So what "Political System Score" on the Democracy Ranking - Wikipedia
or "Democracy" rating on Polity data series - Wikipedia
or "Democracy Index"at Democracy Index - Wikipedia
qualifies as non-evil?
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M.A.R. Barker, author of Tekumel, also author of Neo-Nazi book?
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So what "Political System Score" on the Democracy Ranking - Wikipedia
or "Democracy" rating on Polity data series - Wikipedia
or "Democracy Index"at Democracy Index - Wikipedia
qualifies as non-evil?
Crimson Longinus
Legend
Obviously it is the Democracy Ranking Score of 80, and let's face it, anything below 85 is already pretty dubious!
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This is false of the UK, where since the Glorious Revolution the Parliament, and the executive that is responsible to it, handles all legislation.
This is misleading of the UK, because it elides (i) the power of a Prime Minister to advise the monarch to appoint new peers, and (ii) the effect of the Parliament Acts, which mean that the House of Lords plays a procedural but not a determinative role, and (iii) the effects of the Blair-era changes to the House of Lords that mean it is an overwhelmingly appointed chamber.
Well, except for the bits about "most of the day to day legislation" and the fact that it would be a quite misleading description of the UK system.
On the topic of authors' work vs. authors' deeds:
Being both a Garrett PI and Nero Wolfe fan, I just picked up Randall Garrett's "Lord Darcy" collection -- Glen Cook's Garrett is named after him and a pastiche of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is appranetly in it. Having really liked the first two short stories in it, I googled up Garrett to see what else he'd done. His unacceptable sci-fi convention behavior was not what I was looking for :-( Kind of takes the fun out of discovering a new-to-you author. But not as much fun missing as for the women at the conventions who had to put up with it. I may recommend some of the titles by book name, but I won't be doing it by author's name.
Being both a Garrett PI and Nero Wolfe fan, I just picked up Randall Garrett's "Lord Darcy" collection -- Glen Cook's Garrett is named after him and a pastiche of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is appranetly in it. Having really liked the first two short stories in it, I googled up Garrett to see what else he'd done. His unacceptable sci-fi convention behavior was not what I was looking for :-( Kind of takes the fun out of discovering a new-to-you author. But not as much fun missing as for the women at the conventions who had to put up with it. I may recommend some of the titles by book name, but I won't be doing it by author's name.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Yeah, I don't want authors I enjoy to be living saints, but some basic standards of decency are appreciated. Particularly if the author or those in proximate and/or formal cooperation with their evil stand to benefit financially.
Cordwainer Fish
Imp. Int. Scout Svc. (Dishon. Ret.)
Sometimes I shop at used bookstores for long out of print titles I'll never see anywhere else. Sometimes I shop there because I'm buying my childhood back one book at a time. And sometimes I shop there out of pure spite.
Sepulchrave II
Legend
Parliament is Sovereign, yes. And if the monarch were to reject any law passed by Parliament, then Parliament could simply make a new law, stipulating that the monarch's assent is no longer required.
However the armed forces take an oath to the Queen or King - she or he is the Commander-in-Chief - and if a real conflict between the monarchy and Parliament were ever to ensue, then the sh*t would totally hit the fan.
Just sayin....
eyeheartawk
#1 Enworld Jerk™
Just now catching up on this thread.
Wow.
So much cope.
We really are exhausting the world's supply of Copium by claiming that "We can't be sure he was a Nazi! He only wrote Turner Diaries 2: Electric Boogaloo and served on the board of a holocaust denial organization for over a decade, that could happen to anyone!"
Like, my guy, it's okay, you like a thing and found out the guy who made it turned out to be a literal Nazi. This isn't the way to come to terms with that.
EDIT: It also just occurred to me, did the Tekumel Foundation address the fact that they sat on this info for years? I just saw the one statement that said "Yeah, we're not Nazis" but nothing about them sitting on this bomb since 2012.
Wow.
So much cope.
We really are exhausting the world's supply of Copium by claiming that "We can't be sure he was a Nazi! He only wrote Turner Diaries 2: Electric Boogaloo and served on the board of a holocaust denial organization for over a decade, that could happen to anyone!"
Like, my guy, it's okay, you like a thing and found out the guy who made it turned out to be a literal Nazi. This isn't the way to come to terms with that.
EDIT: It also just occurred to me, did the Tekumel Foundation address the fact that they sat on this info for years? I just saw the one statement that said "Yeah, we're not Nazis" but nothing about them sitting on this bomb since 2012.
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Willie the Duck
Hero
To the best of my knowledge, no they didn't.
I don't have any excuses for that, but I think I have an explanation (at least by my criteria)--
The Tekumel Foundation have always seemed to me like a bunch of guys who inherited their buddies' iron mine -- they know the thing is valuable (and don't want to just sell it for pennies on the dollar of what they think it is worth in total), and are sure there's money to be made from the thing, but they're butchers and bakers and candlestick makers and don't really know how to do so. Thus they just kinda sit on the thing until something happens (or one of the other guys there once again takes a stab at a book in the setting or something). I'm sure finding out about Phil's other activities ramped up the 'I don't know what to do with this, better just sit on my hands'-factor by an order of magnitude.
