Bret Stephens is what happens when you fail upwards so hard and fast that any slight on you, no matter how minor, is the French Revolution coming for your head
(Which he has also compared Twitter criticism to)
(And the thing is his columns are *even worse than this stuff*)
A NYT columnist name-searched himself, got called a bedbug in a zero-RT post, emailed the guy's boss super weirdly, was found out and made fun of, quit Twitter, and went on TV to compare it to the language used by totalitarian dictators. This is *unbelievably* embarrassing stuff
There is no safer space than the right-wing media complex, which is sheltered from reality itself, and when the patients are released into the real world it's like that video where the butterfly is let go and gets eaten by a dog
Also
The right’s free speech brigade, which uses the issue to defend anything from propaganda to outright hate speech, is one more aspect of the sham that is the movement
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