Many Such Takes: Racist Tweets, Ye at it Again, SAHM PTO, True Crime Brain

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Racist Tweets

Also known as “tweets.” (Might as well warn you guys now that for some reason this issue of Many Such Takes contains some very offensive screenshots. You’ll see.) Anyway, in case you missed it, one of Elon Musk’s DOGE employees (side note: he better not create a government project called LIGMA because I will unfortunately have to laugh) was caught making a bunch of racist tweets a few months ago, including openly identifying as a racist “before it was cool” and tweeting, “Normalize Indian hate.”

JD Vance, whose wife is Indian, came out supporting the young man who made the aforementioned tweets, which led to many people wondering why he, so-called “family man” would defend some 25-year-old making racist comments that apply to his wife and children.

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had an interesting article about this phenomenon, which he calls “vice signaling.”

To quote the Woke Left, this you?

Personally, I get the argument for saying someone’s edgy tweets are irrelevant to their work, but damn, the least JD could do was condemn the tweets themselves, even while advocating for the individual to keep his job.

Anyway, because most of the leftists and libs have fled Twitter for greener pastures (and uhh…bluer skies) those of us libs still on Twitter had to face a the anti-woke mob. I briefly tweeted about this and almost immediately deleted it because the energy just felt very dark-sided and unpleasant. Most of the libs still on Twitter aren’t like, super pro-cancel culture, but it stands to reason that having an openly racist person (within the past two months, not ten years ago) working in an important government position is…bad? Let me put it this way: when I worked at a tech company, if I saw that an engineer at my company had tweeted, “I hate white people,” I would have been like, oh, that’s weird and moved on with my day. If I found out that my child’s school principal tweeted “I hate white people,” I would not want that person near my kids.

Anyway, most of right-wing Twitter felt that it was hypocritical for anyone to say that excessive canceling was bad, but that this was okay. (Not that it matters anyway, he kept his job.) But of course, that argument is hypocritical too. The people freaking out over the persecution of the racist DOGE employee are the same people giddily cheering for others to be fired or silenced—including the journalist who exposed the racist tweets in the first place because of supposed ties to USAID (which I suppose is the new George Soros? What’s the difference, anyway?)

Ye At it Again

Arguably, this also falls under “racist tweets,” but Kanye West (or “Ye”) has been doing his best “guy who makes you switch cars on the subway” impression on Twitter this week.

One Twitter user cleverly categorized all of the unhinged tweets on the political compass:

Granted, when you zoom out, Ye’s outbursts don’t seem that weird in the grand scheme of The Everything App:

But realistically, none of that stuff was that weird for Ye. This tweet on February 1 really set the tone for how weird this was going to get. Ominous…

SAHM PTO

Finally, some discourse that isn’t about slurs. Anti-feminist provocateur The Transformed Wife (who, as I wrote about before, admitted to not being happy in her marriage for “the first twenty years”—great endorsement for the tradwife thing) posted this about how being a SAHM is easier because you don’t have to work when you’re sick:

Clearly, someone is bored and wants attention, because it’s word for word the exact thing she tweeted two years ago:

This is really a chef’s kiss discourse starter because a lot of the SAHM/Working mom arguments are about people insisting that they “have it harder.” Transformed Wife over here is advocating for SAHMs by claiming they get to lie around all day. This meant she successfully irritated both types of moms. She quickly moved the goalpost and clarified that she was referring to her own experience working as a teacher, but we all know what she was doing:

A true “let them fight” moment:

Important factoid here is that while she’s “trad” she’s the real deal, in that she believes in firm discipline and doesn’t make a big deal over quality 1:1 time and all the attachment stuff like millennial tradwives do. She tweeted this to further her point, only to get accused of child neglect and lazy parenting by the new generation of tradwives:

Really enjoyable watching everyone quibble over this one. Much better than hearing Kanye West talk about Jews. Onward!

True Crime Brain

I’ve seen a lot of stuff about “true crime brain” lately, or people who are excessively paranoid about being murdered or abducted by strangers based on their consumption of true crime podcasts. This week, we saw a bit of that when a woman subtly bragged about the size of her house by posting photos of her and her children’s bedrooms:

While most people commented on the sprawling bedroom, quite a few people also commented that it was irresponsible for her to post the layout of her house because a murder might use it to attack her at random:

I’ll be honest—even though on the face of it, this seems absurd, I once saw a “HOT SAFETY TIP” Facebook Reel that warned me never to post photos of my bedroom or my children’s bedrooms, and I’ve abided by it for years. I won’t even take photos in public locations that could be identifiable unless I’m on vacation. So I have a bit of true crime brain myself—but I’m crazy! I admit it!

Anyway, the whole ordeal got us some funny replies:

Other Funny Tweets/Happenings

• Twitter has become so infested with groypers that I literally forgot people like this still existed. I’m honestly a little nostalgic now, because they’ve all blocked me on Bluesky so I almost never see this anymore:

• This person refusing to take part in a humiliating order ritual:

• Not originally from Twitter, but found on Twitter:

• Looping back to the evergreen topic of racist tweets, check out these two racists confusing each other and accidentally arguing. Heckin’ wholesome ending!

• Let’s end on something not-terrible, shall we? This guy got arrested for driving at 130 MPH while intoxicated, and he said it was because he was rushing home to see his cat. A Twitter user created this:

  

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