This blurb made me feel like I'm a dung beetle, because I have to carry thirty times my weight in bullshit
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Dung beetles push massive amounts of shit uphill while steering by the light of the distant stars, and should therefore be the totem animal of the online writer https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-navigate-via-the-milky-way-first-known-in-animal-kingdom/ …
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There's a full version of the article on the guy's website, and it's worth reading as a remarkable cautionary tale of how not to write about Hong Kong. This is possibly the least competent bit of parachute analysis I've seen on the crisis, and that's in a competitive fieldpic.twitter.com/RvMGUm7VRl
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Checklist for parachute journalists in Hong Kong: * doesn't speak Cantonese * spends less than a week in Hong Kong * interviews other westerners * quotes Mao * dismisses protesters' five demands in favor of more esoteric, big picture explanation * cites airport, graffitti
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@wilfredchan) HEY@NFERGUS WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?pic.twitter.com/tTNTOO7Qkw
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I don't even care about edgelord stuff like bringing in Woody Allen or comparing Chinese and Japanese people to ants in a way that dares people to get upset. It's the pineapple-bun-and-butter errors, like declaring that the protests are finished a week before 380K people marchedpic.twitter.com/tp1XaF0mCW
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The reason I reserve special ire for people like Ferguson and Brooks and even Thomas Friedman is that these were once intelligent people whose brains turned to tapioca through punditry without them apparently noticing. It's a terrifying fate to imagine for oneself.
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*slaps top of article* This bad boy can fit so many bad takes in it.
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Did he actually think this was a good idea because I want to know what sort of headspace makes someone think this is a good idea
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a real voice for the voiceless, and by 'voiceless' i mean 'woody allen and also the feature film antz'
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