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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:31:47 -0700
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:40:56 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

>On 9/17/24 11:19, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:41:34 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> =
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5113801/trump-shooting-assassinatio=3D
>>> n-attempt-suspect-ryan-wesley-routh
>>>>
>>>> "He once supported Trump, but recently donated to Democrats"
>>>>
>>>> Sounds democrat to me.
>>>
>>> Sound like a former Trump follower who has woken up to me. A
>>> Republican who feels /very/ betrayed.
>>=20
>> Sounds to me like nothing to do with Science Fiction.  Take it =
elsewhere.
>
>	Oh we are so sorry to have offended you.
>         SF fans are political entities too.
>	A lot of SF is about politics and cultural choices.
>	Political notes have been included in this group long before
>i came along and I was glad to see it accepted here because on my
>other choices at participation in the WWW many simply ban politics
>outright. Here we have reasonable conversation between all sides.
>	Freedom of speech though is a part of Usenet and if political
>speech offends you then don't read political posts.

He has a point, but it would be a better one if references to, say,
Dick or Bradbury hadn't appeared upthread.

And, of course, there's always Heinlein. Trump may actually be /worse/
than Scudder (alternately, he could be the lesser evil because of his
demonstrated incompetence as President; Scudder was, IIRC, quite
competent in that regard), and their supporters are pretty much the
same group: poor, white, feeling oppressed because they aren't in
charge, and vengeful. With the nutters, in both cases no doubt,
trending toward violent.

So this isn't /entirely/ unrelatable to SF. However defined.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"