I should have put Duke and Jeong together, rhetorically that would make more sense. I was not an English major in college, so forgive my lack of construction at times. But, while disjointed, my point stands.
The moral bankruptcy of (certain forms of) conservative both-sidesism on this forum
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I should have put Duke and Jeong together, rhetorically that would make more sense. I was not an English major in college, so forgive my lack of construction at times. But, while disjointed, my point stands.
Oh, and your last point and link, that is where I am trying to come from however inartful my ability to explain myself may be.
So, basically, you admit to drawing these moral equivalencies, and don't see what's wrong with that. Well, at least that's responsive to the topic.
I see Ben Smith as the extreme right and Bloomington United as the extreme left.
Why would you put David Duke and Jeong together, and in what warped universe does that make any sense? Duke is a lifelong member of an avowed HATE GROUP. No one badgered him into joining the KKK. He was a high official in a group that demonizes people based on nothing more than their skin color, or with regards to Jews, on their religion/culture. Some early biographical details on Duke...
Duke was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to David Hedger Duke Sr. and Alice Maxine Crick. As the son of an engineer for Shell Oil Company, Duke frequently moved with his family around the world. They lived a short time in the Netherlands before settling in Louisiana. In the late 1960s, Duke met William Luther Pierce, the leader of the white nationalist and antisemitic National Alliance, who would remain a lifelong influence on him. Duke joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in 1967.
In 1968, Duke enrolled at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, and in 1970, he formed a white student group called the White Youth Alliance that was affiliated with the National Socialist White People's Party. The same year, to protest lawyer William Kunstler's appearance at Tulane University in New Orleans, Duke appeared at a demonstration in Nazi uniform. Picketing and holding parties on the anniversary of Hitler's birth, he became notorious on the LSU campus for wearing a Nazi uniform."
He joined the Klan at 17, and a year later he was a student at LSU advocating WHITE SUPREMACIST views. No evidence (or even claim) that he became a racist because he was abused by minorities. He just met a kindred spirit in his teen years, and adopted a racist lifestyle.
He even went a step further and founded his own version of a Klan spinoff...
"Duke graduated from LSU in 1974. Shortly after graduation, Duke founded the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKKK)."
And early biography of Sarah Jeong...
Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988,[1] and moved to New York with her parents when she was three years old.[2] Her parents were students at the time and Jeong immigrated as their dependent; she later received a green card while attending college, and became a US citizen in 2017.[2]
Jeong attended the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School, where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.[1]
Career
Jeong writes on law, technology and internet culture.[3][4] She is a senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice's Motherboard section, as well as writing articles for Forbes, the The Guardian, and The New York Times.[5][6][7]
Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the internet[8][9][10] from 2014[11] to 2015.[12]
In 2015, she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.[13][14] In the fall of 2015, she was invited to Yale University under a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.[6][15]
Also in 2015, she published a book, The Internet of Garbage, on online harassment and responses to it by media and online platforms.[16] The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions.[17]
In 2017, Forbes named Jeong in its "30 Under 30" media list.[18]
In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology, commencing in September.[19] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media and social media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.[20][21] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong said that the posts were "counter-trolling" in reaction to harassment she had experienced, and that she regretted adopting this tactic.[20] The Times stated that it had reviewed her social media history before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts"
I used the wiki page for both Duke and Jeong, and apologize for not removing the reference cites from her page. Notice how Duke's biography revolves around a life of promoting racism and white supremacy, which he unapologetically still advocates to this day. He's ran for (and even won) political office as an avowed racist.
Now note how Jeong's life has revolved around being an author and academic, with a minor footnote over 10 or so retaliatory tweets she made over the course of a couple years. No marching around in "Korean Klan" garb joining hate groups, rallies railing against "white devils", or speeches advocating "Korean Supremacy". I took a gander at her twitter feed from the days before she was even suggested for a position at the times. Not even extremely political, and certainly not racist. Feminist and gay friendly, but not racist... Actually a lot of techie stuff, some of it way beyond my pay grade. Probably why I had never heard of her before the right wing uproar...
And seriously, why do folks on the Right,(who hate The NYT) even care? I don't care (or even know) who the players at sites like Breitbart and infowars are, at least not at the level Jeong will fill at The NYT. I hadn't heard of Bannon prior to Trump hiring him to be a part of a political campaign. And then a freaking Chief of Staff at the WH. Now THAT is bizarre!!
Breitbart hires David Duke- Why should I CARE? It's exactly the type of personnel I associate with Breitbart, or Infowars, or Free Republic.Racist sites hire racists- no surprise or cause for outrage. But I'm supposed to believe right wing wackos really CARE that Jeong has been hired to write about technology at the NYT? Or that they really do not compehend the difference between avowed racists and someone who responded in kind to racist taunts directed at her, while she continues to support people of all races in her daily tweets and other social media? Talk about faux outrage...
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- ah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Please look forward to sober, much-needed opinions such as "I still hate my Tamagotchi" and "I don't know why Golduck is called Golduck when it's blue"
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
I've thought many times over the past year, "This is my favorite thing I've written." I'm really proud of the work I've done at the Verge, and I'm excited to continue that work at NYT.
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sarah jeong Retweeted NYTimes Communications
Some personal news
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.@SarahJeong joins NYT’s editorial board. She's the newest in a fab group of recent additions to @nytopinion: Michelle Alexander @susanthequark @JenSeniorNY @karaswisher @MCottle @JInterlandi @MaraGay @JyotiThottam @talmonsmith @lauren_kelley @ByAlexMarch https://bit.ly/2LZbiV8
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Note: This is why I carry two forms of ID when going to court. It’s actually come in handy when I was getting hassled before
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Anyways when I first got into reporting I dyed my hair bright pink and wore moto jackets in the courtroom. “What are you gonna do, piss off a judge?” lol yea why not
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Probably the story that bothered me the most was from a black woman defender who said that she didn’t know if she could both wear her hair naturally and be as effective of an advocate. Impossible decisions.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
There was even a story going around (not sure how many degrees of separation by time it got to me) of a lawyer who got sent out of the courtroom until she came back in a skirt Me: But that can’t be legal Older woman lawyer: *shrugs* What are you going to do, piss off a judge?
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
sarah jeong Retweeted Whitney Merrill
2014: I was told it was best practice to wear a skirt in conservative jurisdictions, again because “you never know”
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Whitney MerrillVERIFIED ACCOUNT@wbm312
During one set of depositions in litigation, opposing counsel called me "Wendy" multiple times, despite knowing my name. He didn't do this to any of my male colleagues. And my law school told me (in 2011) to always wear a skirt to court bc "you never know" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...tent=20180730&silverid-ref=MzEwMTkxNDc0OTcyS0…
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
Hello I have work to do but now I'm looking up ostrich jackets online and have yet to find one more expensive than 1,400
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sarah jeong Retweeted David P Gelles
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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David P GellesVERIFIED ACCOUNT@gelles
Paul Manafort owned a $21,000 jacket "made from an ostrich” according to prosecutors
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
In that context, using "partner" to describe your heterosexual spouse sounded strange, awkward, even a little forced — a purposeful and political act. Times change, I guess, and in this respect, they changed for the better.
