CitizenKong

Yep, zumal Putins Cyberkrieg Social Media zur effektiven Waffe gemacht hat, während viele westliche Politiker (zumindest viele deutsche) wahrscheinlich schon bei E-Mails struggeln.

I think it being a normal book on the outside is actually scarier. The knowledge in the book was dangerous, not the object itself.

I would never open the Book of the Dead from Evil Dead but I might open the Necronomicon if I find it at an antique bookstore or something.

I don't think there has ever been a Western democracy that was better off due to conservative politics, only worse.

As an example, take Germany, which had over 30 years of almost uninterrupted conservative leadership (including 16 years of Merkel) and is now serious lagging behind in digitalization, modern infrastructure, military, social services, education and more.

Privatisierte Polizei? Wie soll das funktionieren? Ich bezahle regelmäßig Geld, sonst wird mir nicht geholfen? Das gibt es schon, heisst Mafia.

Well, normal is a stretch. It was still forbidden to read and written by a madman in his own blood, driving anyone reading it at least partially insane.

Lovecraft was basing it on The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers. The character itself also appears in the Lovecraft pantheon as Hastur.

Speaking as a German who was attentive in history class, yes, as paradoxical as it sounds, the current government should fight tooth and nail ro remain in control and don't simply relinquish power to the Republicans should Trump win. Although that in itself would be undemocratic, it would also be the last resort to save democracy ironically.

The alternative will be a fascist government that will immediately start to dismantle democracy and persecute the opposition, a.k.a. "the enemy within". I personally would rather not see the superpower with the world's largest military turn into an autocracy.

And that's not even taking into account the effect it would have on climate change, which would become even worse instead of getting at least mitigated. (Democratic societies have no choice but to act as soon as public pressure becomes too high, which it will within the next years. Autocratic societies however can just double down on propaganda and oppression and carry on burning fossil fuels.)

Like his illfitting suit and his terrible make-up I'm fairly certain that he is convinced it looks best that way and he only surrounds himself with people that never contradict him for pretty much his entire life.

Righfully so, there is a lot a domestic violence against butlers in those games.

Things maybe getting better vs. things definitely getting way worse.

It's a pretty obvious choice.

Also a concerted effort by Putin, who is not only likely the real richest man on Earth but also the head of a fascist country that wants to destroy the very idea of democracy around the world.

If you can call that quickly decaying mush a "mind".

In case of TOS, they literally pitched it as a kind of Western but in space to the studios due to the popularity of the genre on TV (both DeForest Kelly and Shatner had also already appeared in Western serials).