JakeGrey Wrote:And then at the other end of the spectrum (sort of), we have Occupy... or not, because a huge chunk of them would be going Up as well. And not just to the VVS or the Federation, because you'd be surprised how much some of the people I met at an Occupy protest agreed with the saner original-flavour Teabaggers on.Oh, yes - Occupy. That was a fun little thread.
http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/8644
JakeGrey Wrote:In fact, I wonder if there aren't a few good stories in an Upwards brain drain, with a greater and greater percentage of the young, ambitious and well-educated leaving for better opportunities spaceside and leaving their home nations with just those too poor, too stubborn or too scared to leave."The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012