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Taylor Lorenz

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243 total appearances

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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

I wish that she would just admit it. I wish that she would just acknowledge it, but I think she's into denial. And I think she feels resentment because again, when you're in love with someone and you're in love with someone and you have kids with someone and then you see yourself being hated, like, I don't know, it's hard.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

I wish that she would just admit it. I wish that she would just acknowledge it, but I think she's into denial. And I think she feels resentment because again, when you're in love with someone and you're in love with someone and you have kids with someone and then you see yourself being hated, like, I don't know, it's hard.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

We all want to defend ourselves online and we all think of ourselves as like, doing the right thing and the moral thing. And I just feel like she's gone down this path so far that it's, you know, a tweet is not going to get her out of it.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

We all want to defend ourselves online and we all think of ourselves as like, doing the right thing and the moral thing. And I just feel like she's gone down this path so far that it's, you know, a tweet is not going to get her out of it.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

Also, I just want to say like the MAGA stuff, like especially the inauguration, I mean, I was at a lot of these inauguration events and stuff because I was writing about it. Again, their goal is to radicalize people and to bring people into a movement. And so you see this a lot where, you know,

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

Also, I just want to say like the MAGA stuff, like especially the inauguration, I mean, I was at a lot of these inauguration events and stuff because I was writing about it. Again, their goal is to radicalize people and to bring people into a movement. And so you see this a lot where, you know,

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

somebody sort of starts to associate or they're in this vulnerable spot and you see the right, just like vultures, like seize on them again, because they're opportunists that don't actually give a shit, but this person is vulnerable. And then you see the anger, like the anger from the left, rightfully so. And that kind of pushes them.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

somebody sort of starts to associate or they're in this vulnerable spot and you see the right, just like vultures, like seize on them again, because they're opportunists that don't actually give a shit, but this person is vulnerable. And then you see the anger, like the anger from the left, rightfully so. And that kind of pushes them.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

And that doesn't mean that it's the, I hate when people say, oh, well, that's left fault. Like, oh, you know, you should, that's why we should be nicer to people. No. Well, No, but I think we have to be realistic and recognize these conditions that people are radicalized under.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

And that doesn't mean that it's the, I hate when people say, oh, well, that's left fault. Like, oh, you know, you should, that's why we should be nicer to people. No. Well, No, but I think we have to be realistic and recognize these conditions that people are radicalized under.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

She ended up with egg on her face with this because then it came out that he did actually, I think, have someone playing for him or something. But I was like, did he make her tweet that? When I saw that, I thought it was so incredibly bizarre.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

She ended up with egg on her face with this because then it came out that he did actually, I think, have someone playing for him or something. But I was like, did he make her tweet that? When I saw that, I thought it was so incredibly bizarre.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

And I don't know if it came from a place of either... I mean, all of the sort of hypotheticals are equally dark where it's like either she noticed that this is something that was really bothering him on the internet and she's trying to curry favor by...

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

And I don't know if it came from a place of either... I mean, all of the sort of hypotheticals are equally dark where it's like either she noticed that this is something that was really bothering him on the internet and she's trying to curry favor by...

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

espousing this ultimately like kind of false information about like how great he is or he asked her to back him up because at that point he had not come clean there was now ended up being irrefutable evidence that he cheated on the video game on the video game yeah

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

espousing this ultimately like kind of false information about like how great he is or he asked her to back him up because at that point he had not come clean there was now ended up being irrefutable evidence that he cheated on the video game on the video game yeah

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

He had like had someone play for him or something because basically somebody that actually knows about video games did this like YouTube investigation and found out that like there was no way that he could have played those amount of hours at these times or whatever, whatever. And so then he kind of sort of admitted it and people were like, Grimes, you're such a liar.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

He had like had someone play for him or something because basically somebody that actually knows about video games did this like YouTube investigation and found out that like there was no way that he could have played those amount of hours at these times or whatever, whatever. And so then he kind of sort of admitted it and people were like, Grimes, you're such a liar.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

But it's just like, to me, when you see that stuff, it's so sad. There's an audience of one for that tweet, which is Elon. And it's again, her sort of lashing out what, you know, sort of like flailing in public and

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

But it's just like, to me, when you see that stuff, it's so sad. There's an audience of one for that tweet, which is Elon. And it's again, her sort of lashing out what, you know, sort of like flailing in public and