The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

Glad to see you here, btw! I tried searching for you when I switched over, but I feel like the search functionality is not exactly 100% solid yet..

Back atcha, belatedly! ^_^

So many people’s entire conception of reality has been assembled from the lies they enjoy believing the most

I am absolutely fine with people wanting better lives for themselves. What I am not fine with is that desire curdling into reactionary nostalgia about a golden past that never existed, and propelling people towards dangerous, demagogic populism

Alas, we only had one, but we also had an Olga’s which also features prominently in my food dreams. Finding the recipe for the bread in the Freep was one of the best days in my life: www.freep.com/story/entert...