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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: The Atlantic Is A Sh***y Propaganda Rag Run By ElitistWankers
Published: 2022-11-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUk4cdcPCd8
Title: The Atlantic Is A Sh***y Propaganda Rag Run By ElitistWankers
Published: 2022-11-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUk4cdcPCd8
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the Atlantic is a shitty propaganda rag run by elitist wankers the Atlantic which is owned by billionaire Laureen Powell jobs and run by neo-conservative War propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg has published a pair of articles that are appalling even by its own standards virulent rushigator and Applebaum argues in fear of nuclear war has warped the West's Ukraine strategy that the U.S and its allies should escalate against Russia2/10
with full confidence that Putin won't respond with nuclear weapons here's the only thing we know as long as Putin believes that the use of nuclear weapons won't win the war as long as he believes that to do so would call down an unprecedented International and Western response perhaps including the destruction of his Navy of his communication system of his economic model then he won't use them3/10
Applebaum writes but throughout her own essay Applebaum also acknowledges that she does not actually know the things she is claiming to know we don't know whether our refusal to transfer sophisticated tanks to Ukraine is preventing nuclear war she writes we don't know whether loaning an F-16 would lead to Armageddon we don't know whether holding back the longest range ammunition is stopping Putin from dropping a tactical4/10
nuclear weapon or any other kind of weapon I can't prove this is true of course because no one can says Apple bomb after confidently asserting that more Western aggression would actually have deterred Russia's invasion of Ukraine uh these are the kinds of things it's important to have the highest degree of certainty in before taking drastic actions which can you know literally end the world it's absolutely5/10
nuts how Western pundits face more scrutiny and accountability when publicly recommending financial investments then when recommending moves that could end all terrestrial life on that note it's probably worth mentioning here that applebaum's husband European Parliament member radislaus Sikorski recently made Headlines by publicly thanking the United States for sabotaging the nordstream gas pipelines the Atlantic has also published an article titled the age of social media is6/10
ending subtitled it never should have begun its author Ian bogust argues that the recent management failures in Twitter and Facebook mean the days of just any old schmuck having access to their own personal broadcasting network are over and that this is a good thing bogus piece contains what has got to be the single most elitist sentence that I have ever read quote a global broadcast network7/10
where anyone can say anything to anyone else as often as possible and where such people have come to think that they deserve such a capacity or even that withholding it amounts to censorship or suppression that's just a terrible idea from the outset end quote nothing enrages the official authorized commentariat like the common riffraff having access to platforms and audiences that's why the official authorized commentariat have8/10
been the most vocal voices calling for internet censorship and complaining about the rise of a more democratized information environment these elitist wankers have been fuming for years about the way the uninitiated rabble have been granted the ability to not just talk but to talk back Hamilton Noland of in these times posted a recent observation on Twitter which makes the perfect counter to the Atlantic's snooty pontifications9/10
the best thing Twitter did for journalism was to show everyone that there are thousands of regular people who are better writers than most professionals which is why the most mediocre famous pundits have always been quickest to dismiss it as a cesspool Nolan writes adding best thing Twitter did for the world in general was to allow anyone to yell directly at Rich and powerful people which drove