i’ve been happy with protonmail for several years. i know i should self-host but i’m too lazy

preaching to the choir

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/05/31/yes-a-trump-presidency-would-bring-fascism-to-america/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/world/europe/rise-of-donald-trump-tracks-growing-debate-over-global-fascism.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/02/is-donald-trump-a-fascist-an-expert-on-fascism-weighs-in.html

pretty sure i could draw more comparisons over the past few decades but whatever

you say “openly discussed in newspapers” as though there’s some kind of authority or respectability needed to be on the opinion page.

not that i disagree, the US is obviously on the knife’s edge of collapse, but i’m not going to lose sleep thinking “heavens, it was on the opinion page, what are we gonna do?”

repost of that xkcd article which goes: “there are 14 standards”; “that’s too many! we need one that meets all use cases!”; “there are 15 standards”