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
but also this was over a decade ago and in a time before Prop 8 even passed — let alone Windsor, Obergefell, etc
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
the first straight person I ever heard use the word "partner" to describe a S.O. was one of my philosophy professors — radical, feminist, and very french — and it made me do a double-take on the othering of same-sex relationships
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
why is tipping such a controversy on twitter right now? i thought we were in universal agreement on this: pushing cows until they fall over is wrong
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
See also,
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovelware
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
sarah jeong Retweeted Dancing in the gaslight
To very belatedly answer your question, I'm pretty sure that every online marketplace exhibits similar behaviors on some scale. The only question is how bad it gets, and whether there are specific features of the platform that are driving that.
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Dancing in the gaslight@sisyphusmyths
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This was an incredibly fascinating read, so thank you for your hard work! Made me remember the piece on weird algorithmically generated kids’ YouTube videos, and Jon Ronson’s investigation on how SEO changed everything about the adult film industry. What else is out there?
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elissa Gira GrantVERIFIED ACCOUNT@melissagira Jul 31
Which senator will be first to rush out a SESTA for this, place your bets on “no one” to win!
arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
sarah jeong Retweeted Pinboard
looking forward to the fight over 3D print files tbh
sarah jeong added,
Pinboard@Pinboard
I can't wait for 3D printers to be heavily regulated when guns aren't. It's even better than the gun emoji saga.
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inboard@Pinboard Jul 31
I can't wait for 3D printers to be heavily regulated when guns aren't. It's even better than the gun emoji saga.
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avid CroweVERIFIED ACCOUNT@CroweDM Jul 30
Unbelievable. Policeman gave a man with domestic violence convictions the address of his former wife. “Just tell her you know where she lives.”
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orenzo @ NOT LAS VEGAS BYEEEEEEVERIFIED ACCOUNT@lorenzofb Jul 30
My stories on SIM swapping have been widely read, drawing attention to telecom providers' security weaknesses. And yet...hackers can still access my personal data on @TMobile. Here's a screenshot that a hacker just sent me a few minutes ago.
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
sarah jeong Retweeted jo livingstone
lol Alaska Air is always a prominent sponsor of Pride in Portland
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jo livingstoneVERIFIED ACCOUNT@Jo_Livingstone
lmao @AlaskaAir recently incorporated @VirginAmerica but unfortunately then forgot how to be a normal ****ing business and have sadly died http://www.towleroad.com/2018/07/gay-alaska-airlines/…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
does the bigfoot erotica story distract from the "real" "issues"? i don't know. it's hard to say, when the "real" "issues" involve the president tweeting in all caps anyways, bigfoot erotica
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
I keep mulling over whether or not it's appropriate / harmful to at all focus on the Bigfoot erotica, which of course just makes me think about Bigfoot erotica for longer. It's a self-perpetuating curse
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
Skincare can be a scam, it can also be an obsessive scientific hobby
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
well, i guess that's a thing
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
do i really need to know
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ikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
This is why I’m mad about the city all the time. About the stupid police academy, and the TIFs, and the promised to Amazon, and all of it. Because there is wealth here and yet children are still going hungry.
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wikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
End of the month. Link cards run out.
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ikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
At the checkout line he looked around and started to say something. I thought he was gonna ask for one special item, like a candy bar or some gum or something. Instead he asked for reusable grocery bags.
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wikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
At the grocery store a boy of about 12 came up to us and asked us if he could help us carry our bags in exchange for some money. We didn’t need help but we bought him the food he wanted. He chose some cooked chicken, a family bag of chips, cereal, milk. For him & four siblings.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
2018 is the Year of Bad Lawyering
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
update: i am still bleeding
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Lorenzo @ NOT LAS VEGAS BYEEEEEEVERIFIED ACCOUNT@lorenzofb Jul 30
Scoop: California police have arrested a college student accused of stealing more than $5 million in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency by SIM swapping 40+ people.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
heard him yowling from the other room like he's the one who was wronged
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
ME: what a good kitty. what a sweet little boy. my beloved large adult son [five minutes later] ME: YOU PIECE OF SHIT BASTARD FROM HELL
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
my cat lost his balance from the back of my chair and gouged two six inch trails down my back
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
came back from vacation to find that the scooter contagion has reached portland
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Longform@longform Jul 24
"Bad Romance" How a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited algorithm. http://long.fm/ZZY3zpU (@sarahjeong, @verge)
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imone de RochefortVERIFIED ACCOUNT@doomquasar Jul 20
The Verge did a biiiiiiiiiiiig ol' write-up on one of the romance industry's biggest 2018 dramas
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
i'm going on vacation, please save any death threats for when i get back
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uper Nintendo ChalmersVERIFIED ACCOUNT@laura_hudson Jul 13
When people (or platforms) tell you who they are, believe them
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
"AI" is next
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
I'm trying to reconcile myself to the fact that most people in the world think of "blockchain" the way they thought of "smartphone app" a few years back. Just add the blockchain to X and surely it's cutting edge now
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
sarah jeong Retweeted emptywheel
I'm glad Marcy Wheeler exists so that I can have some space in my brain for, like, laundry and dishes, instead of a giant charliewall with red strings and thumbtacks everywhere
sarah jeong added,
emptywheel@emptywheel
The journalist who obtained the Black Lives Matter documents was then Breitbart and current Sputnik journalist Lee Stranahan. http://g-2.space/dms/stranahan.html…
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mptywheel@emptywheel Jul 13
The journalist who obtained the Black Lives Matter documents was then Breitbart and current Sputnik journalist Lee Stranahan. http://g-2.space/dms/stranahan.html…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
lol @cooperq u did it
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
am i reading this right? is a bitcoin mining pool implicated in this indictment?
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
Happy Rosenstein presser day, here's an explanation of spearphishing I wrote for GQ last year
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
2014, Mt Gox meltdown: Wow, bitcoin really jumped the shark this year! 2015, Silk Road trial: Wow, bitcoin really jumped the shark this year! 2016, Bitfinex hack: Wow, hmm yes 2017, ICO bubble: OK we've reached rock bottom yes? 2018, bitcoin implicated in Mueller probe
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outhpaw@nycsouthpaw Jul 13
southpaw Retweeted McDeere
Same day Trump asked the Russians to get Hillary's "missing emails," they tried.
