Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
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Democrats should also be really thinking now about insane it's going to feel if we win in 2028 and Musk is babbling about the need for a race war and calling the president a satanic pedophile while also being the most important government contractor in the country.
somebody do the downfall video
a) she's been having a years-long breakdown in public
b) people having breakdowns are not all hate-mongering bigots as a result and that is still on her
c) I hope she gets the help she very obviously needs, which includes repentance.
I personally think that someone who says “[group]’s humanity being depicted in media inherently supports [ideology they don’t like]” should be considered a hateful bigot who wants to exterminate [group] because that’s obviously what’s going on
always a little embarrassing when a Jewish person posts the most rancid anti-semitic piece of writing imaginable and is like 'powerful.' work out your internalized guilt in private, please.
Bari Weiss is holed up in her private CBS suite, inaccessible to staff and surrounded by a few handpicked sycophants, such as the former NYT Chik Fil A sandwich guy.
Normal, competent editors do not act this way.
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.
the thing about Le Guin is that she wrote so much, and almost all of it is good and a significant percentage of it is great.
(I often reference her novel, "The Matter of Seggri," as the only story I know of to do 'but what if men were the oppressed gender' well)