Years ago (before Epstein, before the GFC, etc) I used to jokingly talk about my pet conspiracy theory, that the world was ruled by the P7: the Pale Patriarchal Plutocratic Protestant Penis-People of Power.
Turns out I was right.
I didn't want to be right …
@cstross I never took it as a joke, seemed too obviously true. At least in the US.
@cstross soothsayer or conjurer, which are you? Reveal thineself!
@cstross
Trump answers to the 7 Ps: petroleum, plutocrats, Putin, Palantir, private prisons, pistols, polluters.
@cstross i feel like Protestant should be before Plutocratic, it seems to roll better that way.
@cstross I tought it was Juice people.
@cstross drop the protestant aspect and call it the p6 and it almost works…
@cstross Not sure about the protestant part, but otherwise yeah, spot on
@CryptoLek Tell me the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 isn't a protestant fundamentalist play? Dominionism is all about the patriarchy/child abuse nexus.
@cstross if you could just stop Being Right so bloody often that would be great, thanks 🙃
@cstross You even missed a P.
@cstross A person I know has created a dystopia near future RPG system (unfortunately, only in Polish). I've heard from him more than once something in line: "I've made a fucking RPG, not a dystopian state operation manual".
@agturcz I have just thrown in the towel on my long-running dystopian political satire/Lovecraftian horror series because the way it's tracking things in real life Cthulhu is scheduled to wake up next month.
@cstross There's also PORN: Paedophile Orange Republican Nutter.
@cstross What Machiavelli called The Bunga Bunga theory of governance!
@cstross Living through history is exhausting and boringly repetitive.
