<kmath>
<jessicatempIe> token gay trope is so unrealistic because no gay person would willingly hang out with exclusively straight people. how fucking exhausting
<Iskierka>
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
<Iskierka>
are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
* UmbralRaptor
wishes that quote would stop being relevant for decades on end.
<Pinkbeast>
We could return to the Victorian-era practice of the people being jolly keen on war as a means to murdering people and nicking their countries. :-/
<UmbralRaptor>
…return to?
* UmbralRaptor
stares at Iraq.
<Pinkbeast>
Not so much nicking of countries these days; Iraq's puppet government is pretty small fry compared to annexing India
<Pinkbeast>
Satellite 6 (a Scottish SF con) had a table in the Eastercon dealer room with a KSP docking challenge on it. Fame at last! :-)
<UmbralRaptor>
grats?
<Pinkbeast>
Comfortably fastest owing to a slight unfair advantage in knowing how to dock already :-)
<Iskierka>
a sci-fi con and no-one else had played KSP?
<Pinkbeast>
I imagine some other people had the same advantage, to be fair
<Pinkbeast>
Loncon had an actual cosmonaut, it's a pity they weren't doing it there.
<Iskierka>
I imagine they might be a bit further down just for taking it careful
<Pinkbeast>
I got it comedically wrong the first time because the station was bigger than I thought and it gradually dawned on me that I'd flown past it
<Pinkbeast>
Bigger? Smaller.
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