Before going on to address the issue at hand, I think I have a good bead on a standard Richard Hanania article:
1) Focus on a relatively Current Thing.
2) Troll the shit out of it.
3) Punch down at whoever you think can't hurt you (they may or may not deserve it, but that's not important).
4) Try to dodge th…
Before going on to address the issue at hand, I think I have a good bead on a standard Richard Hanania article:
1) Focus on a relatively Current Thing.
2) Troll the shit out of it.
3) Punch down at whoever you think can't hurt you (they may or may not deserve it, but that's not important).
4) Try to dodge the best arguments against.
5) Change your mind more or less with the winds.
6) When in doubt add some nihilism. More nihilism never hurts.
The more absurd example of this is his article:
Man Needs Sex and Violence, Not Top-Down "Meaning"
Which reads to me as a long form presentation of his view that the ideal man is the Chechen Warlord Kadyrov.
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"What’s the alternative? Most people would have a better Big Picture if they went cold turkey. Read no newspapers. Watch no television news."
Richard seems to consume a great deal more Briebert or whatever than anyone I know. I've been getting my news from blogs and now substack for at least a decade. If he doesn't like right wing tabloids, just stop reading them.
Even something like the Daily Caller at least exposed a huge transgender rape scandal in my school district, got a superintendent fired, got justice for the parent of the girl, and probably helped get Youngkin elected. Is their website droll, I don't really care. I'm not reading it all day like him.
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I agree that it goes beyond wokeness, but to everything wokeness can touch (how do you write about education excluding genetics for example?)
Let's also remember that the MSM is generally anti-market and either soft-core or hard-core socialist. Is Paul Krugmen really enlightening the masses on economics?
I'll copy paste my same comment from Hanania's article. I must admit though that Charles Murray basically said the same thing in a Tweet:
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But who cares?
My basic question I always ask is "how does this affect me?"
The NYTimes having some interesting articles might entertain me for a few minutes, but it doesn't really help me out in any way.
If the NYTimes is wrong about genetics, race, sex, family, crime, meritocracy, education and economics...that's pretty much everything important. Things the NYTimes advocate for become policy and it affects my life negatively.
My own belief is that without MSM support we would not have had a COVID hysteria, or that at a minimum it would have been severely muted compared to what we got. I watched this happen in real time, they really scared my parents. It took awhile to deprogram them.
Silence is Golden!
Bravo, Bryan!
Before going on to address the issue at hand, I think I have a good bead on a standard Richard Hanania article:
1) Focus on a relatively Current Thing.
2) Troll the shit out of it.
3) Punch down at whoever you think can't hurt you (they may or may not deserve it, but that's not important).
4) Try to dodge the best arguments against.
5) Change your mind more or less with the winds.
6) When in doubt add some nihilism. More nihilism never hurts.
The more absurd example of this is his article:
Man Needs Sex and Violence, Not Top-Down "Meaning"
Which reads to me as a long form presentation of his view that the ideal man is the Chechen Warlord Kadyrov.
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"What’s the alternative? Most people would have a better Big Picture if they went cold turkey. Read no newspapers. Watch no television news."
Richard seems to consume a great deal more Briebert or whatever than anyone I know. I've been getting my news from blogs and now substack for at least a decade. If he doesn't like right wing tabloids, just stop reading them.
Even something like the Daily Caller at least exposed a huge transgender rape scandal in my school district, got a superintendent fired, got justice for the parent of the girl, and probably helped get Youngkin elected. Is their website droll, I don't really care. I'm not reading it all day like him.
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I agree that it goes beyond wokeness, but to everything wokeness can touch (how do you write about education excluding genetics for example?)
Let's also remember that the MSM is generally anti-market and either soft-core or hard-core socialist. Is Paul Krugmen really enlightening the masses on economics?
I'll copy paste my same comment from Hanania's article. I must admit though that Charles Murray basically said the same thing in a Tweet:
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But who cares?
My basic question I always ask is "how does this affect me?"
The NYTimes having some interesting articles might entertain me for a few minutes, but it doesn't really help me out in any way.
If the NYTimes is wrong about genetics, race, sex, family, crime, meritocracy, education and economics...that's pretty much everything important. Things the NYTimes advocate for become policy and it affects my life negatively.
My own belief is that without MSM support we would not have had a COVID hysteria, or that at a minimum it would have been severely muted compared to what we got. I watched this happen in real time, they really scared my parents. It took awhile to deprogram them.
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