Over the last several months HE hasn’t necessarily agreed with the actual human commenter called “Marty Reeve Brown“. Certainly not chapter and verse. I am not a rightie, Lord knows, but I am a sensible centrist. MRB is clearly Trump-adjacent, or at least is a militant independent libertarian of some kind. On the other hand he seems…well, mentally disciplined. He mostly seems focused on argumentative particulars.
Plus MRB is blessedly not part of the psychotic, reality-denying, virtue-signalling, wacko progressive, Sinners-embracing, trans-celebrating, pearl-clutching wokey fuckface brigade, which is a reasonably fair characterization, I feel, of many HE commenters. (I’m not referring to the highly respected Kristi Coulter…she’s fine.)
It is widely acknowledged that the HE comment boards represent a rough-and-tumble environment, one that certainly reiterates the cliche about “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
But the emergence of hostile satirical-imposter accounts over the last 48 hours changed the game, and then the atmosphere. At first I was lightly amused by the free-form imagination that went into the anti-Marty rants…I told myself “this is unruly but it also feels like an LSD trip…okay, one that’s turning weird but at least it’s trippy. It feels like 10-year-old kids goofing off in the classroom when the substitute teacher has gone out.”
Then the air got thicker and thicker. The anti-Marty malevolence piled upon itself, layer after layer. Hostile pisshounds trashing MRB by pretending to be Frankenstein monster mutations while adopting hostile personalities, etc. And then MRB responded in kind by apparently creating his own counter-persona, one that trashed the persons who were trashing him…this site is devolving into chaos! It’s all too much, man. Cease and desist. Go back to your respective rhetorical corners and try to adhere to common-man reality.
I guess I have no choice but to block the giddy fakers.
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