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>>10156784
>Muh unsustainable Divine Right Theocracy
>Muh wincest
>Muh private sector owns everything and no secular government or regulation of private power
>Muh coronation ceremony
>Muh occasional schism where the one performing the coronation is seen as having more authority than the King
>Muh Crown vs. Church
>Muh all this plus modern technology
>Muh peasant rebellions
>Muh unenforcable mass exiles
>Muh familial squabbling
>Muh gaem of drones

Please not again

>>10131360
This is easily countered by the fact that a lot of the bits, while disconnected, are entertaining, and clearly took talent to write.

How can you read the quote from >>10130700 and think the book was entirely meant to be a "fuck you?"

If anything IJ is a big "fuck you" to the idea of entertainment, but even that is pulled off with clear talent.

>>9614062
I've brought up PT Barnum, HL Mencken, Machiavelli, and Boss "Tweed" Tammany many, many times when discussing him with other people. Libs underestimate the fuck out of him because he plays a bombastic and oblivious character to the public. But inside his head he is as cutthroat and underhanded as postwar boomer Capitalists come.

I am an (ideologically unaligned) far leftist and I hate three things from Dems right now:

>Red baiting and Russia bullshit when the real sauce is his 100 billion deal with the Wahabist Terror State Saudi Arabia.

>Under estimating the intelligence of Fascists

>Alliance to the massively corrupt deep state and intelligence community.

On the right I hate:

>Rampant and hypocritical religiosity

>Hatred for the "deep state" while having a massive boner for the banking-military-surveillance-investment-industrial complex.

> Pretending to hate political correctness while simultaneously pearl-clutching over race mixing, vulgarity in media, "degeneracy" etc.

> Pretending to love ideological freedom while having a huge boner for containment and blacklisting