Right-wing pundit Phil Labonte, 47, recently ran across the Tinder profile of Kat Abughazaleh, a Media Matters researcher who monitors Tucker Carlson and evidently decided to try to embarrass her by tweeting it out to his hundred thousand followers.
It turns out that his Twitter followers are as horny as he is, and they replied to his tweet with a flurry of crudely sexual comments suggesting that Labonte ignore her politics and “smash” her, as if this were somehow a possibility.
“Beat that shit up so bad it becomes a libertarian,” suggested one.
“Gotta be some tight puss,’ tweeted another.
“A mouth’s a mouth,” tweeted a third.
Others responded with “you can fix her” or the one word “would.”
Abughazaleh–who goes by Kat Abu on Twitter–made a collage of several dozen of the worst replies and posted it on Twitter as a sort of lesson about online harassment.
The only person who should really be feeling embarrassed about any of this is Labonte, a heavy metal musician and regular guest on Tim Pool’s Timcast, who revealed to the world that he’s apparently been trawling Tinder looking for women young enough to be his daughter.
“Even before you get the key to your apartment you’re desperately searching Tindr for girls half your age within 100kms?” tweeted one critic. “Sounds like a you problem, and probably a skill issue.”
“So you’re bragging about being a dude in his mid-40s who uses tinder to creep on 20 year old girls,” wrote another,
“This is one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen someone post about themselves,” wrote still another.
“You sure you’re anti-communist?” asked yet another commenter, referring to a line in Labonte’s Twitter bio. “’Cause you just publicly owned yourself, loser.”
That’s gotta sting.
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Sorry about that, let’s try the Internet Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210126033710/https://time.com/5915616/long-flu-1918-pandemic/
That works. Whatever buggy CSS is killing the vertical scroll doesn’t seem to have been archived along with the article content.
@Surplus
It’s probably a badly implemented paywall. Gives you X free articles per month, except when it doesn’t due to bugs.
If so, it’s one of the most exceptionally stupid, even by the standards of a generally stupid genre. I mean, really, taking your own browser’s normal scrollbar functionality away and telling you to stick a quarter in the slot to get it back, and then forgetting to actually implement the coin slot? (This on top of the stupidity that comes from the fact that there’s basically always a way to circumvent that kind of nonsense anyway. As in the instant case where the archive.org copy is free and clear. All of the “n free per month” variants are defeated simply by using an incognito window whenever you visit the site.)
Deliberately sabotaging a person’s property (e.g. their browser, operating on their hardware) and then trying to rent or sell it back to them might also be breaking the law. It’s essentially just a milder version of what ransomware does, after all, and that is commonly prosecuted as extortion and wire fraud.
Yeah, the problem here is not the age-thing… a 23-year-old is still an adult, and can date whoever they damn well please. The problem is the mindset in play with this clown and his toadies, who clearly think in the same way as every high-school Johnny Buzz-Cut with a thing for kinky Goth chicks.
*John Wayne voice* “I’m gonna make an honest woman of ‘er, pilgrim!”
These idiots think they can “turn a ho into a housewife.” And THAT’S why “Mighty Casey” keeps striking out.
David? I’ve got a comment containing a link awaiting approval, please.
@The Wizard of Snark
YIKES. We don’t talk that way about women ’round here… pardner.