““I don’t know,” Davidson said. “Maybe it’s not about politics. Maybe these guys are just assholes.”
“Seems the simplest explanation,” I said.”

— John Scalzi , book Lock In

Source: Lock In (2014), Chapter 14 (p. 181)

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