In that way, he's a precursor to alt-right
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he was also key in proselytizing word processing to the SF authors' community (this gets a chapter in my Track Changes).
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@HeerJeet Pournelle's political rants were on his blog (one of the earliest) not in his entertaining Byte column.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Pournelle's column was a running joke in the computer scene that I knew back then.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I read all his columns in Byte during this period. He was obviously conservative but 'protofascist?' I don't remember it.
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Let's just say he liked talking a LOT about Roman legionary tactics and how empires depended on military force. In his column.
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I thought his Byte columns were treated more like ravings of your Bircher uncle at Thanksgiving, tolerated but not condoned.
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@HeerJeet Also sadly his options on software were as primitive as his politics.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Wait was Niven a right-wing crazy too? -
He did believe that Pons & Fleischmann really had discovered cold fusion, and scientists were suppressing it…
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