@SkylerB97 Absolutely. We've witnessed a critical literacy gap in the community that can't be solely blamed on the children. It's time for an intervention not "oh, so kids should be able to read out the womb." Please, be serious.
@DanielCarterMMA@queensofbravo "Just took a quick gander through your feed. You can just say you hate white people and any objective opinion that doesn’t agree with your clearly anti-white viewpoint. Go cry victim more. I’m sure you’re happy with that!"
ALL HE NEEDS IS A WHITE HOOD TO COMPLETE THE LOOK.
Noah Hawley attended Jeff Bezos's private Campfire retreat in 2018. His wife broke her wrist. He told Bezos directly - not as complaint, just as human information from one husband and father to another. Bezos looked horrified, an aide materialized instantly, and he was whisked away.
No "I'm so sorry." No "do you need anything." Just escape.
Hawley's thesis in The Atlantic is not that the ultra-wealthy are evil. It is something more precise and more unsettling: that moral reasoning develops through consequences, and the environment of extreme wealth systematically removes consequences from a person's life. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, fire anyone who disagrees with you, and exist in a social circle entirely composed of people who need something from you - the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.
This is different from classic narcissism, which typically masks insecurity. What Hawley is describing is something rarer: a self-definition in which the individual has genuinely grown to the size of the universe and the universe has contracted to fit. Elon Musk calling empathy "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Trump asked about checks on his power saying the only thing that could stop him was his own morality. Peter Thiel concluding that freedom and democracy are incompatible.
These are not poses. They are the logical endpoint of a psychology shaped by years of operating in a world that never pushed back.
The Bezos encounter is the piece's sharpest detail because it is so small. He was not cruel. He was not contemptuous. He simply could not locate, in that moment, the impulse to respond like a person who understood that another person's wrist hurt.
@realitytvplease@chancislashay They expected the white knight/damsel-in-distress angle to absolve their actions. It's not turning out that way and they're scrambling.
@gladiatorinpink They've been in a 10 year relationship where he has berated and been verbally abusive to her. Especially this season. Given this current scandal, the heat is off of him and it behooves him to play supportive, rather than scorned.
The difference between the two photos is that the Vogue cover is an editorial, meaning the photographer made the conscious choice to curate a racist caricature of a black man, whereas the Israeli settler simply Just Looks Like That.
This whole controversy around the L’Espresso cover is reminding me how much I held my tongue as a teenager, afraid that I would sound crazy if I repeated what I saw settlers doing. For example, one of the Jewish settlers who lived in the stolen half (yes, half) of our house in Jerusalem would repeatedly do unspeakable, perverted things to a German Shepherd they kept in the house. Whenever international activists came to visit, I'd tell them that the settlers beat the dog, which was true, but I often omitted the part about the sexual abuse--something about naming it outright made me feel dirty, as if complicit (I was also very young) until one day the settler did it while two European activists were present. He most likely wanted to be watched. A couple days later, there was a graffiti on our wall that said something like "settlers are very, very strange people."
The way Israeli settlers are depicted in the media is, in fact, very often understated. I assume people worry about coming across as conspiratorial or bigoted, so they often hesitate to report the full extent of such depravity. But at the end of the day, it is really not our problem that many Jewish settlers are quite frankly caricatures of themselves.
@BravoByKaeleb Yes. Amanda, West & Jessie are so profoundly disposable. The rest of the cast would be fine and thrive into a new gen of Summer House.