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Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social |
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Editor of Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
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Tom Scocca
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When I was a teen at Aberdeen High I witnessed parents from Fallston lobbying to get a swimming pool for their kids moved up the budget priority list ahead of fixing a leaky elementary school library roof in Havre de Grace
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Tom Scocca
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Harford County and its schools are divided between racially and economically integrated communities along the I-95/Route 40 corridor and white-flight exurbs elsewhere—this is exurban whites blocking the rest of the people in the county from getting the education they want
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Tom Scocca
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Jodie is very impressed by my notes but she hasn't found a way to show me she cares
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Tom Scocca
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Listen to yourselves
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Tom Scocca
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On a losing streak
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Their very first editorial calling for Biden to get out conceded that they’d support him over Trump if he stayed in!
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The second sentence here is true but it’s totally unrelated to the first sentence, which is dead wrong
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Again people keep assuming that Trump’s polling support is all MAGA fanatics, but there just aren’t that many of them
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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If it is true that, in addition to being old, Trump is evil, a liar, and unfit for office (it is), wouldn't it just make more sense to write "The Republican Party Must Speak the Truth to Trump"
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Tom Scocca
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Is Joe Biden the opinion editor—or news editor—of the New York Times? Why does Biden have to do anything to put all the extremely newsworthy facts in this paragraph into heavy rotation at the top of the homepage? Why say "of course" Trump should drop out when you haven't written that he should?
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Tom Scocca
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Who?
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Tom Scocca
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Yes, both of those in harness really
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Tom Scocca
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No, I think the tone of Fox is quite different! I don't think the Times is anti-Harvard; it's so Harvard-identified it felt obligated to take down the president of Harvard in the belief that it would immunize Harvard from the kinds of right-wing attacks the Times was abetting.
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Tom Scocca
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The trans care stuff too—they act as if they have no idea that the proportions of coverage convey meaning
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Tom Scocca
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That doesn't seem quite right to me; if anything, they're tipping their hand as a Democratic newspaper (which expresses itself by acting as if it's responsible for disciplining the Democrats)
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They can say all they want about how they cover both candidates' flaws with equal professional scrutiny but they transparently believe the Democratic nomination is something they have the power to influence and the Republican nomination is something they don't
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Tom Scocca
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It's really something to contrast how the paper sees its role with Biden or Claudine Gay with how it sees its role with Trump or Chris Rufo
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Tom Scocca
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Given the location right by AMNH I'm assuming this is the famous Roth one
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Tom Scocca
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Dang it, lost the game
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Tom Scocca
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Goose meme where the guy is also wearing a hot dog suit
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David_j_roth
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Every big media organization was so crossed-up by Trump winning in 2016 that they have been behaving and hiring as if Long Island-Coded Suburbo-Racist Sociopathy was on an unstoppable ascent worldwide, and interpreting everything backwards from there. It turns out most people actually hate it!
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Tom Scocca
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The post proper may be normative but the meme is just plain ol' descriptive
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Tom Scocca
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This entire election has been in uncharted territory since January 6, 2021, and a whole lot of people who are handsomely paid to report on and explain elections are making a big public spectacle of being staggered by how they've just started to figure that out
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Tom Scocca
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Also, like, the voting public
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Tom Scocca
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Surely everyone who set aside their personal ambitions in 2020 will line up in an orderly fashion and behave like little gentlemen and gentleladies when the press gives Biden one final whack and the candy spills out
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Tom Scocca
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It’s amazing to me that people still handle their dread of Trumpism by mindlessly repeating this invincible superman mythology about a widely despised loser