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0 pointsTomSwirly3y ago0 comments

I had no idea that Pournelle was claiming credit for that!

He nicked it from Robert Michels, who wrote about the Iron Law of Oligarchies in 1911: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

I was reading some old Analog magazines the other day, and man, Pournelle was one deranged man in his "non-fiction".

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michaelcampbell3y ago

Leo Laporte would have him on a variety of his TWIT podcasts from time to time. I considered once coming up with a drinking game where you'd drink every time Jerry would have a sentence that included, "..when I wrote about...", but I realized you'd kill yourself.

wombatpm3y ago

Politically he was somewhat to the far right of Atilla the Hun

louky3y ago

That wasn't as apparent when he was a BYTE columnist for many years but boy his website sure turned into "old man yells at clouds" although he did have serious health issues in his later years.

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