https://x.com/lindyli/status/1918009980675928499
I’m at odds. Lindy Li is out here treating politics like speed dating for cable news gigs she changes affiliations more often than she fact checks, which is to say, almost never. She’ll say anything with conviction, so long as it guarantees her another invite. One minute she’s the DNC’s rising star, the next she’s parroting Fox News talking points like she’s angling for a primetime slot. Watching her cosign Ana’s drift is like watching a GPS reroute to nowhere in particular. And then there’s Jillian. Sweet, bland, useless Jillian who always manages to show up just in time to contribute absolutely nothing. She’s like the human version of background noise at a networking event: smiling, nodding, and offering watered down insights that could be copy-pasted into any corporate slide deck. While Ana is trying to explain her disillusionment with the left, Jillian sits there like a motivational speaker with a lobotomy, adding all the depth of a puddle in Phoenix.
I genuinely believe in hearing both sides, in engaging with people across the political spectrum, and in pushing back against ideological echo chambers left or right. I’ve criticized progressives when they get too performative, and I’ve rolled my eyes at conservatives when they pretend every piece of social progress is the apocalypse. I don’t need politicians or pundits to agree with me I just want them to be intellectually honest, But this sucks. And not because she’s talking to people outside her bubble that part I welcome. It’s the way she’s doing it, and who she’s choosing to do it with. It’s one thing to have tough conversations. It’s another to suddenly act like the people who’ve spent years undermining your values are somehow the rational ones.