re: #138 piratedan

I’m not really in the military scifi bent, so that tends to flavor my view. (I like characters, not tactics.)

As for John Ringo being a nice person, well, I watched his reaction to Scalzi’s Hugo win this year. He may be polite enough to potential fans at a convention, but throwing that kind of temper tantrum in public generally precludes being a ‘nice’ person in my book. I’m glad he was able to take the OH JOHN RINGO NO thing in a good sense of humor, and I’ll grant that if he wants to at least be honest with his politics in the books that may in some way be better than the dichotomy between the world Card presents and his personal beliefs, but…in either case I won’t give them my money. Why should I, when they are both willing to support the enforcement of their personal beliefs on me?

(And believe me, I get having nonstandard fantasies. The difference really does come down to being outspoken in supporting the politicians who would work to make that fantasy a reality. I believe anyone is welcome to live by their own code of beliefs as long as it doesn’t hurt others. I just draw the line at having them enforce that code of beliefs on me.)