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It is a level of go team I don’t get. I never liked Swalwell (for other reasons) and this doesn’t surprise me.

I usually havs decent instincts though I shut up often as I am generally isolated as is.
This is why women don’t come forward.

It follows a familiar pattern. I support these women. Good for them. This is why women’s rights are in the toilet.

Fuck Swalwell..well okay unfortunate choice of words. To hell with this asshole. It is going the Cuomo way. It is upto four women. It doesn’t sound at all like a hit job.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/10/us/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-allegations-invs

I support these women. I supported the women who came out against Trump, against Gaetz, against Cuomo and I support the women who have come out against Swalwell.

I don’t join fake feminist cults or any groups on the left except from a distance. I am not a group, mob or cult person. I myself brush off various online “outrage of the week” bullshit things. I was unimpressed by that Tim Hunt thing for instance. Not one of his students or postdocs said he was a harasser or a creep.. He made a stupid joke and in the context it waa not found offensive by the women present.
And some shit stirrer hyped it.

I see offensive humor and art and rarely mind except when it is creepy and that is in isolation in my room. I think Sunny in Phialdelphia for instance is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. But it is not gratuitous. I wish this was a less serious conversation than it is.
But I have seen this for years. Genuine disregard for women’s rights, brutality towards minorities (whether it was the police brutality that triggered blm or the present vicious treatment of undocumented workers or endemic harassment of women).

It follows a tiresome pattern of mob dynamics of initial skepticism and attacks or callousness towards the targets and survivors unless there is an agenda. Followed by mob like brainless attacks on every joke that is not so toothless and defanged that no one anywhere is ever offended. Offensive stuff is sometimes the most meaningful stuff when it is is offensive sanely. What is worrying is this pattern of human mob mentality and that too when a collection of creeps in tech have taken us all hostage and force second rate solutionism.

Usually the policing of language etc and the usual sleazy craven PMC tosh that follows the original lack of giving a shit is the worst response as is online influencing. There is no respite for anyone from constant critical thinking and willingness to being wrong as unpleasant as it is. This itself sounds canned but I do know what it actually means. The whole thing strains my never very easy temper daily.

And now with worthless and parasitic ai (Ai!!!!) and clunkware vs shitty, creepy gig jobs (humans!!!) in between.

All of this leads to predictable backlashes eroding the slim gains made for progress.

Part of being human is being able to assess such things as humans who actually give a shit would.

This isn’t like the Tim Hunt thing (that is the only instance where I saw something that looked like an instance of a clunky joke that did not land getting out of proportion response from the type pf online mob that is rarely around when it is something actually serious).

These are credible sexual assault allegations against Swalwell and are very familiar to women who know that you get attacked.

Alone I will always support screwed over women and people (including decent low power men when they are unfairly attacked when alone). I respect these women and stand with them. There is nothing feminist about backing powerful women or joining mobs when you cannot back women (or men) at the bottom. I also back men at the bottom who are shat on. Life isn’t a quid pro quo or cult teamwork. It is about having some goddamn principles that can weather the test of time and circumstances.

I have only had courage finally now when things have gotten so bad that mobbing is harder since everyone is in shell shock lately. I hate mob mentality. But I am isolated enough that I need at least one person to speak out first. Usually I just leave and exit society as it gets more and more barbaric and self serving. This is a good time for me to come out.

Thanks for getting the ball rolling Miguelito Loveless.

I wish I lived in a less stupid society but I don’t. It is sad that I spend much of my time lately staring at the Many Worlds Theory and wondering why I am in this one.
I have to go pen a defence of my idiotic former mentor in the Writing Forum who was a clunker but not a bad man or sexist or a creep. Just the type who doesn’t rock the boat and those types are a strain. Maybe instead of taking some brainless PMC class he should be guided by his wife (who was a decent woman and not an Alise New-the grotesque wife of Lawrence Summers. I look at people’s spouses when I cannot assess men as well.).

A Tim Hunt is what he was. I sympathized with Hunt’s students and postdocs. I have to go write a support letter for that clunker defending him fully while making sure both complaints and support are registered as they should be.
He is a clunker as far as managing humans goes. That is usually all these ai shills. Can’t stand interacting with humans so ai or more likely “ai” is the solution.