{"id":87915,"date":"2024-07-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87915"},"modified":"2024-07-17T06:48:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T11:48:44","slug":"shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87915","title":{"rendered":"Shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chaya Raichik, of the account &#8220;Libs of TikTok&#8221;, and her seven-digit collection of followers, have gone scorched earth on social media accounts that cheered last weekend&#8217;s assassination attempt on former president Trump:<\/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\">BREAKING: Tony has resigned his position as a firefighter <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vUhMeE43AL\">https:\/\/t.co\/vUhMeE43AL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UzbP61czW6\">pic.twitter.com\/UzbP61czW6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1812839685703802907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I get the urge.  Perhaps more than most.  I&#8217;ve had at least one job get tanked because some (very &#8220;progressive&#8221;) management found out about my alter ego life (which I have never, not once in 20 years, mentoined in a workplace. I <em> don&#8217;t talk about politics at work<\/em> &#8211; and yet I know of one contract job that didn&#8217;t get extended, notwithstanding the fact that I saved the project I was working on (long story for another time) because someone googled up some portion of my shadowy talk-radio existence and complained.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s just the once I know about.\u00a0 I have suspicions about other jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was fine as far as it went &#8211; I found better jobs.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not going to say I was never angry about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I never had the time, bandwidth or following to act on it like Raichik even if I had.\u00a0\u00a0 And Raichik has certainly endured plenty of harassment herself.\u00a0 And the two of us aren&#8217;t alone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, on the right the &#8220;cultural memory&#8221; of the left&#8217;s social oppression is pretty hot and current; &#8220;cancellation&#8221;, including losing jobs, having professional license challenged, and other active harassment over quesitoning and refusing the Covid vaccine; losing jobs over photos in MAGA caps, having kids harassed because their parents were open conservatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it <em>is <\/em>a little disturbing to see some people &#8211; doctors, nurses, teachers &#8211; not only cheering on the assassination, but actively wishing the same on half the population.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;d be great to help them recognize how stupid and evil they are being.<\/p>\n<p>But this?\u00a0<\/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\">BREAKING: Home Depot confirmed this person is no longer an employee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LMfoMU5ava\">https:\/\/t.co\/LMfoMU5ava<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DoH9JR2lsL\">pic.twitter.com\/DoH9JR2lsL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1813320436702400568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is pretty much the definition of &#8220;punching down&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a policy on this blog from the beginning; I don&#8217;t go after peoples (non-elective) day jobs &#8211; and I am absolutely hands-off their families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Does that make me a better person than those that don&#8217;t have those scruples?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>Has it deterred people going after me, my job and family?\u00a0 Well, not all of them.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have the means to scorched-earth them all.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79086\">WIth some, its irrelevant<\/a>.\u00a0 With others?\u00a0 Karma&#8217;s a bitch.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m the one that has to live with myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaya Raichik, of the account &#8220;Libs of TikTok&#8221;, and her seven-digit collection of followers, have gone scorched earth on social media accounts that cheered last weekend&#8217;s assassination attempt on former president Trump: I get the urge. Perhaps more than most. I&#8217;ve had at least one job get tanked because some (very &#8220;progressive&#8221;) management found out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,377,367,470,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-second-civil-war","category-trump","category-trump-assassination-attempt","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87919,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87915\/revisions\/87919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}