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Kevin M. Kruse

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That’s an actual apology, too.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 23

MMA fighter Ronda Rousey has apologized for spreading the Sandy Hook conspiracy:

"To anyone else that's fallen down the black hole of bullshit. It doesn't make you edgy, or an independent thinker, you're not doing your due diligence entertaining every possibility by digesting these conspiracies."

I can't say how many times I've redrafted this apology over the last 11 years. How many times I've convinced myself it wasn't the right time or that I'd be causing even more damage by giving it. But eleven years ago I made the single most regrettable decision of my life. I watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it on twitter. I didn't even believe it, but was so horrified at the truth that I was grasping for an alternative fiction to cling to instead. I quickly realized my mistake and took it down, but the damage was done. By some miracle it seemingly slipped under the media's radar, I was never asked about it so I never spoke of it again, afraid that calling attention to it would have the opposite of the intended effect - it could increase the views of those conspiracy videos, and selfishly, inform even more people I was ignorant, self-absorbed, and tone deaf enough to share one in the first place. I drafted a thousandth apology to include in my last memoir, but my publish

of conspiracy bullshit by it being brought up
again just so I could try to shake the label of
being a "Sandy Hook truther".
But honestly I deserve to be hated, labeled,
detested, resented and worse for it. I deserve to
lose out on every opportunity, I should have been
canceled, I would have deserved it. I still do.
I apologize that this came 11 years too late,
but to those affected by the Sandy Hook
massacre, from the bottom of my heart and
depth of my soul I am so so sorry for the hurt I
caused. I can't even begin to imagine the pain
you've endured and words cannot describe
how thoroughly remorseful and ashamed I am
of myself for contributing to it. I've regretted it
every day of my life since and will continue to
do so until the day I die.
And to anyone else that's fallen down the black
hole of bullshit. It doesn't make you edgy, or an
independent thinker, you're not doing your due
diligence entertaining every possibility by
digesting these conspiracies.

August 23, 2024 at 5:16 PM

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew

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All day, I’ve been seeing references to the Bell Riots, and I kept meaning to google it but kept getting sidetracked, but I was SO SURE I was going to find a Wikipedia article about some historical event, but no. It’s Star Trek. It’s always fuckin Star Trek with you people.

August 31, 2024 at 4:26 AM