(I am genuinely a centrist. Yes, right now the derangements of the left concern me more than those on the right but I call it like I see it and don't want to be on a team)

That said, the reaction of left wing journalists to the Hunter Biden info drop is just disgusting.
These people have absolutely no interest in truth. They just care about winning. And don't whatabout me with "the Right is like that too". I KNOW.

But you're supposed to be the moral ones. The ones who care about transparency, government corruption and corporate malfeasance.
The entire sales pitch of the left is about being morally superior. And yet in service of winning, you are willing to turn a blind eye to obvious election interference, the collusion between Big Tech giants, the collusion between them and politicians, and biased censorship.
You are not morally superior. You are corrupt cowards who shill for a team.

I'm not even 40 and even *I* can remember a time when being a mainstream journalist meant something. It meant you were a respectable member of society with a voice and a role to play in the public...
... discourse.

And look at you now.

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Dec 4
I've done a few relatively popular threads in the last couple of days concerning the Hunter Biden info drop.

Absolutely fascinating reading the critical replies:

1. They overwhelmingly use the same language "nothingburger", "PR for billionaire" etc. It's legit NPC territory.
2. They all deliberately misrepresent the issue. It's not about the First Amendment. The question is: does the company which operates the digital public square get to put a thumb on the scales in the middle of an election? I couldn't give a shit...
...about Hunter Biden's drug and sex binges. He seems like a deeply troubled human being that deserves compassion and pity. Doesn't mean he isn't acting like a scumbag but his immorality isn't relevant. The NY Post story credibly alleged financial links...
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Nov 24
When we interviewed Sam Harris I disagreed very strongly with what he said about the Hunter Biden laptop. That's why we pushed back even though I actually wanted to move on. I found the way he saw Trump & COVID difficult to comprehend.

But I am sorry that Sam left Twitter...
A part of me wishes we had never done that interview. This isn't what we do on @triggerpod. We don't make people look bad. I left that room thinking I disagree with Sam very strongly on two major issues. I didn't leave that room thinking Sam was a terrible person who deserved
...to be hounded on Twitter and eventually off it. And yet that's what's happened.

I am not stupid. I understand the vitriol. He showed pro-Trump people (and people like me who don't like Trump but don't believe that our dislike for him means he must be treated unfairly or...
Read 6 tweets
Nov 18
I wish the people who said they were going to leave Britain if Brexit happened, go to Canada if Trump got elected and that they would leave Twitter if Elon took over were true to their word.

Having these emotionally incontinent people here...
...just forces us to have endless unproductive conversations with people who haven't been trained to think properly and process everything through emotion.

I say this as someone who voted Remain. I was upset about the result. For like at least 10 seconds. Then I moved on...
The hysterical reaction to the result was absolutely horrifying to me. And think how much energy, money & air time was spent attempting to relitigate Brexit and Trump. Our entire world could have been infinitely better if we hadn't wasted 6 years having a breakdown. Emotional...
Read 4 tweets
Oct 27
Putin Speech: "America Has Nothing to Offer the World Except Domination"

Putin just gave another speech. I translated his last major speech because it's time people in the West understood what's happening - too many still think the war in Ukraine is about Ukraine. Image
As before he states his real motivations with a speech that is entirely about the West.
Important to note that he is speaking to the Valdai Discussion Club, which has many delegates from the rest of the world. In many ways he is speaking to them.
The TL:DR of it is that he is making a pitch to the nations of the world which sounds something like this:
For too long America has been taking advantage of you and we are fighting back - let’s work together for a multipolar world.
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Oct 25
This is an interesting discussion because I don't support a mass transfer of wealth to people who already have it. But "obscene" wealth, and I'd be curious what that means exactly (where is the line between acceptable wealth and obscene wealth?), has existed in every society...
...since the dawn of humanity. I know it's comforting to think that it's the product of "neoliberal policy" but it seems to me to be a product of hierarchical systems and the self-reinforcing cycles of wealth creation (money makes money).
Unless you're advocating for wealth confiscation, what mechanism exists that would have prevented Rishi Sunak from having "obscene wealth"? I grew up under communism which practiced wealth confiscation with gleeful abandon and we still had people who were "obscenely" wealthy.
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Oct 25
Rishi as PM has revealed the visceral hatred of wealthy people in Britain that has always puzzled me. I am not wealthy. I once slept in a park for weeks because I couldn't afford rent. I also really don't like Rishi because of his policies. But I just don't get it.
I don't know many super rich people but the ones I do aren't "worse" than anyone else I know. In fact, they're often very interesting people who are super rich because they are super successful in their field.

Why is this bad?
I've occasionally met people who are the beneficiaries of intergenerational privilege. It is "unfair" that they have opportunities other people don't but life is unfair and always will be. Unless you do away with the concept of private property, wealth...
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