Clearly the last years have shown that there's a robust demographic ready to do business with them

That was a little exhausting to read

I don't know this Pivtorak guy. Is this satire or real?

Yup. And the default reaction of the masses is to adjust, which allows extremists quite a lot of rope to move things in their desired direction

That's a nice looking cell. In the context of America, it might not be selling the point you wanted to make

West of Loathing. Timeless.

The thing is we could largely retain all our advances and live in a more fecund environment. A large portion of our pollution is unnecessary and tied to whatever you call this global economic system / social paradigm we've backed ourselves into. It's only either or between forest and urban blight because we've made it so

Well that's a happy note on which to end this day

(Well written though, thank you)

Interestingly, on Gaiman and attribution, he came out with a graphic novel, The Books of Magic, with a main character very similar to Harry Potter. This was 7 years prior to Rowlings publishing the first book. His response to that similarity was equally charitable, chalking it to creators tapping into the same unconscious material. Dude seems to have integrity. I could see another person grousing at the parallels between the two.

...what's the explanation for someone who's into baseball?

Edit: It's sad that I can't tell if the two responses provided are legit or not

Edit 2: Oh, it really was bees https://lemm.ee/comment/11799043

At one point the officer jokes: “I’ve always wanted to be in a bar fight. I don’t know if this counts.”

A few things to unpack, right there

I'm not surprised to hear that the protests are being mischaracterized; every countering message helps. Glad this person spoke up