voting, uspol, doomsmugging
People are all "but this time you need to vote defensively/strategically/for the lesser evil" as if where we are standing right now isn't the product of literal generations of short-termist dipshits pursuing that exact strategy.
Congratulations.
You chose evil for the dumbest "pragmatic" reasons.
Now you have it.
Enjoy.
I just had a cog slip in my brain and wrote an article for my notes about the Imperial Navy and its "pretty officers".
I mean, not that they don't *have* those, but still...
(Well, to be fair, they don't list the Oyashio-class attack submarines as "destroyer, subsurface". But they should.)
One also wonders how they dealt with the problem of their hidden sietch water-hoards getting all algified and gross without losing or unusablizing some water in the process.
Backwashing the pool filter this morning, and having recently watched _Dune_, can't help but wonder what the first Fremen off-world must have thought when they encountered people throwing away gallons of water _just_ to clean some crud off their sand...
(Other than, y'know, crysknife to the face.)
As an SF author, I have heard enough about drawing a hard boundary between SF and fantasy. Don't care about that. I am much more interested in drawing a hard boundary between "intriguing dreams of elsewheres and elsewhens" and "smug parables shitting on them".
Tl;dr mundanobation should be its own genre.
Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!