The Government: we need children to run the military
Bonzo: welcome to battle school
the only thing you need to know about life up here is that we only have two kinds of swearing
“fart face” and vicious racial slurs
Ender: oh
Bonzo: we’ll kill you as soon as look at you
but we’ll never say “shit”
Peter: now that Ender has gone to space to become a general, we must do our part to change humanity
Valentine: absolutely
what should we do
Peter: let’s leave comments about political theory on the internet until the government offers us jobs
Alai: Ender
let’s kiss
Ender: yes
unrelatedly, gays and Jews?
Alai: monstrous, both of them
also, unrelatedly
we call our greatest enemies the “buggers”
but don’t read too much into it
it’s just a longer, more difficult way of saying bugs that has nothing to do with the more common definition of the term
The President: look at this
Secretary of State: Sir?
The President: someone is talking about John Locke online
give them my job at once
Secretary of State: Yes, sir
Bug Ghost: Ender we knew you would come
and we knew you didn’t mean to genocide us
please don’t feel bad about it
the genociding
see
when we were murdering you
we thought we were actually just disfiguring you
we were just trying to cripple your society, not murder it
so it was all just a big misunderstanding
Ender: oh
Bug Ghost: just please don’t worry about it, genocide-wise
