DagwoodIII

It’s called the ‘Gish Gallop.’

The best way for the Right to defeat the Left in an argument is to unload a torrent of lies, half truths, complete nonsense, and other disinformation. The idea is to overwhelm the other side’s ability to form a coherent response, because there’s too much to unpack.

Trump knows Kennedy is an idiot, but he’s a useful idiot in that he forces the Left to deal with him.

If you liked “Idiocracy” read “The Marching Morons” by C.M. Kornbluth, a frequent Pohl collaborator.

It’s the same basic story, but the original version has a much. much darker ending.

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“The Midas Plague” by Fredrick Pohl.

A light-hearted science fiction story where 100% recycling, free atomic power, and robot labor have combined to create a glut of consumer goods. So, the higher your status, the less you use. Folks in the ghetto have ten houses and a thousand robot servants, while the Beverly Hills elites live in shacks and play cards for matches.

Fun read.

Just so I don’t waste my time, why don’t you list all the degrees you hold in chemistry, astrophysics, and mining engineering? Then show the research you did that shows why it would be impossible. Please cite as many references as you can.

Enjoy. He did a few follow ups, but the first is the best.

https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=joanna+russ

Go read Joanna Russ.

imho she writes rings around the popular woman.

“Aztec” by Gary Jennings.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/aztec-gary-jennings/784861bf1a137811?ean=9780765317506&next=t

It’s a novel about coming of the Spanish.

I had to read it when I came across an article the author wrote. He wanted a word for ‘orange.’ He wanted to book to sound authentic, and the Americas didn’t have oranges. He ended up using jacinth

Why think small?

The asteroids are just sitting there.

We could move all of Earth’s heavy industries off planet.

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https://bookshop.org/p/books/buying-time-joe-haldeman/PK3mbZuFGoSK5eAu?ean=9781504048583&next=t

Nice little SF adventure. In the future, you can buy immortality in decade segments. The Foundation that controls the lifesaving process demands the wealthy sign over all their assets [at least $100 million] for ten years of youthful vigor. A few finance geniuses have managed to stay alive for a century or more…

You fool! It’s DAG-wood, not DOG-wood.

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I don’t want to be on any show.

I just want to be a lucky dog.

Reminds me of an old joke.

Two male dogs, a little Yorkie and a giant Great Dane are in the vet’s office. The little Yorkie is crying.

“Why so sad, little guy?”

“My owner is a beautiful woman. She always smells so nice. I can’t stop myself from humping her leg, so she’s going to have me neutered.”

“Gee, that’s awful. My owner is also very beautiful. In fact, she’s so pretty and smells so nice that last night I lost control and mounted her. I rode her for half an hour before I was finished.”

“Oh no! She must have been so mad and disgusted. Are you getting neutered, too?”

“No, she just wanted to have my nails clipped.”

Every time I post something you have to scramble and backwalk and ‘move the goal posts.’ You haven’t made any actual points, just thrown out insults.

I’m not getting anything out of this conversation because you haven’t put anything useful in.

Your first comment showed that you hadn’t read much history, and you haven’t improved since thin.

This is a waste of time. You can keep sending as many messages as you want, but you’d be better off reading a book. Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History Of The United States” might be a good start for you.

What you want to post is likely to be banned.

I, on the other hand, can make my point without resorting to name calling and vulgarity.

You should try it, even if it leaves you with very little to say.

Carry on; i won’t interrupt.

Of course you won’t. We’re on the internet, and I can post anything I want.

That’s another thing you should read up on.

If you can’t think of a worse system, you should probably read more history books.

Who gets to decide what’s ‘necessary?’

Spain has built a pretty big tourism industry. Stopping people from coming in would result in a lot of unemployment.

Let’s remember that one of the main reasons America had the ‘one drop of Black blood makes you Black’ rule is that slave owners wanted to be able to breed with slave woman and then sell their own children.