Happy 2024 and more

Back in the day (the dark ages), I used to have a very popular politics
blog at the time. It's long gone now, but it used to be a thing. I
eventually burned out on it and stopped altogether (again, having failed
to stop repeating myself). However, it seems like blogs became more and
more of a niche thing for many years with the rising popularity of
social media apps.

Now, howeer, they seem to maybe be coming back, with the public
souring more and more on social media as a whole. There are many reasons
to want Twitter and even Facebook to burn and die a horrid death, but
perhaps bringing some sanity back into the discourse through longform
posts is one of the best.

I've tried a few times, and actually wrote about 20 pages worth of posts
on the subject, but I kept getting disheartened and stopped before ever
publishing my thoughts on the matter. I feel perhaps that, for now, it's
for the best. Though, I may have something to say about it in the
future. But if you know me, you probably already know my positions
anyway.

I've made myself fairly clear on where I stand here as well. If you're
voting for anyone except for Biden at this point, you're voting to put a
dictator in power and I want to have nothing to do with you.

Again: My position is incredibly lucid and clear on this point. Ukraine
has to win. What is there more to say? The Republican party is a party
which not only supports having a dictator in the U.S. but also supports
dictators abroad.

Elon Musk is the biggest liar in tech, and I've known this for many
years. Apparently, this comes somewhat as a surprise to many people.
This only demonstrates yet another state of affairs, the thought of
which brings further depression. How anyone could fall of his incessant
lies and bullshit for so long is beyond me. The man has been a snake oil
salesman since his entire career. All of his claims in tech have been
debunked. People like to point to SpaceX - which he honestly has nothing
to do with in working terms - and Tesla - which he did not start or
invent. It's thoroughly depressing that some of us have been saying this
for so many years, and no one has been listening until recently. And
they still don't listen because even many in the press still think he's
a "genius" of some kind.

He isn't, and he never has been.