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McDeere@McDeereUSA
Gee what are the odds
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
oh come on, the guy in charge of the russian social media sockpuppets is NOT named potemkin, for ****'s sake
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asey NewtonVERIFIED ACCOUNT@CaseyNewton Jul 13
Count me with those who think Facebook should ban Infowars https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/how-facebook-s-policies-protect-its-worst-users-123455?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=view_in_browser&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Interface…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
I guess I didn't have to worry about the fascists gradually dismantling the credibility of the judiciary, the Harvard/Yale cartel was ready to do it for a few points in a prestige economy that's going to collapse along with our society
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
Like, you're not even going to pretend to be above this kind of wheeling and dealing? k, thanks for defending the constitution and so forth i guess
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
Shit's always been kind of like this but this Kennedy/Kavanaugh thing is giving me hives
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
sarah jeong Retweeted Alexandra Brodsky
I don't understand why the legal elite aren't embarrassed at how incredibly corrupt they look during this confirmation cycle
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Alexandra Brodsky@azbrodsky
A perfect example of the mutual back-scratching of schools and the judiciary — you give my daughter a clerkship, and I’ll be there to support your nomination, consequences be damned. You make me feel powerful, I make you powerful. https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanaugh-is-a-mentor-to-women-1531435729…
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Alexandra Brodsky@azbrodsky Jul 13
A perfect example of the mutual back-scratching of schools and the judiciary — you give my daughter a clerkship, and I’ll be there to support your nomination, consequences be damned. You make me feel powerful, I make you powerful.
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achel BeckerVERIFIED ACCOUNT@RA_Becks Jul 13
Rachel Becker Retweeted The Verge
Asking the tough questions over here: Did woodchucks target Paul Ryan?
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The VergeVERIFIED ACCOUNT@verge
Paul Ryan says his car was eaten by woodchucks — we investigate https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter…
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
click click click
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Eric GellerVERIFIED ACCOUNT@ericgeller Jul 10
are you kidding me https://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-environment…
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
sarah jeong Retweeted Breaking911
I don't think people realize how often "trafficking" gets invoked in bad faith. I hope it's a little more obvious in this context.
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Breaking911VERIFIED ACCOUNT@Breaking911
BREAKING: Police say Stormy Daniels' arrest part of long-term human trafficking investigation
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
I'm like the Clever Hans of programming jokes
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
and I'm always right
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
it's kind of wild how often I see a meme on Twitter and go, "Well, I don't understand this at all, but I bet this will make a computer programmer laugh"
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andi zeisler Retweeted ScienceAlert
**** it just open the thing, we probably deserve whatever’s inside
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ScienceAlert@ScienceAlert
A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside http://zpr.io/6afXT
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Chris HayesVERIFIED ACCOUNT@chrislhayes Jul 10
BTW, this evil policy is costing insane amounts of money that do not need to be spent. ORR preparing for a half a billion dollar budget overrun
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 10
Looking at history critically is fun, what do conservatives have against fun
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sarah jeong Retweeted mary beard
I read SPQR recently and it filled me with the kind of childish delight I used to feel as a kid when reading those oversized color illustrated books about Pompeii
sarah jeong added,
mary beard@wmarybeard
Replying to @clairlemon @asta_regia_ and 2 others
I have spent my whole life studying and teching ancient Greece and Rome. We try to get our students to go beyond 'loving' Homer & Periclean Athens, to see that it is all the more interesting for its faults too. Romantic 'admiration' can be a real block on understanding.
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ℤoë “dame judy stench” ℚuinnVERIFIED ACCOUNT@UnburntWitch Jul 10
ℤoë “dame judy stench” ℚuinn Retweeted ℤoë “dame judy stench” ℚuinn
Hey since a ton of third parties are throwing their 2 cents in on GamerGate here’s a reminder that I wrote the (hugo nominated) book on it, the alt right, how it connects to a history of online harassment and is doomed to repeat itself, and what we can do to STOP that.
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ℤoë “dame judy stench” ℚuinnVERIFIED ACCOUNT@UnburntWitch
I don't wanna rehash the last 3 yrs and how it was something bigger than games on here again. I have a book for that Amazon product ASIN 1610398084Show this thread
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
this is a cry for help, someone please send me the wikihow ice cream cone interrupting man
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
every few months I google for "wikihow ice cream cone interrupting man" and have to give up in exasperation
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
anyways, christian values!
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sarah jeong Retweeted
I mean, the xenophobic press release is a little short on logic, but the general gist is that refugees bring FGM with them like some communicable illness and now it's going to affect American girls who "belong" here https://twitter.com/JustinPM/status/1016437414745829382…
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
ooooooooookaaaaay
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
lol k
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Adam Serwer VERIFIED ACCOUNT@AdamSerwer Jul 9
if you wrote this in your anti-ICE protest fiction your editor would accuse you of being hacky and didactic
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
sarah jeong Retweeted Matthew Garrett
ok got the summary i needed. thanks all
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Matthew Garrett@mjg59
Replying to @sarahjeong
If the current state of brexit were a musical performance it would be perfect for Eurovision
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
can someone explain to me what's going on with brexit
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nna Holmes@AnnaHolmes Jul 9
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment. For our July issue, “Trigger Warnings,” we focused on the (very unequal) history of gun rights and African-Americans.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
the pewdiepie of tech founders
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
I guess what I'm saying is: video games people, y'all got problems smh
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
The part that really sticks for me though is — how on earth is anyone supposed to trust that the majority values of any online community, no matter how mainstream or diverse or representative of the population at large, is worth preserving, let alone or empowering?
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
I had a moment! Of course I knew this was true, I covered the Silk Road trial, I've researched groups that are centered around, say, hate or child exploitation. Some communities are objectively bad and no amount of democratization or community engagement makes them "good."
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
Once I did a workshop around IoG with some readers and when I talked through a little bit about cultivating community and creating moderation structures to reflect community values, someone mentioned, "Well, sometimes the community values themselves are wrong."
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ah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
Like, seriously, I'm bookmarking this one as a case study for a second edition. Jesus Christ.
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
This is like, "lede anecdote in a chapter of The Internet of Garbage" - level toxic
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sarah jeong Retweeted Chris Hanel
Wow this is some toxic shit
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Chris Hanel@ChrisHanel
Replying to @tha_rami
Well done, ANet, you've successfully emboldened some monsters
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eah LitmanVERIFIED ACCOUNT@LeahLitman Jul 6
Leah Litman Retweeted Take Care
ICYMI: My post on the future of Roe (it's bleak, and there will be lots of gaslighting about whether the decision has been overruled as decisions chip away at the right so it will be practically unavailable to many women)
Leah Litman added,
Take Care@ShallTakeCare
Let's be honest: the question is not whether the reconstituted Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. The only question is *how* the Supreme Court will do so. @LeahLitman https://takecareblog.com/blog/getting-to-no-on-roe…
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ara CoppVERIFIED ACCOUNT@TaraCopp Jul 6
EXCLUSIVE: Fears among active duty & veterans that their spouse or dependent will be deported under .@realDonaldTrump caused a 31 percent spike to 6,586 requests for protection through "Parole in Place" from FY 2016 to 2017 - and rejections are rising https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2018/07/05/more-veteran-requests-for-help-on-immigration-are-rejected-now-data-shows/…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
If you think about it, it's kind of impressive for a company to have built such a strong, distinctive brand that conveys "yelling," "trolls," and "hot takes" across all borders and languages
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
I think all the time about how Twitter retired the egg avi because it was so strongly associated with racism
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ae Grylls@TheAuracl3 Jul 5
I can think of a visual no more befitting of American fascism than the @NYPD putting a Black protester in a chokehold underneath the heel of the Statue of Liberty.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 5
How am I feeling about the rumors of a denaturalization task force?
