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It's extremely, extremely, common for the ruling elite of Empires to try to replace the people that made the empire possible instead, with outsiders that can be more easily controlled. (Which works . . . for a time) The Roman Empire demilitarized Italians and turned to provincials, mainly...

Replace the slogans with "Our Democracy"TM, and similar, and that's broadly correct. The actual American people are just there to provide funding and cannon fodder for the Neocon global Empire (and the private interests of individual Neocons of course), the same way Roman citizens were for the...

Right wingers (Evangelicals as well as if not more than Jews) loving Israel more than they love America is still certainly better than Left wingers hating America more than they hate Israel, though not ideal. For Neocons though, it's less that and more that they love the idea of America they...

Non-Jewish White oligarchs hate poor working Whites. Jewish oligarchs are the only ones who don't as a rule hate their own ingroup. Many still do, and the extent to which the majority that don't are willing to sacrifice their own interests may be limited, and the leftist dogma that infects most...

Yup. People like saying that unlike Christianity, the Woke offer no salvation for Original Sin, but that's also no real distinction. Lack of salvation for those not among the Elect is a common feature of many Protestant Christian denominations, and reoccurring throughout history in...

If we're honest here, Christianity is strongly vulnerable to the wokeness infection, not some barrier to it. Christian features of empathy, collectivism, and will to action are all vulnerable to hijacking. The most obvious is liberation theology, but there's also a joke about the Great...

You know, the Black Panthers once actively encouraged (and might still) members to join the military so they would have a trained cadre for when the revolution came, and so they would have men on the inside when the race war began. The Scientologists did much the same but with Federal Law...

Speaking of scifi authors spamming their personal bugbears and perhaps more on topic, you might know the late Eric Flint is leftist, but you might not know how leftist until you read his earlier book Mother of Demons. A human colony starship crashes on an alien planet with an indigenous...

Milscifi is dime a dozen. It's just all Space WWII, Space Napoleonic Wars, Space Vietnam, or recently even Space War on Terror. Milscifi that takes real life space science and engineering seriously is what's ultra rare, rarer than even hard scifi itself. The interest is just too niche, and...

The freedom fighters didn't win. Earth was conquered by what was basically Space Somalia but humans still had absolutely no chance. The MC won by drawing on his profitable trade relations with Space America to induce them to intervene after striking a single symbolic victory, France in the...

Yes, selling maple syrup is how the MC purchased alien technology (from other aliens than the ones that conquered Earth). Though as I wrote, the virus didn't kill people for dark hair but for failing personal hygiene.

Yes he does, which is why I read the entire series. Ringo is Kratman, but with some actual skill at writing, and care for the plot beyond taking fictional revenge on his real life enemies and bugbears. The currently last book in the series is a relative disappointment because the ratio of plot...

It literally is, in theory by the aliens. The book was really blatant with the aliens helping out the MC/author insert (though admittedly Ringo made the MC really physically unattractive) with his political goals and sexual fetishes despite theoretically being his enemy. 1) When the aliens...

Now I'm remembering John Ringo's book about Aliens dropping asteroids on all the major urban centers to threaten a man being persecuted by a Democrat government into surrendering. The book could not quite hide how much glee the dude felt as he refused. That book really was honestly way too...

The Senate and Presidency are the branches with obstructive power, and the credit for something like a third of Trump's judicial appointments actually belongs to Mitch for blocking their appointments during Obama's presidency. All the House has is power of the purse, which has been tied up in...

It's difficult to judge politicians when Republicans only hold the House (and old Mitch heads even the Republicans in the Senate) and thus can't possibly pass anything interesting. It's easy to write bills that won't pass, and easy to vote for measures that will fail. A liking for performative...

It's the Conservative Party that can never forgive Farage, because they tried to use him and it backfired so hard for so many of them, and the Party may never be able to get back into the comfortable rut as the British equivalent to Merkel's CDU. It's that it's all their own decision and action...

Has it though? Socrates only liking women was noted as a particular oddity about him, and lots of his admirers just could not wrap their minds around it. That said, given every historical example of homosexuality has been pederastic, it might be that there is a small constant number of men...

Thanks to greatly improved building design, most of the U.S. is greatly oversupplied with firefighting capacity. Most places, firefighters mostly just help paramedics move fat people around. So an influx of unqualified women will just cause them to all be assigned pointless paperwork while the...