The Atlantic is a joke

kidfury

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"Here they were, a coalition of the willing: deadbeat dads, YouPorn enthusiasts, slow students, and MMA fans. They had heard the rebel yell, packed up their Confederate flags and Trump banners, and GPS-ed their way to Washington. After a few wrong turns, they had pulled into the swamp with bellies full of beer and Sausage McMuffins, maybe a little high on Adderall, ready to get it done. Like Rush Limbaugh before them, they were in search of their own Presidential Medals of Freedom, and like Donald Trump himself, they were ready to relieve themselves on the withering soul of the nation and the marble floors of the Capitol building. Out of darkness we were born and into darkness we were returning."
 

Ifallalot

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Obviously written by a weak dweeb who still resents “jocks”

Now that Trump is gone, they’re still going for the Vice Mag hate click action
 

Autoprax

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I never understood being a sports fan.

I don't want to idolize the athlete. I want to BE the athlete.

And that will never happen.

That has made my black devil heart turn to stone.
 

grapedrink

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I never understood being a sports fan.

I don't want to idolize the athlete. I want to BE the athlete.

And that will never happen.

That has made my black devil heart turn to stone.
I've noticed that people who are super into sports tend to be overweight and have nothing interesting in their life aside from whatever team they root for.
 
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elcalvo

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I just saw the title of this thread and I thought it was about the quality of the surf in the Atlantic Ocean. :waving:
Forgot it was in the Politics forum.
 
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Sharkbiscuit

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Glad its good for you. Up here in NE the ocean looks like a swimming pool

Whoa whoa whoa - as much as I appreciate the well-wishes, easy on the "good" there, chief. It's Winter 2020/2021 on the East Coast.

Outside of two weekdays in South Florida I just couldn't swing, it's been a pretty sh!t winter for surf over waist high.
 

Surfdog

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For iFall...

That's what they said about Reagan.

Trump trumps Reagan for worst.

The Atlantic is the George Costanza of op-ed.

Pretty much exact opposite and thinks it scholar. Now THAT article is a wall of words.
 
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sirfun

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Should News Describe the World, or Fix It ?? :) )

The rationalist thinker Julia Galef presents a useful frame for understanding this epistemic conflict in her new book, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t. Humans, she says, employ two modes of evaluating the world: the soldier mindset (defend what you believe) and the scout mindset (survey what is out there).

I believe what is out there is a joke !! :) )

The soldier/scout metaphor maps neatly onto the competing visions of news reporting—one fighting for a just society and one prioritizing inquiry. Strikingly, Galef’s description of the scout mindset is how many would define the role of journalism itself: “to help us see things clearly for the sake of our judgment, so that we can fix problems, notice opportunities, figure out which risks are worth taking, decide how we want to spend our lives, and, sometimes, better understand the world we live in for the sake of sheer curiosity.” Equally striking, the reasons for the soldier mindset sound much like social media’s incentives: “to help us maintain beliefs that boost our self-esteem, give us comfort, preserve our morale, persuade other people, cultivate an attractive image, and help us fit in to our social groups.”

Soldiers are necessary. They mobilize for what they deem right; they might change society for the better. But to start with ought and end with is has been a recipe for corruption throughout history. That is how those who sought a better society 100 years ago ended up as Soviet apparatchiks fiddling facts on crop yields to deadly effect.

Moral actions depend on neutral facts. Otherwise, the good enact the bad. A soldier is feckless without a scout.