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 Half of this book is a very sweet and very erotic love story between two men that delighted me. I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet that a little more than halfway through, this book becomes the most misogynistic, fascist piece of science fiction I've ever read. I have no real problems with the book's first half, which deftly uses the metaphor of the forbidden relations between a human and an android to leave its characters free of guilt about the eroticism of male bodies. At its best, it dwells more on the effortless joy and beauty of two people coming to desire each other, and it does it well, with a mild science fiction background and some slight romance-novel cheesiness. Nader's writing is fairly fanciful in tone, perhaps a touch overwrought at times, but this is a book about strong emotions and powerful men, so it seems fair. It's truly erotic at times, often lighthearted but never vapid, and has a delightful touch of the surreal to it- you feel that the Cabin and Chrome and Vortex's relationship is so dreamlike, it's bound to end. And end it does, in the worst possible way. I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet that a little more than halfway through, this book becomes the most misogynistic, fascist piece of science fiction I've ever read short of Spinrad's masterful satire "The Iron Dream", and this book isn't satirical. My enjoyment of this book turned to disgust within the space of a single page when the curtain was pulled up on the love story of Chrome and Vortex, and Nader gave vent to a bit of exposition worthy of a Tom Metzger: The tyrannical society that rules the Earth came about through government-enforced equality. In particular, women's equality, and this led to the lowering of standards and improper uncontrolled breeding, creating a "Garbage World" of degenerates. Rond H'Lokk talks about how S.O.R.A.'s encouragement of women to struggle for the place of men leads only the "lower brain levels" to mate. "First came the S.O.R.A.'s lowering of all standards, its insistence that all were equal in everything. Next, it's vast propaganda campaign urging indiscriminate mating..." The S.O.R.A. is, of course, a technocratic bureaucracy seemingly staffed mostly by spiritually-hideous females bent on destroying the bond between pure, noble, chiseled, bronzed men. All that's lacking is an explicit shot at miscegenation, but even that is implied by Jamison's talk of "indiscriminate mating". Lucky for the suffering citizens of planet ZOG, the "avenging angels" are here to stand between them and all-powerful future-commies. The Warriors are like a Nazi brotherhood of truth-speaking swordwielding beefcakes, their society seems to be sort of like an Evolan "neo-traditionalist" brotherhood or a Germanic sworn warrior guard. This sort of misogynistic "warrior brothers" ethos is something that echoes through the fascist worldview as well as the underworld of the old-school gay imagination: finally, a world without women, where petty female minds can be swept aside so that men can get to the business of GLORY. With his conservative-paranoid setting architecture fully in view, I found the rest of Nader's book really quite impossible to enjoy. Perhaps it's just me, since I have strong political opposition to it, but I found the rest of the book to be flat, dull, and totally tiresome. Really disappointing. The book gets two stars only for its beautiful first half. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jul 10, 2021 |
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My Grievances With The Browser
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Jun 4, 2021 18:42
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I'm literally shaking.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:42
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Lol if you aren't a hipster who uses opera.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:44
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just more loving ways for my wife to see what porn i've been watching. thanks technology, you're so goddamn convenient
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Jun 4, 2021 18:45
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kntfkr posted:just more loving ways for my wife to see what porn i've been watching. thanks technology, you're so goddamn convenient Maybe chrome will detect my desperate searches for something that isn't incest and come to my rescue.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:46
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:Maybe chrome will detect my desperate searches for something that isn't incest and come to my rescue. Wow way to be a punk fighting against the establishment.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:47
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I might use Chrome more if it didn’t restrict the number of tabs I can have open per window. I don’t even think there’s an add-on for that. Firefox lets me have as many open tabs as I want.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:47
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So long gay browser
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Jun 4, 2021 18:48
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How many tabs do you typically have open? I had no idea chrome had a limit.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:49
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Firefox all day and twice on Sunday
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chrome is the best color
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Jun 4, 2021 18:50
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:How many tabs do you typically have open? I had no idea chrome had a limit. several hundred I don’t look at them all, but I like having the option to
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Big Beef City posted:So long gay browser lol
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Jun 4, 2021 18:51
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Saalkin posted:Lol if you aren't a hipster who uses opera. opera died a long time ago and the corpse was sold to some chinese company real hipsters use vivaldi
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Jun 4, 2021 18:51
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I. M. Gei posted:several hundred You're loving with me.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:51
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Big Beef City posted:So long gay browser
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Jun 4, 2021 18:52
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I. M. Gei posted:I might use Chrome more if it didn’t restrict the number of tabs I can have open per window. id close all your tabs and erase your history so you couldnt just reopen them, then uninstall your browser, and i dont care if i get fired for workplace harassment, gently caress you.
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Jun 4, 2021 18:52
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Jun 4, 2021 18:53
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:You're loving with me. look man, you click on a porn vid, you see other ones you might wanna watch in the Recommended section, you open them in new tabs, poo poo adds up yeah you’re not gonna watch em all, but you still wanna be able to flip to any one of them at a second’s notice
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Jun 4, 2021 18:59
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What is this exactly? It appears it's simply asking me to search my tabs?
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SO DEMANDING posted:opera died a long time ago and the corpse was sold to some chinese company poo poo I'm a poser.
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kntfkr posted:just more loving ways for my wife to see what porn i've been watching. thanks technology, you're so goddamn convenient The only porn you should be watching is of your wife!!!
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Jun 4, 2021 19:01
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Our grandchildren will laugh when they find out we once lived in a time without that little button
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Jun 4, 2021 19:06
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CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY CHANGED FACEBOOK AGAIN?! I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING!!!!! SIGN THIS PETITION TO MAKE THEM CHANGE IT BACK OR WE'LL ALL DELETE OUR ACCOUNTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 4, 2021 19:11
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I. M. Gei posted:look man, you click on a porn vid, you see other ones you might wanna watch in the Recommended section, you open them in new tabs, poo poo adds up 
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I use safari because Tim Apple always makes the best products
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Jun 4, 2021 19:33
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computers are loving stupid and lamo if you use one
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Jun 4, 2021 19:37
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SO DEMANDING posted:opera died a long time ago and the corpse was sold to some chinese company this is accurate, vivaldi is great and i tell everyone i can to switch. you can even install your favorite chrome extensions directly from the chrome web store (and they may or may not work)!
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EorayMel posted:How many people unironically use microsoft edge in 2021 I do all my browsing by emulating the Android OS and using the Samsung Internet Browser so I can experience proper web browsing aspect ratio.
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EorayMel posted:How many people unironically use microsoft edge in 2021 all of them except you, you friggin nerd
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I never noticed that button, but now that I do I really like it
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low key sex master posted:The only porn you should be watching is of your wife!!! I'm sure his wife hasn't been in that many porn titles.
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logging into AOL through a hacked game boy advance is the only way to surf the web
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I never noticed that button, but now that I do I really like it I just pushed it again. It's really nice.
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