Perhaps a European ideal of Libertarianism. US liberal politics is a facade of good will to hide the same pro-corporate agenda pushing that the other party does while hiding behind a facade of moral vitriol. US libertarians believe in enforcing one’s own freedoms with force rather than relying on government force to defend your rights. US leftists have no political base in our elections, by design.

My voting disctrict in Omaha is megablue so it’ll be a tough fight for them to get it back.

I would suddenly feel very sad for the one of them that bottled it up for 40 years, and for the other who obviously has known for many of those years…

How about an awful shambling corpse of a book that’s trying to extend the story from a satisfying ending because the publisher wants more books.

You know that shit’s gonna peel like a boiled egg

Underlegislation leads to a bloated, extortionate upper crust that weilds disproportionate power over those who rely on said financial system. There is a balance, and the problem you outline is the lesser of the two extremes.

That mentality is surely broader than fascism itself. You see it in any hypernationalist state. Rome had “the barbarians.” The British Empire had “the savages.” Nazi Germany had “the jews.” There is always an “other” when the state needs it. Unless you’re painting a broader form of fascism, perhaps.

How’re the kids?

Glue-Extractor™

That’s what you’re hung up on? There’s a whole subgenre of sharks with tits.

Let’s take a page from Helldivers and call it “Managed Capitalism.” Surely far better than rootstock /s

Religious makeup

I now explicitly trust this writer and take his word as gospel.

Sci Fi is a flavor of fantasy that favors grounded explainations over magic, yet can’t escape it entirely. In order for something to be sci fi, it must have something in it that can be percieved as “magical,” even in the “sufficiently advanced technology” sense of the word. Jump/warp tech, laser weapons, space warfare in general, most life support concepts, AGI… All magic as far as we know now. Any sci fi without the roots of fantasy is really just modern fiction.

slaps the thin red recoil line on shoulder

This baby c-oww…

Protection from grit. And because polymers that can resist balistic shock and heat had only very recently been invented by then, and it was “cool” to find a way to make it useful.

Universally incompatible.

Not to mention that if he is off of any 1 ballot and loses, he has ammunition for another Jan6. If he has a “fair shot” and loses, there is less plausibility and (hopefully) fewer followers in the repeat.

o7 Godspeed, 196

Which this probably is if they want to pack as much data as possible in one unit.