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Commented on Theme, Fiction, and Empire Games
Ah yes, that'll teach me to comment before finishing the story. I do like imagining a madam prez ... without the Kissinger fetish for "Constructive Ambiguity" So, +1 on whitroth & Eric's Olson's suggestion of Tammy Duckworth....
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Rumsfeld as rational POTUS? Perhaps a better alternative than the current one; a known-known versus a known-unknown. Or is the new guy (who shall not be named) an unknown-unknown? What is interesting about the the first and second series is...

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RDSouth commented on Theme, Fiction, and Empire Games
Finished Empire Games. I was going to point out the error on page 306 where Rita seems to be hooded and blinded mid page, then can see that the helicopter has a glass front by the bottom of the page, but then checked and saw that "someone removed the ear defenders and hood". Also there was a spot where an italicized statement lost its italics halfway through for no reason, but I forgot where it was. Also it was too short, GRRM writes really long books. Or used to. And what did they have for dinner exactly, not enough detail....
fajensen commented on Theme, Fiction, and Empire Games
Also, if "liberalism" is so rotten & corrupt as you claim, what are you going to replace it with that is BETTER? *I* am not replacing anything, I am not The Führer everyone are looking for. I'd prefer that something like Eric Fromm's "Humanism" emerged from the smoking wreckage. See, we would be so much more effective having people issues, money issues, rather than identity issues. Which is why we got identity politics pushed on us from every angle. Which has now failed as a population management strategy because it is obvious that no actual progress is being made....
Greg Tingey commented on Theme, Fiction, and Empire Games
then one often has to endure some shorter term suffering to get there. I consider that an investment. Like the people in & of Germany (never mind the countries the Nazis invaded!) did between 1939 & 1959, you mean? NOT worth the price. Sorry, but you are not thinking this through....
Robert Prior commented on Theme, Fiction, and Empire Games
What annoys me about people I've met in real life* who advocate for "necessary suffering" is that the suffering they claim is necessary is all conveniently to be suffered by other people. *So almost certainly no one here....
Greg Tingey commented on Theme, Fiction, and Empire Games
I am very afraid that you are self-deluded in that respect. Trump is not the paint-blister - he is the rot itself....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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