Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 21, 2019

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    kaffekup   over 5 years ago

    “Opie”? Is this a Ron Howard movie?

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    ajr58  over 5 years ago

    This could get interesting …

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    Darsan54 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Wait! Where’d this guy come from? And you’ve had a friend with a spaceship, albeit- tiny, and you still lived in the desert?

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    Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe  over 5 years ago
    We could float among the stars together, you and I

    Fifth Dimension

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    RobinHood  over 5 years ago

    As long as the parallel dimension has donuts I’m in.

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    Brain Pudding  over 5 years ago

    Well this could go off the parallel rails quickly…let’s see where this is going. Maybe he is going to a parallel dimension where people actually seek common ground…we shall see.

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    ChukLitl Premium Member over 5 years ago

    In the multiverse of possibilities we’d been drifting off toward the fringes with all that talk of freedom, liberty & justice. Now we’re headed back toward the authoritarian mainstream.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 5 years ago

    I spend time thinking up parallel scenarios. Reading history including the rarely mentioned things can be very interesting in things. Some of them nearly happened. We are in a bad parallel right now. Ours isn’t the best of all possible worlds.

    Just imagine if the Puritans were put down by the Pagans here in 1627? They had a more robust protection mechanism and joined the Indians, escaped black slaves & others becoming what the USA has claimed to be.

    I was influenced by THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As a sort of antidote to the Libertarian fantasy of L. Neil Smith beginning with “The Probability Broach” I first started reading in 1981. The subtitle to my work is (“Where Merry Mount Wins and leads the way to a new, diverse and different nation of jollity over gloom") WE got the Puritanical gloom. I also use the history book, “THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA” by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker for more details of what might have been and why it wasn’t.`

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