Journalists always make it in the top five or so on those lists of professions with highest numbers of people who are above average in terms of sociopathic traits, so…

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

“When this is all over” will there be a maga recovery movement, in which ex-cultists express contrition for falling for the endless bullshit of an odious conman and for succumbing to their own racism, greed, and other ugliest tendencies, ask for forgiveness, work to repair what they helped break…?

Was thinking about how FB took something genuinely sacred — friendship, the ppl we care about and love in all their complexity, and made it, or tried to make it into this gross, commodified, mechanized, hyper-controlled and walled-in world with no privacy. The tech freaks try to do that w everything

This year is the first time in my life I’ve used words like that sans irony

I hate this world

Need to do some more human sacrifice on behalf of our pedophile god

Thank you for writing this, it is extremely good.

Naive question but, seriously WHY is she doing this? Why would anyone do this?? Money? Her depressing career in the right-wing mediasphere? I just don’t get it.

Yeah imo a problem with the way it played out is it left itself open for ppl wanting to defend the status quo to make bad faith complaints regarding the conflation of lower level nuisance behavior with truly monstrous stuff, thereby muddying the waters, esp for ppl w/o direct experience of abuse

All this stuff is so creepy. It’s like boomers who have mainlined the worst of 4chan rhetoric