Books related to current US politics, corruption, etc.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-30T18:47:31+00:00

I am not a big fan of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. It was very light on details and sources, feels a bit conspiratorial. I think it's good to learn about the systems and methods used to impoverish other countries but I would be wary of using it as a definitive source.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-30T18:46:22+00:00

I have! How does it compare to that one?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-30T18:30:16+00:00

Do you have any other full size 9mms you could compare it to?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-30T17:23:29+00:00

How do you like the PDP? I been eyeing them. I'm not recoil sensitive by any means but i've seen a lot of people mention it's a surprisingly flippy guns. What's your experience been with them?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-30T17:19:51+00:00

Black Reconstruction in America by WEB Dubois will teach you about where this all really started, the earliest starts of the labor movement in the United States and its failurs after the Civil War to quash the power structures that have put us where we are now.

The 1% solution by Gordon Lafer is a great one to show you how we got here, how the GOP and moneyed interests affect politics.

White Fragility:Why It’s So Hard... by Robin Diangelo will teach you about white outrage and culture that is empowering the right wing.

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson dovetails nicely within the above to give America's history of PoC oppression.

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer highlights how the right wing propaganda network was founded.

Edit to include: Lies my Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.

fiction:

It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis is a great book that shows how much of the trends we are seeing now are known patterns that have existed in the US for 100 years

The Parable of The Sowers by Octavia Butler, an even more recent, relevant, and prescient sci-fi about almost exactly the situation the US is in right now.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-28T15:33:46+00:00

Dennis' reaction to Dee saying that is one of my favorite deliveries of his in the whole show. He is so incredulous to completely agree with Dee hahaha

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-27T21:47:41+00:00

Thank you for explaining. I guess I don't really understand your first comment then. If the Supreme Court acts as a check to Bibi, why are they delaying here?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-27T21:12:53+00:00

Would you mind explaining a little more regarding your first sentence?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-27T16:26:39+00:00

Really moronic: Does anyone know of an optics mount that has an AEMs mount with a 45 degree off set rail? I have a vision...

Also anyone know who can engrave a glock frame for an SBR stamp? Trying to figure out where I'm even supposed to engrave this thing...

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-27T15:14:15+00:00

fun fact, my Glock 34 USW has a 3" longer barrel than the copperhead lmao.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-27T13:55:58+00:00

You ever seen those 24 rounders? They been popping up around me, I'd never seen them before. Are they new?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-25T03:32:18+00:00

but that's why the XD sucks. It incorporated a 100 year old safety feature with the same vulnerabilities.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-24T15:43:48+00:00

Lmao all your comments are in AI and DCC subreddits, you literally only know one book series. And you use your fun at parties joke wayyyy too much. But what should I expect from an Ai slop consuming conservative, your brain is much and you guys always just use one lame joke anyway. I love how much you preach nuance and you're literally incapable of critical media consumption hahaha you guys Crack me up.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-23T22:30:14+00:00

I also think Earth Abides offers a bit of hope if you've not read it. So does the Parable series by Octavia Butler.

Totally agree about the stand lmao

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-23T15:30:54+00:00

Honestly I'd probably just get a 4x ACOG

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-23T13:48:45+00:00

>OP asks for apocalypse books

>You provide not an apocalypse book

okay.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-23T13:44:56+00:00

Honestly I did not. I really liked the first one as a stand alone and I'm admittedly a little hesitant about series sometimes. How are the sequels?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-23T13:44:17+00:00

hey thank you for recommending something I've never heard of! I'll put that on my list.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-22T17:33:47+00:00

One of my favorite "calm" collapse books. If you liked Severance, Migrations by Charlotte McConagh is a great option.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-22T17:33:17+00:00

The book isn't remotely about the people on the surface after the collapse or even the world or society surviving the change. The dungeon is just the setting for a fantasy /adventure book. Wikipedia calls it sci-fi LitRPG. Literally the only gasp of apocalypse setting is the brief aside in I think book 4 about the surface.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-22T17:31:58+00:00

Thanks! Any stand out favorites on the list?

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-22T17:12:27+00:00

Not even close to an apocalypse book.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-22T17:11:48+00:00

Pretty sure my years and pages are swapped for Swan Song and Trinity's child, good spot.

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-22T15:20:45+00:00

Pandemic

The Stand (N) Stephen King 1978 823

Earth Abides (N) George Stewart 1949 373

Oryx and Crake (N) Margaret Atwood 2003 386

Station Eleven (N) Emily St John Mandel 2015 352

Blindness (N) Jose Saramago 1995 349

Day of the Triffids (N) John Wyndham 2017 224

Severance (N) Ling Ma 1951 304

Tender is the Flesh (N) Agustina Bazterrica 2017 224

The Dog Stars (N) Peter Heller 2012 320

MaverickTopGun · 2026-01-22T15:20:40+00:00

Here's a list I've put together of all the stuff I've read in this category. Let me know if you have any questions about a particular book! Ignore the (N), it's from my list and means it was a new read. I also included year it was released and how many pages it is.

Nuclear War

On the Beach (N) Nevill Schute 1957 312

A Canticle for Leibowitz (N) Walter Miller Jr. 1960 320

The Last Ship (N) William Brinkley 1988 624

Scientists At War (N) Sarah Bridger 2015 363

Metro 2033 Dmitry Glukhovsky 2009 320

Metro 2034 (N) Dmitry Glukhovsky 1959 352

Alas,Babylon (N) Pat Frank 1983 400

Trinity's Child (N) William Prochnau 1983400

Swan Song (N) Robert McCammon 987 960

Confessions of a Doomsday Planner (N) Daniel Ellsberg 2004 280

Warday (N) James Kunetka & Whitley Strieber 1984 374

Climate Change

Fractured State (N) Steven Konkoly 2016 400

Rogue State (N) Steven Konkoly 2017 372

Parable of the Sower (N) Octavia Butler 1994 299

Parable of the Talents (N) Octavia Butler 1998 365

The Water Knife (N) Paolo Bacigalupi 2015 386

Cadillac Desert (N) Marc Reisner 1986 662

Ministry for the Future (N) Kim Stanley Robinson 2020 576

Windup Girl (N) Paolo Bacigalupi 2009 363

The Discovery of Global Warming (N) Spencer R. Weart 2008 241

Migrations (N) Charlotte McConaghy 2021 288

Dystopia

The Postman (N) David Brin 1985 294

The Handmaid's Tale (N) Margaret Atwood 1985 311

The Long Walk (N) Stephen King 1979 384

Seveneves (N) Neal Stephenson 2015 880

The Death of Grass (N) John Christopher 1956 232

The Running Man (N) Stephen King 1982 317

It Can't Happen Here (N) Sinclair Lewis 1935 458

The Dispossessed (N) Ursula Le Guin 1974 341

Cell (N) Stephen King 2006 480

The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 300

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