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To be clear, I made it explicit that I was referring to Twitter and Substack personalities such as Auron MacIntyre, not anyone on The Motte.
No, sorry, knee-jerk wild accusations of perfidy by your outgroup, backed up by baseless speculation in the total absence of concrete evidence, is clownish behavior no matter who does it. I’m not sympathetic to it at all, and if I ever (in a fit of irrational pique or misplaced credulity) appear to engage in it myself, I expect to be ruthlessly raked across the coals for doing so. It’s one of the most disastrously poisonous aspects of our current media/political environment, and if the right continues to prove that they’re every bit as bad as the left on this matter, I’m going to be beside myself with angst.
I get it, and you're not wrong. However, I maintain we've seen some wild shit over the years, and it has remained essentially unacknowledged beyond a shrug and a "what are you gonna do about it?". Glowies running cover for the Hunter Biden laptop story is by itself insane enough, that people smelling bullshit here ware entirely justified. And damn it, it just feels so good when you stick your neck out, and end up vindicated. Though the problem with sticking your neck out is that you sometimes end up decapitated, c'est la vie.
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