Jose posted:

Lmao

https://twitter.com/besf0rt/status/1382724225010651149?s=19

brugroffil posted:

Npr shows and other public radio shows like This American Life are usually a decent chunk in the top 10 or 20 most listened podcasts

E: half seems to be overstating it though

https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-top-50-most-listened-to-u-s-podcasts-of-2020/

Lol that Adam carolla cracks the to 50

Jose posted:

Lol they really do believe they're heroes and not scum

https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1382287998608367616?s=19

Jose posted:

Lol they really do believe they're heroes and not scum

https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1382287998608367616?s=19

KomradeX posted:

What journalist in the mainstream press stands for any of that?

quote:

“The city’s homeless are not the visible presence one sees on street corners in New York or Washington. They seldom panhandle aggressively. There are no homeless squeegee men—that trade, along with furtive sales of flowers, street atlases and other frills to drivers stalled in traffic jams, is controlled by those, however poor, who still have roofs over their heads.”

The first thing to note is that Wines instinctively excludes from the start the idea that his readers might be, or have ever been, homeless themselves—the homeless in America he describes as people “one sees on street corners.” But more important is the way Wines himself observes the homelessness phenomenon. He does it from behind the windshield of that Audi of his. The homeless in his mind are people who bother him when he has the misfortune to be stuck at a traffic light. That’s what the problem of homelessness means to him. It’s a quality-of-life issue for people with Audis; the more homelessness there is, the more annoying squeegee men there. The man is simply incapable of grasping the more serious problem of what it means to actually be poor and have no place to live, because he clearly cannot conceive of himself, or anyone he knows, ever being homeless. He is genetically incapable of it, it seems.

What’s more, Wines is simply wrong. The streets of Moscow are full of homeless people. Homeless children, even. They are in the doorways of every apartment building at night and the Metro stations are full of them. Old women in particular stand at bus stops and outside stores and in Metro stations and ask for money “na khlebushku.” Wines wouldn’t know this, however, because he never takes public transportation. He hasn’t gotten out of that goddamn Audi since he came to Moscow.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Main Paineframe posted:

I say this a lot, but the article is even worse than the tweet suggests

the conclusion the writer draws is that Americans would like to see journalists become more deferential and loyal to authority figures and national institutions

because the groupings of the results are based off the theories of a radical centrist pop psychologist, who took up political psychology because he wanted to learn how to help Dems win more, and seeks to apply his theories about the biological basis of morality to political polling

fart simpson posted:

that’s cool but i am still very interested as to why you think killing communists is better than killing gays. i don’t get it

VideoTapir posted:

That reminds me of this classic.

https://exiledonline.com/feature-new-york-times-hack-eats-horse-sperm-pie/


This douche went on to Beijing after that.

quote:

About a year before Vladimir Putin came to power, Wines wrote:

“Much of the world is still Hobbesian, looking to strongmen to impose order on lives that are nasty, brutish and short.

“‘It’s the concept that the state as an entity is much more important than the life of one human being,’ said Yevgenia Albats, an author and independent journalist who writes about human rights issues here. ‘Pinochet is a hero in the press here. For a lot of writers, the fact that he killed 100,000 people before Chile had its economic miracle is just not a question.’

“The West finds such views alien.”

Only a year and a half later, Wines was arguing the exact opposite. His breakthrough 4,700-word blowjob profile of Vladimir Putin last February set the standard for the Western embrace of Putin as the “new Pinochet” who would bring order and economic stability to Russia. America was supporting Putin at the time as a guarantor of Western business, you see. Far from finding the appearance of a Hobbesian strongman “alien,” Wines on the contrary went to extraordinary lengths to not only explain away the ambiguities of Putin’s past, but to actively advertise his authoritarian instincts as positives. The same man who had argued that Russia’s totalitarian past had made it morally inferior to the West was now insisting that young Russians under Soviet rule had only joined the KGB in order to expand their minds; he also argued that the KGB had in fact not been so bad after all, and that only the guilty had something to hide from it:

“For many, [the KGB] was also a coveted career choice, a club of elite Soviets given superior education and a unique chance to sample the forbidden world—if only to fight it…. It still had ears and eyes everywhere and was vigilant for any signs of dissidence, but those who knew their place and their limits could stay out of the KGB web.”

fart simpson posted:

that’s cool but i am still very interested as to why you think killing communists is better than killing gays. i don’t get it

KomradeX posted:

What journalist in the mainstream press stands for any of that?

fart simpson posted:

lol on the latest moderate rebels they called out “brown moses” as being an untalented hack who got his start by helping run online chat forums and playing video games

fart simpson posted:

lol on the latest moderate rebels they called out “brown moses” as being an untalented hack who got his start by helping run online chat forums and playing video games

fart simpson posted:

lol on the latest moderate rebels they called out “brown moses” as being an untalented hack who got his start by helping run online chat forums and playing video games

fart simpson posted:

lol on the latest moderate rebels they called out “brown moses” as being an untalented hack who got his start by helping run online chat forums and playing video games

fart simpson posted:

that’s cool but i am still very interested as to why you think killing communists is better than killing gays. i don’t get it

fart simpson posted:

that’s cool but i am still very interested as to why you think killing communists is better than killing gays. i don’t get it

Main Paineframe posted:

because the groupings of the results are based off the theories of a radical centrist pop psychologist, who took up political psychology because he wanted to learn how to help Dems win more, and seeks to apply his theories about the biological basis of morality to political polling

Cerebral Bore posted:

so when are you making this guy a d&d mod?

Stringent posted:

he's already a d&d mod so

KomradeX posted:

That does kind of answer the question though

Vomik posted:

why is the nyt just reposting cia reports? i saw the new oped about how "spy agencies say future is bleak" and couldn't believe my eyes

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/EdAsante77/status/1383237170199101440

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/EdAsante77/status/1383237170199101440

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1383204058052362242?s=19