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.

[celeduc@mastodon.social]

@cstross Living through history is exhausting and boringly repetitive.

[guenterhack@mastodon.social]

@cstross What Machiavelli called The Bunga Bunga theory of governance!

[uilebheist@polyglot.city]

@cstross There's also PORN: Paedophile Orange Republican Nutter.

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@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".

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@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.

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@cstross @agturcz As things go, I don't think we'll have a horrible end so much as no end of horrors.

[fruan@kind.social]

@cstross Of all the things you could have been right about, I’m glad it was that and not anything out of the Laundry Files…

… not very glad, just so we’re clear.

[jaark@infosec.exchange]

@cstross @agturcz TBH, the New Management often seem to be perfectly reasonable and sane compared to what's actually happening.

[kalvaro@mastodon.social]

@cstross You even missed a P.

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@cstross if you could just stop Being Right so bloody often that would be great, thanks

[cryptolek@infosec.exchange]

@cstross Not sure about the protestant part, but otherwise yeah, spot on

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@CryptoLek Tell me the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 isn't a protestant fundamentalist play? Dominionism is all about the patriarchy/child abuse nexus.

[corvus_ch@social.corvus-ch.name]

@agturcz @cstross #shadowrun is a known brand in #rpg. It provoked that exact same thought.

[sterpeto@social.vivaldi.net]

@cstross I tought it was Juice people.

[tknarr@mstdn.social]

@cstross Why couldn't we have Victor von Doom? Or Lex Luthor. Or hells, Ming the Merciless. Father. Even Him or Mojo Jojo. But no, what do we get? The lameoids.

[mrhoatzin@idlethumbs.social]

@cstross i feel like Protestant should be before Plutocratic, it seems to roll better that way.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@tknarr We REALLY need the New Management to take charge now.

[freedman@newsie.social]

@cstross
Trump answers to the 7 Ps: petroleum, plutocrats, Putin, Palantir, private prisons, pistols, polluters.

[tom_ofb@23.social]

@cstross soothsayer or conjurer, which are you? Reveal thineself!

[blotosmetek@circumstances.run]

@cstross very efficient, as "Penis-People" can mean both "males" and "dicks".