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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 29

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Rod Van Mechelen

    Robert Heinlein also frequently opined that if you had a time machine, you should totally use it for incest.https://twitter.com/rodvanmechelen/status/1530962760497917953 …

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    Rod Van Mechelen @rodvanmechelen
    Replying to @christianjbdev @CathyYoung63
    Robert Heinlein once opined that upon stepping into a voting booth, a citizen should be required to solve a quadratic equation. If they get it right, they get to vote. If not, they don't. Unconstitutional, but still a fun idea to entertain.
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      1. Andrew Ferguson‏ @epiktistes May 29
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        "All You Zombies—" is overwhelmingly the most representative Heinlein story because ultimately all the characters (possibly all the people period) are the author and they're all fucking. startling level of solipsism

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      1. so-called kate‏ @kateinCT1 May 29
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Wut?

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      2. Fibonacci Stephen‏ @brent_waggoner May 29
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The underlying idea that smart people are good people is so pernicious.

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      3. Tom Sloane‏ @TomSloaneLD May 29
        Replying to @brent_waggoner @HeerJeet

        Yup.https://thebaffler.com/salvos/outsmarted-perlstein …

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      1. snarkout‏ @snarkout May 29
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        He said that an armed society is a polite society, which we can see from the Internet is exactly correct.

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      1. Myrha Cheval‏ @MyrhaCheval May 29
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        Eventually, he also only had four characters, two of whom were older versions of their younger selves, all four often appearing in the same novel...which kinda makes the whole time-travel incest thing inevitable.

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      1. Zombie Banana‏ @BananaUndead May 29
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        I think everyone should have to cook two eggs over easy to be allowed to vote

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      2. Ken  🌻 🇭🇰 🗽‏ @kendroiddddd May 29
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        "Instead of rebutting the actual argument, I'll nutpick something totally unrelated to assassinate character instead." - Jeet Heer

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 29
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        What's the actual argument?

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      1. Dan Tomkinson‏ @DanTomkinson59 May 29
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        Yeah, Heinline loved to push buttons and write about morality as it differs from culture to culture. But, in both instances he opined in the context of a fictitious novel. I don't believe he actually advocated for either position in real life.

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