Except that wild cats are not “mid-tier” predators — or more formally, mesopredators — at all. This is the class comprised of raccoons and skunks and the like.

I believe the word you’re looking for is “ordained,” and “ordinated” — unless Pope Francis is truly planning to make would-be priests in the Amazon the y-coordinate of a point in a two-dimensional system of Cartesian coordinates. 

Agree. There’s nuance here that is reflexively overlooked in favor of lumping together those with different opinions into one big group and calling them bigots.

Setting aside this important social arc, which I only understood at the periphery, I feel the need to point out that this was an outstanding piece of journalism and writing. I say this as an average, middle-aged white dude who doesn’t play video games and has no interest in video game culture.

I’m sorry, hijacking and installing your own special protest payload in a company’s signature product is a fireable offense. So, presumably, would be spamming the fuck out of your managers in the normal course of the workday — again, as a protest? This isn’t organizing. It’s workplace sabotage. 

I understand the reflex to seek blame for our current misinformation era, but it’s hard to buy the premise that it all begins with the National Enquirer. Sure, alongside all the other tabloids peddling alien abduction stories and celebrity plastic surgery rumors, it screamed at us from the grocery store aisles — and…

This 100%. The article is credulously predicated on the idea that some critical mass of internet users understood “Kamala is a cop” to mean, like, literally that she’s a cop. Or that she REALLY bid adieu to a bus full of prison-bound mothers with a wave and a touch to the heart. I mean, to even include that latter…

I’ll just put this here:

Great essay. I don’t think you know what the word “provincial” means, tho.