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PoalackJokes88 (poalackjokes88@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:34:06 JST PoalackJokes88
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@Wyliesau This has been talked about for a while. (1974):
"After briefly contemplating suicide, Mandella assumes the post of commanding officer of a "strike force", commanding soldiers who speak a language largely unrecognizable to him, whose ethnicity is now nearly uniform ('vaguely Polynesian' in appearance) and who are exclusively homosexual. He is disliked by his soldiers and he assumes this is because they had to learn 21st century English to communicate with him and other senior staff and because he is heterosexual."
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  The Forever War
  
  The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. It won the Nebula Award in 1975 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1976. Forever Free (1999) and Forever Peace (1997) are, respectively, direct and thematic sequel novels. The novella A Separate War (1999) is another sequel of sorts, occurring simultaneously with the final portion of The Forever War. Informally, the novels comprise The Forever War series; the novel also inspired a comic book and a board game. The Forever War is the first title in the SF Masterworks series. Plot summary William Mandella is a physics student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they apparently attacked human colonists' ships. The UNEF ground troops are sent out for reconnaissance and revenge. The elite recruits have IQs of 150 and above, are highly educated, healthy...
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  Wyliesau (wyliesau@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:34:07 JST Wyliesau
  
  This would not surprise me the slightest.
  California Becomes First State To Ban Heterosexual Marriage.
  https://babylonbee.com/news/california-becomes-first-state-to-ban-heterosexual-marriage
  
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