Episode 122: Enjoy Your Death Trap, Ladies!
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Katie gets deceived by the Daily Kos, a leftist coffee shop suffers an expected fate, and Jesse explains how Buddhists ruined summer camp for everyone.
Links:
Rebekah’s sneakily-worded post on the Daily Kos:
Mina’s World shuts down:
Libs of TikTok weighs in on the Mina’s Cafe situation:
Doc Marie’s website (WARNING: pointless)
https://docmaries.com/
Hidden Villa:
https://www.hiddenvilla.org/about-us/
Hidden Villa’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hiddenvilla
Hidden Villa’s swastika statement:
https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/letter-to-the-community-6-8-22-1654978228.pdf
How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591
Here, have some Jewish swastikas:
https://www.tod.org.il/en/blog-holocaust-day
The swastikas that started it all (note left-facing orientation):
The Palo Alto Online article explaining the situation:
Los Altos Town Crier article:
“What a stupid f*cking way to have a really important conversation”:
Facebook comment highlights:
The Tweet that broke the news to Twitter:
Noah Smith weighs in:
Wes Yang chimes in:
Ryan Grim’s take:
The title:
Image: Women dance together at WildRose, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. WildRose, which opened in 1984, is the only remaining lesbian bar in Seattle. (Genna Martin, seattlepi.com) (Photo by GENNA MARTIN/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)"
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here's what's up. |
| 0:11.3 | Hey, Jesse. |
| 0:12.2 | So as you know, I recently became famous. |
| 0:15.9 | I know. |
| 0:16.9 | No, no, you don't think it. |
| 0:19.1 | Okay. |
| 0:20.1 | Yeah, you and I build Mar. |
| 0:21.1 | We got you going on. |
| 0:22.1 | Mar your super famous. |
| 0:23.1 | Okay. |
| 0:24.1 | So anytime this is probably happened to you too. |
| 0:26.1 | I bet this happened to you after you went on Joe Rogan or something. |
| 0:29.8 | Do you have a Google alert for your name? |
| 0:32.6 | I'm supposed to say no, but of course I do. |
| 0:35.6 | Don't be ashamed. |
| 0:37.8 | We all do it. |
| 0:38.8 | So there are tons and tons of these websites that just like scrape information from the |
| 0:43.7 | internet and do these sort of like biographies. |
| 0:47.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:48.1 | And they're not like written by people. |
| 0:50.2 | Like very clearly they're written by some sort of bot or algorithm or maybe a content |
| 0:55.2 | farm. |
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