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   Weekend Editor (weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 04:53:57 JST Weekend Editor

   • Charlie Stross

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   The Stainless Steel Rat Meets Donald Trump... that would surely work? One despicalble con man vs another largely admirable con man?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 04:53:55 JST Charlie Stross

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     @weekend_editor I read "The Stainless Steel Rat for President" about 3-4 decades ago but don't remember much. He rigged an election IIRC, so …

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 10:48:07 JST Charlie Stross

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     @weekend_editor Your challenge now is to identify the good in Donald Trump.

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross

     That one, to me, was one of the weaker SSR stories.

     I very much _would_ like to read a story in which the SSR goes up against another con man, as skilled as he is, but evil.

     The early stories in which he met Angelina in her sociopathic murderer stage are almost like that.

     Being able to identify the good part of one's opponent, and cause them to cultivate that is almost a religious point with me. Slippery Jim could recognize and cultivate the good in Angelina, just as I the reader had to recognize the good in Slippery Jim. Handy symmetry, there.