Another Substack write-up, another omission of Arc. These MFers will pay. Heads have to roll.
JK it’s actually totally normal since we just joined and we’re smaller than everyone else the piece mentions.
But more seriously it’s just a misunderstanding of the variety that exists on Substack. We edit and prep some pieces in a way that exceeds the time and energy mainstream outlets put into their own editorial work. So the dairy metaphor doesn’t quite apply to all of us.
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Gary Neville is a hysterical nut case. I don’t think anyone was this worked up about Hitler bombing London. He’s offered no real argument for why the Super League would be bad. Just that it would be a “monopoly,” which isn’t the case.
Getting a lot of good pushback on this. So I want to explain my reasons for thinking this is a good development.
First, an uncontroversial metric of soccer enjoyment is being able to see the biggest matches and best players. We all circle the big games on the calendar; we all tune in for the most exciting players.
This first argument is simple: The SL reliably gives us more of these games.
Am I going to run a correction to a *tweet* in which I blast Greenwald for boosting Revolver News without qualifying it as a cess pit of conspiratorial chuddery?
No, I don’t think I will.
I do lament the fact that, in conversation with one of my own editors, I was too dismissive of the possibility that the death wasn’t connected to Jan 6.
Greenwald was accidentally right. For a lot of people following the coverage, there was little reason to doubt the official narrative. Aside from just, you know, having a dorm room skepticism to “official narratives” to begin with.
Without minimizing the genuine hardships many people have endured in recent times, I would put some pressure on the conceptual link here between "living through" something and metrics of personal growth like becoming tougher or becoming more resilient.
I agree with idea that a lot of mainstream media underserves “unwoke readers.”
My hot take is that, by being that way, they also underserve “woke readers”—because a robust and effective presentation of left identitarianism is enhanced by sharing space with heterodox dissidents.
Imagine putting in all that work and then routinely embarrassing yourself with brainless category errors like denying that a system-level property is true of individuals.
Yes, this actually exactly what I’m saying. Lindsay’s attempt to predicate something of individuals by evaluating them via a system-level property is clueless. It’s like saying no basketball players have the property of being winning teams.