Mr Blue Sky

Abusers gonna abuse.

The whole thing had an air of inversion and unrealism, of something like madness. It called to mind the James Damore ‘Google memo’ incident, mentioned here, or Cathy Newman’s bewildering interview with Jordan Peterson. It didn’t feel like a difference in political outlook, so much as one of entirely incompatible psychology. It became quite surreal. 

At one point, Mr Singal was the most blocked person on Bluesky*, with mass reporting campaigns and a petition of at least 18,000 Bluesky users demanding that he be banished immediately. Amid endless, openly malicious efforts at defamation and numerous, quite vivid demands that he be killed, with helpful instructions on how to go about that task.

The participants in this weird fever included Harvard-educated professionals, or supposed professionals, and alleged champions of fairness, decency and justice. Albeit of a kind who favour gratuitous pronouns in their bios, and who claim that the US is a “totalitarian fascist state.” 

And lest we forget, this uproar, this psychotic reaction, was not a result of Mr Singal being rude or abusive or racist or indecent, or anything of that sort. But for politely correcting factual errors and suggesting that maybe, just maybe, children shouldn’t be drugged and mutilated such that their lives will be forever ruined. 

That’s quite a feat. 

Much of the tech-related media joined in the farce, of course, with claims that “marginalised communities” – people “who escaped Twitter” – escaped! – “now feel their Bluesky experience is at risk because of Singal’s joining.” As if he, one man, a political liberal who has only ever voted for Democrat candidates, were befouling their paradise, their refuge, “harassing” users with his polite statements of fact.

Taken as a snapshot of progressive psychology, the general mindset – like the ‘Google memo’ saga and the Cathy Newman interview – it was quite revealing.

*That title is now held by JD Vance, The official White House account, and the US Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

That. 

As I said following the ‘Google memo’ incident: 

I suppose we can at least hope that the gross misrepresentation of his words and sentiment, the brazen ubiquity of it, may have opened a few eyes.

I’m not prone to reckless optimism, but I think maybe it did, at least to some extent. At the time, I saw numerous people having a kind of Eureka! moment, in which the casual dishonesty, the sheer scale of it – the readiness of so many supposedly statusful people to burn any credibility in order to signal their progressive piety – threw into question a great many things. 

And it’s easy to forget just how weird the ‘Google memo’ saga was. The experience of seeing so many people, so much of the media, telling obvious lies – lies easily disproven – and wilfully distorting what was actually written, maliciously stripping out important context and qualifying clauses, to the point of inverting the obvious sentiment and intention.

As if one wouldn’t notice.

To borrow a phrase, the sheer fucking hubris.

David, your post inspired me to visit Bluesky, 

No refunds. Credit note only.

Racist yte women (BIRM) in Belgium fail to appreciate cultural enrichment.

Unfit for civilisation.

Again, if you’re having to explain this stuff to them – say, don’t masturbate in the park while glaring weirdly at random women – then they really shouldn’t be here. No good can come of it. Only cost and aggravation, or worse.

Friends don’t let friends do leftism. They could turn into bitches like this guy.

Someone should explain to him that his fundamental obnoxiousness is showing.

[ Looks up Fortesta, laughs. ]