Name one year in history that ever repeated another year. Yet we always try to use old years to tell a story of right now.
"It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind."https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter …
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What about the American right? Feels like they’ve lost their minds at both extremes. America is a country of extremes.
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No one we know doubts this is true of the right. The evidence is in the White House. And yes, America is a country of extremes along many dimensions. In the past it was held together by some powerful centripetal forces, which have now disappeared: http://paulgraham.com/re.html
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It would be a bit easier to take Matt Taibbi seriously if his brain hadn't fallen out of his head the day Trump was elected
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Protip: twitter search will find tweets commenting on URLs regardless of the parameters (usu marketing) added to the end of the URL. This doesn't work in reverse. Hence I always trim links prior to sharing. 1/2 ...
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Compare these two searches of trimmed URL vs your original. I've added filter:images to lessen results. Trimmed: https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Aimages%20https%3A%2F%2Ftaibbi.substack.com%2Fp%2Fthe-news-media-is-destroying-itself&src=typed_query&f=live … Untrimmed: https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Aimages%20https%3A%2F%2Ftaibbi.substack.com%2Fp%2Fthe-news-media-is-destroying-itself%3Futm_campaign%3Dpost%26utm_medium%3Dweb%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&src=typed_query&f=live … 2/2
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TBH none of the stories in the essay reflect well intentioned reasonable people being cancelled. A lecturer glibly using the n-word in front of students, a data scientist at a liberal political org advocating the black on black crime narrative...
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