All he had to do was say "okay, I exaggerated - she didn't cry, it wasn't 6 hours, and there was other food in the house." But he chose all this rather than admit he exaggerated his self-aggrandizing story.
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Replying to @soulbaby101 @arthur_affect
Well it’s what he does for a living.
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Replying to @pwthornton @arthur_affect
He could have just been like, “it’s just a story you guys.”
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Replying to @soulbaby101 @pwthornton
Yeah I mean that's literally what got me thinking about it again in the first place I don't know that playing Armchair Publicist and going "How would I deal with this shitstorm if it were me" is necessarily a productive question at times like this but it's a common one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pwthornton
Like just from a purely Machiavellian, selfish, profiteering standpoint if you work in media and you've just seen like the fourth or fifth high-profile Twitter celeb who has no idea who you are angrily QTing and dunking on you... it's time to put up the white flag
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pwthornton
Like just from an *ethical* perspective If it's a wholly made-up story, then when you've got like 10,000 people saying they're in tears or furious because the story happened Regardless of how silly you think they're being, it's time to say "Okay this didn't happen"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pwthornton
I'm trying to address this particular question as "neutrally" as possible If I did some kind of bit where I kept telling this tall tale about how I killed a guy in self-defense once and to me the whole joke is the silliness of believing I'm capable of such a thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pwthornton
If I suddenly found out tons of people were freaking out like "Arthur you just killed someone ten years ago and you don't even care? I thought I knew you" I would be such an asshole to stay "committed"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pwthornton
Even if I got lost in some ridiculous argument about how the fictional me was morally justified in killing that guy It would be a stupid hill to die on I'm the asshole for making people feel real emotions about something fake for no good reason
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(You could argue that anyone who makes up "possibly real" stories is guilty of doing this, like all the people who post anonymously on AITA or whatever But putting my real name and my real reputation on it - to say nothing of dragging my real family into it - crosses a line)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pwthornton
honestly dragging my real family into it would be hilarious but the question is if the hilariousness is worth making a whole year about it
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