And the real danger with being low trust anything is that it puts you at increasing risk of entering the crank zone, which is when your politics become so contradictory to outsiders that you become non-partisan, and that's where she's likely headed.
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Crank magnetism is probably a bit of a dated concept these days but once you embrace other ways of knowing in one area the threshold to do so in others seems to be lowered.
aug 20, 2025, 6:06 pm • 10 0 • view
I think she’s been there tbh Like just utter crank about COVID stuff and it’s influenced her other takes already
aug 20, 2025, 6:03 pm • 91 0 • view
Yeah I feel like her entry point is Covid/wellness crankery
aug 20, 2025, 6:13 pm • 32 0 • view
Unfortunately even earlier She was "cooked" on Twitter/X and pushed to an extreme for attention Like America's response to COVID and lack of basic masking etiquette here deserve criticism, but handing it to Nazis accommodating about masks grooming you with classic tactics? bsky.app/profile/iwri...
aug 20, 2025, 6:39 pm • 16 0 • view
100%. Lorenz really was a good tech reporter, once upon a time. Her stuff on the digital landscape was legit, as late as 2018. All her post-Covid nuttiness kind of overshadows the massive amounts harassment she received at the hands of Elon, Tucker Carlson et al.
aug 20, 2025, 10:02 pm • 6 0 • view
Masking has been a criticism of hers for a long time, and she isn't wrong. Leftist spaces have been dropping the ball on this. I understand holding leftists to higher standards, but that's something you do in your community, not as a journalist, while fascists occupy and kill us.
aug 20, 2025, 6:12 pm • 5 0 • view
she is very much wrong about masking
aug 20, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
You don't get to demand that leftists act differently than everyone else when you aren't one. If you actually believe that they are better ethically, then why aren't you more involved in the community? If you don't believe that, why are we constantly held to different standards?
aug 20, 2025, 6:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Reminds me of when Klippenstein pushed a breathless “exclusive” that Pentagon officials had war plans for a conflict with Iran drawn up and, like…yeah. That’s what general staffs do. It’s their whole thing.
aug 31, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
The right isn’t really the right anymore, it’s realigned to the bottom half of the horseshoe.
aug 20, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Shes already pretty much an anti vaxxer!!
aug 20, 2025, 6:03 pm • 11 0 • view
yeah - I don't think she's ever likely to end up endorsing the right wing bullshit around like, race, or gender, or trans rights or anything. But she could easily be a Greyzone style weirdo
aug 20, 2025, 7:06 pm • 16 1 • view
“I think we should spend $1trn on the border wall but just to make it tall enough to block airborne COVID”
aug 21, 2025, 6:37 am • 5 0 • view