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The GQP Thread: I'm even sick of that fuck's number and, anyway, he's gone (for now)

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Handyman said:
And he is the face of the new "Third Parties Are The Answer" movement. Aren't you excited?!?!?!
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Yang is the perfect face for that young, male technocratic clique. There will always be young men who are willing to reject all responsibility as tyranny because they maintained a 99.7 average throughout their STEM major and got a lucrative job, and believe the world belongs to them.

In reality, they are experts in only a miniscule subset of human skills, and tens of thousands of clones pour off the BS conveyor belt every Spring. They are fungible and perishable, yet they have been so consistently rewarded up until now they have Rick Sanchez' self-regard. This combination used to generate Randians; now it spews forth the Yang Gang.

It seems society always has a slot where this kind of infantile sociopathy is temporarily granted high status. In the past it was the aristocracy, the military, and then finance. Now it's tech. Doubtless the wheel will spin again.
 
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Comment that sums it all up:

"god, i'm so tired"

I'm not sure if the NYT became insipid, or it was always this way and I changed.
 
Kepler said:
Comment that sums it all up:

"god, i'm so tired"

I'm not sure if the NYT became insipid, or it was always this way and I changed.
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I never really paid attention to the NYT until Trump was elected, and then it seemed like there was a lot of stories about "what makes a Trump voter", where they took a kind of strange anthropological view to the subject. Like they were researching some newly discovered primitive tribe in some super remote part of the Amazon. They weren't alone in that, as NPR did the same thing. It was both interesting and frustrating.

At any rate, NPR realized that some of these people are just desperate and found someone willing to tell them what they wanted to hear ("I'm going to bring your coal jobs back") and some were just racist monsters who found someone willing to say what they felt but who was standing above the crowd. The first group kind of fell away or got absorbed into the second group and NPR changed accordingly.

The NYT never did.

Ben Shapiro is a right-wing thought leader (gag), but putting him on par with previous iterations of him does terrible insult to the Charles Krauthammers of the world. Yet the NYT continues to treat Shapiro and his vapid, hateful ilk as the successors. I'd even take Ann Coulter over Shapiro.

It's perverse.
 
They do this crap every month to pat themselves on the back for their efforts to supposedly "balance" their reporting. There is an entire Twitter account (@DougJBalloon) dedicating to making fun of their headlines by attempting to come up with bullsh*t they would publish.

"How's Biden really doing? We talked to a group of 4 unvaccinated cops at a diner in Ellicottville to find out." etc. etc.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
They do this crap every month to pat themselves on the back for their efforts to supposedly "balance" their reporting. There is an entire Twitter account (@DougJBalloon) dedicating to making fun of their headlines by attempting to come up with bullsh*t they would publish.

"How's Biden really doing? We talked to a group of 4 unvaccinated cops at a diner in Ellicottville to find out." etc. etc.
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NYT Pitchbot is amazing
 
They've been doing this since at least the Bush 2 administration. Travelling to diners in obscure parts of Iowa or Ohio in search of Dubya voters, or Iraq war supporters, to chronicle their views and how their thinking was really the mainstream view of 'Murica.

Always turns out that half the people they interview are high ranking leaders of their state or local Republican party apparatus, or "grassroots" organizations that support and work for that party.
 
Swansong said:
I never really paid attention to the NYT until Trump was elected, and then it seemed like there was a lot of stories about "what makes a Trump voter", where they took a kind of strange anthropological view to the subject. Like they were researching some newly discovered primitive tribe in some super remote part of the Amazon. They weren't alone in that, as NPR did the same thing. It was both interesting and frustrating.

At any rate, NPR realized that some of these people are just desperate and found someone willing to tell them what they wanted to hear ("I'm going to bring your coal jobs back") and some were just racist monsters who found someone willing to say what they felt but who was standing above the crowd. The first group kind of fell away or got absorbed into the second group and NPR changed accordingly.

The NYT never did.

Ben Shapiro is a right-wing thought leader (gag), but putting him on par with previous iterations of him does terrible insult to the Charles Krauthammers of the world. Yet the NYT continues to treat Shapiro and his vapid, hateful ilk as the successors. I'd even take Ann Coulter over Shapiro.

It's perverse.
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Ben Shapiro is the kind of Jew that acted as a guard at a concentration camp and beat his fellow Jews.
 
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