Well worth reading today is New York Time publisher A.
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Someone slapped the following into Wikipedia.
"Being apolitical can also refer to situations in which people take an unbiased position in regard to political matters. The Collins English Dictionary defines apolitical as 'politically neutral; without political attitudes, content, or bias.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Apolitici...
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✊🏾WiseGuyEddiereplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration I boosted this article, but I must admit, I could not finish it. The NYT is becoming a rag, and it amuses me that this opinion piece says what Democrats were saying (and still say) about trump in 2016. Is the NYT trying to salvage credibility before the impending trump loss? I will lose zero sleep over the NYT lamenting losing "press freedom" as they continue to placate a fascist takeover of democracy.
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"I agree with Dante, that: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.'"
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Phil Johnstonreplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
@benroyce @mastodonmigration funnily enough, “I can do whatever I want as long as I do not trample on the freedom of others” was the idea that got me into libertarianism. But then I realized libertarians don’t actually believe that and are complete hypocrites.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to Phil Johnston last edited by
@johnstonphilip @mastodonmigration
yeah, the libertarian sales pitch is great
then in the next sentence they are talking about going into our bedrooms and policing us there
such that you can see the plutocrat hand behind the sales pitch: "argue for us against regulations we dislike that costs us money, because you appreciate laws are annoying, but don't appreciate why they exist"
meanwhile, the ridiculous social control laws you dislike:
"we don't care about that, or we even support them"
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@johnstonphilip @benroyce @mastodonmigration I don't think any extant "Libertarians" have even read any of their historical canon whatever its truths and failings might be, they have just received the radically unhinged message from somewhere that they get to do whatever they want. They're anti-intellectual and unrecognizeable.
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V.K. Farfalle 🦋 (He/Him)replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
I am seeing a TERRIFYING disconnect between people recognizing the threat that 'bad actors' in news and social media pose to our democracy...
... and failing to recognize that giving the State the authority to decide what is true and silence what isn't is the very endgame those bad actors are looking for.
If people think that "freeze peach" is bad because of X and Fox, they should be in less of a hurry to give Murdoch and Musk corner offices at the Ministry of Truth.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to ⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ last edited by
@z3r0fox @johnstonphilip @mastodonmigration
yeah a true interpretation of libertarianism is fine
but the label gets adopted by douchebags who just want to do whatever they want who cares who they hurt, such as the word "libertarian" becomes trash
similar to how a true reading of christianity results in selfless people who engage in charity for the downtrodden, but those who call themselves christians are some of the most selfish sadistic assholes, the very notion of christianity is tarnished
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Mister Prickles 🦔replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
This is basically the Mills/Camus argument. "Your freedom ends where mine begins," which is fine as far as it goes. Alas, that is not very far anymore.
Europe still has what it calls "public intellectuals," who own their duty to explain thorny problems to those who haven't the time to deal with them independently. But they're being replaced by "opinion formers" and (ugh) "influencers" who have no such duty because the incentives have changed.
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Johnnyvibrantreplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
@benroyce @jackyan @mastodonmigration In my opinion mastodon isn’t as important as the fediverse, newer better applications will arrive but the decentralised nature of the protocol is worth investment
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to Johnnyvibrant last edited by
@johnnyvibrant @jackyan @mastodonmigration
good point and thank you
i said mastodon but that's an error. the wider fediverse is the key
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Mister Prickles 🦔replied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
Michela Murgia wrote a very funny manual called "How to be a Fascist."
How to Be a Fascist by Michela Murgia: 9780143136057 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The first and only guide to turning your 21st century democracy into a fascist paradise. Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely...
PenguinRandomhouse.com (www.penguinrandomhouse.com)
To be clear, it's 100% ironical. But it enumetates the _exact_ tactics discussed in this thread.
If you don't have a copy, buy or borrow one ASAP.
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@mastodonmigration I was one of the commenters. I said that this was rich, coming from A. G. Sulzberger, whose paper is more responsible for the normalization of an old, demented racist than any other news organization I can think of.
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@virtualbri @mastodonmigration What also won't help is a lot of journos and columnists working for [Outlet X] don't want to say anything bad about [Outlet Y] in case their current gig comes to an end and they need a new job.
Not only can they not be self-critical, they can't even be peer-critical.
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Scott Murrayreplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration For others… here is a non paywall archive link (does not include the comments, though):