Five minutes of hate news
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Pocky Balboa
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Probably just over the landmarks and monuments.
mrttao
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they already destroyed those
I'd miss the museum ships, Grand Central, and the Statue of Liberty.
Rest of it....meh.
DarthOne
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I think that applies to a lot of democrat cities these days, more or less for me.
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 self-indulgent what with how fast America became much better after the asteroid bombardment and the virus to force blonde women to rapidly reproduce. Not that we didn't know Ringo had problems after the Kildar books.
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
I never read a book of his but read Caliphate by TOM KRATMAN and John Ringo's book is often attached to him.
The copy I had was used and the note made by a previous reader said "Utter shite but beautiful!"
The copy I had was used and the note made by a previous reader said "Utter shite but beautiful!"
Yes,we have german premier doing whatever he can to destroy Poland as state.
Maybe he succed,maybe not - USA need us as cannon fodder,after all.
I read Caliphate,too - almost died from laughing.People go to other Earth,regressed to 17-16th century level,AND....history repeated as if nobody learned anything from that.
If you made big change,you could not behave as if notching happened later.
Yeah, that's clearly indicative of, er, certain leanings from the author.
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
Specifically blonde...? Is it me that I am reading too much into it or is it John Ringo's virus in this book sound a tad bit like the Lebensborn program?
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 showed up, most countries surrendered. The Chinese fought to the bitter end, getting wrecked in the process and thus conveniently eliminating them from future competition despite being lauded for their bravery by the hero. The American (Democrat) government surrendered, but obviously many Americans continued to resist. After repeated failures of the collaborationist government to put down the rebellion, the aliens stepped in and decided to bomb the cities to "punish" the rebels, which the book very unconvincingly tries to convince the reader the MC cares about as he easily ignores it.
2) A lot of countries, despite surrendering, were so corrupt and unproductive they failed to provide the tribute the aliens demanded. The aliens of course were uninterested in nationbuilding, and decided to just kill everyone too incompetent to generate the desired levels of tribute. They released a virus that causes a few sores that harmlessly disappear with basic personal hygiene and maintenance. If however ignored for too long, the person will abruptly drop dead. I'll let you guess which countries and ethnicities Ringo thinks the virus would wipe out, but yes, the Indians would also not be competition in space for the subsequent books.
3) The Germans and Nordics were very efficient slaves, surrendering easily, no resistance movements, large and prompt tributes. Ringo inexplicably attributes the same to the Russians despite efficiency being the last thing you'd associate with Russia. The aliens took one look at the most obvious difference between these excellent slaves and all the ones they were killing with (2), and decided to repopulate by making another virus to force blonde woman to reproduce, i.e. greatly increase their sex drive and makes hormonal birth control ineffective. Yes, the later books set up a much younger blonde woman as the MC's love interest, why do you ask?
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
I mean, considering that those mentioned countries haven't been considerably involved in any type of conflict since 1945 (and Sweden since 1815!) He kinda has a point.
Ok this feels like tooooo convenient even for me. It is realistic as California and (West?) Texas in the upcoming movie "Civil War" produced by A24.
Does John Ringo at least writes well compared to the gynocentric publications that I see on Goodreads and other places?
But yeah if it is like this, unless disproven by someone else, I think I will avoid it. There are probably more sane Baen authors out there.
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 to fictional revenge is a bit too tilted*
Also, the general genre of semi-hard milscifi which I love is so niche there's not much choice. AKA, the general set up is that all alien civilizations (it's a plot point that nobody knows who invented some of the key technologies, since you need to have the tech to make the tech) were uplifted early in their history and so got space magic long before thinking about near future hard scifi concepts. So humans combine that with space magic to kick ass.
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In a rif on the "kill dirty people" virus from the first book, the latest has the hero deal with the fleet of his new South American allies experiencing constant failures. It turns out that an AI operated shipyard the hero purchased has a hidden program that automatically inserts minor errors into every ship it produces. The errors are designed to be harmless for some time, and easily fixed with rigorous routine maintenance procedures, but will break disastrously if left for too long. The shipyard was previously made for uplifting primitives, and so was intended to kill people too incompetent to be in space.
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
For the time being I think I will stick with Larry Correia and David Weber.
...Yeah, I know the term is thrown around a lot by certain types of people, but this does read like an actual Nazi's wet dream.
All the "inferior", "unhygienic" races wiped out? White, blonde Aryans forced to repopulate the world? He even gives himself... sorry, the "main character" a young, blonde love interest to boot.
cough
All the "inferior", "unhygienic" races wiped out? White, blonde Aryans forced to repopulate the world? He even gives himself... sorry, the "main character" a young, blonde love interest to boot.
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TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
PS
So no, I won't.
Well I visited in the 2010s and it was still somewhat "decent" and I felt it was...a generic cosmopolitan metropolis. The marvel of the tall and big ass sky scrapers quickly grew off as I grow older and I rejected the (what I thought) tenents of left social-liberalism progressivism.
So no, I won't.
We have the inverted scenario with the gynocentric suggested libraries of goodreads. I haven't found a better substitute to that site yet but it is a pain to discover actual talent nowadays.
Skitzyfrenic
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Wait, is this the one where Maple Syrup is some sort of super luxury good?
Coulda sworn I read something where Maple Syrup was a super liquor the aliens loved, as well as there being a virus that killed/sterilized everyone with dark hair.
Course this was years ago so I could be mixing these up pretty hard.
Coulda sworn I read something where Maple Syrup was a super liquor the aliens loved, as well as there being a virus that killed/sterilized everyone with dark hair.
Course this was years ago so I could be mixing these up pretty hard.
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.
