those things are fscking relentless
This is a puff piece. They are always a bit icky, but they're common and I don't think you'll find any outlet of renown that doesn't succumb to these from time to time. In this case, it reads like their way of stroking…
Point (1) is why news institutions that cover a wide range of interests and have a broad audience have tended to fare better. Depending too much on a particular niche audience leads to audience capture. WSJ and Fox News…
If the theory is that advertising makes conflicts of interest more transparent, I don't think I agree. Advertisers can be stakeholders across diverse ranges of concerns - conflicts of interest are often indirect. They…
Radical right-wing infotainment propaganda is a specific set of things (like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News), not "everything I don't like"
News reporting and journalism has always mostly been a for-profit enterprise. And no matter what business model one might choose (ads, subs, charity, etc) there will be perverse incentives working in conflict with pure…
Just absolutely pathetic. Tech quislings
> The more people stand to lose, the more they fear losing it? shocking. No - the less real exposure a person has to immigrants and their communities, the more dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric has a chance to…
Migrants don't really depress wages, except by a very marginal amount at the lowest skilled rung. That's because adding people to the economy creates more demand In times of recession, things might be different - but…
In the US, anti-immigrant sentiment is often the highest in regions with relatively few immigrants, far away from the border. The less that immigrants are part of peoples daily lives, the more people seem to fear for…
> But corporations have abused the system to unnecessarily employ immigrant labor in lieu of American I'm not going to say this has never happened, but in general I don't think it's common or widespread. Generally,…
Tariffs hurt domestic manufacturing for a number of reasons, but one of the major ones is because something like 50% of our manufacturing inputs are imported.
Also FWIW - the US is the second largest manufacturer in the world, only behind China due to it's larger population. Our productivity per worker blows China away (though they are catching up) and is the best in the…
I mostly agree, except that trade imbalances are not problems and don't really cause problems. Buying and selling don't need to be equal between buyers and sellers, and it's really just an incoherent idea.
That is definitely a flatly wrong statement. Unfortunately, it reinforces the Trumpian disinformation that tariffs are fees that other countries pay us... or something. Trump is taxing Americans when he imposes tariffs.…
FWIW, I've found it to be far less toxic as a lurker. Most people act sane and fairly nice. Bluesky at least has really robust blocking features. Using them really reduces the toxicity that bubbles into your feed. I…
They're pretty well known for lawlessly purging bureaucracies of experienced, civil servants loyal to the rule of law, to make way for cronies and regime loyalists. They're pretty well known for scapegoating and…
Turns out draining swamps is actually a bad thing.
One such example - he's using his massive wealth and influence to support fascist political movements that promise mass deportation and "remigration", and even supporting these policies explicitly himself. In the US,…
Lots of those people complaining about population decline aren't really talking about the absolute number. They're dog-whistling about demographic replacement - the idea that minorities are reproducing too fast and…
Half of America thinks the only way to solve Republican-caused disasters is to elect more Republicans
CATO has been quite good of late at dismantling many of the worst of the Trump GOP's initiatives with real research. They're immigration research is a great resource to rebut the nativist MAGA nonsense.
> I will not ignore the evidence of my eyes and ears The gesture he made matched the Nazi salute. With gusto. Eyes, ears plus the video confirm it. There's nowhere to hide on this one. If you want to be charitable, you…
Hallucinogenic experiences can be really specific to particular hallucinogens. There are some hallucinogens that only produce auditory hallucinations. We don't really have a reason to think those are real sounds. There…
The reason it is so believable is that he did it and it happened, in public. He contributes to this understanding by straight-forwardly promoting and agreeing with white nationalists and even straight-up neo-nazi…
those things are fscking relentless
This is a puff piece. They are always a bit icky, but they're common and I don't think you'll find any outlet of renown that doesn't succumb to these from time to time. In this case, it reads like their way of stroking…
Point (1) is why news institutions that cover a wide range of interests and have a broad audience have tended to fare better. Depending too much on a particular niche audience leads to audience capture. WSJ and Fox News…
If the theory is that advertising makes conflicts of interest more transparent, I don't think I agree. Advertisers can be stakeholders across diverse ranges of concerns - conflicts of interest are often indirect. They…
Radical right-wing infotainment propaganda is a specific set of things (like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News), not "everything I don't like"
News reporting and journalism has always mostly been a for-profit enterprise. And no matter what business model one might choose (ads, subs, charity, etc) there will be perverse incentives working in conflict with pure…
Just absolutely pathetic. Tech quislings
> The more people stand to lose, the more they fear losing it? shocking. No - the less real exposure a person has to immigrants and their communities, the more dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric has a chance to…
Migrants don't really depress wages, except by a very marginal amount at the lowest skilled rung. That's because adding people to the economy creates more demand In times of recession, things might be different - but…
In the US, anti-immigrant sentiment is often the highest in regions with relatively few immigrants, far away from the border. The less that immigrants are part of peoples daily lives, the more people seem to fear for…
> But corporations have abused the system to unnecessarily employ immigrant labor in lieu of American I'm not going to say this has never happened, but in general I don't think it's common or widespread. Generally,…
Tariffs hurt domestic manufacturing for a number of reasons, but one of the major ones is because something like 50% of our manufacturing inputs are imported.
Also FWIW - the US is the second largest manufacturer in the world, only behind China due to it's larger population. Our productivity per worker blows China away (though they are catching up) and is the best in the…
I mostly agree, except that trade imbalances are not problems and don't really cause problems. Buying and selling don't need to be equal between buyers and sellers, and it's really just an incoherent idea.
That is definitely a flatly wrong statement. Unfortunately, it reinforces the Trumpian disinformation that tariffs are fees that other countries pay us... or something. Trump is taxing Americans when he imposes tariffs.…
FWIW, I've found it to be far less toxic as a lurker. Most people act sane and fairly nice. Bluesky at least has really robust blocking features. Using them really reduces the toxicity that bubbles into your feed. I…
They're pretty well known for lawlessly purging bureaucracies of experienced, civil servants loyal to the rule of law, to make way for cronies and regime loyalists. They're pretty well known for scapegoating and…
Turns out draining swamps is actually a bad thing.
One such example - he's using his massive wealth and influence to support fascist political movements that promise mass deportation and "remigration", and even supporting these policies explicitly himself. In the US,…
Lots of those people complaining about population decline aren't really talking about the absolute number. They're dog-whistling about demographic replacement - the idea that minorities are reproducing too fast and…
Half of America thinks the only way to solve Republican-caused disasters is to elect more Republicans
CATO has been quite good of late at dismantling many of the worst of the Trump GOP's initiatives with real research. They're immigration research is a great resource to rebut the nativist MAGA nonsense.
> I will not ignore the evidence of my eyes and ears The gesture he made matched the Nazi salute. With gusto. Eyes, ears plus the video confirm it. There's nowhere to hide on this one. If you want to be charitable, you…
Hallucinogenic experiences can be really specific to particular hallucinogens. There are some hallucinogens that only produce auditory hallucinations. We don't really have a reason to think those are real sounds. There…
The reason it is so believable is that he did it and it happened, in public. He contributes to this understanding by straight-forwardly promoting and agreeing with white nationalists and even straight-up neo-nazi…