You know how I know Murc's Law is real? This is year fcking 10 of Tr*mp supporter profiles in legacy media, as though they're still a curiosity we need to understand. As though they're a fringe group. As though they're the underdogs.
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They're not pokemon. I can throw a rock from the corner of a street in the middle of the historically ultra-liberal west village and hit a 47 voter at this point.
I don't need to hear about another person who voted and then lost their job, their healthcare, their whole ass family member (to deportation). The people who need to see it ain't gonna read it.
The Times is doing pieces on people coming home after being pardoned for that attempted coup (cause let's stop giving them cute names like "J6'ers" and remember what they did) and re-acclimating to life. Fck those ppl. They're criminals and anarchists.
I'm still waiting on those slice of life stories about Black people when we're *not* mourning, fighting, or protesting. When we're just kicking it and being in community like Jim and Betty Sue and 'nem at the all-American diner these outlets thing hold some mystery of America.
Am dealing with it by turning my money and attention to smaller outlets still doing real journalism, including the Black press. Some excellent slice of life coverage at the Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorder: https://spokesman-recorder.com/
And now this WW who worked for federal forestry services and voted for 47 bc she thought he'd give her free IVF and now ain't got no job who I saw all over the TL the other week is on CNN, bc she's young, pretty, college educated, and (presumably) has some sense. So she's now of course fascinating 🙄
I saw the article about the girl in Michigan who voted for him "for free IVF" and lost her job at the U.S. Forest Service. I am SO TIRED OF THIS NONSENSE! At 24 years old, that woman made a conscious decision to vote for a convicted felon and rapist! I'm sick of seeing these lies about anything else
Many of these people voted for the destruction of other people and stupidly believe they would be given some kind of exception. It’s ain’t complicated. And, above all, it’s not interesting.
Oh, but they’re such victims of such horrible persecution! The people they’ve been persecuting for centuries want EQUALITY! Can you even believe it? So ungrateful…
It is something to read a profile of the newly discovered misery of a sympathetic white woman who had no idea any of this would happen in the newspaper that went out of its way to assure the American people that none of this would happen.
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I don't need any deeper humanizations to understand these people... but its riveting (not really) that no editors think they need to understand ME.
I'm annoyed, my bad.
They ARE criminals.