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 5
My boyfriend cried when I was naturalized. Partly because the ceremony reminded him of when two of the men he served with went through their own naturalization ceremonies — while deployed in Iraq.
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uthpaw@nycsouthpaw Jul 5
Immigrants are being quietly discharged from the U.S. Army. This bigoted administration is a menace to the American dream.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 5
A federal agency so wildly unpopular that companies refuse to take money from them to wash a sidewalk. This is what minority rule looks like.
Does anyone know what part of South Korea Jeong came from? I’m guessing South West. I think it matters and might shed a light on what her feelings are truly about.
Why would you put David Duke and Jeong together, and in what warped universe does that make any sense? Duke is a lifelong member of an avowed HATE GROUP. No one badgered him into joining the KKK. He was a high official in a group that demonizes people based on nothing more than their skin color, or with regards to Jews, on their religion/culture. Some early biographical details on Duke...
Duke was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to David Hedger Duke Sr. and Alice Maxine Crick. As the son of an engineer for Shell Oil Company, Duke frequently moved with his family around the world. They lived a short time in the Netherlands before settling in Louisiana. In the late 1960s, Duke met William Luther Pierce, the leader of the white nationalist and antisemitic National Alliance, who would remain a lifelong influence on him. Duke joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in 1967.
In 1968, Duke enrolled at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, and in 1970, he formed a white student group called the White Youth Alliance that was affiliated with the National Socialist White People's Party. The same year, to protest lawyer William Kunstler's appearance at Tulane University in New Orleans, Duke appeared at a demonstration in Nazi uniform. Picketing and holding parties on the anniversary of Hitler's birth, he became notorious on the LSU campus for wearing a Nazi uniform."
He joined the Klan at 17, and a year later he was a student at LSU advocating WHITE SUPREMACIST views. No evidence (or even claim) that he became a racist because he was abused by minorities. He just met a kindred spirit in his teen years, and adopted a racist lifestyle.
He even went a step further and founded his own version of a Klan spinoff...
"Duke graduated from LSU in 1974. Shortly after graduation, Duke founded the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKKK)."
And early biography of Sarah Jeong...
Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988,[1] and moved to New York with her parents when she was three years old.[2] Her parents were students at the time and Jeong immigrated as their dependent; she later received a green card while attending college, and became a US citizen in 2017.[2]
Jeong attended the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School, where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.[1]
Career
Jeong writes on law, technology and internet culture.[3][4] She is a senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice's Motherboard section, as well as writing articles for Forbes, the The Guardian, and The New York Times.[5][6][7]
Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the internet[8][9][10] from 2014[11] to 2015.[12]
In 2015, she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.[13][14] In the fall of 2015, she was invited to Yale University under a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.[6][15]
Also in 2015, she published a book, The Internet of Garbage, on online harassment and responses to it by media and online platforms.[16] The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions.[17]
In 2017, Forbes named Jeong in its "30 Under 30" media list.[18]
In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology, commencing in September.[19] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media and social media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.[20][21] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong said that the posts were "counter-trolling" in reaction to harassment she had experienced, and that she regretted adopting this tactic.[20] The Times stated that it had reviewed her social media history before hiring her, and that it did not condone the posts"
I used the wiki page for both Duke and Jeong, and apologize for not removing the reference cites from her page. Notice how Duke's biography revolves around a life of promoting racism and white supremacy, which he unapologetically still advocates to this day. He's ran for (and even won) political office as an avowed racist.
Now note how Jeong's life has revolved around being an author and academic, with a minor footnote over 10 or so retaliatory tweets she made over the course of a couple years. No marching around in "Korean Klan" garb joining hate groups, rallies railing against "white devils", or speeches advocating "Korean Supremacy". I took a gander at her twitter feed from the days before she was even suggested for a position at the times. Not even extremely political, and certainly not racist. Feminist and gay friendly, but not racist... Actually a lot of techie stuff, some of it way beyond my pay grade. Probably why I had never heard of her before the right wing uproar...
And seriously, why do folks on the Right,(who hate The NYT) even care? I don't care (or even know) who the players at sites like Breitbart and infowars are, at least not at the level Jeong will fill at The NYT. I hadn't heard of Bannon prior to Trump hiring him to be a part of a political campaign. And then a freaking Chief of Staff at the WH. Now THAT is bizarre!!
Breitbart hires David Duke- Why should I CARE? It's exactly the type of personnel I associate with Breitbart, or Infowars, or Free Republic.Racist sites hire racists- no surprise or cause for outrage. But I'm supposed to believe right wing wackos really CARE that Jeong has been hired to write about technology at the NYT? Or that they really do not compehend the difference between avowed racists and someone who responded in kind to racist taunts directed at her, while she continues to support people of all races in her daily tweets and other social media? Talk about faux outrage...
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- ah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Please look forward to sober, much-needed opinions such as "I still hate my Tamagotchi" and "I don't know why Golduck is called Golduck when it's blue"
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
I've thought many times over the past year, "This is my favorite thing I've written." I'm really proud of the work I've done at the Verge, and I'm excited to continue that work at NYT.
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sarah jeong Retweeted NYTimes Communications
Some personal news
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NYTimes CommunicationsVERIFIED ACCOUNT@NYTimesPR
.@SarahJeong joins NYT’s editorial board. She's the newest in a fab group of recent additions to @nytopinion: Michelle Alexander @susanthequark @JenSeniorNY @karaswisher @MCottle @JInterlandi @MaraGay @JyotiThottam @talmonsmith @lauren_kelley @ByAlexMarch https://bit.ly/2LZbiV8
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Note: This is why I carry two forms of ID when going to court. It’s actually come in handy when I was getting hassled before
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Anyways when I first got into reporting I dyed my hair bright pink and wore moto jackets in the courtroom. “What are you gonna do, piss off a judge?” lol yea why not
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
Probably the story that bothered me the most was from a black woman defender who said that she didn’t know if she could both wear her hair naturally and be as effective of an advocate. Impossible decisions.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
There was even a story going around (not sure how many degrees of separation by time it got to me) of a lawyer who got sent out of the courtroom until she came back in a skirt Me: But that can’t be legal Older woman lawyer: *shrugs* What are you going to do, piss off a judge?
