Every nation starts like that. What alternative do you suggest? Knocking on their door and politely asking them to submit to your laws?

Even playing as an altmer, i hated the thalmor and everything they stood for. Nords werent exactly friendly towards outsiders but thats a whole other story.

No, they deserve long, drawn out deaths at the hands of ravenous draugr

What's even more stupid, is that Alduin is here to destroy the world, yet they do nothing to support it.

I mean. Really. You have the World-Eater who wants to destroy the world as much as you. Even if he spits on your face, you'd at least make sure he reaches his goal

They tried their best to destroy the world, but when the chance shows up, they spat on its face.

OMFG, the first thing that popped into my mind (before I clicked that link) was the D&D Alignment system. Chaotic Evil to be sure.
For those not familiar with the old D&D Alignment I'll sum up the evil reference:
Demons: Chaotic Evil
Devils: Lawful Evil

You know that will be a later TES. Maybe the first TES MMO? FWIW: I don't like MMOs, but I can see that one being an MMO.

Don't tread on me!

Actually, they didn't want alduin to appear just yet. If alduin ends the world before they can completely remove talos or kill off mankind, then the world will be reborn again with all the same problems they had last time.

They don't want alduin to undo the world until Talos has lost all mythological significance, and the races of men are extinguished.

They have to first unmake the pillars of Mundus, or else the pattern of mortal creation could repeat itself. I gather that Alduin showing up is premature for their plans.

But in the process of destroying the world, Alduin is actively killing off men. The Thalmor could have used this to their advantage? After all, Alduin is pretty much confined to Skyrim at the time, and Summerset Isle and Valenwood are too far for Alduin to think about at the time.

On a side note, while the Thalmor wants to kill off men, do they want to kill off the other races too? (Tsaesci, Sload, etc)

I kill most rude characters on site that I am able to. Thalmor are pretty high on the list....

Oh hell no. They always try to kill me when I tell them I'll worship who ever I please. With Jordis the Shield Maiden as back up, all they can do is "try"!

Yeah, Stupid Evil is just slightly different from Chaotic Evil in that Chaotic Evil types still usually have a sense of self-preservation.

Man's got a point. That's the Banolity of Evil. The greatest atrocities in history have been commited by "normal, decent, everyday people" thinking they're doing "normal, decent, everyday things". Nobody thinks they're a monster, yet meaning well doesn't absolve anyone of guilt.

I think I still have my COS membership card somewhere. Still, the greatest thing about LaVey's Satanism is also it's biggest problem: It encourages individualism and thinking for yourself, so eventually you end up seeing no reason to associate with other Satanists, since you have nothing in common with them. So I kind of lapsed, and ended up not missing them that much. It doesn't help that the older I get, the more I dislike Objectivism, which was rather influential in LaVey's philosophy.

So your ideal government is an intolerant autocracy that trammels the belief and freedom of the people under its rule? You ought to emigrate to Iran.

You're not one of teh Cerberus advocates on the Mass Effect 3 boards are you?

It's just the schtick of some people to root for and write apologia for the factions that are meant to be so unambiguously evil that they practically have "We're THE BAD GUYS"-neonsigns above their heads. I could sort of understand that with the Enclave in FO3, since they could counceivably have the usual "decent, everyday people" view of what they're doing. But the Thalmor are just doing throwing-puppies-into-woodchipper type stuff without even trying to hide it. It's kind of hard to see why you would want to root for them, except to appear "edgy" or something...

Pretty much this, i'd rather have the Empire to be honest.

A deliberate provacation to gather responses. Looks like it worked. Might as well say, "Let the Nazis rule- now who's with me?"

Yeah, chaotic evil types tend to be selfish.

Just men. Men reinforce the idea of mortality and the idea of creation.

Thalmor are trying to undo reality by stopping the worship of a god...they deserve a quick yet painful death.

Don't they also kill off Mer they consider impure (or enslave them for a time if they have a purpose for them)? Which would include the orcs and elves living outside Alinor, wouldn't it?

The whole Thalmor belief is that they can regain godhood by destroying Nirn. In their lore, Auri-El, their version of Akatosh, created the Altmer in the heavens to live among the gods. But in "his time of great weakness", he was forced by the other divines to cast the Altmer out into Nirn to live among men. They believe the only way to get back is to destroy Nirn and all living in it.

I'm sure you didn't know that. I don't think I need to say anything else.

They are not fond of Dunmer, Bosmer, and definitely not the disgusting Falmer. I don't hate the Altmer. Just their government.

Naw. The Thalmor like to present themselves as the "Saviors of All Mer"... my Dunmer thinks they're full of [censored]...