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Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Not sure how shitposting is going to get us to One Billion Americans, but gosh he'll keep trying!

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Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Dreylad posted:

are these sociopaths or just really acute cases of narcissistic personality disorder

A sociopath is just a narcissist without the lack of money to make the self-orientarion delusions a pathology. Rich Eccentric vs. Poor Crazy

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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huge lols

https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1318302835633696768?s=21

CNN is gonna have to find a new SCOTUS wonk during a 6-3land / 13 judges for 13 circuits cultural zeitgeist

hate to see it

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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pospysyl posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1317933744234389506

Doesn't the Times base their stories off of politicians' press releases, like, all the time?

The "for $22" is the part they are mad at.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Has anyone been named & shamed for putting a Nazi on their platform, or is the Daily Mail just using the incident as a way to advertise Nazi culture?

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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These capitalist ghouls are gonna do for jacking off on Zoom what they did to #MeToo, amazing

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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"most americans" is going to do a whole lot of work in that op-ed if turnout is high enough that non-voters doesn't even form a plurality or even a distant second

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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genocide via smallpox blankets for good reasons

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Like the writer has gone to ground, but will we ever know who edited this piece of poo poo either?

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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double negative posted:

https://twitter.com/patrickhealynyt/status/1319736339034669060

correction: my previous explanatory tweet thread did not actually explain anything

At least we know who was (ir)responsible for editing the piece. Take-First, Check-Second journalism specialist. You'll find better reporting in ESPN athlete profiles.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

Since this is the new york times thread do you really think they have to care about making money? They are a propaganda outlet first and foremost. They have all sorts of sources of funding that isn't tied at all to readership.

Is NYT ownership & brand recognition Too Big To Fail? I know the WaPo has gently caress You money, but the NYT publisher is just a legacy failson iirc

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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I love when the Tour De France gets front page of the NYT Sport section despite being the fiftieth thing americans care about. Really establishes that the publisher has a tale on what the world "should" be, market be damned.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Remember when the show with the Firefly captain guy was getting completely poo poo ratings and kept getting more seasons because it turned out that everyone who was watching were the people who bought Mercedes-Benz?

The New York Times is that for newspapers.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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finding endemic corruption in US politics uninteresting is why there is endemic corruption in US politics

personally I find the Hunter story as interesting as the guy who crashed airplanes for insurance fraud turning out to be an international arms dealer

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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CharlestheHammer posted:

getting your son a job is probably the least important of the many many ways Congress is corrupt.

like if you focus on that rather than the fact they can insider trade or everything to do with lobbying there is something wrong with you.

like this isn’t dealing with corruption, it’s celebrity gossip

lol "it is corruption, but you shouldn't care about the corruption, because it isn't really corruption"

I can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time, I can identify endemic political corruption in US politics across multiple avenues. Having a standard of integrity isn't more work so you don't need to lower the bar.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Joe Biden's crack-smoking failson getting set for life with all the Hooker & Blow money he could ever need IS the profit for the scheme. That is how you get endemic corruption of US politics.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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CharlestheHammer posted:

no you really can’t. there is a reason people are talking about this and not the other poo poo. because it doesn’t matter.

The point of this it to focus it on Joe Biden, but rich dads getting their dumb kids cushy jobs will happen as long as they exist and doesn’t even really negatively effect you.

it’s politics, I don’t give a gently caress about integrity it’s never going to be a thing. I do care about the corruption that has real Impact on people.

The reason there is endemic political corruption in US politics is because someone sees that Sen Schumer's kid getting a bullshit job from Facebook and says "that doesn't really effect me".

Declaring that you personally have no standards and don't believe in integrity is a loud way to say Please Bribe Me, so I hope they see this, bro

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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CharlestheHammer posted:

No the reason corruption is a problem is because it was codified into the system and used for how the system itself works. lobbying isn’t a problem because it’s bribery, hell at this point it isn’t bribery it’s a legitimate part of the system.

though you can continue to cry about something that ultimately doesn’t matter just know punishing Biden or whatever you think the end game here is doesn’t address the problems in any real way

Get that bag, homie. Hope one day someone thinks that you are important enough to pay off.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Why are you talking about holding anyone to a standard ha ha it be weird if you could make money off corruption ha ha no one would be punished its cool, but no one would ever be corrupt........ unless?

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Scrub-Niggurath posted:

“it’s not really corruption when everyone does it” is such a terrible outlook and is how you get organized crime syndicates in charge of everything

But have you considered the very Logical And Pragmatic position that I, personally, will benefit from the rule of the Leopards Eating People's Face party?

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Main Paineframe posted:

no, the reason there's endemic political corruption in US politics is because someone sees Sen Schumer's kid getting a bullshit job from Facebook and says "I wish I could do that for my kid". it's not like anyone thinks these high-paid executive jobs are a meritocracy anyway

the underlying problem is the inherent inequality of the American system, in which powerful people hoard a small amount of influential and high-paying jobs, and can hand those positions to whoever they wish without needing the recipients to actually be competent at anything

...I don't see where we disagree at all, other than apparently this means that having literally any standard of integrity for Electeds, a comparable amount to the number of NBA players, is So Impossible.

