:kelly: Bait and switch.

I'm Catholic and while I'd quibble with some symbolism, it's entirely fine in the general vibes. people will take symbols and use them in their own circumstances, and communists who are Catholic will do the same. I do think the character should be kept non-violent though, since she's a child.

Luce is on her way to see Subcommendante Marcos and establish protracted peoples war. She's in her establishing the divine unity of mankind phase, she's giving off Soviet Cosmist vibes, she's fully De Chardain-pilled

That is true, but the 4th or fifth time you interrupt your nephews birthday party to talk for 90min about how the Shining Path did nothing wrong people are going to stop sending you Christmas cards

Avatar dates to early graphical bulletin boards and MUDs in the 80s. Originally it was used as a synonym for "Player Character" (after Moorcock and his Avatars of the Eternal Champion) and spread from there. PFP is a post-facebook thing.

That is why The Diamond Age has the Cyberpunk character die in the first chapter, where the possibility of even a dystopic freedom in the collapsing individualistic freefall of Social Democracy is crushed by the all-encompassing grasp of Capitalist society, which abhors the power Vacuum of 80s underground hacking.

Finally someone promises to post hog.

Well I see the brutal and uncompromising police crackdown really had the intended effect

Lot of puffery in the piece, but he's broadly truthful, just exaggerating.

In fairness cessnas have a...reputation for effectively penetrating Russian airspace.

You do get some celt chuds, but most were ran out of Folk communities long ago and settled in country music. Also the Chud trad culture they do like that is celtic or germanic is always half-baked 19th century revivalist stuff.

I see the guys at NYT have been dragged kicking and screaming into the hip new lingo of 2019.