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"Why do the youth keep going after the people who cause the problems, instead of the scapegoats we set up for them?"
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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The New Yorker is living in a fantasy world - there is no past, there is no history, there is only the now.
'WHY AREN'T YOUNG PEOPLE PROTESTING BUSH'S INVASION OF IRAQ?' - the new yorker probably, circa 2023
"why haven't young people invented time travel and killed hitler?" - the new yorker probably
There ain't even a future beyond quarterly economic reports and the next election cycle when it comes to big press outlets in this cursed country.
what does it mean that young activists are protesting President Joe Biden, not Xi Jinping or Donald Trump?
it means THAT NEITHER XI OR TRUPM ARE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOLY FUCK WHAT A STUPID QUESTION
the only thing i'd protest xi for is not beating biden to death with a stick
Are there Chinese bombs being dropped on Gaza right now?
Trump isn't in charge and Xi doesn't give Isreal billions in free aid, next question
China does sell guns to Israel which sucks. They also sell guns to both sides of the Kashmir conflict. But at least it's not free aid and China doesn't outlaw BDS.
The article isn't terrible, it paints this as a split between progressives and liberals, akin to the Wallace V. Truman split. Then they ask if running Biden again will be enough when he's clearly lost the support of progressives. It's the liberal friendly version of what we were saying with "Bernie would have won"
It's the liberal friendly version of what we were saying with "Bernie would have won"
Here's a fun theoretical question: how much would be different right now if Bernie was president, with all consideration to how he's behaved to this point in time
Libs would be using him as an example of why going "further left" doesn't work and would double down on "reaching across the aisle"
US government policy would be identical though.
If Sanders were president then the Democrats would have made their own version of the Tea Party, like the Republicans did in 2012. The Democrats would have tried courting finance or tech or something for money, you'd hear a lot about something like "new liberalism" and there would be a new crop of absolute ghouls winning elections.
Republicans would try to position themselves as rational moderates. Not sure what else they'd do.
Writers don’t write their own headlines
They hate us for our high speed rail.
these twitter leftists are making a major fuss about the situation in Israel, and yet I don't see a single one of them acknowledging the lives lost in the explostion of the U.S.S. Maine?
The only things The New Yorker’s got going for it are the serial comma and the diaeresis.
The British are right about the Oxford comma, use it only where it avoids ambiguity.
The diaresis is sick tho
Pig, poop, and balls
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Because Xi’s a pretty normal guy and Donald being a egregious shithead can be taken for granted
Some good replies at least
WQat?
Okay if you read the article title with your head in the gutter (metaphorically) this is very different