And the ‘ideal’ beach body is apparently something that can only be attained by steroid abuse. Arnie in his prime, pumping gear, should not be what anyone thinks is an ‘ideal beach body’. This is what I mean about steroid abuse normalization.

Normal human = Arnie in his prime, pumping gear.

The way we’ve normalized steroid use* is fucking insane. I remember when people used to be ashamed of that shit.

Edit* abuse because apparently the context isn’t enough of an indicator of meaning

Nope, just aware there are different ways of thinking about it — wasn’t implying any one was wrong or right

Ah, so you’re in the ‘teleporters are just cloning machines’ camp.

What

Yeah, I mean if you believe in the afterlife

For a modern example you can look at China post Century of Humiliation, although I wouldn’t call China’s progress copium.

The human mind is a wonderful thing

Fair points, I’m sold

The chili stuit for reference is golden

This is an incredibly consistent AI image if that’s true, can you read the language or know something that I’d have missed?

I’d be willing to wager these people also exhibit telltale signs of anti-social personality disorders. Who woulda thunk, that anti-social people would be antithetical to society?

Hmmm, how do I work in shitting on the U.S. in this post about libraries? I know! I’ll conflate all 44 European countries into one amorphous blob. Lol, owned.

I’d ask you your country of origin but you’d never tell me if it’s Russia or China.

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Isn’t water divining pseudoscience? I get that isn’t the point of the post, but I always thought it was bullshit.

Edit: should have responded to the comment about water divining, whoops.

Which goals, donating money to charity and opposing fascism? Or opposing fascism and supporting Ukraine?

Clancy was a staunch conservative. Dedicated several of his books to notable conservative politicans such as Ronald Reagan. He supported the NRA (yes I understand the NRA has changed form over the years but I don’t really care) and he opposed abortion.

He praised Bush for being a ‘good guy’, granted he did challenge the justifications for the Iraq War (I also don’t really care about a broken clock managing to be right).

I haven’t read any of his novels for a very long time, but what I remember is that amongst the tech and spy stuff there is stuff that sounds like very clear RW propaganda (to me).

Granted, this is the first time I’ve thought about Clancy in years outside of conversations with my (you might have guessed it) conservative coworker. I don’t really know much about the man other than he was definitely conservative. I think you could probably make the argument that he was center right, and that the center right from the 60’s is very different than the center right of today. Draw your own conclusions.

Why would Clancy write anything that isn’t in full support of conservative idealogy?