Because you work at the Dollar Store during the Christmas rush, and you’re spending all that remains of your mental energy looking straight ahead, concentrating on staying vertical, and hoping that nobody makes you cry today.
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I didn’t want to blow their mind & by letting them know I’m half Irish & Callahan is not my slave name..lol..so I took the ‘friendly’ way out.
The same difference that exists between a fascist and a fascist who says he’s being ‘ironically’ fascist.
The script is cartoonish enough to sound like a prank
Let’s ask The Intercept, shall we?
Yeah, this has been brewing for years and his protestations that the eXile offices were paragons of respectful professionalism are eye-rollingly laughable. Unfortunately he’s always been another member of the back-slapping Untouchables - it’s not like women haven’t been saying things about him and Ames for years,…
Yeah...what’s published here isn’t even the worst of what’s in the book.
Am I the ONLY one who remembers the kerfuffle when Taibbi left First Look Media for inappropriate behaviour involving a female journalist? You don’t shutter a whole, high-budget, high-profile new media startup for minor reasons.
Same here. All I can think is that if it was a big old satire, why keep on going to the well of rape and sexual assault? Was there nothing else in Russia to satarize?
I don’t think its satire. Western males preying on women from ex-Soviet countries following the collapse of the USSR was a pretty noticeable phenomenon. The 90s in Russia were basically lawless and gang-dominated.
Taibbi and Spacey must share a publicist. His Facebook non-apology is a desperate plea to keep writing (manipulation) without ever being accountable. The only thing missing from his Spacey-esque *apology* was coming out as gay at the end. He’s sorry things are coming out now and wants to save his writing career…
Taibbi was writing disgustingly misogynistic shit well into the 2000s (see http://web.archive.org/web/20091010030415/http://www.mensjournal.com/taibbi-guide-to-sports-wives and https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/rush-limbaugh-not-the-only-culprit-left-guilty-of-misogyny-too/2012/03/05/gIQAxFhksR_b…
Yeah, doesn’t it stop being satire when it’s an actual, literal, non-overblown reflection of things that are actually happening to actual people/actual beliefs actual people hold?
Right. It doesn’t feel like “satire” if it seems like the “satirist” actually feels/does the things he’s “satirizing.” And what were they “satirizing” exactly? How Russian women are raped/threatened into abortion by expat douchebags? Hilarious!
Why do you believe him? In particular, why do you believe him and not Ames? And what do you think of a guy who co-authors a book with a guy who (in your view) truthfully brags about raping a 15-year-old? I’m honestly asking. I don’t know his work, but what about him makes you think that he’s making up all the terrible…
That’s the thing that got me too. They’re clearly not alone. These guys got read by people around the globe who cheered them on and lived vicariously through this. “Oh you forced a child to have sex with you? But that child was hot Russian trash. Naughty naughty, but seriously, guy give me the facts about police…
Yes, it’s their justifying the abusive behavior smugly as satire, that’s repulsive and , what abusive people do when they want to continue their abusive behavior without shame, remorse, guilt or accountability.
Right. And if it is just a misogynistic fantasy, then it means they are a bunch of frauds that were benefitting from passing fantasy off as non-fiction.
I’m sorry but I actually had to stop reading this article. I found their own gleeful descriptions of their actions to be so repulsive. Who found this type of writing palatable or interesting. Being a self absorbed asshole in a country where you hold enormous power to violate impoverished girls sexually doesn’t strike…