Twitter C/D

She bragged about pulling the plug on her mom on Twitter. If it was such a traumatic event I would probably not tweet it.

low blows do nothing to address that

xp milo i think you need to take a break if you read that tweet and thought she was "bragging"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6mWw8I49r8

she has a FAMILY how can they be so inconsiderate

There are definitely more dignified ways to sell a book, but yeah, humiliating myself has turned out to be a good sales strategy. https://t.co/CoPDoX2uH8

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023

ilx is so fucked up sometimes man. y'all need to get a grip

physician heal thyself, just not with vaccines

sometimes people say serious things in very matter of fact or weird ways when it comes to trauma, true

and sometimes people try to sell you their books to give you context

Yeah, man, I really don't care how this monster is made to feel shame and misery. That she only has to feel it on Twitter and not deal with any real world consequences is the only tragedy here.

How libraries are functioning is an assault on our children, paid for by our tax dollars. It’s long past time for parents to fight back. Librarians made themselves into political warriors and tried to turn our kids into their foot soldiers. They don’t get to without a fight.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) July 6, 2022

If you’re hosting drag queen story hour and stocking pornography in the young adult section, you signed up for a fight. And when you come for our kids, a fight is what you’re going to get.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) July 6, 2022

when showing someone’s a ghoul maybe don’t be ghoulish yourself idk

broadcasting one's 'trauma' in a high-profile, public way as part of a shtick / sales pitch is what's cynical here. i agree with milo that the original tweet very much reads like a brag. the impulse to control people's responses to that is what's questionable here imo and i think crut is the one who needs to take a break.

I really don't care how this monster is made to feel shame and misery.

what you don't realize is that what you have just written takes a position in regard to other humans that puts you right up there as a monster, too

very poor moral understanding there

this is exhausting. as someone who is the target of her current political invective, which is the same anti-trans bullshit the entirety of the american right has taken up, i do not give a fuck what ppl ridicule her for, especially if she put it out there herself bc she wanted to look like a selfless and complex person for being both pro-life and pro-euthanasia, an angle so cynical i almost wish i could tell her to fuck off in person

I'm not too interested in this woman's trauma, which we only know about for what do seem to be mercenary reasons. I barely know who BM is, but her twitter feed is filled with vicious intolerance against entire populations of people she hates, which...sometimes you reap what you sow

I do think calling justified euthanasia "killing your mom" just to dunk on some minor evil dipshit is maybe tactically dumb, but that doesn't seem to be the objection here.

xpost Brad very much otm there

sometimes you reap what you sow

absolutely true. but the agricultural metaphor hides the fact that what some see as reaping looks to others much like sowing

what if when you looked in the mirror the monster gazed back... makes you think, anyway regarding the psychotic online grifter lol what a freak

Yeah, ghouls like Mandel have written a lot of column inches on the premise of how being mean to conservatives gives them no option but to become fascists.

people should absolutely push back on her ghoulish politics

I’m starting to think we have some woke folk on this thread

Is It OK to Sometimes Be Mean to Certain Awful People on the Internet, a colloquy.

my point is not that people are being too mean to poor old bethany mandel; it's that this sort of shit should be off the table entirely in political discourse.

this is fucking ridiculous, fuck Bethany Mandel and anyone who gives a fuck about her trauma. get a fucking clue

“this should be off the table” guess who put it there

But, but, won't someone think of the children?

Definitely not thinking of the grandmas

“What is a penis plus a vagina? A vagina tooshy!” I mean thank god we homeschool because we could never send Altima to a real school.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 25, 2021

I would like to talk to you about your child's extended warranty.

— The Great Null (@The_Great_Null) March 18, 2023

She is weirdly fixated on children's genitalia.

Aaaaandd I got the delivery guy at KosherMart fired. And my entire $200 order was refunded.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 25, 2011

Wow, DC metro just impressed me a little bit. I made a complaint online about the operator this AM, & they called & will be "retraining" her

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 22, 2009

My maid is effing hilarious. Last week I was close to firing her, but now I never can. http://yfrog.com/1xsj8j

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) November 10, 2009

I think “bethany” should replace “karen”

Just chiming in to say that clowning her for killing her mom is totally fair game. Let's stop beating ourselves up over this nonsense.

she is among the worst people in the world

but also there are people on this board who have specific experience with shutting off a ventilator to a loved one. show some fucking respect

i dont want to prolong the conversation but it seems obvious to me that people are just making fun of the provocatively odd tweet

she did it on purpose looking for trouble if she had just been normal no one wouldve been like haha your mom died

its real sicko shit

you are correct but that's no excuse for anyone here, on this board, to shit on people who, based on personal experience, find said joeks distasteful

xp I mean, most of us feel bad if we clown someone for losing their mom, even if they are an objectively awful person. Most of us aren't Bethany S. Mandel, or Glenn Danzig.

It's all fun & games until Altima has to decide whether or not to pull the plug on Bethany.

glenn danzig real

Might as well have named her child Quotidian.

clowning her for killing her mom is totally fair game

iirc the major objection to her is her inability to imagine the humanity of those she sees as 'other'. crut seems to be the only person besides me who understands that dehumanizing humans is never a good look no matter who is doing it. she didn't kill her mom. her mom was going to die no matter what she decided.

based on her description, at age 16 she was required to decide whether or not it was worth prolonging her mother's life via massive medical interventions that would only allow her mother a bare chance to not die immediately. her mom was dying rapidly anyway. this only was a stepping aside from useless interventions. she is so ignorant that she called it euthanasia, when it was nothing of the sort. the fact that you insist on calling this 'killing her mom' is just a measure of your own ignorance of this kind of situation.

there are people on this board who have specific experience with shutting off a ventilator to a loved one. show some fucking respect

otmfm

"My lovely children Altima, Tercel, Ranger, Corolla & Toyotathon"

Miata wants to change her name to MX-5.

crut seems to be the only person besides me who understands that dehumanizing humans is never a good look no matter who is doing it.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, March 18, 2023 10:53 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i worry you may pull a muscle patting yourself on the back

fuck off

did spending hours scolding people not get you what you were looking for

Nazis and people who punch Nazis are really the same if u think about it.

aimless otm

Let's not argue about who killed who.

not sure why so many of you are digging in on *this precise* reason to hate bethany s. mandel -- it's a cornucopia -- but fucking lay off people who have experience you lack

Guys let’s stop fighting and go out and kill tonight

some people are showing more generosity of interpretation to bethany fuckin mandel than they are to the posters itt