My stance, as the one cis/het guy in my chosen peer group, is this:
Put everyone on even footing at base. No lynchings, no treating this or that group as inherently sexual or evil or whatever.
Once we have established that baseline. Go back to fifties era taxation for the wealthy.
Point Two should help with point one by way of focusing our rage at the people who have been gleefully pitting us at each other while they siphon money from us.
Correction: 'Thanks to our tireless efforts. The US has no economic or social reason for anyone to immigrate legally or otherwise. Thus we have solved the immigration issue.'
As it should be. These people whine about the marketplace being self regulating. Well. Don't sob to me when the market deems your products unattractive because of your actions.
See, when the Landlord charges reasonable rates, and actually provides services in exchange for that rent (helping update appliances to newer, having paperwork on hand for any code/inspections needed for property changes (that the landlord would ultimately benefit from,) and in general treating it as a matter of 'I have obligations' instead of 'I will do nothing but I will absolutely blame the tennants for the inevetable crumbling of the property.'
I dislike the concept at base level, but that is a someone who is trying to not be a scumbag.
Zhir. It's a word that exists but I want it to be more popularized and normalized for the sake of non-binary folk having something other than They/Them. This is both because i feel that NB persons need more representation, and as a matter of selfishness. I want more options when writing non-gendered folk (Ever try writing a book of mostly non-gendered robots? I did. I'm just glad the English language doesn't assume gendering like french or spanish.)
Internal thoughts cannot be monetized. The flipside of 'you cannot be sued for copyright infringement for having unoriginal thoughts.'
i'm going to admit to being guilty on this front since 'ok liz cheney is on side for ousting trump.... I have problems with her but maybe we can peel away the ones that can be talked away from the flavor-aid-'
Well... at this point anyone who can be swayed likely has been. So chasing their gameplan is a sucker's game. We need t obe more like bernie and triple down on 'the problem isn't trans or minorities it's the fucking robber barons that YOU DID NOT ELECT that are making the real choices in the halls of power.'
The more time passes the more i think that the likes of Schumer, palosi, andn ow hakeem jeoffreys want to use the democratic party as a controlled opposition to the republicans since they benefit from the oligarchical structuring. Nevermind Palosi's husband got attacked by a MAGA whackjob...
The Democratic party is pivoting to 'republican lite.'
And... frankly WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT THAT? The MAGA aren't going to vote for the diet version. See also Desantes and others in the republican primaries or ltierally anyone but Trump spouting his bullshit.
I'd say minorities won't vote for the lesser evil here but given how many hispanics came out for Trump...
I feel like my voice is either going to be mocked by one party, or ignored by the other while said part ytries begging me for money I don't have.
They think he's wearing shoulder padding, but no. That's just him.
This is the story of KARR. Wilton's Black Knight.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63187744
Apologies for prior post. Didn't realize putting an image in overrode there being a URL link.
This goes all the way back through Earthsiege, but covering Earthsiege and Starsiege is important for some of the Tribes lore given how the Cybrid threat and the Empire shaped.... basically everything. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFMDVzyq_4SQbzBq6tjVUh1vdp6Ckq-Mb
This is less a structured 'professional' essay and more just me unwinding by way of spitballing.
I hadn't really made the connections at the time, but after getting back into battletech to a degree (I was an enthusiastic young sprog. then when the clans got front and center I bailed because I just plain HATED the clans.)
I had long known that Earthsiege was a result of dynamix basically having an engine but either failing to secure or failing to keep the rights to produce licensed battletech/mechwarrior content.
Then recently I went re-reading some of the Starsiege/Tribes lore documents and... the whole thing struck me wit ha case of deja vu concerning Battletech. Sure fine there isn't Lostech as such, and there is no space-ATT/Comcast, but the whole thing feels very... inner sphere politics, with the Wilderzone/Tribes being perriphery states.
More to the point, given the timelines? It wouldn't surprise me if the guys punching up the documents for the Tribes part of the lore were DEEPLY unhappy with how cartoonishly DUMB the battletech clans are from a societal perspective and went 'No. That's stupid. These PEOPLE are stupid with their wholesale mockingly aping new age totamec animal nonsense and doing it BADLY.... All to justify a society that basically only functions because the writer said fuck you I want to jack off to how awesome the space wolves are because even when they lose they actually win.
Meanwhile the Tribes documentation and lroe basically have the tribes 'winning' in skermish fighting and then mostly because the Empire is too busy fighting for its life, and the things that hit the tribes were a 'here we need supplies, go ... see what you can scrounge' attack. I'm talking 'these guys literally exist because the better equipped better organized force can't be bothered' rather than 'these under equipped goons win because the narritive says so.'
And even then it isn't a total 'take that' at Battletech Clans. There's a sort of respect from the empire or at least those that have to share border space and attempts at taking the concept of power armor and going 'hey maybe we can do something with that' rather than 'look how stupid they are.'
Then you have the firetruce. Aka Space Olympics. See this is the kind of thing that I love because it isn't just martial wankery. It's if your family had someone that did well, you are expected to know that story and be able to tell it WELL to keep that history alive. These aren't all jacked up warrriors gene crafted for war. Theyre... people who largely want to do their own thing out in space and the guys in power armor are a very VANISHINGLY small percentage of the population.
I kinda wish actual books were written in the verse, because. Put bluntly. I find it more interesting than the clan wars, the word of blake, and the current il-clan era (where the f'ing clans, from space bumfuckistaan with overly streached supply lines... WON against the people and everything that outnumbers them about ... oh.... a thousand to one.)
https://archiveofourown.org/series/3436888
Blurb: Forty years ago there was A Man and A Car that fought for those that either fell through the cracks or simply could not fight for themselves. Now, a man with barely any sight has gained possession of what remains of the prototype of that car. Can he rebuild it? The more important question is, does he realize what he has woken up?
I've been stuck on Part 4 - Marc'heg Du - For almost two years at this point. Purely because 'What is going to happen is something I dread writing.' Had a decent clip going, and then .... WHAM. Right into a wall.
Edit: Image made using AI both for upscaling and the background for the 1990 Pontiac Fiero prototype.
Edit: Didn't realize the series link got overrode by the image.
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