• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    16 hours ago

    It’s like the weird bit from Ender’s Game where his siblings become internet trolls pretending to be in opposition to each other, except within one guy, within one house.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      yeah it’s fascinating that Card foresaw this kind of social influencing while being a very odd (religious conservative and game developer fiction writer) mix, but then he went wacko:

      Card described an alternative future in which President Barack Obama ruled as a “Hitler- or Stalin-style dictator” with his own national police force of young unemployed men; Obama and his wife Michelle would have amended the U.S. Constitution to allow presidents to remain in power for life, as in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Nazi Germany.