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Anonymous asked: It's cute how you're so solipsistic you think the porn you jerk it to and the random links you find there have world-historical meaning
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In the early 2000s I encountered Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein and the \u201cjuicebox mafia\u201d through some random link, I was like \u201cshit, these new millennial pundits are gonna be important, I need to pay attention to this\u201d and turns out I was right

And through Yggy\u2019s comments I found Steve Sailer and through him like Paul Kersey and Richard Spencer and this whole scene of New Internet Racists and I was like \u201cshit, this is gonna be important, I need to pay attention to this\u201d and turns out I was right

And then I noticed the rise of \u201cfeminist blogging\u201d in the mid-late 2000s and I paid attention to that.

(Like DAE remember when Jezebel started with Moe Tkacik and Tracy \u201cSlut Machine\u201d Egan editing, and then it was a scandal when some \u201cThinking and Drinking\u201d speaking series, that was an excuse for the girls-in-NYC-media guests and audience to let their wine mom out, invited them? And they showed up smashed and were like \u201cyeah by your legalistic standards we\u2019ve been \u2018raped\u2019 a dozen times since moving to New York but we have better shit to spend our time caring about, like getting drunk\u201d)

But it\u2019s not like I actually cared about what fucking Feministe or Feministing or Shakesville said, Amanda Marcotte made her name on insulting at a 7th-grade-boy level. I found Sady Doyle and Twisty \u201cI Blame the Patriarchy\u201d Faster through random links*

And through random links in the latter\u2019s comments found Cathy \u201cBug\u201d Brennan and the Twanzphobic blog, and they were like \u201cwe all need to prepare for this pushy new transgender movement\u201d and I was like \u201cthis seems like it\u2019s gonna be important\u201d, and it was

* at some point in here I also noticed Rod Dreher and Freddie de Boer before they were things, but I forget how.

Wasn\u2019t half a week after Trump came down that escalator that I was on the horn to everyone I know in the DC establishment that he was gonna be president.

Like, I could be wrong this time but you really want to bet against me?

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