those concerns were largely proven true with the recent announcement of his new game, with a bunch of his collaborators decrying him as vocally misogynist and maga behind closed doors.

it's a mostly academic thing, he's not really a politically significant figure, just a disappointing artist.

he's always been rather cryptic about the meaning of his fairly abstract games, but has generally been curmudgeonly right wing but fairly tight-lipped about that. many saw him as "probably much more fascist than he lets on for professional reasons".

so, yeah, he does have ties to most of the horrors of our lives, but it's silly to reduce that to "he did these things".

he's being allowed to take the sole blame because he's dead, but his associates are just as culpable for everything he had his grubby fingers in.

he was at the center of these things because he was an integral part of a good old boys network.

none of those things are solely his fault, it's a burden happily shared by all his friends and associates. their great work, to hear them talk about it.

happy birthday!

here's one of my favorite things i've done recently!

not that frequently, i think, just because he gets confused on camera so easily and doesn't say it at those times.

that is, i think he's senile enough that if he used the word regularly he'd be constantly saying it in public if it were a habit.

wow, headquarters68_ is finally real.

odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts

epilog.

so many centrists and liberals act as though "progress" as they know it has happened thanks to the magical, natural tide of history rather than people far more radical than them disregarding respectability politics and changing things by stepping right through decorum.

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