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I made the mistake of bothering to try reading a New York Times article Tom Send a noteboard - 29/09/2017 12:38:07 AM

It was glorious in its base editorializing. It was an article about how Israelis "fear" living in Germany now that the anti-Muslim party AfD scored 13% of the vote. But then it went on to interview a leftist Israeli who said that AfD isn't "as bad" as the Israeli government and its fascist policies. Another "win" for journalism, another "win" for the Times. It was gross. I was happy that they quoted (probably to show how he was terrible) an Israeli conservative who said that Israelis who emigrate to Germany because they're Leftists are "not like the dog returning to its vomit, but rather, the vomit trying to return to the dog that vomited it out".

They threw cheap shots at Trump in as well (through their "quoted sources", obviously, so they'll say they didn't cherry-pick the statements to forward their own repulsive Leftist agenda), so the summary came down to: Trump = AfD = Likud = Hitler, Merkel = Migrants = Good.

The whole thing was disgusting. I'm probably going to add the Times to my filter so that it automatically redirects to something more reputable (which is really about anything these days) rather than giving them clicks. I already do that with CNN.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

*MySmiley*
This message last edited by Tom on 29/09/2017 at 12:38:49 AM
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