See, that’s not what I said, though. I can say that it would be great to have universal healthcare, but that we cannot “pray it into existence,”

lol! Talk to the 45 million people who are getting Obamacare.

Even Obama called the ACA a ‘starter house’ but if we listened to you those folks wouldn’t have anything.

Gay rights is another example of progress that was made without your Revolution.

Good bye

You keep repeating the same thing over and over.

People should not have any health insurance at all until the Revolution comes and makes it perfect.

People should accept tanspeople getting killed until the Revolution.

We shouldn’t do anything to improve anything until the revolution.

Like I said, you’re the best friend the fascists ever had.

You can’t just pray progress into existence

Except there was actual progress under Carter, Clinton, and Obama. It wasn’t huge, but it was progress. You choosing to ignore it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

You’re the one who has gone faith based. You can’t give me one actual fact to make me think the USA is anywhere near a Socialist revolution.

And I can point to Blackwater and the other mercenary companies to show that if the Revolution comes, it will be instantly subverted.

Either book would need to be a series. Too many details for a short form.

One of my favorite little touches in Perdido is that there’s a tavern called “The Moon’s Two Daughters.” He casually mentions that the Moon has two smaller satellites orbiting it. No mention of when or how this happened. Then there’s The Ribs…

I don’t believe there’s a path to that, unless there is already revolutionary pressure bubbling and risking the entire system.

There’s the problem right there. You’re ready to throw away any progress because it isn’t perfect

You guys saw Ronald Reagan, but couldn’t get behind Carter because he wasn’t good enough.

Same with Bush and Gore, and Clinton and Trump.

You guys are the biggest friends the Right ever had.

Heck, go back to the 1930s. The Fascists then labeled themselves Anti-Communist and reaped the rewards.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That’s all you have. good intentions.

Now you’re saying the New Deal never existed?

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So, while we wait for the inevitable revolution, why not bring back the New Deal?

lol!

Look who is talking about dreaming.

Have a nice day and don’t hold your breath until the revolution.

Movies used to be a lot cheaper to make. Taxi Driver cost about $1.5 million back in 1976. Faster Pussycat Kill Kill was made for about $45,000.

Quick lesson. The old model was to open a major movie in a prestige theater [ie Radio City Music Hall] where it would run for as long as it was profitable. After that it would go to smaller houses, and eventually become a double bill. People waited on line for years to see ‘The Exorcist’ because it was only showing at a few places.

Jaws was the first summer blockbuster. The studio planned to open it up in a lot of theaters on the same day. The plan worked. About the same time, the VCR started becoming popular. Thise two things changed the way movies got distributed forever.

You’re ignoring the part where I said everyone has a high standard of living.

A fun way to get started with a story is to take two actors and put them together.

Natalie Portman and Keanu Reeves are the stars of the story. Now tell me the plot.

Or we could be doing asteroid mining and getting raw materials from off-planet.

Marx and Lenin never wrote about that because they both died a century ago.

So?

If the workers have a 25 hour week with universal health care and great pensions who cares if the billionaires have spaceships to Mars?

I do stuff offline.

All you guys ever do is argue. Name one thing you guys have done in America in the last 50 years.

van Rijn wears flashy clothes and loves to eat, but he’s almost always the smartest guy in the room.

Have you tried China Mieville yet?

‘UnLunDun’ is set in a mirror universe where the plucky sidekick finds herself the unhappy heroine of the story.

‘The Scar’ is pretty dark, set in a future where magic and technology collide.

Good question.

Keep on arguing on the interwebs.

Maybe someone will notice.

Maybe.

When Star Wars first came out it ran in the theaters for two years.

Gone With The Wind ran at one theater in Georgia until 1969.