Welcome the opportunity to torture another human being

Nobody is torturing him (well, except maybe the people who are continuing to prop him up for political gain). It’s the greatest justice there is: nobody is doing anything and he’s still suffering.

I dont need to do a damn thing. I simply need to do nothing and watch as a person who has active contempt for those worse off than him gets a small taste of what his actions have put thousands of people through. Just as I dont feel bad Hitler blew his brains out or Stalin died of a stroke and couldn’t be saved because of his paranoid doctors, I don’t give a damn about someone who has actively caused direct harm to thousands of innocent people.

As a younger person in IT, I always hate this argument of “they could never use the old stuff.” It’s such a dumb thing to use because it can logically be taken anywhere: “these damned boomers couldn’t even crank up their car properly” or “I can’t believe kids these days don’t listen to the town crier and read newspapers instead!” It’s just absurd: nobody uses those systems because we found better* options to achieve the same tasks, making knowledge of these things largely irrelevant.

I’d take Norman Schwarzkopf over Napoleon Bonaparte to command any modern military force today as their skills are for entirely different realities.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

Someone made a response story of sorts, figure I might as well share it here

Ah…the same old brain dead argument. Right wingers always hide behind “muh free speech” and the like, but fail to mention how their policies actively attempt to strip the rights of others to be free.

In a space that respects free speech, you fundamentally cannot have a party that wishes to restrict free speech for others, as that defeats the point of free speech. Or rather, the concept of “absolute free speech” is utter nonsense on the face of it, as there will always be restrictions on what is and isn’t okay to talk about in any human group.

One could easily argue that putting these people into their own little cesshole communities is giving them free speech in their own shitty space. And of course, if you don’t like it you are free to leave for their space or simply shut up and play nice with the other kids in the instances you frequent - thats the beauty of the fediverse.

He’s a bit of a nutcase, but one can’t deny the impact Starship Troopers has had on military SF as a whole, so its worth a read if not just for that!