hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

all things being equal scahill prob shouldn't have bothered to throw his two cents in but i wouldn't exactly say "bragging" is what he was doing

especially not in the context of his coda tweets, where he explicitly states that his empathy epiphany isn't comparable to actual lived experience

it feels like, in a twitterverse full of terrible people who deserve ridicule, j0rd picked the most visible person who said something relatively defensible and then edited down his comments to make him look like a jackass, undermining a valid and easily defensible point

Yeah that's the impression that I got too

I admit that I lolled pretty hard at the inherent irony of Not every story a man has is a good one. Please log out.

^^^this OTM.

if i were in a roomful of people talking about baltimore and police brutality and longterm structural american racism and jeremy scahill told that story i would be rly uncomfortable and embarrassed for him but if i were in a roomful of people talking about baltimore and property destruction and the victim mentality and jeremy scahill told the same story i would think he was right on. twitter is both, altho i guess for jeremy scahill it is more the former than the latter, so a dorky move for the jez, but i feel like pouncing on it while baltimore is on fire is dorkier

all things being equal scahill prob shouldn't have bothered to throw his two cents in but i wouldn't exactly say "bragging" is what he was doing

― slothroprhymes, Friday, May 1, 2015 2:12 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most of social media is bragging

all is bragging and vexation of spirit

Do Gawker writers have to hit a snide irrelevant shit quota before they can get on with the good stuff?

do you?

It's there a quota of posts I have to make before someone will get out of the greys?

most of social media is bragging

― clikbait ikatowi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, May 1, 2015 11:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no such thing as a selfless act, etc

Does it change Scahill's story if he doesn't mention the soup kitchen, if it was just a guy from the neighborhood?

this is so fucking stupid. putting aside the amiguous question of whether scahill's tweets were gauche or self-serving, how is this not a misleading way to present the "story" on the front page of gawker?

http://s8.postimg.org/pzqobkwrp/Screen_Shot_2015_05_01_at_8_01_17_PM.png

Treeship, man, you need to get wise. You're in a den of wolves here. Some dude killed himself on this board after getting bullied. And after that lesson, these people lured in a mentally ill woman to torment her, and it was such a hit it became messageboard canon. Are you not aware that these people manipulate you and fuck with you for megalolz? Snap out of it. The whole "social justice" "leftism" stuff people talk about on here is just a mask to cover up all of this demented, fucked up stuff they do to people. The conflict you seem to be having is this mask going up against reality. Wake up and stop wasting your time.

Wake up treeple

ozmodiar

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, May 30, 2014 3:34 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Used to post as "butthurt"

― mikelovestfu (wins), Friday, May 30, 2014 3:47 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

look on his works, ye lauded assholes, and despair

― estela, Friday, May 30, 2014 3:55 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus christ d40 posted as butthurt for a long time. are you saying it's him or is there some other butthurt?

Are you not aware that these people manipulate you and fuck with you for megalolz?

that was more like a 2013 thing

You're hopeless, man. Alright ILX, have at it.

ok. you're a cunt.

8-) 3======>~~~~~ (v) 8-)

get lost wasteman

ozmodiar & Mordy to start a post-ILX utopia

Some dude killed himself on this board after getting bullied.

I'm alive tho

what you thought was your daddy was nothin but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGiTPgvKktM

fwiw I didn't realise Grawkar was still a thing

How do you kill yourself on the board?

Some dude killed himself on this board after getting bullied.

you have no idea what you're talking about

blaming the message board for a suicide that likely had multiple, complex causes is really NAGL, especially since many on this board were (and still are) very shaken by it, if you read the thread.

We banned him this morning.

sweet

good

"him"

"Hmm"

Shouldn't "fucked up" be hyphenated?

union in or no? and which of our friends count as mgmt?

kinda curious about how many voters have previous union experience

Gawker what the fuck is wrong with you, now your staff will have to go to meetings :(

http://gawker.com/congratulations-edit-i-think-unionizing-was-a-smart-1708978707

and then
http://gawker.com/hey-joel-let-me-first-identify-what-is-broadly-true-i-1709032856

iiiiinteresting

man kinja commenters are really into being kinja commenters aren't they

gotta have somethin to do at work

I was really confused by the phrasing in this: http://gawker.com/texas-college-student-allegedly-killed-over-beer-pong-g-1709026113

Lacie LaRose, a 19-year-old student at Blinn College, was shot and killed at a graduation party last month after a fight that began as an argument over the rules of beer pong, according to one witness. Ronald McNeil, the 39-year-old alleged killer, told police that the fight was racially charged.

The Bryan-College Station Eagle reports that LaRose was killed at a May 2 party hosted in College Station, Tx., by Landon Duke, a 23-year-old recent graduate of Texas A&M. Duke told the Eagle that McNeil came back to his house and shot LaRose after he had already been escorted out of the party because of the earlier fight.

It took me like five reads to figure out that "by Landon Duke" was modifying "a May 2 party hosted" and not "LaRose was killed."

http://jezebel.com/13-year-old-girl-dies-by-suicide-after-dad-shares-publi-1708967488

"While the social media mob is busy coming for Laxamana’s family, it’s also important to note that determining cause and effect when it comes to suicide isn’t easy"

nevertheless...

whenever gawker pretends to give a shit it makes their whole ethos ten times more infuriating

amazing essay by bunnie

http://gizmodo.com/why-its-easier-to-innovate-in-china-than-in-the-united-1709911838

here you go, max:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/business/media/gawker-nick-denton-moment-of-truth.html?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article

noteworthy journalistic coups include an investigative article revealing that the football star Manti Te’o had an imaginary girlfriend and the publication of photos said to show Brett Favre’s penis

balance in all things