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The Vegans were still pretty primitive in some aspects."
"Well, they do admittedly still have a malicious streak in their character.
Some niggers here, some Jews there, Catholics here, Protestants there, Irishmen, Swedes, Polacks, wops, kooks, commies and homosexuals everywhere. Hell, with just a little twist of words, any and all of these could be made to look responsible for the Black Fleet. It always worked.
such a different time
"Public opinion? For Chrissake, who you think tells the public what its opinion is? Goddam it, Tom, gimme a week with my newspapers and my television and radio stations –and you've got any kind of public opinion you want to ask for.
Some things never change
"We come from the stars...." The voice was in English –American English. My experienced personnel man's ear caught a trace of sectional accent, but faint since it was overlaid with that spurious intonation belonging to no section which has been adopted by announcers as a badge of their calling. "We mean you no harm...."
"Take me to your leader!" he said.
Biff Swift, Space Detective.
Ha! 😅
Christianity was the most powerful weapon rulers had ever found for keeping the people meek, docile, humble, subservient, asking nothing, expecting nothing, fearing even that if they asked for their rights here on Earth, they might be denied them in Heaven. This was the reason the ancient rulers had shrewdly adopted it as a state policy; this was the reason the modern industrialist enforced it upon his employees, and saw to it that the ministers in his factory towns kept the workers humble, docile, and afraid.
Yep!
"Oh darn, oh gracious, oh fudge," I said. "To heck with those people!" [This isn't really what I said, but our United States Post Office Department, itself far gone in the syndrome of self-righteousness, has determined that the American public is much too young to be told how people really talk and behave, not if we expect to use their post offices for distributing our horrid books.]
I am loving this lol
