Jim: A Clockwork Orange (1971) is, of course, the story of an aspirational band of piratical perverts being cruelly suppressed by the evil chthonian longhouse.
Grasspunk: “It was completely besmeared with blood” This reminds me of Peter Bogdanovich’s story about riding in an elevator with Alfred Hitchcock. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=PqXFtWSBBd4
Gaikokumaniakku: “…meetings between the two-legged and four-legged partners. I believe Mr. Orwell covered something similar once.” Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well. https://www.researchgate .net/figure/Ah-I-See-You re-A-Man-Of-Culture-As-W ell-expresses-the-admira tion-for-certain_fig2_34 3598792
T. Beholder: Jim says: T. Beholder, have you read much Yarvin lately? Well, see… I tell myself in the morning “today, no dank moldbuggery, okay?” Then click on WattsUpWithThat.com in the feed, read the article, read the comments, facepalm… A few minutes there are two open tabs of UR, search, and some pasted quotes. ;]
T. Beholder: Gaikokumaniakku says: Now I really want a webcomic in the style of “Yes, Minister” and “The Office,” covering the day-to-day interactions of an ensemble cast of rodent bureaucrats working to support the policies of the Rodent Planning Council. Also, meetings between the two-legged and four-legged partners. I believe Mr. Orwell covered something similar once. But then, there’s a photo literally titled «Eleanor Sadler, a sergeant with the San Francisco Animal Care and Control, greets a group...
Jim: T. Beholder, have you read much Yarvin lately?
T. Beholder: Ah, that dense smoke of a copium den. The Biden administration similarly sought to warp Title IX to its liking. With enough drug vapors in the air, «Biden administration» not only can exist, but is to blame for trying to «warp» the little innocent thing, to their personal tastes, which are oddly similar but completely random. Those weirdos, man. Found somewhere by Biden. The turd in question cannot even be polished, but hey, maybe if it was just a little more blurred… hufffff… Jim says: The...
Jim: Something about this gave me a flash of A Clockwork Orange (1971).
T. Beholder: Over the past fifty years, people all throughout developed nations have moved into suburban areas It was a trend. Or maybe heating costs? ;] https://www.unqualified- reservations.org/2009/04 /gentle-introduction-to- unqualified_15/ As far as fire risk is concerned, these areas combine the worst aspects of wildland and urban environments. Compare: «Administration plans 100,000 new highway deaths» (Vin Suprynowicz) https://web.archive.org/ web/20190514171716/www.r eviewjournal.com/opin...
Bruce: Betraying the West German center-right over the neutron bomb, trying to sneak US troops out of South Korea, hiding the danger of a Soviet nuclear satellite crashing on America- D-Carter’s foreign policy was consistent.
Bob Sykes: Napoleon is supposed to have said something like, “medals are important,” and by extensions so are other symbols that help maintain unit cohesion and self-sacrifice.
Michael van der Riet: James Blish didn’t like anyone in Stand on Zanzibar (which if you follow Ed H.’s link is by John Brunner as he admits and it would be amusing to find out why and how he erred) but he still read it, having presumably purchased it.
Bob Sykes: London has had a similar system for a decade or more. Some version of it was installed during the most recent Irish troubles.
Gaikokumaniakku: Well, the US intervention in Afghanistan wasted many lives, but thanks be to Mammon that the financial interests of surveillance hardware companies were able to feed off the corpses like ghouls.
So what, like 50% of men?
I don’t know anyone who’s ever been arrested. So it’s probably ~100% in some areas.