A fifth major power in Jack of Harts politics is mentioned in the stories but is rarely seen as a great power. The AI Council of the 21st century that killed the Rogue AIs and became the Cybernetic Council of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our founding document, The Constitution, outlawed the slave trade when we formed the United States of America. Not as an amendment, but in the original document signed and approved by all States. Then we fought a war over a century[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The politics of Jack of Harts is organized around the idea that there are three great powers. The Russians and Chinese are highly centralized polities, with all power flowing from the capitals to the outer districts and colonies. They have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jack of Harts politics and history includes the idea that humanity did not go to space united. The United Nations and NATO collapsed under the weight of the Second Great Depression, and the global powers that returned to space where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I spent time in the hospital. My dad got an infection that probably would have killed him in any other world. But we have the Mayo Clinic here, and they pumped him full of antibiotics until they cleared the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I originally started writing Jack of Harts, I had in mind a fractured United States that still mostly stuck together when the going got rough. The whole idea of not really liking each other, but disliking the other guys[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trump ran for election on the idea of closing the border and stopping illegal aliens from entering America, and then he tried to do it. Biden ran promising to open the border again, and he did it on day one.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the period of around 300 years, from the late 1400s to the late 1700s when it was outlawed by every civilized nation, the most common estimate is that 12 million slaves were transported to the Americans, with between 5[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Never Forget that Gazan citizens and accredited journalists were not the only people who joined Hamas in attacking Israel on October 7, 2023. United Nations aide workers also joined in. And not only have crowds of thousands of people around[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Never Forget that on October 7, 2023, Hamas, other terrorist groups, and unaffiliated Gazan citizens, accompanied by accredited journalists of major international news services who wanted to get everything on camera, raped, tortured, murdered, and kidnapped their way through southern[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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