@JHWilliamsIII I think most of us understand, have been contemplating the same move, but are just a little scared we won’t have the same involvement. I’m this close.
The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984: these weren’t the first dystopian novels. There's an interesting history of Victorian and Edwardian literature looking at the impact of modernity on humans and finding it worrying.
Today in pulp I look at some early dystopian books…
Would be really nice if we could skip the part where everyone on the losing side spends 4 years blaming everyone else on the losing side for Not Doing It Right, and instead jump straight to the part where we all get back to work with teeth gritted to resist the fucking monsters.
@GOP Sure, after “Peace in our time” came the Holocaust and WWII.
Donald J. Chamberlain and Neville Vance can just sit down now. We need real leadership not appeasers.
Donald Trump: "Our allies [NATO] are worse than our so-called enemies [Russia]".
He is making clear which side he will take once coming into power. And then, what is NATO anymore?
The end of the transatlantic alliance looms.