"I wanna punch Venus."
Posted By: TomboyOrion
Posted In: r/FenPoliticalRoundup
I promise you, Tanith saw the title, my name, and is currently giving her monitor a Look.
But a notable portion of the population over there are currently earning the need for a punch in the face. As you'd expect, the Big News on Venus right now is that Serenity II has resolved the Frigga situation by giving the job to the one person guaranteed to absolutely hate it, but do it to the best of her ability out of loyalty to her people. And boy oh boy, has it kicked off a shitstorm of truly impressive whining. I'm talking five-years-old, 'But she's got cooties!' level whining.
There are all sorts of legitimate complaints to be made against the new Baron Frigga. Her lack of political experience on this scale, the fact it's known she opposed Frigga joining the Crystal Millennium in the first place, the fact that she's pretty much certain to Not Play Well with either Kayabukis government, or the Loyal Opposition. The recent incident that has the Federation angry at them is another great example. Hell, Jet would admit to all of these on her own if asked.
But that's not what Venus's local media and the woman on the street is focusing on. No, that would make too much sense. What are they upset about?
She's too violent.
She did really mean things back in the Boskone War, and she even killed people when they attacked her home and tried to kill her. Oh, what a monster! So very unsuitable for the Nation of Love and Justice! Do we really want to associate with her?
Jesus Tapdancing Christ. I ran into one pack of idiots at Tokyos spaceport trying to get support for a public movement to demand she be immediately removed from office and banished from the Crystal Millennium for her 'crimes'. They had a holo-protector showing footage of said crimes behind them. This was something of a quality highlight reel for her actually. Serenity Valley, what looked like gun camera footage from Boskone Prime, the Battle of Frigga, so on and so on. They were showing footage of her literally body-checking a Boskonian missile before it hit a camper van full of civilians and calling her a monster for it.
(Yes, they tried to get me to sign, and yes, I kinda spent about fifteen minutes ripping them a new one verbally. I don't think they expected someone my size to stand her ground against a group that size.)
I wish they were the exception rather than the rule, but that was the attitude I kept hearing in Tokyo. She's violent, and that's not really suitable for our enlightened little society. Guh... I never thought we'd have a Boskonian Apologist Movement setting up shop in Fenspace. Guess I get to be called naive!
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OOC: The idiots aren't as common as she thinks, but Tokyo is the political center of Venus. The people with little connection to reality tend to migrate there.
Posted By: TomboyOrion
Posted In: r/FenPoliticalRoundup
I promise you, Tanith saw the title, my name, and is currently giving her monitor a Look.
But a notable portion of the population over there are currently earning the need for a punch in the face. As you'd expect, the Big News on Venus right now is that Serenity II has resolved the Frigga situation by giving the job to the one person guaranteed to absolutely hate it, but do it to the best of her ability out of loyalty to her people. And boy oh boy, has it kicked off a shitstorm of truly impressive whining. I'm talking five-years-old, 'But she's got cooties!' level whining.
There are all sorts of legitimate complaints to be made against the new Baron Frigga. Her lack of political experience on this scale, the fact it's known she opposed Frigga joining the Crystal Millennium in the first place, the fact that she's pretty much certain to Not Play Well with either Kayabukis government, or the Loyal Opposition. The recent incident that has the Federation angry at them is another great example. Hell, Jet would admit to all of these on her own if asked.
But that's not what Venus's local media and the woman on the street is focusing on. No, that would make too much sense. What are they upset about?
She's too violent.
She did really mean things back in the Boskone War, and she even killed people when they attacked her home and tried to kill her. Oh, what a monster! So very unsuitable for the Nation of Love and Justice! Do we really want to associate with her?
Jesus Tapdancing Christ. I ran into one pack of idiots at Tokyos spaceport trying to get support for a public movement to demand she be immediately removed from office and banished from the Crystal Millennium for her 'crimes'. They had a holo-protector showing footage of said crimes behind them. This was something of a quality highlight reel for her actually. Serenity Valley, what looked like gun camera footage from Boskone Prime, the Battle of Frigga, so on and so on. They were showing footage of her literally body-checking a Boskonian missile before it hit a camper van full of civilians and calling her a monster for it.
(Yes, they tried to get me to sign, and yes, I kinda spent about fifteen minutes ripping them a new one verbally. I don't think they expected someone my size to stand her ground against a group that size.)
I wish they were the exception rather than the rule, but that was the attitude I kept hearing in Tokyo. She's violent, and that's not really suitable for our enlightened little society. Guh... I never thought we'd have a Boskonian Apologist Movement setting up shop in Fenspace. Guess I get to be called naive!
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OOC: The idiots aren't as common as she thinks, but Tokyo is the political center of Venus. The people with little connection to reality tend to migrate there.