{"id":88880,"date":"2024-12-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88880"},"modified":"2024-12-12T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:31:16","slug":"pre-cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88880","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Cognitive Dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Am I the only one that heard about Taylor Lorenz&#8217;s &#8220;Joy&#8221; at the murder of Brian Thompson&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Listening to Taylor Lorenz describe the joy she felt hearing that the United Healthcare CEO was murdered really makes you appreciate how insane it was that she was taken seriously at the New York Times and Washington Post<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7RNeHas0oU\">pic.twitter.com\/7RNeHas0oU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ian Miller (@ianmSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianmSC\/status\/1866296282215842158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and thought &#8220;that certainly puts a new spin on the Harris campaign&#8217;s theme?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom is slavery?<\/li>\n<li>2+2=5?<\/li>\n<li>Murder is joy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One &#8220;joy&#8221; I try to deny myself is excessive <em>schadenfreud<\/em>.  Pinky swear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ll confess, I feel quite a bit of it seeing Lorenz&#8217;s sociopathic level of self-unawareness splashed about the place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The great Taylor Lorenz. \ud83e\udd21 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/och7zfBdpp\">pic.twitter.com\/och7zfBdpp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mazemoore\/status\/1865451312579596765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Less <em>schadenfreud<\/em>, Mitch.\u00a0 Less <em>schadenfreud<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one that heard about Taylor Lorenz&#8217;s &#8220;Joy&#8221; at the murder of Brian Thompson&#8230; &#8230;and thought &#8220;that certainly puts a new spin on the Harris campaign&#8217;s theme?&#8221; Freedom is slavery? 2+2=5? Murder is joy? One &#8220;joy&#8221; I try to deny myself is excessive schadenfreud. Pinky swear. But I&#8217;ll confess, I feel quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,130,51,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-tc-media-bias","category-liberal-tyranny","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88882,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88880\/revisions\/88882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}