In a now-deleted tweet, New York Times editor Lauren Wolfe was massively ratioed after she asked, “Do regular humans actually buy zip-ties? Have you ever bought a zip-tie? If so, what did you use it for?”
https://twitter.com/Wolfe321/status/1349177352459313154
And then she followed it up with this gem: “I literally had no idea that there were this many people passionate about the legal use of zip ties”:
https://twitter.com/Wolfe321/status/1349181124929589248
First up, there are people that don’t own zip-ties?
Literally every regular human I know owns zip ties. This is like Pauline Kael on steroids. https://t.co/qEHC1uedgB
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 13, 2021
And please enlighten us to the “legal use” of said common item, please:
?? "the legal use of zip ties" ??
How many clowns are in that @nytimes clown car? https://t.co/wLeFFZZeH0
— "President Elect!!!" Tom (@BoreGuru) January 13, 2021
Don’t give them any ideas or else they’ll regulate zip ties next:
@CrimeADay , what might constitute an "illegal" use of zip ties? https://t.co/iswGwCleW3
— KCR (@wonderclutz) January 13, 2021
The paper of record, everyone:
Who says people at the NYT are out of touch with the common people?
— BearFlagFan (@BearFlagFan) January 13, 2021
But we have “zero surprise”:
zero surprise that this out of touch tweet is coming from a NYT editor https://t.co/1wo88czT1G
— Caleb Hull (I'm With the CCP Don't Ban Me) (@CalebJHull) January 13, 2021
And here’s Twitchy favorite Iowahawk with a thread full of zingers:
And what's up with all that WD-40 and duct tape?https://t.co/3Yq7aSYvsq
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 13, 2021
jfc, how does a regular human survive without several bags of zip-ties
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 13, 2021
I bet that everyone who writes for the New York Times has a tool box that only consists of a eyeglass screwdriver and 3 leftover Allen wrenches from IKEA
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 13, 2021
the rarified class of people who know exactly how the world should be run, but have to get a Task Rabbit to assemble their bookshelf
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 13, 2021
I dunno, maybe the problem with Twitter is that a tweet mocking a NYT blue check for not knowing regular people use zip ties is seen as support for a violent Nazi overthrow of the United States governmenthttps://t.co/BHyXhT7f7Q
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 13, 2021
Bingo.
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