When you say stupid shit and read it back almost 2 decades later when you’re cleaning up your blog
Part 3 of a series
Sarah Palin, round 2.
01/14/2011
- Step 1: Say something snarky on Twitter.
- Step 2: Have the internet shoot up in flames around you and get a mention at Fox News.
- Step 3: Panic.
From linked blog post:
What I should’ve said
Naw, I shouldn’t have. I’ve regretted walking this back for years, since almost as soon as I posted it. Sure, I was panicked. Sure, I’d been conditioned to apologize for shit I didn’t do or that I wasn’t sorry for to soothe some hurt fee-fees. Sure, I … and and and and and
No, I wasn’t sorry then. I’m not sorry now. The internet is full of very clever and funny people, but it is also full of idiots with reading comprehension problems, deficits in reasoning, and broken sarcometers.
Fuck all y’all. I’m only sorry I back-peddled.