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the Second Coming comes to Gilead
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"You don't know what miracles you can do?"

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"I mean. There's no reason to think I can't? I just. Haven't yet. It hasn't super come up yet. I guess if there are any hurricanes brewing I can go do something about that."

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"It would be nice if we had an idea of Your powerset. The right way to handle Cascadia will be very different if You can no-sell nukes."

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"I am confident that I could go find the nukes and disable them. I am less confident in my reaction time dealing with nukes if they were launched before I could deal with them."

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"Best not to disable them, I think, if You disable the nukes Cascadia will believe You are attacking. --I will try to note places where Your capacity to do miracles may change our strategic analysis."

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"Assume that my capacity to do things scales with my understanding of how they work and how much attention people are paying to me."

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"...Should we be getting You to do an AMA?"

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"Don't actually know what that stands for."

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"An Ask Me Anything. My basic thought is to get You in front of the TV cameras, have You do some miracles, make You answer some non-controversial questions which traditionally for some reason include whether you'd rather fight a hundred duck-size horses or one horse-size duck, maybe have You say some noncontroversial things about peace and love and charity towards the poor, and then You can level up faster and save everyone's babies."

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"I am in favor of saving people's babies."

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"It's probably an unacceptable risk unless it makes You more powerful, but if it makes You more powerful it is worth it."

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"An unacceptable risk?"

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"Everything You commit Yourself to in public is one fewer option You have in negotiation. Sometimes that's the right choice, but right now You barely have any idea what Your end goal is. Am I right that I am the first politician You have contacted?" 

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"Yyyyeeessss..."

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"So You have no idea of how You want to handle, say, India and very little idea of whether anything You say will cause such grave offense that it ruins Your ability to influence India for the better at all."

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She sighs and flops backwards. "All I want is On Earth As It Is In Heaven and no one whatever in Hell. Whyyyy does that have to be haaaaard."

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"Original sin?"

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"Fake," she sighs disgustedly. 

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"Don't tell the Catholics."

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"Fair enough, I guess. Sorry about all the..." she waves a hand. "Everything."

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"Well, I do get to exist at all, that makes up for a lot."

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"And you get to continue existing after you die! That part's important."

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"Assuming I get the good ending, anyway."

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"It takes way more evil than you appear to be to get the bad ending."

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"I point out that I am literally one of the fifteen most powerful people in Gilead."

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