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A cowboy-hatted, tuxedoed, cigar-smoking Ronald Reagan sits at a coffin/table with the angel of death, which is gesticulating wildly. Reagan holds a green Monopoly house; several more, and a hotel, rest on the coffin before him. The hazy edges of the scene give way to a sepia-tinted, vintage aerial photo of the Levittown suburbs.

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A cowboy-hatted, tuxedoed, cigar-smoking Ronald Reagan sits at a coffin/table with the angel of death, which is gesticulating wildly. Reagan holds a green Monopoly house; several more, and a hotel, rest on the coffin before him. The hazy edges of the scene give way to a sepia-tinted, vintage aerial photo of the Levittown suburbs.
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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:35:45 JST Cory Doctorow
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The underlying image is another Keppler, showing death flamboyantly dicing with a millionaire. I added in an official (hence public domain) Reagan portrait, some monopoly houses, and a vintage aerial photo of Levittown, halftoned to disguise scaling artifacts.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/24/i-dream-of-gini/#mean-ole-mr-median
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