The Year Villainy Won
Briefly

"In a repressive society such as ours that champions conformity to better cultivate consumers, characters who actively reject the trappings of capitalist fantasia... will inevitably be appealing in ways we may not all wish to openly admit."
"There are few, if any, villains who so deftly combine clownery, wealth, and power like Donald Trump," Wynter adds. "Even his newest parasitic attachment, Elon Musk-who... for others a swashbuckling futurist cowboy."
"I'm mad that everything about the internet that was fun & useful 10 years ago is broken now. this site, obviously," Tracy Chou, an app developer, posted on X.
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