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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Ezra Klein is the biggest mark on earth. His newest podcast description starts with:
Oh, thatās what the researchers tell you? Cool cool, no need to hedge any further than that, theyāre experts after all.
I listened to ezra kleinās podcast sometimes before he moved to the NYT, thought it was occasionally interesting. . every time Iāve listened to an episode itās been the most credulous shit Iāve ever heard
like, there was one episode where he interviewed a woman whose shtick was spending the whole time talking in what I can loosely call subtext about how she fucked an octopus. sheād go on about how they were ātasting each otherā and their āfluids were minglingā and such and heād just be like wow what a fascinating encounter with an alien intelligence. this went on for an hour and at no point did he seem to have a clue what was going on
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ok I looked up the transcript and these were the most spicy bits, which in my memory had come to dominate the whole episode
EDIT: her shtick does not seem to have been confined to this interview
another day volunteering at the octopus museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the octopus. buddy,
@blakestacey @sc_griffith my āNo I did not fuck the octopusā t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
buddy,
the answer is yes
Has Klezra Ein ever used the term āuseful idiotā?
Reminds me of this gem from Ezra a few years back about the politics of fear (buddy, you bought into the politics of fear with your support for the Iraq War)