just fyi, bari weiss has changed none of her politics since the first pieces. she still routinely smears pro-palestine activists as anti-semites and tries to get them fired and censored. the only difference is that she does it while loudly cosplaying as a free speech warrior
oh and she still lies about her many years of trying to get professors fired by smearing them as anti-semites. glenn knows this, he wrote the story on it, yet he happily shares her piece wherein she decries the horrors of censorship and "cancel culture". I don't know why. ask him
bari weiss falsely and maliciously smeared professors joseph massad and hamid dabashi as anti-semites, and successfully pushed the university to begin formal investigations against them (which cleared them). not only has she not apologized, she believes she was right
in her most recently published book "how to fight anti-semitism", which she has gone on every mainstream media outlet to promote (she did a special talk with cnn's jake tapper who avidly praised it), she smears corbyn and his supporters as rabid anti-semites
I know weiss has no principles and is a grotesque grifter. but I don't know why glenn on the one hand defends people against these malicious false charges aimed at destroying them, while on the other hand he launders the person who has done more than most to throw them around
oh and on another note, "we were promised the internet would be better than democracy" is incoherent babble. WTF does that mean? aside from the odiousness of her views and her transparent bad faith grifting, bari weiss is among the most talentless, asinine, vapid hacks alive
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"trump is the worst president in history" can only be believed if you view the presidency purely through the lens of superficial aesthetics instead of actual harm done. he doesn't come even close to bush or clinton, let alone nixon
biden's body count is way higher than trump's from his days as senator and VP, just add up the iraq war and crime bill. and even aesthetically he's not that different from trump, lying pathologically about everything while being a rapist sex creep. that's why it's called bluemaga
anyone who thinks establishment dems didn't much prefer to let trump off the hook and appeal to "we need to lower the temperature and unify now!" rhetoric but instead were pushed by circumstances into impeaching him is a fucking lemming. just admit you're a joe manchin democrat
feigning contrarian edginess by taking reactive stances you perceive as "owning the libs" when in reality you're just regurgitating the views of the furthest right-wing of the democratic party and the republicans
btw the impeachment will go nowhere exactly bc of these right-wing conservative elements that dominate both parties. they'll delay it being brought up in the senate as much as possible, hoping people will forget about the storming of the capitol, and then let it die a slow death
russiagate was a deranged propaganda campaign unleashed by the dem establishment and the liberal mediasphere to ward off any serious self-reflection on their grotesque corruption that paved the way for trump, but as ever republicans take the derangement to a whole other level
hillary and leading dem politicians did question the legitimacy of trump's win, but it was not an officially enforced position. obama did not say the election was illegitimate and attempt to prevent trump from taking office. imagine the shitstorm that would've unleashed
and there was always a fundamental contradiction underlying it which the russiagaters never acknowledged: if trump was indeed an illegitimately elected russian agent, why would they vote to hand him more powers like with the renewal of the patriot act or a bigger defense budget?
first of all fidel castro has been dead for over 4 years and the cuban president is miguel diaz-canel. secondly as chomsky notes there is no greater terrorist state than the US
the additional irony is that cuba has long been the target of US terror, from the bay of pigs invasion to the ongoing economic war unleashed on the country and the many assassination attempts on fidel discussed in this thread
biden will likely keep cuba on the sponsors of state terror list as it will keep the embassy in jerusalem, despite it contradicting obama's policy. see this thread for what mandela had to say about these scum and why he and fidel were such close friends
actually the communist party candidate was leading in all the polls in the 1996 election by a wide margin, so the CIA got involved and fixed it for their pathetic drunk puppet. the further immiseration caused by his capitalism on steroids policies led to putin's rise. you grifter
also missing from that deranged account of post-soviet history is that yeltsin's neoliberal economic policies were so devastating that parliament began to oppose it. his response? send in the tanks and literally blow it up. if you want a parallel for trump it's him
the most hilarious part of that thread is that anyone involved with the KGB should have been prosecuted. pray tell julia, does the same apply to the CIA, which has actually committed some of the 20th century's worst atrocities and continues to do so?
since the neoliberal revolution universities have become increasingly financialized, with the "college experience" turned into a commodity managed and sold by HR and PR departments that greatly exceed any research and teaching funding and personnel. universities are brands now
and their clientele are prospective students. their incentive structure is set up to as to maximize this clientele so as to maximize their profits, which leads to ever exorbitant tuition fees and other costs and a hyper-sensitivity to protecting their brand
this financialization and marketization of the university has a distorting effect on all relations within it: between students and teachers/researchers and among students and teachers/researchers themselves, which is expressed in all sorts of pathologies