The Washington Publish’s in-house cry-bully Taylor Lorenz made a hysterical try to blame capitalism and local weather change for little one melancholy.

The Publish columnist tried to wokescold the Twitterverse together with her concept on the supposed true trigger behind little one melancholy. “Individuals are like ‘why are children so depressed it have to be their PHONES!’ However by no means point out the truth that we’re dwelling in a late stage capitalist hellscape throughout an ongoing lethal pandemic w file wealth inequality, 0 social security web/job safety, as local weather change cooks the world,” she stated. Lorenz lectured that “u need to be delusional to take a look at life in our nation rn and have any amt of hope or optimism.” Maybe the draconian COVID-19 lockdowns and extended college closures harming little one improvement have a greater correlation to the issue of kid melancholy, however not in keeping with Lorenz, who has a historical past of defending Communist China’s COVID-19 lockdown insurance policies. 

Individuals are like “why are children so depressed it have to be their PHONES!” However by no means point out the truth that we’re dwelling in a late stage capitalist hellscape throughout an ongoing lethal pandemic w file wealth inequality, 0 social security web/job safety, as local weather change cooks the world

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) February 20, 2023

Social media influencer Ian Miles Cheong summarized the final Twitterverse response to Lorenz’ nonsense: “What’s her harm? Fascinating solutions solely.” 

What’s her harm? Fascinating solutions solely. pic.twitter.com/Mlax9UPsiG

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 21, 2023

Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl retorted: “Possibly its simply me, however I used to be depressed at 14 as a result of I wished a girlfriend, events, a job, my face to clear up, and a strategy to unscramble Cinemax. I wasn’t worrying obsessively about ‘late-stage capitalism’ and billionaires skewing the wealth distribution in eighth grade.”

Lorenz was apparently oblivious to the truth that her job at The Publish exists due to capitalism. One of many world’s richest liberal billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, actually saved Lorenz’ employer from monetary collapse when he bought The Publish for a whopping $250 million in 2013. Even the ego-centric By no means-Trumper and Dispatch Editor-in-Chief Jonah Goldberg identified the obvious hypocrisy:

That is so sophomoric. ‘0 social security web’? First, that’s simply not true. Second, does anybody consider center and higher class children are depressed as a result of they suppose we lack a security web? ‘Late stage’ capitalism is the one cause why this author has a beat, btw.

Conservative radio host Dan Bongino simply responded to Lorenz with a bevy of laughing emojis. Podcaster Tim Pool speculated whether or not Lorenz “has a psychological incapacity.” He continued: “[I] am critical and never attempting to be imply. [I] suppose she wants somebody who cares about her to take her cellphone away and convey her to some kind of rehabilitation.”

Lorenz apparently didn’t recognize the tidal wave of mockery that her ignorant tweets acquired, and tried to do a little bit of deflection:

All of the folks yelling that capitalism is definitely going nice and everybody within the U.S. ought to be cheerful and completely happy: If ur so content material with ur life then wyd on right here getting all labored up?

Though many have mocked Lorenz, The Web Archive’s Wayback Machine is constant to defend Lorenz’ tweets from being enshrined on its database. When MRC Enterprise tried to archive Lorenz’ tweets on capitalism, the Wayback Machine responded with: “This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine” – the identical line it gave when Lorenz doxxed and named the previously nameless Libs of TikTok account. Apparently the Web Archive is content material with defending stupidity. 

Conservatives are underneath assault. Contact The Web Archive at 415-561-6767 and inform it to revive the flexibility for customers to archive Lorenz’ tweets.