One of his favorite book series is The Culture books by Ian M Banks, and it’s about a civilization who’s post-human citizens are genetically modified to be hermaphradites, who can change their their outward appearing gender at will. They also live in post-scarcity communist society that likes to benevolently interfere with less advanced cultures to secretly improve their quality of life.
I am 100% certain at this point that Phony Stark only remembers details about the media he consumes that fit his personal world view.
There are multiple Culture novels where the main character switches gender for at least part of the story, and another where the main character is lightly teased for never having done so himself. The Culture series is peak FALGSC.
This one always hurts me because I literally own every book (some in multiple editions) of this series, and I had someone tell me after I showed them it, " So you like Elon Musk right?", and I was like “No? Why would you think that?” and gained cursed knowledge.
And this was when he was still a bit of a liberal darling.
It’s more that the Culture believe they have a moral imperative to combat fascist ideologies and do so through subterfuge that enhances the contradictions of those societies. It is explicitly viewed as morally gray that they interfere at all. When the Culture destabilizes the fascist Azad Empire by delegitimizing how their society chooses leaders, hundreds of people die in the immediate uproar. When the Culture wars with the Idiran Empire, which practices theocratic slavery, 850 billion sentients are killed, and it takes about 500 years for the war to become justifiable to many Culture citizens that lived through it.
To be fair, that’s my super quick summary having only read the first book, and half of the second, out of ten books, so I still have a lot more to read.
One of his favorite book series is The Culture books by Ian M Banks, and it’s about a civilization who’s post-human citizens are genetically modified to be hermaphradites, who can change their their outward appearing gender at will. They also live in post-scarcity communist society that likes to benevolently interfere with less advanced cultures to secretly improve their quality of life.
I am 100% certain at this point that Phony Stark only remembers details about the media he consumes that fit his personal world view.
Absolute negative levels of reading comprehension
Let’s be honest he didn’t read anything
Fair critique
Yeah, terrible reading comprehension with a massive side of narcissistic personality disorder and laziness.
There are multiple Culture novels where the main character switches gender for at least part of the story, and another where the main character is lightly teased for never having done so himself. The Culture series is peak FALGSC.
feel like that isn’t something you should tease someone over
He is literally being teased by his friend/lover, it’s more of a flirting thing.
Edit: Not that I disagree with you in the general sense, just that the context for that specific interaction is important.
This one always hurts me because I literally own every book (some in multiple editions) of this series, and I had someone tell me after I showed them it, " So you like Elon Musk right?", and I was like “No? Why would you think that?” and gained cursed knowledge.
And this was when he was still a bit of a liberal darling.
The man is Joiler Veppers
Elon Musk is Veppers. Stupid bastard just can’t see it.
spoiler
I’ve never actually read any of the Culture books lol
It’s more that the Culture believe they have a moral imperative to combat fascist ideologies and do so through subterfuge that enhances the contradictions of those societies. It is explicitly viewed as morally gray that they interfere at all. When the Culture destabilizes the fascist Azad Empire by delegitimizing how their society chooses leaders, hundreds of people die in the immediate uproar. When the Culture wars with the Idiran Empire, which practices theocratic slavery, 850 billion sentients are killed, and it takes about 500 years for the war to become justifiable to many Culture citizens that lived through it.
Makes sense, I was just shitposting
To be fair, that’s my super quick summary having only read the first book, and half of the second, out of ten books, so I still have a lot more to read.