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Aug 1
sarah jeong Retweeted Whitney Merrill
2014: I was told it was best practice to wear a skirt in conservative jurisdictions, again because “you never know”
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Whitney MerrillVERIFIED ACCOUNT@wbm312
During one set of depositions in litigation, opposing counsel called me "Wendy" multiple times, despite knowing my name. He didn't do this to any of my male colleagues. And my law school told me (in 2011) to always wear a skirt to court bc "you never know" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...tent=20180730&silverid-ref=MzEwMTkxNDc0OTcyS0…
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
Hello I have work to do but now I'm looking up ostrich jackets online and have yet to find one more expensive than 1,400
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sarah jeong Retweeted David P Gelles
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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David P GellesVERIFIED ACCOUNT@gelles
Paul Manafort owned a $21,000 jacket "made from an ostrich” according to prosecutors
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
In that context, using "partner" to describe your heterosexual spouse sounded strange, awkward, even a little forced — a purposeful and political act. Times change, I guess, and in this respect, they changed for the better.
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
but also this was over a decade ago and in a time before Prop 8 even passed — let alone Windsor, Obergefell, etc
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
the first straight person I ever heard use the word "partner" to describe a S.O. was one of my philosophy professors — radical, feminist, and very french — and it made me do a double-take on the othering of same-sex relationships
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
why is tipping such a controversy on twitter right now? i thought we were in universal agreement on this: pushing cows until they fall over is wrong
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
See also,
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovelware
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
sarah jeong Retweeted Dancing in the gaslight
To very belatedly answer your question, I'm pretty sure that every online marketplace exhibits similar behaviors on some scale. The only question is how bad it gets, and whether there are specific features of the platform that are driving that.
sarah jeong added,
Dancing in the gaslight@sisyphusmyths
Replying to @sarahjeong
This was an incredibly fascinating read, so thank you for your hard work! Made me remember the piece on weird algorithmically generated kids’ YouTube videos, and Jon Ronson’s investigation on how SEO changed everything about the adult film industry. What else is out there?
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elissa Gira GrantVERIFIED ACCOUNT@melissagira Jul 31
Which senator will be first to rush out a SESTA for this, place your bets on “no one” to win!
arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 31
sarah jeong Retweeted Pinboard
looking forward to the fight over 3D print files tbh
sarah jeong added,
Pinboard@Pinboard
I can't wait for 3D printers to be heavily regulated when guns aren't. It's even better than the gun emoji saga.
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inboard@Pinboard Jul 31
I can't wait for 3D printers to be heavily regulated when guns aren't. It's even better than the gun emoji saga.
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avid CroweVERIFIED ACCOUNT@CroweDM Jul 30
Unbelievable. Policeman gave a man with domestic violence convictions the address of his former wife. “Just tell her you know where she lives.”
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orenzo @ NOT LAS VEGAS BYEEEEEEVERIFIED ACCOUNT@lorenzofb Jul 30
My stories on SIM swapping have been widely read, drawing attention to telecom providers' security weaknesses. And yet...hackers can still access my personal data on @TMobile. Here's a screenshot that a hacker just sent me a few minutes ago.
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
sarah jeong Retweeted jo livingstone
lol Alaska Air is always a prominent sponsor of Pride in Portland
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jo livingstoneVERIFIED ACCOUNT@Jo_Livingstone
lmao @AlaskaAir recently incorporated @VirginAmerica but unfortunately then forgot how to be a normal ****ing business and have sadly died http://www.towleroad.com/2018/07/gay-alaska-airlines/…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
does the bigfoot erotica story distract from the "real" "issues"? i don't know. it's hard to say, when the "real" "issues" involve the president tweeting in all caps anyways, bigfoot erotica
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
I keep mulling over whether or not it's appropriate / harmful to at all focus on the Bigfoot erotica, which of course just makes me think about Bigfoot erotica for longer. It's a self-perpetuating curse
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
Skincare can be a scam, it can also be an obsessive scientific hobby
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
well, i guess that's a thing
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
do i really need to know
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ikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
This is why I’m mad about the city all the time. About the stupid police academy, and the TIFs, and the promised to Amazon, and all of it. Because there is wealth here and yet children are still going hungry.
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wikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
End of the month. Link cards run out.
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ikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
At the checkout line he looked around and started to say something. I thought he was gonna ask for one special item, like a candy bar or some gum or something. Instead he asked for reusable grocery bags.
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wikipedia brown ✨VERIFIED ACCOUNT@eveewing Jul 30
At the grocery store a boy of about 12 came up to us and asked us if he could help us carry our bags in exchange for some money. We didn’t need help but we bought him the food he wanted. He chose some cooked chicken, a family bag of chips, cereal, milk. For him & four siblings.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
2018 is the Year of Bad Lawyering
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
update: i am still bleeding
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Lorenzo @ NOT LAS VEGAS BYEEEEEEVERIFIED ACCOUNT@lorenzofb Jul 30
Scoop: California police have arrested a college student accused of stealing more than $5 million in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency by SIM swapping 40+ people.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
heard him yowling from the other room like he's the one who was wronged
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
ME: what a good kitty. what a sweet little boy. my beloved large adult son [five minutes later] ME: YOU PIECE OF SHIT BASTARD FROM HELL
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
my cat lost his balance from the back of my chair and gouged two six inch trails down my back
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 30
came back from vacation to find that the scooter contagion has reached portland
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Longform@longform Jul 24
"Bad Romance" How a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited algorithm. http://long.fm/ZZY3zpU (@sarahjeong, @verge)
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imone de RochefortVERIFIED ACCOUNT@doomquasar Jul 20
The Verge did a biiiiiiiiiiiig ol' write-up on one of the romance industry's biggest 2018 dramas
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
i'm going on vacation, please save any death threats for when i get back
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uper Nintendo ChalmersVERIFIED ACCOUNT@laura_hudson Jul 13
When people (or platforms) tell you who they are, believe them
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
"AI" is next
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
I'm trying to reconcile myself to the fact that most people in the world think of "blockchain" the way they thought of "smartphone app" a few years back. Just add the blockchain to X and surely it's cutting edge now
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
sarah jeong Retweeted emptywheel
I'm glad Marcy Wheeler exists so that I can have some space in my brain for, like, laundry and dishes, instead of a giant charliewall with red strings and thumbtacks everywhere
sarah jeong added,
emptywheel@emptywheel
The journalist who obtained the Black Lives Matter documents was then Breitbart and current Sputnik journalist Lee Stranahan. http://g-2.space/dms/stranahan.html…
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mptywheel@emptywheel Jul 13
The journalist who obtained the Black Lives Matter documents was then Breitbart and current Sputnik journalist Lee Stranahan. http://g-2.space/dms/stranahan.html…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
lol @cooperq u did it
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
am i reading this right? is a bitcoin mining pool implicated in this indictment?
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
Happy Rosenstein presser day, here's an explanation of spearphishing I wrote for GQ last year
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
2014, Mt Gox meltdown: Wow, bitcoin really jumped the shark this year! 2015, Silk Road trial: Wow, bitcoin really jumped the shark this year! 2016, Bitfinex hack: Wow, hmm yes 2017, ICO bubble: OK we've reached rock bottom yes? 2018, bitcoin implicated in Mueller probe
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outhpaw@nycsouthpaw Jul 13
southpaw Retweeted McDeere
Same day Trump asked the Russians to get Hillary's "missing emails," they tried.
