Mike Kupari 🚀💥

Former USAF Explosive Ordnance Disposal Tech. Hack writer of rocket pulp and America's okayest speculative fiction author. Twirling towards freedom.

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Today is release day for TWIN STAR, my latest from @BaenBooks! Available in ebook and trade paperback! Links in the subsequent comments to avoid algorithmic throttling.

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@jay_kobbe I thought you were into that though

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Evil Annie Edison is really evil

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This He-Man movie is hilarious.

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LMAOOOO What’s going on??

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@magic_buddy MY MAN

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I have several pairs of Wrangler relaxed fit cargo pants. I work outside and they’re great when the weather gets swampy here. Lightweight, breathable, quickly-drying.

However…the relaxed fit and me apparently losing weight means that when I unbuckle my belt to take a leak, I have to hold them or they’ll drop right to the floor.

I’m about to say fuck it and start using the urinal like Butters.

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@aelfred_D @loganclarkhall So many people are going to feel seen

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@postliberalp @McGillPatterson Well goddamn, look at you go. You actually expressed an opinion.

Bad news: there isn’t, and there won’t be.

Now what? What’s the point of being a Postliberal on the internet?

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@postliberalp @McGillPatterson I didn’t ask you if there used to be blasphemy laws in the US. I asked you if you supported them now.

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“But my ennui” isn’t evidence, and that’s what this is really about.

“By every other indicator of social wellbeing”

Like what? And specifically, what Postliberal, extra-constitutional proposals are going to fix any of them?

I don’t know how to tell you this, but banning “usury” isn’t going to make home ownership more attainable.

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@postliberalp @McGillPatterson Anon you live in the wealthiest and most powerful nation in human history. We live in an age of wonders despite all the problems. If you want to tear it down or reconstruct it, the onus is on you to articulate why.

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The only thing you said is that usury, blasphemy, and blue laws would “probably be great,” which tells me you haven’t actually put any thought into the practical side of this nonsense. I even asked you a couple of specific questions about those things, and you can’t answer.

You’ve constructed an internet persona around being postliberal and you can’t even clearly articulate couple of policies you’d like to see implemented.

You won’t even commit to a fucking opinion. Somebody else will figure that out after the revolution, right?

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@postliberalp @McGillPatterson “Real postliberalism has never been tried!”

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@Fruitbat_44 YOU CAN'T UN-READ IT

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I understand this better than you think. I'm just trying to get you to actually articulate some specifics on what you want.

People who won't do it usually have a couple of reasons:

1. Their ideas are insane/wildly unpopular, they know they'd sound insane, and they're afraid to say them in public
2. They don't actually know what they want, they're just mad are excited by the vibes

But after several tries we're actually getting somewhere. Let's dig into that.

Blasphemy Laws: If I tweet at you "Jesus fucking Christ on a Holy Pony," and that offends you, you want the police to come arrest me? Would this be a state crime or a federal one?

Blue laws: Shit can't be open on Sunday. They still do this in Europe, weirdly enough.

It would have been great when I was over the road, though- not allowed to drive on Sunday, truck stops couldn't be open so I couldn't get a meal or take a shower. Would the Religious Police who enforce these laws get an exception to work on Sunday? How do you go about determining who gets an exception from one of the Ten Commandments?

Usury Laws: You mean NO ONE should be allowed to charge interest, right? Biblical Usury? Like Islamic Banking? Have you put any thought into how that would actually work, or is it just vibes? I bet you didn't even pay for your cell phone up front.

What else? Should interfaith marriages be illegal? Should Christians be required by law to go to church? Do you want a state recognized church? Which one?

Can women still vote? Can anyone, or are we just going to have our Schmittian unbound executive, an American Franco?

Would the Mormons be allowed to practice their faith in your idealized society? Jews? Hindus?

These are all things self-described post-liberals of one stripe or another have talked about over the past few years. They love droning on and on about theory, because they're largely a bunch of pasty academics who've never had real jobs and only understand the world in an abstract sense. When you ask them how they might implement any of this stuff, then they either start playing coy, call you stupid, or block you.

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@Jerd00 @WVPitt No, you're a bunch of terminally online lunatics who are very, very bad at evangelizing for your alleged faith.

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@planefag Someone got a disorderly conduct charge.

Some Canadian: "WHY NO CIVIL WAR YET YOU CUCKS??"

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@aelfred_D Real ones know

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@monsterhunter45 @IanRunkle “No contact with the outside world” how the fuck is he tweeting?

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