I try to have sympathy for this because I think a lot of people are way too blasè about how 1000s of hateful messages can destroy your brain, but she talks about this in the same breath that she absolves herself of any responsibility over her fans harassing people. Feels a bit shitty to insist that anyone who is repulsed by her white fragility schtick is responsible for actual harassment when she is perfectly capable of understanding that you can’t control how other people behave.

It’s that he’s identified them as petite-bourgeois but seems to believe that they don’t have class consciousness that is baffling to me. These people are completely aware that the state exists to serve their interests and their primary issue with the Biden victory is that its contingent on the working class having any say in politics at all. It’s why they have people literally saying “why are the police shooting us, they are supposed to be shooting BLM” and wearing “Camp Auschwitz” shirts. He seems to want to depoliticize their motives because it would mean admitting that there is any daylight between the slow creep towards fascism under Democrats and the complete seizure of power for the capitalist class under these extremists, and when pressed on it he just starts shrieking at the camera that none of it matters and everyone needs to log off, like a baby throwing their toys out of the pram.

Probably controversial here, but as annoying as these libs are, this analysis from Matt is dogshit. “Commentary doesn’t have a material impact on politics” is a completely banal observation that he cynically employs to dismiss any sort of criticism that he’s failed to properly identify the class character of the riots.

He was basically a Golem. This avatar of power that would fight on behalf of oppressed people who otherwise couldn’t, which is probably the only effective way of telling a superhero story.