i’m so torn over this Glenn Greenwald stuff

on the one hand, i genuinely believe in personal liberty and privacy. consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want. period. no victim, case closed

but on the other hand… something in me short-circuits when i see behavior that unhinged and try to pretend it has zero bearing on someone’s mental model and worldview

like, i want to believe that you can be a brilliant, high-functioning journalist and also get filmed licking another man’s feet while wearing a maid costume. but somewhere deep in my gut, i just don’t buy it

not bc i care about the kink itself—but bc it suggests a way of relating to the world that feels… off

bc what you do in private still reveals what you believe about control, hierarchy, selfhood, reality—and that belief system doesn’t just disappear when you sit down to do journalist things

the question isn’t “is this morally wrong?”
it’s “how does a mind justify this to itself—and what else might that same logic excuse?”

it’s not about kink-shaming. it’s about pattern recognition.
bc at a certain point, the architecture of a person’s private compulsions has to leak into how they process truth, power, boundaries, meaning

when someone’s private behavior looks like a direct collision with their public values i start to question the coordinates

and for some reason no one really wants to say that out loud

but i can’t stop thinking it all i see is people defending him which surprises me bc it's the same people who have no problem calling out depravity when it comes to trans discourse

and that's really rubbing me the wrong way

10 (more) ideas that pushed me from the Left to the Right 🧵

topics discussed:
— cancel culture & free speech
— meritocracy vs. DEI
— immigration policies
— misattribution of credit for major innovations
— wealth, philanthropy, and the "pay your fair share" rhetoric
— Big Tech censorship
— men in women's sports
— Oct 7th attacks on Israel
— the Left's 'branding'
— "white men are bad" (but they marry them anyway) 1/10 cancel culture & free speech 🚩

cancel culture is out of control, suppressing diverse viewpoints and punishing people for holding unpopular opinions

look at what happened to J.K. Rowling—she voiced her views on gender identity, and despite her contributions to literature, she was swiftly ostracized

it's not about accountability anymore—it's a modern-day witch hunt that stifles open dialogue and intellectual discourse

we have been breeding a culture of fear, not freedom—where intellectual discourse is replaced by echo chambers

when people are scared to speak up, society loses the vibrant exchange of ideas that drives progress

over the course of the last decade there have been some key events that pushed me from the Left to the Right 🧵

from Hillary 2016
to Biden 2020
to Trump 2024

let's unpack it by exploring these 10 examples: red flag #1 🚩

Aziz Ansari and the Fallibility of the MeToo Movement

MeToo came in hot—the Aziz Ansari incident was a turning point for me—Aziz's career was nearly destroyed over what amounted to a bad date

the fervor with which the MeToo movement was pushed, often without nuance or due process, became increasingly unsettling

it felt as though we were sacrificing individual reputations on the altar of a broader agenda, disregarding the complexity of human interactions and the need for a fair assessment of each situation