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Written by Adam Newbold on 2025-01-22 at 17:29

New blog post: Accountability

https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/01/accountability

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Written by Adam Newbold on 2025-01-22 at 17:34

From one of my emails to Manton yesterday:

“When I screw up, I own it. If I do something that warrants criticism, I welcome it. I learn from it. I grow as a person, I change, and I become something better than I was before.”

I was raised to know that if I screwed up, I would be held accountable. But these days, the playbook is to dodge it at all costs.

What a shame, since accountability builds trust.

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Written by Courtney on 2025-01-22 at 17:33

@adam "[Vincent] just likes rockets." That this is still a rationale being used today on Manton's post about muting you is infuriating. That Manton continues to ignore any accountability is worse.

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Written by Adam Newbold on 2025-01-22 at 17:38

@n3verm0re Of course he’s going to make it about rockets. The deflection machine hums along.

I like rockets too, but I won’t financially support the billionaire Nazi oligarch who harassed and disowned his transgender daughter.

How Manton can’t allow himself to acknowledge the optics here is beyond me. But I guess he’s going to keep digging.

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Written by phipunk on 2025-01-22 at 20:20

@adam @n3verm0re If it was about rockets he’d be quietly posting his admiration on his own site without links to the Birthday Boy’s feed, not jumping up and down with at-mentions and sycophancy.

Talk about performative.

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Written by Benjamin Bouvier 🥐 on 2025-01-22 at 21:13

@adam thanks, it's very well put.

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Written by Jared “Indie Social Web” White on 2025-01-22 at 19:20

@adam 🤦🏻‍♂️

I am growing weary of Manton's gaslighting and PR spin on this. He had multiple opportunities to explain his larger point and also convince us of his own good faith on these issues, and instead he continues to act like you are the problem for being so nasty.

I'm sorry, this is not how we conduct ourselves in the year 2025 when civil liberties in America are literally being stripped away every single day. To anyone who's listening: you're either an ally…or you're not. Walk the walk.

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Written by Adam Newbold on 2025-01-22 at 19:25

@jaredwhite I appreciate you for saying this. I think a lot of people are realizing it now, but too few are speaking up.

We’re not going to achieve a world (or an internet, or a social web) with genuine inclusivity unless we call out hateful attitudes loudly and clearly.

Like I said yesterday, I’m finished giving people the benefit of the doubt on this stuff. Come out and show who you are; nobody deserves to thrive in moral ambiguity any longer.

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