Dept of "So Much For That":

Have you seriously considered leaving the U.S. over the last few years? If so, where would you go?

You know, the Information Age version of "job-hunting" is a whole new turbo-powered level of "this is stupid and it sucks," it really is. Most of the "help wanted, click to apply" emails that are clogging the f--k out of my inbox have nothing whatsoever to do with my skill set (hi, Monster-dot-com!) or are literally for different positions than the ones listed in the email subject line (Ziprecruiter is absolutely idiotic with that, like it's criminal-level bait-and-switch). JFC already. #UBI

I for one hope Trump's diet of Big Macs and Doritos doesn't finish him off, because he'll be keeping all the Big Oil/anti-education ghouls in his administration too busy with Fatal Attraction drama to accomplish anything more than lowering George Soros' taxes, just like last time

Watching all the Twitter-allergic normies humblebragging on Facebook about opening Bluesky accounts they'll never actually use is like listening to your little brother talk about how he wants to ride a tyrannosaurus to school

Humanity is a silent, lonely, endless archipelago of minds. My island is a remote, uncharted one, where M.R. James is a more renowned horror legend than Lovecraft, David Fincher more celebrated than Scorsese, and Wire more famous than Taylor Swift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEssKALOaQY

My totally surprised face, Bluesky and Threads blowing up the app-download charts. Train's leaving, Twitter buddies.

Follow up to my last story on spending another horrible Thanksgiving with MAGAs, I'm too lazy to get a Substack, someone please go read this dumb thing
https://ericsaeger.medium.com/b-but-what-if-i-cant-avoid-magas-this-thanksgiving-know-your-options-aebb81d70a10

The elites have overdone it this time. #ExitCapitalism is my mindset going forward. Some 20th century thinkers argued that capitalism eventually morphs into socialism organically, and I think that's where we're going. This bullshit is so intolerable that we're fools to think we can survive, much less thrive, in it.

I was listening to a really interesting interview with Amber A'Lee Frost the other day; she mentioned that today's level of wealth inequality is way past Roaring 20s level. "We're talking about four poor people sharing a car."

Lol wtf are people waiting for, seriously?
#exitcapitalism

Now that the GOP has destroyed the Democrats and taken over the system forever (all the Dems are going to do from here is move further to the right, not the left), we need to reject that system even harder and organize better to create a more sane one through things like mutual aid, value-driven worker-owned businesses, communal living, retirement homes that double as childcare facilities, participation in worldwide barter systems, etc. It's time to just say no.

Hello people who don't know me at all, I write a weekly music review column for Hippo Press, and this is what kicked it off last week, some love for a lady who plays classical stuff on really old recorders and how some weirdo on Facebook gave her a hard time

Worried about how sucky Thanksgiving's going to be with your family? Here, somebody read this, that'd be great.
https://ericsaeger.medium.com/thanksgiving-guide-for-leftists-trump-voting-npcs-have-run-out-of-excuses-so-dont-bother-cbc2fb742d4a

Maybe start not relying on the fan clubs of vapid clueless celebrities to win you your power, Dems

Today's free article: How we voted to crash the system and how we can build on that momentum.
https://link.medium.com/4zhIE8XvmOb

Happy Halloween, I typed another thing for my Medium, this time about that little election thingamajig! (Not paywalled at all because why bother.)

Why I’ll (Possibly) Vote For Stein, All Rights Reserved, Void where Prohibited https://link.medium.com/Rf26J3g78Nb

Putting this in your tasty tasty coffee because you didn't Like my last 10 posts

Hello, the two people on this app who remember me! I wrote a new piece about covid and the anti-mask Nazi army, go support it, that'd be great! Non paywalled! Smart and funny!
https://ericsaeger.medium.com/understanding-the-stupid-covid-anti-masking-battle-a-short-story-8ab5f1429cdd

Yay, I put an excerpt from my new book on dumb old Medium, not paywalled, totally free. Check it out baby, it's rad and antiestablishment etc!
https://ericsaeger.medium.com/book-excerpt-my-year-in-the-online-left-class-division-in-leftist-politics-1f4d1f0f3f65