Jonah Goldberg:Toxic Asininity

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 6:37pm |

Blogging changed the media business for the worse, and the devolution continues.

"If the New York Times didn’t exist, conservatives would have to create it, because much of the right is more interested in how the Times covers the news than the news it delivers."https://t.co/BxqOY0XOFF
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) March 5, 2021

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Contra Goldberg's meme, there's himself who was pretty damn toxic as a youngin blogger. Then lookit this, I am so very pleased for small favors, here's two more Gen X'ers who grew up in the "where's the outrage?!!!" liberal blogosphere exhibiting wisdom of age:

There's still vota-a-rama to come. But I'll say this for Manchin: The cost he's demanded for his vote, so far, is a lot smaller than what I've seen in past fights from people in his position. Far less destructive than Nelson and Lieberman in 2010... https://t.co/pyXEecqIPw
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 6, 2021

I'm open to counterexamples, but this still looks like the most ambitious and progressive economic package Congress has passed in my lifetime. It will do more to cut poverty, and push full employment, than anything else I've covered.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 6, 2021

I'm angry about the cut to UI and the absence of *any* minimum wage increase in the bill.

At the same time, I'm ELATED the Child Tax Credit is moving through unscathed, and same for EITC, school infrastructure, state and local aid, $1,400 checks, Obamacare boost...
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 6, 2021

Not only that, but Klein just got hired at a NYTimes that was increasingly being populated by continually outraged millennial wokees and Millhiser has become one of the eminence grise growups back at Vox. Things are looking up. I don't need much, just to see some sense and rationality once in a while. I'll find it where it is.

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 11:40pm

I saw Goldberg speak around 2010 and he seemed already like an oddball in a conservative world that was already beginning to take a whole other form.

by Orion on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 7:42am

Here's a recommended alternative for Snopes which has gone downhill, I have not checked it out yet, just sharing it:

I recommend everyone to stop using Snopes and move over to @erumors which is edited by the excellent @brooklynmarie.

Snopes is a cesspool now sadly due to the ownership being... well... something I can't say due to libel laws. https://t.co/U5cPKQvfIt
— Zach D Roberts (@zdroberts) March 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 4:11pm

And i did - very informative

We think it might be time to cancel cancel culture culture:https://t.co/jCN3nm6MUQ
— TruthOrFiction.com (@erumors) March 4, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 5:04pm

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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Avoid the area;

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Read the article at https://ht.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-port-au-prince-haiti-december-25-2023/

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
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Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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