First, I was told by a total MSNBC-watching, immigrant neoliberal mom that she took out a book on Kamala Harris for her son. Made me look at her different after that. Contempt then gave way to pity.

The propaganda machine relentlessly churns on, while we have this place.

What’s the latest in The Rat? I bet that overly ambitious robot mf-er is gearing up big-time for another run.

Get me the fuck out of this surveillance police state, capitalist dystopia!

At least my kids know better when they see cops, the flag or advertising, all of which are suspect to them now.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      You wonder how these things get published so quickly and its like, they just feel so safe in manufacturing history that they print it before its occured

      The shelf-life of these books is measured in hours. You're never going to see a second printing.

      Hillary would have won in November and then spent the next 24 hours plugging her book.

      And then 24 hours after that Donald Trump would be pushing his book "How I Actually Won But the Demoncrats Stole The Election".

      And 24 hours after that, it would be "DOW 80,000! How the Crypto Boom Signals A Thousand Years of Economic Prosperity And You've Got The Opportunity To Cash In On The Ground Floor!"

      If this shit isn't waiting at the cash register when the news cycle hits, they don't turn a profit.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          Isn’t that inherently disgusting though? I feel like there’s this Sanctity we grant books where if something is in a book its seen as having things to say worth preserving.

          I think its cheap and skeezy, particularly when these books get dumped into a library like its a garbage bin.

          But there's nothing magical about books as a medium.

          It also ya know, takes trees to make. If a book is more useful as kindling to keep warm than for the information contained within, think we as a society should see it as shameful that it got published.

          I agree on principle, but I have no idea how a capitalist society organizes such a principle in practice.

    • Tormato [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Creepy. And purely American entrepreneurial, I’d say.

      Like all those Super Bowl and World Series shirts, caps and mugs that get printed for the losing team, which then get sent to obscure towns in Africa or Laos or something.

      Do you recall what the store did with them after she lost? Heh…