“My tweet refers to due process in the justice system which is an essential element of freedom... It is what stops us from burning accused witches for example”

Americans cheering against the people representing the U.S. abroad is... patriotic? And paying a British guy to talk shit about Americans is also patriotic?

“But being humans, we are self-centered, and we imagine that anything new and giant would naturally be fascinated by us, even if the end to that fascination is getting us into its belly.”

Hilariously, no. The author completely misunderstood what happened, making the “you’ll never guess what happened” the only part of the headline that’s correct.

Minor point, but perfectly encapsulating Scaachi’s qualities of as a writer: needlessly translating “god” to make a weak joke worse, but translating it incorrectly.

Because Jezebel writers are, at heart, rubes who think that it is inherently funny when things are different from how they are in the U.S.

Great to live in a world where legislative priorities are determined by Twitter trending topics.

“But despite the escalating online demands for Russell to face prison time, you do have to wonder how jail and criminalization could be the solution to what’s clearly an ongoing mental health crisis.”

You really don’t want to engage with this guy. He’ll claim that he, personally has lots of dating success and then pull out a list of anecdotal examples to prove his point. It’s pointless talking to him: he’ll pop up again in a few weeks saying the exact same things no matter what is said to him here. And yes, he has…

The small business owner was asked a question by a journalist (you should look up what that is!) and answered it. He wasn’t pushing himself forward, he didn’t say or imply he was most affected by it. In fact, he didn’t use the first person singular at all in the bits you quoted.

I don’t see effort on Jezebel’s part, or in the NME article it’s lightly-rewriting, to verify that any of the anonymous tweets it’s quoting are a) who they say they are or b) representative of anyone’s opinion but their own. Twitter is full of people appropriating identities in order to add “authenticity” to their…

They didn’t imply that. Russel’s original call was that there was an unattended child on the road. The seemingly unattended child was part of the initial story, and it made sense for the police to note that no children had been reported missing, because that is a matter interest in terms of their investigation. If the…

Perhaps the “other searches” on her phone that the police reference might cover it. Could be that this was a deeply misguided and over-elaborate attempt to get away from her life, while sparing her loved ones from knowing she chose to leave, and that she changed her mind once things started getting real. The bus…

My guess would be the Bhagvad Gita, which Openheimer famously quoted when the A-bomb test succeeded. Haven’t seen the movie, but the chances that Rich missed an important allusion are, given his track record, nearly 100%.

I’m not sure that a story in which the three potential fathers had no role whatsoever in the labor of raising their daughter, leaving all of it to the mother, is a counterpoint to current model of “absurdly unfair distribution of labor” that often accompanies parenthood”.

“where many of us wondered if Spears, who was effectively cut off from the world for 13 years while under her conservatorship...”

He’s a troll, making things up. Israel had over 12,000 COVID deaths, and a COVID mortality rate nearly identical to similarly-sized countries with similar GDPs and public health systems.

In what way am I “defending” the joke, let alone going hard in doing so?

Kind of weird to get this mad about a joke. Rolling your eyes and moving on is always an option.

The eleven likes and the other person who commented seem to have got the joke. Maybe consider the possibility that there’s something you’re missing.