I have a reminder to post Fuck Elon there every month, because I don’t want to use it but damn if I will let them expropriate my username/ the 800 something followers still remaining that I curated from 2009-2024

/2 That’s because I think the choice between a mainstream vibe-collectivist (who only seems extreme through Overton Window abuse) and a cult of white nationalist nihilists is not a close call. Taking the least charitable view of Mamdani, we’ve lived with it plenty before, and he’s not a psychopath.

By the time cameras were introduced to Japan, actual samurai would look more like this.

I feel like everyone should start with an easy lift, such as being piqued or profoundly annoyed by his staff choices

We connected on LinkedIn a while back, he has spent like a decade doing labor / HR relations for hospitals. But what that means, who knows.

I somehow find myself shocked by events, even though I would agree that "they're going to run back Comet Ping Pong but with more racism" would have been an admittedly plausible prediction.

why do I both want and NOT want the name drop

And if it gets him additional airtime to say “my mother’s cousin is an asshole and should not be anywhere near public health infrastructure”, it makes its own sense