The rhetoric surrounding these survivalist items is starting to be a bit worrisome. Apparently they have decided that their customers are survivalists, therefore Trump supporters; certainly not “liberals.” I feel like I have been thrown out of the customer-base.
If this was really made in America, that means that someone was employed making it.
Some of the vendors I have occasionally done business with, appear to have decided they’re going to send me a big email every day for several days, with new “black friday” offers.
My spam-box announced “Collectible Trump Silver Coin.”
Someone who cares about bitcoin more than I do checked the transaction history for the bitcoin wallet provided by the “hacker gang” and it doesn’t look like they have collected any bitcoin with this scam.
My spam-inbox is a microcosm of American fear and delusion. And tactical stuff. My spam-inbox is very, very tactical.
When you travel a lot, you get bombarded for ads for watches – big chunky expensive awkward things you can wear around your wrist to snag on machinery. Some of them look like something James Bond would wear.
The people who read and believe this stuff are the foundation of American anti-intellectualism. And they vote:
For this one, I had an illustration in mind. Unfortunately, I cannot find the object I planned to use to illustrate it, so you’re just going to have to use your imagination.
The spambots that have been filling stderr’s comment-spam queue sometimes leave me effusive praise. Naturally, I take the praise seriously while rejecting any reasoned critique from real people.