Every so often, from the likes of Pro Publica, there's a great article about issues with the US healthcare system and its ability to respond to crises or provide emergency services. Every day on twitter, people are hot boxing some take about whether Miss Piggy is a manspreader
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And the take world is terrifying, because most takes amount to personalized micro-concerns fluffed up with universalized language by writers and editors looking to push each take as the ur-take. It's fascinating but very distracting from material problems
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This is a structural problem. That's why I never call out individual writers. But it's a problem that ties directly into larger issues, like the latest national state of emergency, because our media is conditioned to push these individualized take responses one after the other
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Why are they forced to produce this disingenuous content ? Why won’t other forms of the same type of content pay the bills?
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