You have to vote according to how the electoral system actually works, not how you wish it worked. Unless you - yes, you - are personally prepared to fund and organise a revolution to change that system then you vote against the actual fascist.
leraje
joined 2 years ago
I might actually loathe him more than Musk.
<link rel="me" href="https://instance.tld/@username" /> in the <head> is probably a bit tidier :)
I love the aesthetics of hardback books, a beautiful Victorian-era library looks (and smells!) great but my own library is all ebooks. I don't have the space for over 2k physical books and as I get older and my eyesight worsens, the ability to adjust font size, line-height, borders, contrast etc becomes invaluable.
I won't buy from Amazon at all, ever. I prefer to buy DRM free but if its not possible to buy DRM free then I buy a paperback copy from a local indie bookstore if possible which I immediately donate to a library or hospital or prison or whatever and, ahem, 'source' a DRM-free version from elsewhere. I do it this way because DRM is cancer but I also want to support small and/or new authors so buying and passing on a print copy is good for everyone and having a DRM free copy is good for me.
As for subject matter, both fiction and non-fiction but more fiction than non. I like historical novels like the Aubrey/Maturin series, or the Shardlake series, Madeline Miller's greek retellings, Hilary Mantel's stuff, fantasy/sci-f- like Ursula K Leguinn, NK Jemisin, Margaret Attwood, Robin Hobb, Lois McMaster Bujold, Susannah Clarke, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Horror/Thrillers by writers like Peter Straub, Catriona Ward, Shirley Jackson. Non-fiction books tend to be popular science that are 'popular' enough I can grasp what they're on about but 'science' enough they're not just dumbed down crap.
The only slightly surprising thing about this is that Musk didn't commission a gold plated car with a TRUMP#1 vanity plate.
Its a mystery - why would a hypercapitalist society increasingly dependent on manual labour destroy education, destroy workers rights, remove the ability to abort unwanted pregnancies and make prisoners legal slaves?
Built in, pre-launch enshittification. Novel.
“strange track records”
They're obvious Russian assets...
“problem on the intelligence front”
...who will pass on the names of all our spies and assignments to Putin...
Intelligence sharing would continue “even if at the top level there might be things we might wish to be circumspect about”.
...so we're going to bullshit them and not tell them the important stuff.
Techbro led gvmt - move fast, break stuff. Chaos leads to opportunity to profit, by which I mean him and his class to profit.
So this is how I find out I've been dumped.
Stop giving a shit about fake internet points, they literally mean nothing.
"Its dead in here" says person who never contributes anything except to complain how dead it is.