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Greg Pak@gregpak.bsky.social |
More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?
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LG Katzen PhD Votes Biden
@lgkatzphd.bsky.social
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Catholicism has always been fascism curious, if not downright fascism-friendly, if not downright fascist
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
@bbbozzz.bsky.social
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This is completely in line with the Times’ current campaign to annul the results of the primary elections.
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cheyinka
@cheyinka.bsky.social
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Untroubled by futile aspirations of change?! And this wasn't words strung together for a villain's diatribe?
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Chris A Field, Otherverse Games
@otherverseg.bsky.social
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I'm sure Marie Antoinette and Louis 16 are happy to learn their reign was "a brute fact about which nothing could be done."
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Suebob
@suebobdavis.bsky.social
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I don’t want to be an American Idiot.
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Silphium
@infinitejeff.bsky.social
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People who say these things should be 😇😇😇
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Nick, Molly, Dipper and 🌈 Brutus
@knockaboutwok.bsky.social
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UK polls closing in a couple of minutes. 0700 in Australia, going to be an interesting day (they count overnight?)
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Another Betty
@holston.bsky.social
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I think the idea that no one is above the law appeals to both sides. This ruling may help us win the election.
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jdrch
@jdrch.bsky.social
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I like how whoever wrote that confused absolute power with absence of politics. Nothing could be further from the truth. Absolute power just makes politics deadlier to *everyone*, even those happy resigned folks the piece referred to
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Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board
@sidewalkslam.bsky.social
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Found this tweet of his. The NYT thinks this guy is worth printing on the Fourth of July - the birth of American independence - telling people not to vote. Surprise surprise he's a far right tradcath extreme homophobe!
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@roslynn.bsky.social
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There are plenty of places without democracy. I invite him to go to one. He actually has the freedom to do that.
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Lego Dolemite
@psychoalpastor.bsky.social
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I bet he has some IncrediBad Thoughts on why change from divine right of kings ever happened 😬
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RawrTigerlily
@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social
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As a reasonably well informed person who votes & has relevant opinions on politics... why hasn't the NYT ever asked me for an interview? Do I not hang out at the right Nathan's hot dog shop located right around the corner from their offices? How do they constantly find the worst/dumbest people?
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Whim Gruent
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Wait, WHAT I was reading that whole thing like "yeah, that's terrible stuff". And then i read "this happy ideal"?!? ☝️🫤
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Harbinger of Doom
@brandesstoddard.bsky.social
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he's just a lil guy who wants some Supreme Court originalism for his birthday
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Susan Sisko Carter
@siskocarter.bsky.social
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And how 'bout the opinion piece in today's NYT urging people not to vote. Like it was ghost-written by Putin.
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Megaweapon
@megaweapon5.bsky.social
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What? Does Wikipedia happen to have a list of every peasant revolt that happened in the Middle Ages that I could send to this clown?
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Rainbow Nightmare Productions
@rainbownightmare.bsky.social
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New York Times seems like a right wing publication
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Lisa
@queerkitty.bsky.social
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It’s total BS too
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Portland Man
@erikgunderson.bsky.social
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Reprehensible.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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The NYT also allowed him to exclude his partisan inclinations. From the 2018 piece: "In a bland way I hope to see Republicans control various state and national offices. This arises from a single issue: the legality of abortion."
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RTOIT
@rtoit.bsky.social
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Ah, yes, the happy ideal of working like peons under a King, with women firmly under your thumb, popping those little Catholic babies out.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
@mathandstuff.bsky.social
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"No taxation without representation, WHICH YOU SHOULD FOREGO!"
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Lizard
@lizardky.bsky.social
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Except... history is FULL of uprisings, revolts, rebellions, civil wars, and other forms of regime change. The elite, knowing they were outnumbered, had to pay at least some heed to not pissing off the masses to such a degree that said masses would decide "Better death than this!"
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Verity Vagary
@mgcomics.bsky.social
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Pretty sure the fascist aristocrat-capitalist-owned NYT only hires writers who are trained to display this type of fealty on command. They keep a little bell in their hiring office and at the sound of its ring, potential hires must stand and scream "I AM HUMAN FILTH! RULE ME!! RULE ME!!!!!"
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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He has an ignorant child's view of history
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Dueledge
@dueledge.bsky.social
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Kirk Rudell
@rudell.bsky.social
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That’s ok, NYT. There’s no way you’re printing my letter.
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Kaia Bell
@kaiabell.bsky.social
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That’s pretty reminiscent of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680), which defends the divine right of kings with a paternalistic fantasy of social harmony under absolutist governance. This country was literally built on Locke’s refutation of that argument.
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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙
@ashleydoesartstuff.com
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What in the actual fuck is this, and they published it???? Fuck the NYT, for real.
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@bleuchat.bsky.social
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It’s not only anti democratic but flat out false…
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Tamara Keel
@tamslick.bsky.social
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Platforming a closet monarchist on Independence Day is a helluva thing.
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jeff
@reyturner.bsky.social
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This mf said "work will set you free"
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Matt Murphy, PhD
@mjosmurphy.bsky.social
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No, this is written in the same style as my catholic school theology textbooks. This is absolutely the writing of someone who read Leviathan and liked what he saw
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett
@markhb.bsky.social
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I'm at the point where it would take new evidence for me to think the billionaires who own the news aren't trying to secure themselves another trillion dollar tax break to spend on stock buybacks.
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett
@markhb.bsky.social
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The NYT isn't making any secret about wanting King Trump instead of doddery old democracy full of people who don't think what the very rich tell them.
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Castle Bravo
@castlebravoli7.bsky.social
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Not only is this guy an asshole, he’s also wrong: many, many pre-modern regimes were very unstable and changed frequently. The difference is this change would come from civil wars between rival elite factions, wars that reliably immiserated the population
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