People like to complain about the plot in Hardspace Shipbreaker being really blunt and on-the-nose but tbh pro-union propaganda SHOULD be blunt and on-the-nose

Right now if you're going to write a political story, you need to make it obvious

@coriander In its struggle against these conditions criticism is not a passion of the head but the head of passion.  It is not a lancet, it is a weapon.  Its object is an ENEMY it wants not to refute but to DESTROY.  For the spirit of these conditions has already been refuted.  In and for themselves they are objects not WORTHY OF THOUGHT but EXISTENCES as despicable as they are despised.  Criticism itself does not even need to be concerned with this matter, for it is already clear about it.  Criticism is no longer an END IN ITSELF but simply a MEANS.

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The criticism dealing with this matter is criticism in HAND-TO-HAND combat, and in such combat the point is not whether the opponent is noble, equal, or INTERESTING, the point is to STRIKE him.

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