never going to gain any respect for that interpretation acting like this.

That name is conquest, destroyer of nations which submit.

The “of course” in his quote is because this is how Toriyama himself felt, what he himself had been writing toward, and all that was planned for the series originally. There has been a lot of squabbling over the fact that this quote can’t be found in publication anywhere, but this is always what anybody close enough…

GT = ごめんね、鳥山さん (Apologies, Toriyama). That’s been the joke literally since the series started.

I’m not talking about me personally profiting from the mistake. I don’t think I’m missing the point, because the point was mine in the first place — it’s not just about intentional deception, it’s about willing deception.

Fight a war. Win. Take land. There’s a name for that.

1. Fair enough. Kids can’t be killed in Fallout

If the free market justifies passing off misinformation as real news, then it seems like it ought to justify claiming vitamin contents in foods they don't actually have. How is this different?

The U.S. then conquered it, paid the defeated country money for it, and annexed it.

Right. By Spain, and then by the U.S.

And yet Alta California remains American.

Punishing a news organization that claims to be presenting the truth for lying is holding someone responsible for their actions. Come on man, think a little bit.

This is vastly different from satire. If they wanted to publicly make the argument that they are not a real news site and rather a satire and commentary organization, I would think that would be fair, because they would essentially be handing over the keys to the car.

By this argument, all news photos could be reduced to one stock photo showing some generalized thing and used repeatedly because they more or less show the same thing, and “it’s not as thought the person who put the photo up is trying to trick you.” You could have one “man with gunshot wound” photo and then every…

Right. That makes sense. I’m thinking of it more in terms of actually providing the service your business advertises itself as providing, or the illegality of bait & switch, or something like that. Because the fourth estate wields so much influence over politics, international relations, and what will eventually…

Point taken. Shame they can't lose anything for it, though.

Well, I think it's been clearly established you have no answer.

My mom is Mexican.

And we figured out that this was a lie. Now what about the liar? This wasn't satire.