Could we call it the difference between narrow self-interest (which she voted for, as a promise of free IVF) and a commitment to the broader good (which she voted against, and turns out it included her govt. job)? Should we know that the narrower good may be too narrow for ourselves & what we love?
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People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. *Should* she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/voting-for-the-mayor-who-promised-to-blow-up-the-city-doesnt-mean-i-approve-of-the-mayor-blowing-up-the-city
They did not forgive the nazis, granted they could not prosecute all of them. But they made everything they could so that they would never come back. And parents were ashamed to tell their children they took part in it.
how many more "I touched the stove, owwwie" pieces are we going to have before we hear "because the fire, it was pretty"?
I'd wager she agreed to this piece so she can run a gofundme for IVF.
why else would you expose yourself?
The story is like a cliff-hanger, without a resolution.
https://bsky.app/profile/nicholasgrossman.bsky.social/post/3lj6frubihk2b
2)He was president for 4 yrs previously. there is a track record of lying she could read about.
3)She only cared about herself. She was willing to throw everyone else under the bus to get what she wanted. Free IVF.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html
Do we think she'd care?
And there's our answer about who she is, and how she fits in to this movement.
I agree with @paularead.bsky.social that we understand her just fine.
Demanding outreach toward her after she has clearly experienced the consequences of her actions is exceptionally disrespectful of her integrity: is she incapable of making a decision otherwise?
MAGAts can live in quiet shame or public remorse. I can't accept them otherwise.
I dont care how many other people did it. Screw them too.
They're welcome into the tent when they start acting like Americans instead of self-serving bigots and chickenshits.
I’d have a lot more respect for her if the article ended with her and her family calling their congressman to vote against his budget.
Here is a person incapable
of political/social imagination beyond her own idiosyncratic need at this one moment in her life.
This is banality in the most American sense.
300 million little dramas.
Add her relatives are cheering