Thread. (Skip the replies unless you feel like watching a bunch of people tearing themselves into little screeching pieces over “maybe I’ll try generosity,” truly a monstrous sentiment) https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1201217246628122625 …
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The hellishness of Twitter is never so aptly displayed as when someone suggests giving people a little grace in ambiguous moments, and a bunch of professional writers start screaming like you’ve threatened to take their favorite toy away
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Replying to @katrosenfield
what the f is going on here, holy shit
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS @katrosenfield
Grace is an amusing term to apply to two career provocatuers whose kayfabe is often trolling tweets followed by framing the reaction as validation of their deep insight. At least Herzog doesn't pretend these junk bonds of the attention economy are anything else.
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Remember Matty had the grace to post this factually incorrect take the same day as the factory collapse, as the bodies were still being pulled from the wreckage, and is still mad about the response thus his talk of generosity has an agenda.https://slate.com/business/2013/04/international-factory-safety.html …
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Though do agree the grift is so overt with Herzog all the fulminating reactions by professionals have a grifter tone as well. The other responses indicate twitter is not really a healthy pastime for anyone (including Herzog & Yglesias).
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Everyone’s just positioning themselves for their next blog post or “piece” as we call them nowadays. Other than me. I just watch while continuing to do the best kind of stories: stories for which I’m guaranteed payment, that will offend no one, that keep my name off the tweets
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS @katrosenfield
Partially just mad I'll never make money off takes. My poetry hobby occasionally paid, but once in a job with horrible hours, take watching seemed an easier distraction. Now realizing twitter may best be incorporated into doing other more active things.
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