Political Compass sent me a post-election survey and one of the questions was something like how much did I enjoy the election. And I used to find the whole thing fascinating, and probably would have answered "Very" once upon a time. But then I became radicalised and disenfranchised. One of - by no means the greatest, but one of them for sure - causes for that was the insistence by deeply unserious people that I should take their performative hissy seriously. Their sky-is-falling caterwauling for the benefit of the rusted-ons and the brokens, duly reported on by the media that tied itself to this stupid circus. Fucking thirteen year olds would look at the carry on about Comey's "8647" photo and go "Aren't you being a bit childish?"
Nevertheless, 86 47. Preferably into the Sun, but the sea will suffice.
Today everyone is all het up because famous bullshit artist Donald Trump responded to a press conference question saying that he could not rule out using military force to annex the Panama Canal. From Panama. Which you would have to imagine would be something easily militarily defended and not all all prone to insurgent action, but anyways.
The fact that a journalist even asked the question is a real "paper bag labeled 'Dead Dove'" moment. Aside from the court case (https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-companies-accused-tax-evasion-panama) I'm curious what else Trump might have going on that he'd see this as useful leverage.
If only we had some sort of self-mythologising group of people with access to a kind of broad medium of communication who could question motivations and so forth and shine a light on them.
Anna runs Anna's Archive, a search engine of shadow libraries. A big old article on the why's and how's of being a guerilla preserver of books and media.