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Tamara's avatar

Fucking terrifying, sensei. Off to start digging a bunker behind our block of flats.

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Valerie Kennedy's avatar

Ooof! Time for my friends in US to build a bunker! Margaret Atwood's novel wasn't meant to be a fucking manual!

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DocB's avatar

UGH! Happy Monday indeed. Where are the Boomtown Rats?

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Michael Barnes's avatar

Thanks JB, just what I needed to read today. What I really grok about Goldstone's work is the nature of its scientific method. It describes observable variables and proposes a model that predicts possible outcomes. Terrible, horrific outcomes sure, but fascinating from theory. How zietgisty does this make Hari Sheldon's theory of psychohistory in Azimov's Foundation Series?

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Nick Warne's avatar

That’s a serious downer. Very fucking Second Coming.

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Adam's avatar

Well that puts things in perspective. I think the petite bourgeoisie in the USA are the ones arming themselves thanks to frightful stories about Antifa and similar bogeys. There's an awful lot of violent rhetoric that vomits out of the Right whenever someone suggests easing back on guns etc.

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