Re: SF writers in the work force JD Vance.

Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Jay E. Morris wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dude, JD Vance was a Marine Corps officer, not Army.  And his
grandfather just lived down the street during his childhood with
extensive contact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance
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And Vance is the VP Elect.  He will be sworn in on Jan 20, 2025.
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Lynn

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To slightly correct the correction, he was a non-commissioned office, a
corporal.

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       Can anyone name a prominent authoritatian leader who was a corporal in
WW ?  Spinrad I think it was rewrote his life and made
him a SF writer.
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       I will wait for your well informed replies.

The excerpt at the bottom of this followup names the leader.

My Republican Senator's driveway on the slope of a nearby mountain is as
long as a football field and has a thick grove of evergreens on each
side. It offers a secluded pit stop spot for my spins up the mountain on
a bicycle. Occasionally when a vehicle from the house drives by, the
Senator Doctor sees me, smiles, and stops to ask if everything's OK.
He's a nice enough man in person.

My extended family has hundreds of people in it. About half of them are
Democrats. There's a lot of Democrats in my Catholic church too. My late
sister was a Democrat. One of her neighbors is what's known as a "shirt
tail" relative to the Cheney's. When Dick came to town as Veep my sister
was invited to a family get-together. Everybody in town remembers Liz
when she was growing up.

Some of my family members say Big Pharma made our Senator Doctor a
multi-millionaire.

If you're anything like the Democrats in my family and church, you
probably don't have much use for RFK Jr. The unelected gatekeeper
below shares the sentiment. Is the fix in for Big Pharma and other
Interests?

    Howard Lutnick, Trump's transition team co-chair, states that
    RFK Jr. is "not getting a job for the Department of Health and
    Human Services."

    Lutnick also added that Elon Musk would "help" rather than take
    a formal role in the Trump White House.

    <https://x.com/AFpost/status/1854753320780677404>



    World War Time Loop
    Escaping the Myth of the Eternal Second World War

    ... It would probably not surprise Eliade in the slightest that
    the war that broke the world he grew up in became the
    foundational myth of the world that grew up in its ruins.
    People need myths. They lack the strength to confront the
    unfiltered procession of atrocities that Eliade called the
    terror of history. In the wake of the unprecedented mass trauma
    of global mechanized total warfare, it was inevitable that the
    war itself would become mythologized. In the process, World War
    Two was stripped of its historicity, emptied of nuance, its
    many hues desaturated into shades of grey and then posterized
    into stark silhouettes of black and white. It became a comic
    book, a horror movie, a video game.

    In the popular imagination of the Western normie, World War Two
    is an uncomplicated battle between good and evil. Hitler is the
    central character of the drama, a dark god of storms, blood, and
    iron whose hypnotic presence inspires unthinking devotion and
    atavistic werewolf frenzy in all who fall under his spell. ...

    <https://barsoom.substack.com/p/world-war-time-loop>

Danke,

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