Thread by @brooklynmarie

If only there had been someone out there warning people for years that this was the plan

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1447907698700427276

Ah well, no way anybody could have known

Democratic institutions, what do they even mean? ask mainstream journalists with furrowed brows, both-sidesing their own industry's destruction so they can get attaboys from shitty right-wingers

One of the worst things about being a seminar kid in the 1980s is that they told you that you were going to grow up to save the world, but not a single one of those gentle hippies thought to warn any of us that being a brainiac only gets you so far if you're a Woman With Thoughts

So, like, if you see something horrible coming and do your best to warn everyone about it, you just get accused of wanting to fuck techbros or some stupid bullshit, or your boss gropes you at his own wedding before firing you publicly and taking credit for all your work.

And here we are!

By the way, that's why I say sexism is a massive security failure. Imagine if all the women raising alarms over the last five to ten years hadn't been largely ignored or smeared or otherwise intimidated or drowned out by shitty, self-serving pundits and "researchers"

Imagine where we would be if we hadn't allowed reporters with a clear anti-woman bias to cover politicians and other public figures who aren't men. It badly affects their reporting and credibility, but since newsrooms are majority white and male, it's seen as "objectivity"