It was inspired by Thatcher's Britain, which is what the current breed of British fascists are trying to recreate and "improve" on, so... yeah, they probably see Norsfire as a good inspiration for what they want to achieve. Sadly, wizard as he might claim to be, Moore's curses seem to be mostly ineffectual...
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Is this bot going to get sued by boomer luddites, too?
And the very concept of “pirated” textbooks is itself monstrous. Textbooks should be free, in universities, schools, and everywhere. I can see some arguments for copyright maybe possibly being somewhat beneficial for artists (with reasonable limits... for five or maybe even ten years, say, and most definitely no longer than the author's lifespan, and of course not applicable to companies), but copyrighting learning tools can only be harmful to society.
England prevails.
Nah, comparing them to cosmic horrors is giving them too much importance, I think.
I'd rather compare them to, say, the diarrhea that forced that plane to turn around a while back.
No cosmic anything, just a foul horrid unending flow of liquid excrement purposelessly ruining everyone's day, making everything shittier, and stinking the whole place up for decades to come.
A printer being stupid (and Xerox's refusal to give him the source code so he could fix it) was precisely what led Stallman to start the open source software movement.
I'd be fine with the world being run by a Commodore 64 running ELIZA. It'd still be orders of magnitude less harmful than the parasites we've got now.
Cats don't like direct eye contact, so they're looking away from each other to avoid offending the others.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
I thought the world didn't entirely suck. Ignorant little idiot, I was.
Heavy objects tend to be completely OP and are used to cheese combat.
You shut up. Barrelmancy and goblin tossin' are perfectly legitimate martial arts!
And this reaction is precisely the reason why the son being gay is a key point of the talk (it's the twist of the story, and Finger's gay son having a daughter who could demand restitution was the only reason DC eventually recognised him as co-creator!), and why removing that fact from the talk wouldn't just be homophobic, but also profoundly stupid (not that being homophobic isn't profoundly stupid already, of course, but this makes it stupidity squared).