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McDeere@McDeereUSA
Gee what are the odds
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
oh come on, the guy in charge of the russian social media sockpuppets is NOT named potemkin, for ****'s sake
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asey NewtonVERIFIED ACCOUNT@CaseyNewton Jul 13
Count me with those who think Facebook should ban Infowars https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/how-facebook-s-policies-protect-its-worst-users-123455?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=view_in_browser&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Interface…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
I guess I didn't have to worry about the fascists gradually dismantling the credibility of the judiciary, the Harvard/Yale cartel was ready to do it for a few points in a prestige economy that's going to collapse along with our society
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
Like, you're not even going to pretend to be above this kind of wheeling and dealing? k, thanks for defending the constitution and so forth i guess
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
Shit's always been kind of like this but this Kennedy/Kavanaugh thing is giving me hives
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
sarah jeong Retweeted Alexandra Brodsky
I don't understand why the legal elite aren't embarrassed at how incredibly corrupt they look during this confirmation cycle
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Alexandra Brodsky@azbrodsky
A perfect example of the mutual back-scratching of schools and the judiciary — you give my daughter a clerkship, and I’ll be there to support your nomination, consequences be damned. You make me feel powerful, I make you powerful. https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanaugh-is-a-mentor-to-women-1531435729…
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Alexandra Brodsky@azbrodsky Jul 13
A perfect example of the mutual back-scratching of schools and the judiciary — you give my daughter a clerkship, and I’ll be there to support your nomination, consequences be damned. You make me feel powerful, I make you powerful.
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achel BeckerVERIFIED ACCOUNT@RA_Becks Jul 13
Rachel Becker Retweeted The Verge
Asking the tough questions over here: Did woodchucks target Paul Ryan?
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The VergeVERIFIED ACCOUNT@verge
Paul Ryan says his car was eaten by woodchucks — we investigate https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter…
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 13
click click click
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Eric GellerVERIFIED ACCOUNT@ericgeller Jul 10
are you kidding me https://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-environment…
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
sarah jeong Retweeted Breaking911
I don't think people realize how often "trafficking" gets invoked in bad faith. I hope it's a little more obvious in this context.
sarah jeong added,
Breaking911VERIFIED ACCOUNT@Breaking911
BREAKING: Police say Stormy Daniels' arrest part of long-term human trafficking investigation
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
I'm like the Clever Hans of programming jokes
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
and I'm always right
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 12
it's kind of wild how often I see a meme on Twitter and go, "Well, I don't understand this at all, but I bet this will make a computer programmer laugh"
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andi zeisler Retweeted ScienceAlert
**** it just open the thing, we probably deserve whatever’s inside
andi zeisler added,
ScienceAlert@ScienceAlert
A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside http://zpr.io/6afXT
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Chris HayesVERIFIED ACCOUNT@chrislhayes Jul 10
BTW, this evil policy is costing insane amounts of money that do not need to be spent. ORR preparing for a half a billion dollar budget overrun
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 10
Looking at history critically is fun, what do conservatives have against fun
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 10
sarah jeong Retweeted mary beard
I read SPQR recently and it filled me with the kind of childish delight I used to feel as a kid when reading those oversized color illustrated books about Pompeii
sarah jeong added,
mary beard@wmarybeard
Replying to @clairlemon @asta_regia_ and 2 others
I have spent my whole life studying and teching ancient Greece and Rome. We try to get our students to go beyond 'loving' Homer & Periclean Athens, to see that it is all the more interesting for its faults too. Romantic 'admiration' can be a real block on understanding.
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ℤoë “dame judy stench” ℚuinnVERIFIED ACCOUNT@UnburntWitch Jul 10
ℤoë “dame judy stench” ℚuinn Retweeted ℤoë “dame judy stench” ℚuinn
Hey since a ton of third parties are throwing their 2 cents in on GamerGate here’s a reminder that I wrote the (hugo nominated) book on it, the alt right, how it connects to a history of online harassment and is doomed to repeat itself, and what we can do to STOP that.
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I don't wanna rehash the last 3 yrs and how it was something bigger than games on here again. I have a book for that Amazon product ASIN 1610398084Show this thread
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
this is a cry for help, someone please send me the wikihow ice cream cone interrupting man
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
every few months I google for "wikihow ice cream cone interrupting man" and have to give up in exasperation
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
anyways, christian values!
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I mean, the xenophobic press release is a little short on logic, but the general gist is that refugees bring FGM with them like some communicable illness and now it's going to affect American girls who "belong" here https://twitter.com/JustinPM/status/1016437414745829382…
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
ooooooooookaaaaay
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
lol k
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Adam Serwer VERIFIED ACCOUNT@AdamSerwer Jul 9
if you wrote this in your anti-ICE protest fiction your editor would accuse you of being hacky and didactic
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
sarah jeong Retweeted Matthew Garrett
ok got the summary i needed. thanks all
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Matthew Garrett@mjg59
Replying to @sarahjeong
If the current state of brexit were a musical performance it would be perfect for Eurovision
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
can someone explain to me what's going on with brexit
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nna Holmes@AnnaHolmes Jul 9
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment. For our July issue, “Trigger Warnings,” we focused on the (very unequal) history of gun rights and African-Americans.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 9
the pewdiepie of tech founders
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
I guess what I'm saying is: video games people, y'all got problems smh
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
The part that really sticks for me though is — how on earth is anyone supposed to trust that the majority values of any online community, no matter how mainstream or diverse or representative of the population at large, is worth preserving, let alone or empowering?
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
I had a moment! Of course I knew this was true, I covered the Silk Road trial, I've researched groups that are centered around, say, hate or child exploitation. Some communities are objectively bad and no amount of democratization or community engagement makes them "good."
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
Once I did a workshop around IoG with some readers and when I talked through a little bit about cultivating community and creating moderation structures to reflect community values, someone mentioned, "Well, sometimes the community values themselves are wrong."
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ah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
Like, seriously, I'm bookmarking this one as a case study for a second edition. Jesus Christ.
