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Hmm, I wonder why US patients don't trust their doctors: they're probably just being pushy and unreasonable!
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I read Ross Douthat taking about philosophical disputes within the religious right about the current direction of Republican policy and it gave me this weird feeling, like I was reading a 17th century Jesuit discussion about the legitimacy of obeying a ruler's orders when the ruler has lost faith but only admitted that to their confessor or something.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/opinion/2020-democrats-change-structural.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage This dude - a professor of Sociology, no less! - writes a thousand word article when he could just have said: "Rich people will always find a way to avoid taxes, so why bother trying to make them pay?  ".
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I kind of admire the psychotic need of the commentariat class to be respected at all times. If Twitter has taught me anything, it's that the opinion-column writing classes are universally petty, thin-skinned and not actually particularly clever or well-informed (although they're usually well-connected to the people who hand out the journalism jobs).
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Dreylad posted:I wish we could abolish social media entirely and reduce these idiots to having their platform be a soapbox on the corner of a city street Twitter has been hugely important in developing my understanding that the media class are just a bunch of petty, insecure failsons (and faildaughters) who actually know less about what's going on than the average person in the street. Without social media, it's conceivable that I could still be looking at their flattering thumbnail portraits, reading the dross written below and assuming that there must be some sort of validity to it, because why else would a newspaper be publishing it?
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School Nickname posted:They want the plebs to buy what the banks have at the highest possible prices and be left holding the bag of poo poo when crypto is banned or whatever. As for as the NYT is concerned, their readers are the Greater Fools.
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May 1, 2021 05:04
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Vomik posted:I realize different slang and word usage but whenever I read something written by an English person I have no problem figuring it out EXCEPT English media. every time I read a British journalists tweets I feel like I’m having a stroke and I can’t tel which side they’re on They're all on the side of the Establishment: their tweets are working as intended.
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Robert Peston is so helpless and silly that I'm pretty sure he has an intern come round to tie his shoelaces for him every morning.
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I've now actually read the New Yorker article about the genetics lady and, if nothing else, she certainly excels at self-publicity!An extremely sympathetic reporter posted:Harden, who has moss-colored eyes, a wry smile, and an earnest nonchalance, met me at a coffee shop that looked as though it had been airlifted that morning from San Francisco. She wore a soft flannel shirt, faded stone-washed jeans, and dark Ray-Ban sunglasses. The air was hot and dry, but Harden is the sort of person who seems accompanied by a perpetual breeze. 
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My favorite bit of the article was when she got into a big slapfight with the other members of her faculty, as a result of them reacting like big, dumb, blinkered ideologues when all she was doing was asking certain questions in a clear-eyed and forthright manner.
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StashAugustine posted:
Korean traditional nation dress is objectively the worst national dress known to humanity. 
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Sep 17, 2021 08:41
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Jose posted:Lmfao You cannot exaggerate just how extraordinarily deranged the UK press is.
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sexpig by night posted:god I loving hate zionists so much, of course that was the actual story and this idiot just lied. You seem to be suggesting that there's something dishonest about taking a story that goes: "Author refuses offer from Israeli publishing house because she opposes the Occupation and supports BDS" and reframing it as: "Author refuses to allow her book to be translated into Hebrew because she hates Jewish people". Very anti-semitic.
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When you search for the authors of these sort of articles, you invariably find that they've been getting paid to bang the same identical drum for years and years.  
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Seeing every faction in the UK Establishment unite as one to monster this mild-mannered social democrat when it looked like he might possibly win an election was my personal crack-ping moment lol.
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Jose posted:you'd think plagiarism and maliciously editing wikipedia pages of other writers he doesn't like would be enough to get you kicked out of british journalism but then you'd be mistaken for thinking they care about anything except protecting their mates Yeah, the personal examples he gives in that piece are pure stdh lol.
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DrPossum posted:I'm glad someone finally realized that no one is really catering to the 200M college educated english speakers UK edition: What about those Brexit voters, hey? Aren't they just dumb and utterly uninformed, completely unlike us US edition: What about those Trump supporters, hey? Aren't they just dumb and utterly uninformed, completely unlike us
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Corbyn was such a litmus test for the liberal opinion-having class and they almost universally failed it lol.
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Breakfast All Day posted:starmer used the same language, they mustve put out a new edition of the centrist style guide Acknowledging that the army murdered a bunch of British citizens and that the entire Establishment ensured that none of the culprits ever faced justice is awfully un-Grownup politics, don't you know.
