As for “older, powerful men”, what was she doing if not voluntarily, enthusiastically flakking for an older man born to power? If there’s a patriarchy at work here, she was gushing over it, not challenging it.

She can have as wild a sex life as she wants - it’s none of my business - as long as it doesn’t compromise the integrity of her reportage. BUT IT DID.

I don't think that's accurate. CPI y/y in January 2021 was +1.4%, which is the usual way to measure, though the annualized m/m rate was +6.0%, which shows that inflation was just starting to heat up.

Some people imagined he would do this *on their behalf*. They’re always the easiest marks.

And then when I block the account, it still appears in the search!

And they are each, as individuals, responsible for that.

I’m not claiming we are blank slates. Our own choices are conditioned on everything that came before us. But they - and the moral responsibility that comes with them - are our own.

Arguing over whether white people in the past deserve more blame for enslaving people or for ending slavery conflates a wide range of individual actions and attitudes, none of which - good or bad - were taken by any living person today. Our only choice is how to live in the world they created.

Today’s Germans didn’t murder Jews, today’s Japanese didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor, and today’s Americans didn’t land on D-Day. Of course we all inherit the world made by those who did, but we can’t take personal credit or blame for it.