my little brother and I showing up to the Christmas party

A future

Look they ran out of soldiers with able bodies and sound minds, years ago. I'm sure you could get in just fine 👍

If someone brushes their teeth in the next room over I have to move an additional room away. Or turn completely inside out. That's not loud at all, but bad bad bad bad bad.

Isn't that the rub with the spooky off-site list, though? No documentation to point a definitive finger at who did precisely what. I suppose we could scapegoat the person who wrote the original call for the list, but if they aren't the only maintainer then the rest of the plotters get to slip through our fingers.

It's in the subtext

Fun fact: This is because the writer of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, originally pitched it as a Star Trek series. The studio told him "No, that's stupid. Go away." Then as soon as he was out of the earshot started writing Deep Space 9.

Only amendment I'd put in there is that if we do get a competent gestapo it won't be ICE. ICE, the border patrol before them, and the Texas rangers before them all have a storied history of being impossible to appropriately train and outfit. Since their inception, they've been quantity-over-quality bucket of racists and failsons that have only ever been useful as a blunt instrument, despite work stretching back to the Harlon Carter days.

If we get a proper gestapo or KGB, it'll either come from a different agency or they'll have to completely gut and restructure ICE first. For now we can scare them off with crowds and airhorns.

It bothers me SO MUCH that the film cut the plotlines from the book that that riddle was hinting towards, but kept the intro as a cryptic, unfulfilled promise.

Amnesia moment

If someone explains something you disagree with, you have to actually explain why you think they're wrong. Conversely, if you just say 'nuh uh', then 'nuh uh' is enough to prove you completely wrong.