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So, that CNN+ things had the plug pulled already: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/business/cnn-plus-shutting-down.html The nyt posted:In a move that stunned the media and tech worlds, Warner Bros. Discovery said on Thursday that it will abruptly shut down CNN+ on April 30. “While today’s decision is incredibly difficult, it is the right one for the long-term success of CNN,” Chris Licht, the network’s incoming president, told staff.
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Eh, I was expecting it to limp along losing money for at least a couple of years before they cut their losses. Am honestly impressed that the new top guy looked at it, said: "this is a poo poo idea" and decisively canned it tbh.
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thotsky posted:
I mean, he's not wrong: the sanctions are doing more harm than good, he's not getting a lot of love for pointing it out though.
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I dunno what's worse: the article or the comments. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/opinion/progressive-nonprofits-philanthropy.html The nyt posted:
Spoiler: Galston's take sucks, as does the entire article.
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Jun 29, 2022 22:29
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Vox Nihili posted:"For three days, I can’t speak to my son. I can hardly bear to look at him. I decide this is rational." Hey, she's a narcissistic, highly strung, middle class Guardian journalist. Or, more succinctly, a Guardian journalist.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:journalist stenographer A succinct and accurate description of Janan Ganesh.
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Us, the good guys, we invade sovereign states like this. Those dudes, the bad guys, they invade sovereign states like that.
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*adopts bizarre, 'smugly furious' tone* Oh, looks like Putler's puppets have infested this thread, have they? How much is the Kremlin paying you to make these posts?
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Also, looks like Vice Media is about to go broke: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/01/vice-media-group-bankruptcy-report quote:
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May 2, 2023 06:01
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If you suggest that perhaps the Western media isn't being entirely straight with us about the whole Ukraine thing, people get incredibly mad at you and start shrieking and hammering the report button. It's like the reaction to the Iraq war all over again, except even more annoying, 'cos you'd think people would know better this time round.
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May 2, 2023 06:14
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The best portrayal of Cleopatra was of course in HBO's Rome, where she's played as a messed-up junkie piece of eurotrash.
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KomradeX posted:Russia's claim that it won in Bakhmut may be meaningless — and a good sign for Ukraine's upcoming counteroffensive Russia: *Captures Bakhmut* The media: "Ha ha: now the Ukrainians have them surrounded, masterful!"
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Best Friends posted:it’s been over a year of nonstop victories and mowing down endless waves of Russians, and we aren’t hearing of a new Russian mobilization, so the only possible conclusion is that Russia is almost done for. The real question is, when will Ukraine drop the final, killing blow? Russia's been losing so hard and so consistently through the entire war, that it's quite the puzzle how they're still in Ukraine at all, let alone advancing. Oh well, best not to think about it too hard! 
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If you're out by yourself on some unfamiliar hillside and a bunch of dudes who know the area get the jump on you, you're probably going to die whether you're a raw conscript or the most super, bad-rear end operator in the world. It's not like their elite status gave them the ability to magically levitate themselves away to safety.
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May 23, 2023 14:16
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guys is he euthanized or not I need closure
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Jun 19, 2023 21:07
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I said that this missing submarine would generate Discourse with a capital D and that's a lovely example lol.
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Jun 22, 2023 23:04
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Clark Nova posted:does that happen with all their articles or just barefoot eugenics? Tried a GIS of "Kathryn Paige Harden feet". Very disappointing results.
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Jul 7, 2023 16:54
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Thanks for introducing me to yet another smug Twitter nerd, I guess!
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Oct 31, 2023 00:32
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How loving tone-deaf do you need to be to publish pieces like: "People keep waving Palestinian flags and it's making me feel awkward and uncomfortable: I'm a victim!" when there's an ongoing massacre of Palestinians happening right now.
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Nov 6, 2023 14:15
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RandolphCarter posted:good god Yeah, Churchill was a real old-fashioned 19th century scientific racist, who believed that: a) races were totally a thing b) some races were inherently superior to others c) that it was the destiny and responsibility of the White race to dominate the world and oversee and supervise the activities of all the lesser races (everyone else).
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An article in which a liberal journalist expresses his puzzlement that the voters are indicating a preference for Trump over Biden, even though the media has made very clear who they should be supporting: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/07/donald-trump-joe-biden-state-poll-2024-president-election quote:
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