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rah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
This is like, "lede anecdote in a chapter of The Internet of Garbage" - level toxic
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sarah jeong Retweeted Chris Hanel
Wow this is some toxic shit
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Well done, ANet, you've successfully emboldened some monsters
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Leah Litman Retweeted Take Care
ICYMI: My post on the future of Roe (it's bleak, and there will be lots of gaslighting about whether the decision has been overruled as decisions chip away at the right so it will be practically unavailable to many women)
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Let's be honest: the question is not whether the reconstituted Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. The only question is *how* the Supreme Court will do so. @LeahLitman https://takecareblog.com/blog/getting-to-no-on-roe…
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ara CoppVERIFIED ACCOUNT@TaraCopp Jul 6
EXCLUSIVE: Fears among active duty & veterans that their spouse or dependent will be deported under .@realDonaldTrump caused a 31 percent spike to 6,586 requests for protection through "Parole in Place" from FY 2016 to 2017 - and rejections are rising https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2018/07/05/more-veteran-requests-for-help-on-immigration-are-rejected-now-data-shows/…
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
If you think about it, it's kind of impressive for a company to have built such a strong, distinctive brand that conveys "yelling," "trolls," and "hot takes" across all borders and languages
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 6
I think all the time about how Twitter retired the egg avi because it was so strongly associated with racism
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ae Grylls@TheAuracl3 Jul 5
I can think of a visual no more befitting of American fascism than the @NYPD putting a Black protester in a chokehold underneath the heel of the Statue of Liberty.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 5
How am I feeling about the rumors of a denaturalization task force?
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My boyfriend cried when I was naturalized. Partly because the ceremony reminded him of when two of the men he served with went through their own naturalization ceremonies — while deployed in Iraq.
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uthpaw@nycsouthpaw Jul 5
Immigrants are being quietly discharged from the U.S. Army. This bigoted administration is a menace to the American dream.
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arah jeong@sarahjeong Jul 5
A federal agency so wildly unpopular that companies refuse to take money from them to wash a sidewalk. This is what minority rule looks like.
I compared the two in that I think they both hold bigoted views based on things they have said or done. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I didn’t want to skew responses.... Chonnam University is located in Kwangju which is in the southwest part of the Peninsula. In 1980 an uprising/protest was put down by the military. The protesters were a combination of citizens and students. 500-600 were killed when fired on by troops. A US military advisor was present (he was observing and had no authority) but was blamed by the locals that the US was in charge. Most of the anti American fervor in the country comes from this part of the country. It is so strong in this are Americans generally don’t travel in that area.
But it goes deeper than this. There had been decades of uprising in this area. Most of it is recognized as anti capitalist. Look up the 1960 riots there which actually lead to the Rhee resignation (CIA had to fly him out) where he went Hawaii in exile. There were three I believe types of revolutions like this over a 20 year period that changed the direction of the country.
My point is, if she came from this area, the view of the white guy is not good. Wether correct or not, her views could be severely affected by these teachings and what she may have observed in the area and blames the US/white devil as the culprit. May be a product of her environment. I think it would be interesting to know if her family is from this area.
Interesting review of 1960 Rhee riots....https://adst.org/2013/04/the-fall-of-south-korean-strongman-syngman-rhee-april-26-1960/
Anything that hastened Rhee's departure was good. Rhee had innumerable problems and was very much hated by many, including our own military command.
We made a lot of mistakes in Korea that could have doomed us had North Korea not come into the South like Germany into Ukraine. Backing Rhee was one. Even bigger, we left in charge Japanese and Japanese collaborators. It left a bad taste in a lot of mouths that we often left in place the same police chief or governor that had been torturing and arresting for Japan. While Rhee was not involved in that for Japan, he had no problem ordering the same for him. It wasn't until the 90s that South Korea moved to free, democratic government.
You really don’t know what you speak of but it hasn’t stopped you before. Ignorant.
https://adst.org/2015/05/the-1980-kwangju-massacre-and-the-surge-in-anti-americanism-in-south-korea/
I would not completely avoid the area but I would be aware of what/where I am if traveling. Kidnaps have happened. Beatings. Disappearances. I would be cautious....a friendly unsolicited piece of advice. If a protest happens while there, take cover and hide. You will be sought out.
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Combinded response to the the random pulled posts above.
First of all, the OP is typical goat:
- Define the conservative position in a manner that allows easy and mindless criticism;
- Toss in "Nazi" (also sometimes "racist" or "hate) for purposes of further labeling individual conservatives;
- With the table so set, claim the moral high ground.
Predictably, Ranger, Weide and others fall in line by arguing that Trump or others are conservatives, and in the case of Ranger, claim to be a "real" conservative and the others are not.
Then we throw in the comments that conservatives have become an "identity" and not an ideology, and we complete the circle of marginalizing conservatives. From where I sit, the ONLY people who claim conservative has become an identity are those who either are not conservative, or claim some separation from non-conservatives. When a conservative talks about conservatism, the post is usually about ideas, not about identities. When a liberal talks about conservatives, the conversation is always about identity. in this thread, for example, we have posts claiming or implying that Trump and David Duke are conservatives. Liberals love identity labels and they use them . . . .well . . . . liberally. Thus we see "Progressive" used as label for liberal instead of an accurate reflection of progressive ideas.
As I said often, I think Trump is the least ideological president since H.W. Bush, and then several before him back to Nixon. But that shouldn't be taken to mean that Trump hasn't taken some actions that conservatives ought to agree with. The problem is that such agreement is not possible because of the overwhelming hate and resistance to all things Trump.
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I've been to over 70 countries. I don't think I need YOUR silly, non-factual, travel advice.
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If this is true, Trump has taken several actions that you should wholeheartedly support. I haven't noticed any posts like that from you. Have I missed those? I have made such posts and have taken much incoming from Democrats and various anti-Trumpers. You should join me in the barrel, it's lots of fun.
I am curious, you say Trump is not ideological yet I am not sure I have seen a policy that those on the populist right disagree with. Is that just by random chance, or have I missed some?
TripAdvisor says it's a 5 star place to visit for many attractions. Hmmmmm....sounds terrifying!!!! Especially the Kimchi Festival!
Watch out Americans!!!!!!!!
Watch out Americans!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure about what you mean by "populist right." I think his DACA proposal has a lot of disagreement among the GOP's immigration hard liners. (I don't understand why the Dems didn't negotiate that point; . . . . . .eh . . . . .yes I do. Resist!) While not mentioned much, I am not crazy about his caving on taxing carried interest for the hedge fund managers. I think many rural red areas have problems with trade actions. His staff (mainly Ivanka) is out there with more employment costs and expanded family leave. I could go on, but that's just off the top of my head.
I don’t know why all the hostility but whatever. Korea is my favorite foreign country to visit. The Korean people have a loving admiration and tie to the US and I enjoy it. That part of the country has a dark history that runs counter to the government in Seoul. It just does and it lies just under the surface.
I can’t/won’t go into a “why” I believe these things because mainly I can’t. Do with it what you choose. But you bare the responsibility now because you have been informed. I was you the best in your travels.
Excerpt from article....
“In an Asan Institute poll from 2014, 93.3 percent of South Koreans polled said the alliance was necessary, and 66 percent percent were in favor of retaining the alliance even if Korea unifies. However, ROK opinion of the United States is mercurial: In a 2002 survey, 44 percent of South Koreans had a negative view of the United States, a number higher than any other Western or Asian country. Much of this anti-Americanism is rooted in the U.S. military’s role in South Korea. There are historical reasons for this anti-Americanism, including misperceptions surrounding the U.S. military’s role in the Kwangju massacre in 1980. There have also been several recent sensational instances where individual U.S. soldiers have killed or harmed South Korean civilians, provoking anger and questions about the Status of Forces Agreement that permits the United States to try American perpetrators in U.S. military courts.”
https://thediplomat.com/2015/07/evolution-of-the-us-rok-alliance-anti-americanism/
Except that one actually holds bigoted views based on the things they have said or done and one doesn't. It is a perfect example Goat's point. This New Yorker article makes a similar point.
