First they came for the immigrants, but I didn't do anything because I wasn't an immigrant...

Trying to bring back the good ol' days, when rivers could catch fire.

Of course they are.

Under Trump, civilian harm is going to become their primary mission.

Yes - assholes who see every tragedy as just another opportunity for another partisan pissing match make me angry, and especially when they're also fucking tunnel-visioned hypocrites.

When this civilization collapses, it's going to be in no small part because they're in there, day after day, diligently chipping away at it. You're fucking right that makes me angry.

It's not in and of itself.

Did you really not understand what I said?

I think you have it exactly backwards - that the people who hate him just in and of himself do so for very good reason - because he's a foul, self-absorbed, sociopathic serial liar, manupulator and rapist - and that it's the people who ignore the plain truth about him and grant him respect he doesn't deserve who are motivated by their own weakness.

The US has elected Beavis and Butt-Head.

Broadly, this is just the sort of thing that can be expected when we allow positions of power to be held by people who are mentally ill.

I'd never thought about it before and my immediate reaction was somewhere between wtf and lol, but thinking about it more, I guess I can sort of see the basis for an argument that they are, since at least some of the expected basic themes are there.

But I don't think that's enough. Cyberpunk isn't just centered around computers and technology - it's an aesthetic, and WarGames and Sneakers don't have even the tiniest hint of that aesthetic.

To reach back to the roots of the word "cyberpunk," I think it's more accurate to say that WarGames and Sneakers are "cyberpop" or maybe even "cyber-easy-listening."

"The fediverse" really can't. That's just the reality of a decentralized system. It's going to be up to individual instances to sort it out.

But that's a good thing, because what it means is that different instances can and will try different approaches, and between them, they'll sooner or later hit on the one(s) that will be most effective.

And that pretty much sums up the full extent of establishment Democrat principles and determination.