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Spaceman Spiff Dec 9, 2024

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥

The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?

🗳️ Voting is now open: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

#tech #techwontsaveus #siliconvalley

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

TECH OLIGARCH vs SMARTPHONE MONOPOLIST

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

MUSK’S ANGELS: ANTI-WOKE CRUSADER vs SPACEX COVERUP QUEEN

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

AI ARMS SALESMAN vs FRIEND OF SURVEILLANCE STATE

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

TECH FOR WAR: PALANTIR vs ANDURIL

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

PAWN OF THE VALLEY vs PROPHET OF TECH ACCELERATIONISM

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

VC FACEOFF: A16Z vs SOFTBANK

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

SHORT TERM LET BARON vs UBER(IZATION) FOR EVERYONE

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

TRUMP CRYPTO CZAR vs CRYPTO ELECTION FUNDER

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

RIVALS: TECH FASCIST vs LINA KHAN HATER

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

AI WARS: GOOGLE vs MICROSOFT

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

CONTENT BATTLE: NETFLIX vs SPOTIFY

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

SOCIAL FACE OFF: META vs TIKTOK

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

CLASH OF THE PHILANTHROCAPITALISTS

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

CRASH & BURN: 23&ME vs WORDPRESS

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

RIGHT-WING SHOPIFY HEAD vs MASTER OF THE GPUs

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Paris Marx Dec 9, 2024

LOSS-FUNDED MONOPOLIST: AMAZON vs OPENAI

Vote now: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs

Khrys Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Please don't spam us with those forms.gle shits 🙏

webhat Dec 13, 2024

@Khrys @parismarx should you have used Mastodon's polling capabilities?

yes

41.2%

also yes

58.8%

Poll ended at Dec 14, 2024 at 10:13am.

Tim W RESISTS Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx someone once said something good about Satya, which is more than I can say about Sundar...

ジギーくん Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Dog disguised as a human vs. real life Patrick Star 🤭

Sören Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx fuck, this one is hard 👿

Maarten Pelgrim Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Musk, hands down.

@parismarx Wow. This series of Worst in Tech cards -- with all red background -- is very effective. Just eww, one after another. 😿

@parismarx right i'm not going to call it just yet, but also, calling it now

Rusty Corgi Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx I'd love to drag Tim Cook and his evil "let's have kids with green bubbles get bullied into getting an iPhone and lock more people into our prison of an ecosystem" company, but Space Fascist Karen is too easy of a pick here.

blobfoxfloof_w_

Prof. Catherine Flick Dec 9, 2024

Nelson Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx This is easy, Elon Musk is the worst because he's the richest. If every billionaire is a policy failure, then Elon is the biggest policy failure doing the most damage.

Aris Adamantiadis

💲Paid Dec 9, 2024

@skyfaller @parismarx when Gates was the richest man on the planet, he still wasn't 1/10th as bad as Elon today. Musk put a lot of effort to be hated as he is now.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Dec 9, 2024

@skyfaller He also sells burning cars and gave up a quarter of a billion dollars to elect a bag of diarrhea.

:ulfr:Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Where can I vote for this being held as an actual Battle Royale except first prize is a Vlad Tepes spa treatment? /s

nicolas ⁂Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx It needs a Google account to vote, which I don’t have :( There is an option you can switch somewhere in the form preferences though, that let people without Google accounts to participate.

nicolas ⁂Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Also, small suggestion, could be worth having the first post only as Public, and the rest as Unlisted/Quiet. Otherwise it feels a little spammy with the same link in each, and not everyone wants to see these people’s faces so prominently and numerously. People are free to then boost on their own the specific duel posts they want to share :)

noahm Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Can I just vote for all of them?

Kill cars for climate!Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Can I take part if I do not have a google account somehow?

Theis Holtz Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx are you really forcing us to login to Google in order to participate?

Dr Johnny Blanchard Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx it says something about how bad it’s all got when Bill Gates was the easiest person NOT to vote for

Log 🪵Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx The PayPal Mafia really cleans up in this seeding.

MrJackson Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx How is Hock Tan not in this?

Bruno Girin Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx some of those brackets are really hard to choose!

Dave Goldsmith Dec 9, 2024

Can we forgo the formalities and just admit Musk is the worse person? PERIOD!

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx feel like Musk is going walk this what with paying all that money to be in the White House, but we shall see....

Mark Kirschstein Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx you just know the final is going to be Musk vs Thiel

deBaer Dec 9, 2024

@markkirschstein I'm rooting for the Zuck to battle it out with Space Karen in the finale, cage-fight style.

Shortman Dec 9, 2024

@markkirschstein @parismarx and in this game I will support…… the referee

unexpectedteapot Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx there is irony in forcing others to use Google to participate in the shitpost. Not the funny kind.

Anthony Sorace Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx @jonn_blanchard It’s ironic you’d put Sundar Pichai on the list and still require a google login to vote. You could just, um, not do that. Please reconsider.

Professor_Stevens Dec 9, 2024

I'm kind of stunned that not only do I know who most of these people are by name, but by the realization that the main reason I know their names is that they are all such colossal assholes.

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx It is intentionally ironic that this is hosted on Google, right?

Zapotecorum Dec 9, 2024

@larsmb @parismarx
I wish it was. I see more and more people, even tech critics so entrenched in the Google ecosystem that they don't even see this irony. It's a bad joke.

Zapotecorum Dec 9, 2024

@larsmb @parismarx
At least Sundar Pichai is on the list. Maybe all voting for him sends a message? But with the cognitive bias of people already having a Google account I doubt that is gonna get far.

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Dec 9, 2024

@Zapotecorum @parismarx Blaming people for having Google accounts is like blaming individual consumer choices for climate change.

Claude Dec 9, 2024

@larsmb and one has to log in to Google to vote... Ludicrous. @parismarx

2xfo Dec 9, 2024

@larsmb @parismarx

I do not open Google docs. That's a security boundary i don't cross

hko 😷🪁Dec 9, 2024

@larsmb @parismarx this reminds me of my mix of tiredness and bafflement that the big anti-big-tech podcasts organize community on discord *sigh*

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Dec 9, 2024

@hko Individual options vs systemic issues. Plus lowering the barrier for people not yet as invested.
I'm very annoyed by it myself as well, but then I'm also typing this reply on a Google Pixel.

RRB Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx Peter Thiel hands down.

aproposnix Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx maybe we can just stop having personality fetishes full stop?

@parismarx Friends don’t surrender their friends to TheGuglmonster.

Gay Antifa Leftist Dec 9, 2024

@parismarx i would vote if i didn't need a google account