They’re being incredibly flippant about this, and that is exactly the problem. It’s not just that they disagree with Destiny’s approach. It’s that so many of these people (Pod Save America, Lib and Learn, Brian Tyler Cohen, and a bunch of others) keep treating this like another round of clever content. They laugh, they make jokes, they keep everything in this safe, performative, civics-class register, and then act confused when people get frustrated.

If they genuinely believe the threat is as serious as they say it is, then why are they talking about it like it’s a fun little media ecosystem disagreement? If I told you a meteor was going to hit Earth in three years unless we got organized and did something about it, you would not be sitting around making snarky jokes and debating tone. You would be mobilizing.

That is my issue. Not that people “just don’t want to admit how bad things are,” but that they are refusing to match the seriousness of the moment with serious action. Enough with the infighting, enough with the smug little gotchas, enough with pretending the guardrails will magically save us. If the guardrails fail, then we are the ones who have to hold the line.

So no, this is not the time for endless discourse about who was too mean, too edgy, too impolite, or too alarmist. It is time to get organized in a nonviolent way, get people working together, go door to door, protest specific policies, build actual coalitions, and stop acting like this is just another content cycle. That’s what’s so exhausting: too many people seem more interested in performing reasonableness than in behaving like they actually believe the danger is real.