Yes. Music guy, i think? They disavowed him as soon as they found that out. Plus Ellie didn't know that at the time she yelled about their game being reactionary because he wasn't outed until like 18 months afterward?
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Replying to @iridienne
Okay I mean Even if I reserve judgment re: whether bombsfall had any role in directing harassment toward her, I certainly don't think of myself as an abject rube for thinking the thesis "white rural America is fundamentally decent at its core" is a reactionary take
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Also i swa what bombsfall said snd did, AFTER she had been yelling about him and his game, and tbh i don't think anyone on this hellsite is required to stay silent when they're being misrepresented and lied about. I think proportionality is important!
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I just think maybe cishet white dudes who don't leave trans women the hell alone should be judged for it.
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idk, at what point are people allowed to speak up when someone has been shouting falsehoods about them & their work for weeks?
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
Nah NitW is bad and even though Ellie feels more strongly about it than I do her analysis is broadly correct
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The big sticking point that got everyone to say she was "lying" -- "She said Mae solves the town's problems by starting a union and that never happens!" -- was itself a misrepresentation
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Ellie was referring, hyperbolically, to Mae talking about her dad getting into organizing at his job in the epilogue, which while it does not "solve everything" is clearly presented as being a glimmer of hope It is the whole tone of the epilogue that she rightly objects to
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Ellie may have been guilty to some degree of hyperbole in her criticism but her own critics were FAR MORE GUILTY She did not in fact say "You're not allowed to portray small towns without showing them to be fundamentalist fascist hellscapes"
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I mean, i disagree here. She very definitely has said exactly that. Hell, i probably have at least one screencap of her saying that everyone who lives in rural America should be FORCIBLY RELOCATED TO A CITY.
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Years later, in another context, when she was losing her temper at yet another news article about federal farm subsidies going to prop up failing rural communities
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Years later, yes. I think there's an important throughline though, which is that she is so angry about her personal small-town experiences that she cannot even tolerate the idea of them continuing to exist.
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Her trauma has made her legit sound like a supervillain.
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