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   A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (juliusgoat@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 10:34:20 JST A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆

   Well, it looks like we've had another year. We got it fresh and now it's blown all to hell. We just keep having those things whether anyone thinks it's a good idea or not; and it looks almost certain now that in a few days we're going to have another one.

   https://www.the-reframe.com/annual-round-up-2024/

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     I've got an essay teed up about that capitulation; a follow-up to last week's post about the murderous scam that is my nation's founding myth. And, because I can only stare at the eye of Sauron so long at a time, I'll do another palate-cleansing LOST recap soon.

     https://www.the-reframe.com/a-system-built-to-eat-people-never-stops-eating/

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     But that's what's ahead. Right now I'm looking back at the year that was.

     I did a lot of writing on here, it turns out, and some of it I still like OK. So here are six essays from 2024 that I think are best.

     Jay Baker repeated this.
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     In January, I wrote about my decision to move The Reframe off Substack, which is a platform I quite liked and upon which I had enjoyed quite a bit of success. I lay out the reasons here (Nazis, mostly). https://www.the-reframe.com/hello-i-must-be-going/

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     And I published my second book, the essay collection VERY FINE PEOPLE, with the help of all of you nice people, especially the patrons who support me at the level I still for some reason (laziness) call Founding, some 3 years after the founding. https://www.the-reframe.com/a-very-fine-publication-date/

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     And everyone in my life stayed healthy, and there was no water damage to my house, which isn't always the case in every year. Not bad!

     However, in many ways, this year was not a great one here for decent people in my country of the United States of America, and even less great in many other places.

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     For example, we had a slow seemingly inevitable crawl toward electoral defeat to some of the most horrible people the universe has ever produced, abetted at least in part by Democratic unwillingness to stop providing military and political support to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

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     And now we're witnessing a near total capitulation by our national institutions to the incompetent oligarchical American fascist party that will be taking the reins in a few weeks. This is a gang of empty-souled corrupt thugs and sex-obsessed bigoted religious creeps, and man fuck those guys I says.

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     One good thing about this year is that for the first time in the history of the newsletter, I'm not announcing a move to some other site, and that is a considerable relief. Also, I spent the entirety of this year on the sunny side of 50, though I imagine the upcoming post-50 side is sunny enough.