Imagine how much happier the world would be if he realized how hard he’s working just to suppress a fetish.

“If you displease me, I can make you homeless and remove job opportunities for you” is the precise opposite of an aphrodisiac for me.

Olbermann is out here going “just so you know, I found that exact situation incredibly arousing. Especially since she couldn’t even vote when I started grooming her”

I absolutely can’t imagine trying to sleep with, let alone be in a relationship with, a teenager. When I have wanted a partner…that’s what I want. An equal. Shit, a superior.

How could that happen with a teenager? They’d be almost entirely reliant upon me. Wouldn’t every disagreement terrify them?

Yeah, dude is being really fucking weird about the whole thing. Like he is expecting an endless parade of high-fives for fucking a teenager. No doubt he got used to that type of validation…and it’s one thing to like it, but…yikes.

He seems just absolutely desperate for it (and attention generally).

In any even, we now have two people ostensibly employed to report on important matters, to keep people informed. Both of them were, and very clearly still are, prepared to see people die in service of them achieving fame and fortune. The world is worse because they exits, and I hope they know that.

Maybe it was never different, other than the fact that there was a little more decorum and all this is just what happens when that gets removed. But I don’t believe that. I think at some point, there was sufficient shame and standards that Lizza and Nuzzi would never have been allowed to sniff fame.

All journalism is reliant on access. But even when I was young, in entertainment journalism that reliance seemed so obvious. Can’t get an advance copy of a game? Well, you get a late review. Can’t get into a locker room? No interviews with the star players. But “real” journalism just felt different.

Sometimes it feels like television (and later, the internet) may have actually broken journalism in some pretty irreparable ways. Like it rubbed away at the division between celebrity and politician and fundamentally broken how the average person thinks about politics or engages with media about it.

You know the economy is getting worse when people have to start cutting back on pixels this hard.

We (humanity) can and do! It’s crazy expensive, but there are places you can go around the world to buy printed meat, at restaurants or grocery stores.

Here’s a primer:

“No really debatable”. Sir this is Bluesky.

Like if you gonna come out swinging and telling somebody that apple pie is bullshit, you gotta expect that someone will point out the average cheesecake tastes like cold feet dusted with graham cracker crumbs. The key is not screaming at the nice lady just saying she thinks key lime pie is better.

Sick burn, I don’t know how I’ll ever recover from some angry little weirdo yelling at me that they’d have flunked me in high school

That is, for the record, what I would have assumed, too.

I don’t trust that the international media would care (they certainly don’t seem to cover settlers murdering people with any regularity). But selling land that isn’t (yet) cleared did sound extraordinary. I just hoped you had more than doubt.

So when I said “ are you relying on what you consider “common sense” about such groups work?”, the answer was “yes” but uou chose to be weird about it

You don’t have any specific data on this group , but you believe the circumstantial evidence is sufficient to conclusively state it isn’t happening.

I’ll take your word that when you said “no one is currently being forced off their land”, you were not speaking generally, despite appearances. I’ll take your word that you only meant to claim that nobody is currently being moved off their land for these specific auctions.

But how do you know that?

If I wanted to argue, I wouldn’t have said it was curiosity.

You’ve made a positive assertion that the auctions don’t work a particular way. I am asking you how you know that. Have you looked at these listings? Are you basing it on this specific groups’ past actions? Is it just your educated guess?

And that’s genuine curiosity. Are you aware of the specific plots being sold by this group and comparing them to where the violence has been recently? Is it based on what plots they usually sell or their historical behavior? Are you relying on what you consider “common sense” about such groups work?

I mean, it confirms that it was a good idea for me to have it either as you believing something bad OR that you phrased something poorly, but given that the problem seems to be the latter, it’s not really an acknowledgment.