The pot grew to around $60,000 which would be given to any charity that Wu wanted, and as far as I know he said that he wouldn't reveal any confidential information and then ignored everyone who brought it up. Think of all the troonlets who 41'd because there just weren't enough lifelines to throw out...
The deeply annoying and persistent "Jesse hates trans women because they're so sexy and won't fuck him" rumor I think has finally been ended; it only took 5 years of consistent pushback! Insane. They've moved on to "Jesse Singal is grifting by writing [accurately, skeptically, and respectfully] about gender medicine" which is an improvement if only because it's less personal and a bit closer to reality.
Sitting in my grandmas kitchen, eating her homemade pancakes. Damn I miss that woman.
Honestly, I sympathize with him. Twitter's such a perpetual motion machine of drama that being the constant target of raging tranny shitstorms cannot be good for anyone's mental health.
This is something I have noticed about the Postmodern Evangelicals of our time (of which troons are the most unhinged and terminally online of all the sub-categories), they do in fact think twitter is real life because they are shut-ins allergic to the outdoors, physical activity, and utterly addicted to social media over real life interaction. Twitter in particular is where their "discourse" takes place. If you are killed online you may as well be dead in real life too. There is no separation to them.
Like that bit in Jurassic Park where they have to stay still and quiet to escape the trannosaurus rex.
To me, it seemed like his biggest issue was all the people who lie about "gender-affirming care" and say things like "puberty blockers are 100% safe and the effects are fully reversible". People like Jack Turban or Michael Hobbes. Sometimes those people would also lie about Jesse, and they would regularly misrepresent things he'd written, or take things out of context. He got caught up in arguing with those people, but it's just a constant cycle of bullshit, because none of his biggest detractors are interested in having a proper debate, nor do they have decent rebuttals to any of his arguments really.
I was embarrassed for him when I heard this. Man is so cracked out on Twitter.
To me, if one proclaims himself to be a journalist and comes to Twitter it goes without saying that one is going to dip himself into immense darkness of bullshit. I don't see Jesse as a deranged individual who didn't know what twitter is and how exactlty "twitter debates" look like. Don't like piling shit - don't go to twitter. For him, going off twitter may look like a victory but for those he tried to debate with it's his obvious loss.
My favorite part of this comic is that it immediately starts off with a Straw Man Singal because the author literally cannot fathom that Jesse came to this "beat" because he was genuinely concerned when he learned about the flaws in the research. They know absolutely nothing about him so they don't know bad research is his actual "beat" and he even wrote an entire book about bad psychology research. He came across the trans kid stuff because of that and it was just as bad as the other bad research he was reporting on, but possibly worse because it involved kids and everyone covers up how bad it is. At no point has he ever expressed the idea that people need to be protected from the "transgenders" and as actual TERFs like Katie and the Kiwi Farms (playing in your town this summer) know he supports all the other lunacy involved with troonery (with caveats) he just opposes saying the SCIENCE IS SETTLED or good in some particular cases.
This is so removed from reality that I can barely follow it. Hell, I can't tell what makes him so scummy - the access to medical records thing? IIRC he isn't violating HIPPA, trans people just hope he is.
If he keeps saying it it will come true, just like how this person who runs the account is a real woman. This is one step from saying he Jewish = Pedophile.
Yeah but it's better to not engage with your addictions. He lost by developing an addiction to twitter and arguing for ages. His detractors can see this as a victory that he's running from it all, but they can't stop posting on twitter themselves nor can they stop him from his substack and other publishing ventures. I only want someone else to keep his twitter account up like Katie so the archives remain.
