• VikingHippie
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        1 year ago

        Because the NYT is an extremely overrated pro-establishment shit show? 🤷

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          1 year ago

          Considering its function is to protect the establishment, I question the characterization of its being overrated.

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            1 year ago

            That’s mostly true, but some people who aren’t generally that pro-establishment themselves still see it as inherently trustworthy and politically left of center even though it’s neither. I blame MSM being an invariably pro-establishment circlejerk.

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              Right. I am only adding that its efficacy would diminish if it represented itself as pro-establishment.

              Those who understand its function as pro-establishment, and those who are not concerned, are the two groups that are least consequential.

              It is third, which you mentioned, who are most relevant, the ones who may be most easily influenced toward an effect that is substantial overall

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            1 year ago

            It deprives them of the traffic and thus ad revenue that reading it directly on their site would give them, yes

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                  1 year ago

                  I doubt we stand a chance, against the narrative that corporations are victims of a lack of industriousness and frugality among the working class.

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                    You might not, but I have a secret weapon: living in another country, one with sane (or at least less insane) laws 😁