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I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

There's a small genre of song that's like "song created for a movie that is supposed to be a hit song within the fictional world of the movie." Have any been actual good-enough-to-be-hits besides "Golden" and "I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow?"

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

they like him and want to help him. They send out a push alert not for the actual story "the president is losing his fucking mind" but one repeating Trump's false criticism of the Pope as if they are reasonable.

They like Trump and want to help him. Accomplices

He is unhinged and fucking losing it

after they do this, you'll explain to newcomers to the city that they used to just pile trash on the sidewalk and they'll think you're fucking with them and telling an obviously made-up tall-tale

yes this seems right

United States Department of Justice - Prosecute Various Kinds of Guys Who Own Boats Division

Delusional

50 former staffers!

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

this is a smartly written and clever piece for smuggling its actual provocative and controversial (at least to the elite audience that reads the NYT) point — anti-zionism is not the same as anti-semitism— inside a "can't we all just get along and have an open marketplace of ideas?" wrapper