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I don't really buy into the theory that something changed in the last couple years. Men don't change in their 50s (not without trauma anyways.) This is stuff t

• rsynnott 2y ago
  Eh, I mean, he was always pretty bad, but it does _feel_ like he's gone totally off the deep end. And he wouldn't be the first; notably, plenty of people around his age went _very_ weird around September 11th (you may remember Christopher Hitchens' weird voyage of personal discovery from basically a pacifist to a bloodthirsty war hawk to eventually getting voluntarily waterboarded, for instance; to his credit he did somewhat recant at that point). I suspect covid, both the stress of the event itself, psychological impact from isolation, and brain damage from the disease, screwed people up more than we give it credit for.
  • friend_Fernando 2y ago
    It's good that you brought up Hitchens. Like Trump, Dick Morris, Gingrich, and a variety of other larger-than-life 20th century figures, Hitchens had a magnet inside. When Russia switched its primary polarity from left to right, they promptly turned 180' in unison, like an iron bit in an MRI machine. The PayPal Mafia smell a lot like those guys, like a 21st century unit of the same brigade. Some may have just waited longer than the others before dropping their cover.