So, this sucks.
There’s this podcast coming out with allegations against Gaiman, and their audience + affiliations are both pretty sketchy (the responses to their Twitter post were full of “of course a ~*~trans activist~*~ would abuse women”), so at first I was all “okay, it’s not that this couldn’t be bad, but I’m gonna sit back and wait for more information to shake out before I start having feelings about it.”
2022:
“A flight attendant for SpaceX said Elon Musk asked her to “do more” during a massage, documents show. The billionaire founder exposed his penis to her and offered to buy her a horse, according to claims in a declaration.”
December 2023:
“The lead contamination in recalled cinnamon applesauce pouches that potentially poisoned at least 65 children may have been intentional, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.” Not intentional poisoning, but intentional cost-cutting.
“Bar:PM’s other co-owner, James Pence, spoke to the RFT this morning and said that it was the police who came at bar staff aggressively, even beyond the fact they drove an SUV into their business.”
“The woman referred to as “Witness 1” in Taake’s FBI affidavit has previously recalled how “comically minimal ego-stroking” from her led Trump supporters to give her information about their activities on Jan. 6. […] Her strategy, she said, was to say, “Wow, crazy, tell me more,” on repeat until guys gave her enough to send their information to the FBI.”
“It’s an open secret in fashion. Unsold inventory goes to the incinerator; excess handbags are slashed so they can’t be resold; perfectly usable products are sent to the landfill to avoid discounts and flash sales. The European Union wants to put an end to these unsustainable practices. On Monday, it banned the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear.”
January 2024:
“I’m a pediatrician, so I didn’t expect to be of great use in a war zone. I’m disheartened and really disturbed to say that I had many, many pediatric patients who were war-wounded, burned orphans, traumatic amputations, and that is something different than what I witnessed in Iraq, or elsewhere.”
“The BBC has now spoken to these young women about the escalation in suspicious activity they observed, the reports they filed, and what they saw as a lack of response from senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers. […] To some of them it became a dark joke: who would be on duty when the inevitable attack came?”
March 2024:
Remarks by President Biden at the Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner: “Our big plan to cancel student debt doesn’t apply to everyone. Just yesterday, a defeated-looking man came up to me and said, “I’m being crushed by debt. I’m completely wiped out.” I said, “Sorry, Donald, I can’t help you.””
June 2020: “Word spread quickly. Angry commenters railed against antifa rioters supposedly funded by George Soros. They zoomed in on the word “murder” painted on the bus, though overlooking the words “stop ‘legal’” that preceded it.”
January 2022: “The plan initially called for Trump’s wall to be built right through [the butterfly sanctuary], but in 2020 a federal appeals court in Texas ruled that the work violated the center’s property rights. And it was the center’s refusal to make way for the border wall that has led to online conspiracy theories about its role in supposed child sex trafficking.”
June 2022: “I knew my mother was young. At that time, when I was 8 or 9, my mother was in her mid-20s. I remember the shocked expressions on the other parents’ faces when my mother showed up to chaperone her first field trip. It was different, but not shameful. Not to me. Not yet. ”
July 2022: “Reproductive rights advocates have long warned that women would die if abortion were banned again—that children would be forced to give birth to their rapists’ babies. I’ve been covering abortion rights for over a decade, and I expected these horrifying, dystopian stories to trickle out over the next six months to maybe a year…”
September 2022: “But a pinko, commie libtard saw him and took pity on him. He clothed him, and fed him, and sheltered him. He brought him to an immigration lawyer and said ‘Look after him. When I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'”
August 2023: “I can’t comprehend saying that, especially not to a child trafficking survivor. I don’t understand why fans of the movie would rather listen to Tim Ballard than actual trafficking survivors,” Boyd said. “But the problem is that solutions to human trafficking and child trafficking are not exciting like an action movie.”
December 2023: “There were a lot of earnest people whose outrage was in good faith — these were people who simply didn’t understand my tweets and had become the victims of the context collapse to which Twitter is particularly prone. But even if these confused souls weren’t actually outnumbered, they were definitely getting out-tweeted by guys with folders full of Nazi memes.”
“Despite audits finding no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, Donald Trump allegedly pressured Georgia officials to meddle with ballots and spread conspiracy theories about the election’s validity. The Onion examines everything Trump did in Georgia to try to overturn the 2020 election.“
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