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🏳️‍⚧️ Josie Platinum 🪗
@josie.zone
NYT-bestselling, Hugo-nominee authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Judeo-Tranarchist. She/her. neokayfabe.com/ מִדְּבַר־שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק
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God this guy is so funny Someone get Richard Meltzer on Bluesky

PHONY OR FAKE? - John Stossel still can't know the half of it. Goes up to David "Doctor D" Schultz in the waning moments of an embarrassingly deadpan wrestling-is-fake segment on ABC's 20/20 and coyly solicits the 6-6, 270-Ib. on-off switch (always locked in on "I have to ask you the conventional question... "— as if the guy reads Derrida or subscribes to the New Yorker - "is wrestling fake?" For which, not surprisingly, he gets whapped in one ear, then the other, after which he claims "loud buses" make his head ring; Babwa Walters commiserates. Poor John. JUST IMAGINE, on the other hand, if he'd slithered up instead to some ABC windup stooge from Dynasty or Matt Houston, or some same-network movie of the week about teen pregnancy or white-collar alcohol abuse, and axed 'em, right after they'd shot some typical maimer of the human spirit (on the income from which they would wine, dine and toot far, far better than the king & queen of Belgium), "Lemme just hit you with this one: How do
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Jeeez, John Stossel… always an idiot.

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If you’re interested, there’s an extended version of this essay in an old collection of Richard Meltzer’s writing Here it is (with my highlights):

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josie Platinum 🪗
@josie.zone
NYT-bestselling, Hugo-nominee authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Judeo-Tranarchist. She/her. neokayfabe.com/ מִדְּבַר־שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק
11.9k followers4.9k following69.6k posts
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