Jeong’s comments can also be seen as expressions—if flawed ones—of the frustration common to people who deal with chronic unfairness. People in these communities might well voice such sentiments in their homes, or among associates who share a common burden, but wisely avoid doing so on social media. Her comments were reckless, inflammatory, potentially hurtful. But all things are not equal. White men in this country have been, largely if not universally, exempt from the default demand that we look askance at their claims to humanity. Filter past the hypertensive indignation and a thing becomes clear: the idea of reverse racism serves as a blunt instrument to facilitate the actual kind.
You're not following. DrHoops in-laws are from South Korea, ergo, your opinion/ facts are meaningless.
Really? That really doesn’t mean much. My wife is full Korean. Her entire family lives there. We visit regularly. I met and married her while living there. We married without our governments consent. The fact we married, required our government to cut my time short in Korea and send us back to the States. The reason? Fear for her family becoming victims of blackmail or being used as blackmail.
I know what I know and when it comes to that part of world.....it is more than many.
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Directionally I agree with his stance on immigration. He goes too far obviously, but that’s to his buffoon nature.
I agree with corporate tax reform, but he’s not lowering spending at all to offset and I’m verrrry skeptical that the growth coming from such is enough to offset the planned reductions in rates.
His bluster, his sycophantic following, and his overall inability to motivate himself to understand complex situations leaves me severely disliking him. He’s not a conservative but he has made some moves with which I agree. But isn’t that true of any political stance and any president?
It's fairly obvious you don't even come close to understanding the point of my post.
It might be delicious, but I can’t even bring myself to try kimchi. It smells like garbage.
I really have no clue about what the "NewGOP" is. You seem to be saying that the GOP is moving towards Trump and that is the NewGOP. I also read you to at least imply that conservatives are doing likewise. In fact you clearly imply such as you say "I suckle at the teat of the NewGOP". I stand by my long-held beliefs about conservative approach to issues. Those haven't changed beyond normal evolution. When I find agreement with Trump I say so. When I don't, I've said that too. I see bight lines between these matters and his often abhorrent behavior--including his unrestrained tweets and other comments. That is a bright line you can't or won't see, thus your meaningless comment about the "NewGOP." As I've explained several times, Trump is the most un-GOP GOP president in my lifetime. That goes from his perspective and the perspective of GOP congressional leaders, governors and other party suits.
Trump has attracted those who haven't voted, who have voted traditional Democratic, and most of the GOP. I don't see a "NewGOP" here. I see a temporary coalition centered on Trump. Frankly I think you made up "NewGOP" for Trump bashing purposes.
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I wish I had a dime for every time you said I don't understand your point. You are pretty transparent, Even though you might change subject matter, your point always comes out the same, conservatives are morally deficient, anti-science, racist, misogynist, and bigoted. Lately, the only reasonable conservatives to you are those who bash Trump to the degree you find acceptable. Pre-Trump, I don't think there was any way for you to see a conservative as reasonable.
And scorns people for “liking” others posts. I feel sorry for him to a point. Very typical far left mentality.... I’m not sure I’ve met someone so abundantly certain they are the intellectually superior person..... talk about worthless as teats on a bull...
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Then frankly you don’t have a good memory. I’ve been discussing #NewGOP before trump ran for president. He’s a symptom. Your fueling his delusional approach to ruling and electing a know-nothing amateur is the problem. I said good day.
You are right. I don’t recall the that. I think it would be worth a discussion of what you think is the #NewGOP and what elected officials are part of it. As a starter, I would agree that some elements in the GOP have become more strident and unwilling to compromise. I don’t even put Trump in that category, but there are many who are, such as the Freedom Caucus. I don’t agree with many of their positions and none of their tactics. They by no means represent anything you might call the #NewGOP.
I think you should defend your remark that I am fueling the #NewGOP—whatever it is. I think you are full of crap on that score, but I’m willing to discuss that charge.
There's no way for any reasonable person to read my post and thing that's my point. You're assigning to me what you assume a liberal caricature would say.
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The #NewGOP had its first heartbeat when they selected Palin to be McCain’s running mate. At that point, many of us were quite confused as to how such an unprofessional, unprepared, and unelectable candidate could be selected alongside a very electable candidate in McCain. Many of us shrugged, but still gave the GOP the benefit of the doubt.
But then the Tea Party came. Then the guys who wanted to lower taxes without reducing spending came. Then the evangelicals came. Then guys like Inhofe hold up snowballs on the floor and nobody bats an eyelash. At that point, the GOP became a post policy party.
The Cruz’s, the ousting of an honorable servant Boehner, the shouts of “Liar!” and the other ODS symptoms persisted and grew like a virus. Amateurs and populists took over and, with the help of right wing media, have turned my former party into a bunch of drooling, Obama-hating, know-nothing tough guys that still have no idea what they’re doing. This new tax bill will not increase growth to the point where missing revenues are replaced or exceeded. This isn’t the party of fiscal responsibility anymore. This isn’t a world-leading party anymore. This is a big tent party that just wants votes and hasn’t lost its rudder. They became the Democrats.
If you voted for this amateur charlatanism, you are part of the problem. Guys like @Aloha Hoosier did the right thing in abstaining. You willfully pulled the lever for a huckster and gave this populist and know-nothing curve a peak.
an interesting and related article by David Frum on the decline of the American conservative and Dinesh D'Souza.
It’s stunning to those of us who came of age during the last phase of the Cold War to watch fellow members of our political generation enthuse over the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. Yet in 2015, D’Souza retweeted a beefcake image of a bare-chested Putin over the caption, “REAL MAN CONTEST: Putin rides bareback, while Obama fishes with gloves.” A year later, D’Souza added: “What @realDonaldTrump admires about Putin is the way Putin—unlike someone else we know—LOVES his country & FIGHTS for its interests.”
In this crisis, old arguments fade before new, old ideological categories look obsolete, and old comrades look like avowed enemies of one’s most dearly cherished institutions and values. And one is left to wonder: Did they really change so much? Or did I?
In this crisis, old arguments fade before new, old ideological categories look obsolete, and old comrades look like avowed enemies of one’s most dearly cherished institutions and values. And one is left to wonder: Did they really change so much? Or did I?
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/27/ocasio-cortez-plan-pay-agenda-er/
Yeah, whatever.
You can say the GOP lost their way on that topic and maybe many other conservative ones but you cannot reasonably claim that the Democrats became anything like say, Ronald Reagan. If anything, Trump is the GOP moving closer to the Democrats, not the other way around.
