Dark State

The thing I love most about the internet is that it is completely and utterly devoid of any shred of mercy. Time was, back in the days before Albert Gore gifted us with his brainchild, (because that's how it happened. ARPANET? Whazzat?), a person or even an entire government could do really stupid shit and only a comparative handful of people would ever find out. The press would close ranks around their fellow idiots, the rumors traveling the grapevine would eventually peter out, and it would all just quietly fade away into that place where human stupidity goes while it waits to be reborn.

But not today, sir.

No, if you shit your pants in public in the good old Twenty-First century, everyone knows all about it 3.5 seconds later, and you will be ridiculed until you're a quivering, blubbery pile of post-human emotional destruction, stripped of your dignity and whimpering in fear as you anticipate the next lash of the electronic whip.

So suck it up, CaliCommies. You made this bed for yourselves.