for bonus check out this awful URL from the nypost about it:

https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-news/hochul-open-to-ny-mask-bans-return-amid-rise-in-antisemitic-protests/

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    19 days ago

    I haven't re-read any of his older stuff since I was radicalized. Kinda worry it won't hold up. But if I'm ever in Maine, I'm gonna get arrested throwing copies of The Jakarta Method and Blackshirts and Reds over his fence.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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      18 days ago

      read The Running Man, it's incredible

      stephen king was fucked up on shitty beer and coke one night in 1980 and was like hey what if reality tv and late capitalism and socioeconomic decay and social stratification and society of the spectacle and nazi youth gangs and killing off the poor via environmental collapse and return of old epidemic diseases and slow grinding deterioration of material conditions and flying commercial jets into skyscrapers

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        19 days ago

        Oh, yeah, totally. Read the Bachman Books in the 90's. That's what's so frustrating about him, is that he clearly gets something is wrong, but he's too wrapped up in the Cultural Hegemony of western mythology to not be a LIB

        Lately, I've really been feeling the part where the poor people have to make DIY Nose Filters... doomer

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        19 days ago

        In 2025, the world's economy is in shambles and America has become a totalitarian dystopia.

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