Less remarked upon, but no less dispositive, was the negative reaction to Matt Yglesias joining BlueSky. A lot of people made it clear they didn't want his kind of left-of-center, policy wonk filth on their clean and pure platform.
I listen to Singal's podcast and the thing about him is that he perfectly encapsulates the archetype of the standard Obama lib that has one 'wrong' opinion, which causes progressives and lib progressives to hate him worse than they hate any conservative. Honestly, the biggest difference between far left violent threats and far right ones is that far left ones prefer to talk about hammers and walls, where far right ones will tell you the model of gun they will use to shoot you.
That said Jesse is a bit neurotic when it comes to demanding corrections and the cross posting between Twitter and bluesky is sort of shit stirring in my opinion.Even by just plain reacting to the threats, he's feeding the trolls, whether he knows it or not. I think Ken White had a fair assessment that you can't go to an area claiming to be in good faith when the end result is you mining one site for content to post on another, even if that wasn't the original intent.
On the other side, there are so many people in his comments that are still mad at him for respecting people's preferred pronouns. And his conservative fans were ready to drop him for his resist lib posting during the election.
Singal is certainly a bit of a shit-stirrer and a drama queen, but I have legions of people posting fantasies about torturing and killing me I don't think I'd be nearly as sanguine as he has been. If the worst thing you do to people who accuse you of being a pedo is give them an occasional, online, poke in the eye, that's OK by me.
Moreover, you have to give him credit for diving deep into the trans issue and remaining relatively sane. I don't what it is about transgender stuff, but it seems to drive people on either side of the fence seriously crazy.
An I the only person who thinks it's possible that Luigi Mangione follows AOC simply because he's a 26-year-old guy and she's hot and famous?
Many such cases!
Shame on jeremiah for demanding the weaker salsa
Less remarked upon, but no less dispositive, was the negative reaction to Matt Yglesias joining BlueSky. A lot of people made it clear they didn't want his kind of left-of-center, policy wonk filth on their clean and pure platform.
I listen to Singal's podcast and the thing about him is that he perfectly encapsulates the archetype of the standard Obama lib that has one 'wrong' opinion, which causes progressives and lib progressives to hate him worse than they hate any conservative. Honestly, the biggest difference between far left violent threats and far right ones is that far left ones prefer to talk about hammers and walls, where far right ones will tell you the model of gun they will use to shoot you.
That said Jesse is a bit neurotic when it comes to demanding corrections and the cross posting between Twitter and bluesky is sort of shit stirring in my opinion.Even by just plain reacting to the threats, he's feeding the trolls, whether he knows it or not. I think Ken White had a fair assessment that you can't go to an area claiming to be in good faith when the end result is you mining one site for content to post on another, even if that wasn't the original intent.
On the other side, there are so many people in his comments that are still mad at him for respecting people's preferred pronouns. And his conservative fans were ready to drop him for his resist lib posting during the election.
Singal is certainly a bit of a shit-stirrer and a drama queen, but I have legions of people posting fantasies about torturing and killing me I don't think I'd be nearly as sanguine as he has been. If the worst thing you do to people who accuse you of being a pedo is give them an occasional, online, poke in the eye, that's OK by me.
Moreover, you have to give him credit for diving deep into the trans issue and remaining relatively sane. I don't what it is about transgender stuff, but it seems to drive people on either side of the fence seriously crazy.
100% on the green salsa. Hot Ones peaked with Conan. I am not a musical theater fan, and Ben Shapiro's take was fascinating.
I'm starting a substack and I'm naming it TPOT Dome