Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi

On Fri, 09 May 2025 14:19:29 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/7/2025 12:29 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:

On 5/7/25 06:39, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/6/2025 11:41 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:

On 5/5/25 16:20, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Starter Villain" by John Scalzi

 
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I have several friends that live up there.    One works for NASA, is
approaching retirement, and is quite concerned for both NASA and
coworkers.   The commment was "half of us are registered republicans
and that's gonna bite the red side in two years".

 
He probably works at Ames Research in Mountain View, unless he is doing
something at the Lockheed rocket ranch up near Bonnydoon.
 
When I worked at NASA awhile back, it seemed like the old hands leaned
true conservative (as opposed to the wanna-be fascist we have now) while
the younger group was much more liberal. I hope it bites "Red" hard
right in their gonads at the mid-terms.

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The young people (under 30) in the USA have been so screwed over that
they are turning very conservative.

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Nonsense.
>

 The young pushed Trump over the top
in the 2024 election.

>
More nonsense.  Trump won because 33% of the eligable voters
were either unable to vote (thanks to GOP voting restrictions)
or didn't bother to show up to vote. 

IIRC, 2020 was marked by an exceptionally high voter turnout. But it
still wasn't 100%.

In fact, the Republican candidate for Governor asserted that more
people had voted in King County than voters existed in King County. He
was confusing "eligible to vote" with "actually voting", but the
number of votes cast were so much higher than usual that it triggered
the thought.

Trump won because /neither side ran a non-Boomer/. Granted, the Dem
candidate was born in the last year of Boomerdom, but she is still a
Boomer. And because the Dems, in their (if not patented, at least)
trademarked tradition of mucking things up. I mean, the Dem VP
candidate, within the last few months, actually took /credit/ for
Trump's victory. One presumes he felt that this would add to his
lustre. Or something.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"