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• Dirk Bruere commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Police corruption is a major problem and is far more widespread than the genteel middle class ever expects. Fortunately the Net has given a voice to those whose testimony would once have been ignored, and often there is video evidence. The surveillance society cuts both ways....
• paws4thot commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  I'd not have spotted "Upney"; I would have got "Dagenham East" though....
• Charlie Stross commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Greg, YELLOW CARD. You do not call Jews "yids" on this blog, just as you do not get to call African-Americans "niggers": these are highly offensive ethnic slurs. Similarly you do not get to call Muslims "ragheads" or members of the Church of Latter Day Saints "morons": these are highly offensive slurs based on a perceived group identity, and are no less unpleasant for that. Just don't do it, okay? Don't force me to ban you. (Original comments left in place ONLY so that other commenters can see why I'm issuing this warning.)...
• Charlie Stross commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  J Thomas: YELLOW CARD. The term for what you are doing is "derailing". If this was a discussion of feminism, it'd be "mansplaining". Stop it at once: the context of Greg's remarks is obvious and trying to position them otherwise is just disingenuous....
• Arnold commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  This has just occurred to me...in My Very Own Brain which is MINE!! ..And it is that, if the Sad /and possibly sick, puppies claims have some merit, then...we British and Our High Fiction of Popularity - that isn't recognised by either the 'Social Justice Worriers’, or the, " Puppies " at all - has been SORELY Neglected!! WHY hasn’t our ever so popular U.K. Author Lionel Fanthorpe been nominated for a Retro HUGO? SEE HERE... "During the late 1950's and early 60's, The Rev Lionel Fanthorpe wrote over 150 pulp fiction novels under various names for Badger Books. "His...