It’s the money. Campaigns are increasingly expensive by design. That and Citizens United basically made it so moneyed interests never have to worry about grassroots ever again. That’s (very tangentially) why the internet is also getting so unpleasant, I think, to poison the discourse. If people were nice to each other all the time, we’d band together more easily. Paid trolls exist for a reason.

I wish I could experience my kid’s ADHD for a day just to get a real sense of it… I’m always butting up against how differently our brains work in subtle ways, and I know he feels that rift as well, even if he can’t articulate it yet.

I’ll talk to them, sure. Right after I upload a preachy meme.

Defed every corporation. McDonald’s starts an instance? Fuck off and fix your ice cream machine. Gabe Newell starts a Steam instance? No Gabe, go make half life 3. Make all these suits federate each other and see if anyone wants to talk on their shit.