[supercollision]

100% serious, not a low-effort political comment: I don't think they're at all afraid of being accused of being partial.

Over the last few years, one of the things that has bothered me the most is that the strategy of saying "fake news" or "bad journalist" (for males) or "nasty question" (for women) and proceeding full steam ahead is proving to be remarkably effective. There is zero accountability.

[notacoward]

Far from trying to reduce the current of outrage, their strategy is to blow the fuse. Just make people so tired of all the garbage that they stop trying.

Not my own insight BTW. Got it from this Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1247732044903350272

[DuskStar]

At the same time, the opposing strategy of "everything is a scandal", "nothing good comes from anyone with an R by their name", etc has made people with an R by their name care less about actually being involved in scandals. If you're going to be tarred&feathered either way...

And these two strategies play off each other very well. More scandals (legitimate and not) make each one less significant, which reduces the cost of being involved in a scandal, which...

[Brian_K_White]

What opposing strategy? Which people with R's by their names are not guilty? And what terrible things are they being falsely accused of?

[MrBuddyCasino]

> I don't think they're at all afraid of being accused of being partial.

This rings true.