Well, Here We Are Again, Yanks: A Foreigner's Perspective on What You're About to Do

S Peter Davis

Oct 26, 2024 — 8 min read

All right, America, here we are again. I guess we’re fucking doing this. It’s October 2016 again and it’s back to coin-flip odds between sanity and madness.

I often find myself hoping that my talking about American politics so much doesn’t count as foreign election interference because, for those new subscribers who don’t know, I don’t live in America nor am I an American citizen. I’m extremely online and the politics of my own country bores me. But that’s exactly the issue—I want it to stay that way and you guys are threatening my right to live in a country where we rightly shun anyone who’s interested in politics as insufferable and frankly kind of suspicious.

Americans, I need you to help me write less about politics by stopping the infection at its root—your flirtation with fascism. That’s right, I said the F-word.

My subscribers come from all over the world including my corner of the map but statistically almost all of y’all are from the USA. My paying subscribers who see this a week before everyone else, you are the smartest and handsomest of my subscribers so I know you’re going to do the right thing but you still have over a week left to make sure you do all you need to do, and I know this is something that takes a lot of time and preparation and bureaucracy because your system is fucked. Next Friday I’ll treat you to something nice like another rant about AI or something.

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