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Jul 8, 2023Liked by Brad Pearce

Fabulous article, as excellent as any compilation and analysis I’ve read on this, the most vital issue of the day.

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Jul 9, 2023·edited Jul 9, 2023Author

Thank you! It always takes me a while to publish because a lot of work goes into these and so when I cover a topic like this there is the risk that people have grown bored of it, but not a lot of people try to combine things in the way I do, usually it's either just telling the story, pure opinion, or a listicle type article of other commentary, so I'm glad to hear that it has value days into people writing about this.

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Jul 9, 2023Liked by Brad Pearce

You’re a great writer, up there with the best of them on the state of this wretched nation, which doesn’t mean I necessarily agree with everything, but I’m not a one of those baby/bath water types. :-). I wish I had more social capital to lead others your way, but I’ve been throttled, having once gone from 1000+ fb followers to zippidy-do-dah for some unspecified thought crime. I’m surrounded by Honorary Lifetime Members of the TruBlu Incremental BabySteps Patient Pragmatist Society who are hot to hop on one ‘incorrect’ statement as an excuse to eliminate any perceived deviation from the one true path, so I esp. appreciate the sourcing and documentation in such pieces.

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LMAO at the TruBlu thing.

Facebook has been made absolutely worthless for any exchange of ideas. In all my time doing this I've been able to get 74 people to a facebook page having like 500 friends, and it will show the posts to maybe 5~ people total.

And yeah it's inevitable that anyone will disagree sometimes. I had some idiot the other day who said he had to stop reading a piece after I called the 1619 Project "wholly" discredited, and then went on to try and explain that niche parts of it were good, which means it wasn't "wholly" discredited.

After some thought I noticed a tremendous irony that he considered my work to be wholly discredited from having said "wholly discredited" about something else lmao

IMO it would be super weird given the depth and complexity of my work if someone agreed with everything.

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Excellent article and very well-worded injunction, both well worth reading. As well as all the embedded links.

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I totally agree with all this. Also, I was so dumbfounded when the American Prospect hired Ryan Cooper. One of approximately two publications I actually trust. David Dayen is brilliant though and if you are ever going to crack an NPC that will at least have a conversation with you, by far the best tool you have is pointing out how no, Obama wasn't tripped up by Republicans, he affirmatively decided to go back on promises he made to black democrat's like Donna Edwards (in exchange for TARP votes) to maximize the number of foreclosures on poor people, exclusively to benefit his Wall Street donors. Overseeing the loss of over 50% of Black wealth in the country. And David Dayen lays it all out perfectly. https://prospect.org/economy/needless-default/

I have complained about Cooper personally to Dayen, and I know others have too.

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yes you know my memory was that The American Prospect was some sort of credible publication not a liberal rag, I was surprised by that being the source though didn't actually take time to look deeper into what was going on with them publishing that horrible article.

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Jul 9, 2023Liked by Brad Pearce

Good stuff.

Two things to look for. First, If and when this goes to the Supreme Court. Second, the EU is about to institute a sweeping "disinformation" regime that will require all major social media platforms to comply with. The mechanisms are already in place. We'll see what happens when greed meets censorship.

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hm, I wonder if there is ANY precedent about foreign governments cause corporations to censor Americans. Presumably we have some degree of protection from the oppression of foreign governments within the United States.

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