Indeed he is, and Null doesn't seem to recognize that because he doesn't seem to fully understand WHY Phil is despised. Which is really odd, given that he runs a site dedicated to lolcows. You would think he would be more knowledgeable of how stupid Phil is, and how it takes away from how sympathetic people are able to be with his various plights, no matter what they are.
None of us want a fascist world, we just recognize that some people put themselves more at risk in an arguably increasingly more fascist world than we do, and Phil is one of those people. In fact I would argue that we pull ourselves away from a scarier world by avoiding making martyrs out of people like Phil, because that means washing over their horrible track records, and that's as dangerous as giving bad people power.
It cannot be over-stated that Phil is one of those people who is dangerous with power, too. He's the guy who loves fascist policies, not us, and seeing him getting smacked by his own attitude is going to feel pretty just. Every bit as much as watching Twitch collapse in on itself would, if it were remotely plausible at this point. If Null thinks we wouldn't dance around it's smoldering corpse, he doesn't know us very well. When we feel good about Phil losing his partnership because he's toxic, it's for the same reason he would feel good about shitheads in high positions getting their comeuppance. They're the same people, just with different incomes.
