Since the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on January 7, a strain of online panic has painted the city as functioning a lot like The Purge, the horror movie about a 24-hour period where all crime is legal.
Take a purported conversation that former Tinder executive Brian Norgard relayed in a Twitter/X post that’s been seen over 2.5 million times. “My famous actor neighbor came by today after the looting gangs freaked him out,” he posted, “and whispered in my ear, ‘I guess I am a conservative now.’”
In sharp contrast to the doom and gloom pronouncements, the city has actually been smothered, sometimes even a little overwhelmed, in such acts of goodwill. When I went to drop off other donations at the Snail Farm and Bike Oven—an artists studio and community-run bike workshop, respectively—both were so thoroughly stocked there was hardly room to put anything down. “Please, no more children’s books,” begged a local bookstore, calling off a previous request for donations of reading material for evacuated kids. “Once again having to put a stop to Angelenos bottomless generosity at this time!!!” (As such messages attest, at this point, it is far more useful to send money to affected people; most places have stopped accepting physical donations.)
I haven’t heard anything about Los Angeles
If you have any interest in finding out what MAGA is raging on about, may I recommend The Righting. Their blurb is, “Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from The Right”.
It’s an awesome source.
It is genuinely difficult to tell if the stories they link to are real or just hyperbolic parody. Even just skimming them I can feel the incoherent rage and desperate glee for vengeance billowing off of them. Anyone actually reading them seriously would inevitably end up getting swept along, and it makes a lot of what we’ve seen make a lot more sense.
Oh god. It’s horrible.
Thanks, I guess?
Lol.
It’s an aquired taste. I get their daily emails. That’s about all I can handle.
The creator is center-left, and some of his commentary is pretty good.
I joke. It’s important to stay informed. I’ve just read most of those headlines already and having them all laid out like that is…kind of disgusting to see.
They’re literally making fun of people being worried that they’re going to end up in concentration camps…
Well The Washington Times should be happy to know that this (former) Hollywood (still) leftie is fleeing the country on Monday. And yet, at least until Trump decides to change things, I’ll still retain my citizenship and can both come back whenever I want and stay as long as I want and vote in elections from overseas. So fuck you, Washington Times.
I admire people like the creator because I could never EVER do that for funzies.
Shit, it took me weeks to get over the fact America elected Trump again.
Wow. This is a really great way to see how bad that side is, thanks for sharing this source.