We ban athletes for life for betting on their games. Stop being a Temporarily Unbribed Six-Figurnaire and have a single standard in your lives.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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https://twitter.com/qjurecic/status/1321096530602897413?s=21

Media-on-media violence

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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From the Succ thread:



The NYT wants to know if you can tell whether a fridge belongs to a Trump Voter or Biden Voter just by a picture of its contents

...yeah, they really are doing market research on their readers to see which brands are too MAGA or not.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Mechafunkzilla posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/trump-trade-international-relations.html

A truly smoothbrained take from Paul Krugman today about how the US was a model international citizen and good-faith actor before Trump came along. The irony is that his premise is wrong, but so is his conclusion -- countries will defer to the US because it is in the interests of capital for them to do so, not because the US is trustworthy or not.

This is like saying that the Sun King Louis XIV was a model member of the royal Court to the Palace of Versailles. The hegemony defines it model, my guy.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Its no Dr. V's Magic Putter level of correction-longer-than-the-article but it sounds like the Atlantic wanted to talk about the Varsity Blues scandal and hired a bad freelancer to fill page space.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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https://mobile.twitter.com/250in2018/status/1322963680959614981

Its Sunday, must be time for some War Pig features

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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joepinetree posted:

There is no contradiction between being white and Hispanic. In fact, over half of all Hispanics and Latinos identify as white on the census.

What is hosed up is to discuss this and to try to make this determination because of an election. An election where the shift to Trump among Latinos was actually smaller than the shift to Trump among black men and women.



Is what she is saying applicable to them as well? Or is this just a convenient scapegoat to avoid talking about what a failure the democrats are?

All shifts are explainable because of Machismo.

Believing Trump when he promises that policies will help you? Machismo
Knocking on doors during a pandemic to show that the election is really important? Machismo
Non-voters coming in to rally around the flag during a crisis? Machismo

The solution is clear- pay me to write about this

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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They Keep Getting Caught Doing This

https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1325185878550048768?s=20

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Does Joe Biden Have A Low Income Landlord Problem?


by a credulous ivy leaguer on a chud safari

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Clark Nova posted:

A convincing argument, but from experience I know that if yascha mounk says there isn't a coup happening, there is definitely a coup happening

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Breakfast All Day posted:

who couldve guessed the fourth estate was a sublet

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Dukeboss

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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DoubleDonut posted:

still searching for what unique thoughts Matty has to offer the world other than One Billion Americans, an idea so good only Glenn Beck would recognize it

To Matty's credit, One Billion Americans has the cocaine-clarity that only someone with a direct-from-the-CIA/Contras connection can achieve.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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an actual dog posted:

I love if substack saves journalism by freeing these companies from overpaid columnists

How Millenial Unionism Is Killing The Well-Heeled Out-Of-Touch Columnist Industry

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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NYT serving as Centrist Ghoul welfare, I see.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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zegermans posted:

Liz Bruenig's papism will forever confound me. She wrote some article about how ACB will have a faith conflict with the death penalty and then immediately uses her first vote to execute someone

It would be very rude to suggest that someone who remained a Catholic through the endemic sexual abuse of children and its ongoing cover-up by leadership is a simple person distracted by trappings and head nods towards morals.

Real rude.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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If I wanted to make papacy-posting a full-time gimmick I'd rereg as BRUENIG MAN HEP STRAIN

The NYT column had a Sister-Merry-Christmas Tree-rear end surface read of "what a TruCath would do", and I really wish the columnist would expand and deepen their tool bag to something other than Catholic Daily Show Scolding.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:

As noted elsewhere, this was just the latest in a series of articles by Bruenig about this one death row inmate aimed at saving him from execution. What is gained by mocking Bruenig's sincere but failed attempt to end the death penalty in the same tone that you would mock Trump's sincere but failed attempt to outlaw antifa? What are you and thousands of other so-called leftists trying to achieve here?

The catholic church is a huge and diverse institution, there are entire separate university systems where professors of one will write papers about how the other professors are full of poo poo. No matter the sincerity, the reason it failed is because it was a very simple-minded appeal to a stated descriptor of a SCOTUS judge wherein all that matters is whether someone is your flavor of catholic or not. The NYT writer should, if they have sincerity, do better.

Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:

There isn't much diversity on the death penalty question. If you had read the article, you would know that even Barrett has previously acknowledged the conflict between Church teaching and the death penalty, so, in a purely religious context, she's clearly not on the opposite side of this argument from Bruenig.

I have acknowledged a conflict between the Leopards Eating People's Faces and the fact that I am in the broad category of People.

Ah! Well, Nevertheless

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Gerund
Sep 12, 2007

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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:

Okay I guess people opposed to capital punishment should just shut the gently caress up until there are five liberal justices then.

I think they should stop appealing to the shared humanity of their oppressors. The reason that the libs hated the last season of GoT is because it told them that if you give someone a Dragon they will discover a reason to use said Dragon.

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