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And... what would you say... *constitutes* this tradition he's bucking? What exactly is it *constituted* of?

08.10.2025 01:33 — 👍 433    🔁 75    💬 7    📌 4

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

30.09.2025 07:06 — 👍 14359    🔁 4275    💬 5    📌 510

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

14.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 10631    🔁 2416    💬 257    📌 60

What does the Times need for confirmation? An actual on staff reporter on the ground? Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh etc were all covered extensively by local media. Video of Chapel Hill which was the smallest of those three

15.06.2025 18:44 — 👍 40    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1

The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness "This kind of thing doesn't happen in democracies, and it's becoming a routine part of our politics," said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University, who has long warned that Trump poses a threat to American democracy. (Federal campaign finance records show that a person named Steven Levitsky who works at Harvard has made small campaign donations to Democratic candidates.)

there is something quite close to unanimity among serious scholars on this point, but the Washington Post omits that in favor of highlighting one such scholar's donations to Democratic candidates

12.06.2025 01:09 — 👍 1946    🔁 296    💬 76    📌 136

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

21.02.2025 03:00 — 👍 13214    🔁 3995    💬 938    📌 215

31.01.2025 23:43 — 👍 9449    🔁 1578    💬 36    📌 28

CNN is hopelessly broken.

1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.
2. It would violate several treaties.
3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.

24.12.2024 16:58 — 👍 42905    🔁 10534    💬 4003    📌 1333

08.12.2024 14:21 — 👍 13251    🔁 4254    💬 59    📌 77

지적하신 의미로 쓰였다는 게 틀린 말씀은 아닌데 2023~24년 들어 쓰이는 예시는 웬만해선 기사에 소개 된 내용, 옥스포드가 사용한 정의, 특히 인터넷에서는 특정 밈 장르를 통칭하는 의미로 쓰이는 경우가 압도적으로 많다고 생각해요.

Urban Dictionary보다도 구글이나 유튭에 올해 올라온 (옥스포드 선정 전까지) 검색결과를 훑어보면 확 와닿을 거에요.

02.12.2024 21:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0