Whereupon We Pontificate About Poor Media Outlet Choices

[goofy]

josie duffy rice

Senator Ted Cruz

lol Taibbi is a pathetic simp who absolutely knows where his bread is buttered now

[McTrollson]

The whole “Whether or not the public is right about the lab leak, IDK” line from Nate just gives it away completely. This is actually what’s important here? The Substack idiots are in such a bubble that the origins of COVID are an unimportant little detail, what matters is how unfair the media is to guys with uninformed, xenophobic takes.

[riverman]

Name that publication

[eyebooger]

Oscar Gonzalez

[goofy]

lol I was going to guess National Review or NY Post, but deep down I had a feeling when I clicked through eyebooger’s tweet that yes, it was gonna be the WSJ being that openly bigoted

[VoteForSocialists]

@eyebooger

2 veterans

sounds like the author doesn’t support the TROOPS!

[pvn]

please tell me this is the pitchbot

I know it’s not but holy fuck

[VoteForSocialists]

fucking fuck, just fucking cancel this blowhard, or both, i don’t care

[boredsocial]

My guess is WSJ.

[pvn]

is “raise taxes on the rich” effective wording for democrats? would it poll better if it’s framed as reversing the Trump billionaire giveaways or something like that?

[McTrollson]

I don’t have any real data on this but sticking it to the rich just has to be political gold for Dems. The right really isn’t all that jazzed up about tax cuts these days, the Trump cuts were supposed to be a big win for them but no one really cared.

[goofy]

https://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/1635368631981965313

re: this article

UPenn Accuses a Law Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired?

Even while the article enumerates on many statements she’s made, in public, that are plainly racist, the chickenshit authors refuse to call her racist or to frame this as anything other than a real debate about “academic freedom”:

Professor Wax has denied saying anything belittling or racist to students, and her supporters see her as a truth teller about affirmative action, immigration and race. They agree with her argument that she is the target of censorship and “wokeism” because of her conservative views.

Hmm, her supporters say that. Do you, as the fucking reporters writing this story, have any thoughts about whether they are accurately describing this woman?

Amy Wax, a law professor, has said publicly that “on average, Blacks have lower cognitive ability than whites,” that the country is “better off with fewer Asians” as long as they tend to vote for Democrats, and that non-Western people feel a “tremendous amount of resentment and shame.”

At the University of Pennsylvania, where she has tenure, she invited a white nationalist to speak to her class.
…
Along the way, her rhetoric grew more extreme. She has described some non-Western countries as “shitholes” and stated that “women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men.”

Speaking with Mr. Carlson last year, she said “American Blacks” and people from non-Western countries feel shame for the “outsized achievements and contributions” of Western people.

On a recent podcast, she said, “I often chuckle at the ads on TV which show a Black man married to a white woman in an upper-class picket-fence house,” she said, adding, “They never show Blacks the way they really are: a bunch of single moms with a bunch of guys who float in and out. Kids by different men.”

And these are just the statements she’s made in public venues, the article has many more examples of things students (and colleagues!) claimed she said. But nah, better just print both sides of the story and call it a day.

[riverman]

A Jewish nazi. Interesting

[McTrollson]

lol

The Serfs

[McTrollson]

[CaffeineNeeded]

Wait Singal is the reporter right?

They couldn’t have committed a HIPAA violation. That only applies to covered entities and he most certainly isn’t one

[grue]

EDITORIAL | A promising life derailed by marijuana

REEFER MADNESS. You know its a solid, fact based article when they disable comments.

[goofy]

@CaffeineNeeded do you know if this is legit?

Catherine was among those who develop psychosis after using the drug. She suffered from auditory hallucinations, delusional thinking, extreme anxiety and slowed mental capacity that permanently derailed her promising young life.
…
Research on marijuana lags behind legalization efforts but supports Mayberry’s point: Some people are at higher risk than others for cannabis-associated psychosis. These include people with genetic susceptibility, a family history of psychotic disorders or a history of childhood trauma, according to a 2014 medical journal article.

Like, people are perfectly normal and then smoke weed and then they’re never the same? Wat

[pvn]

alternative theory: the boomers that wrote this editorial have brain worms

[CaffeineNeeded]

People with psych disorders get worse when you take most drugs. That’s all that is really, and it seems like she had some sort of psychotic disorder that would have happened without marijuana.