I’ve read 12 of Vonnegut’s books. He is fundamentally a social progressive, but there are also some moments in some 70s novels (particularly Breakfast of Champions) that I find homophobic. He also has a habit of making women either passive pleasers or full nutso.

But he also explicitly and repeatedly pushes kindness, egalitarian social justice, and willingness to change.

I highly highly recommend every human read Mother Night.

That’s not his views… that’s from an essay where he’s parodying the mainstream ultrasimplification of political alignment.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cold-turkey

You left out some language that I think clears up his ironic tone:

If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal.

If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative.

What could be simpler?

Totally changes it, doesn’t it?

He also said his fatal mistake was making one of the tools too closely resemble a saw

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Olive olives

I mean, yeah. You never make a glue glove?

Someone explain ballplay to me

No footlongs!

Alan Moore is right. Epson = Enron + piss

This guy is cool as shit

Semafor

Propublica

Slate

Vox

undefined> Use this to search for a community in order to subscribe. You can omit the bang (‘!’), but then you will only find the community if another lemming of your home instance has already discovered it. To discover it, you have to bang it.

In short, searching for !com@ins.tance is like searching for com@ins.tance with added functionality and no downsides (as far as I’m aware of, still learning).

This is very important for lemmings on small instances. Lemmings on big instances often don’t need to use the bang, because someone else from their home instance has likely already discovered.

I feel like I’m in the 1990s trying to set up everything through a VCR

I am angry at the very notion that a tamale could be a noodle.