Thanks for wading through this dogshit. I used to hateread the NYT pretty often but I can’t even open these ones anymore, after reading “public health is actually bad, sacrifice poors 2 make line go up” for the 200th time, I just scream or joker laugh when I see these headlines now.
In this case I just skimmed for it and then searched the page for the word when I didn’t see it lol. I still read some NYT articles occasionally, I’ve kept up my subscription because for some reason they still give me the student discount even though I graduated almost 2 years ago lol. It can sometimes be fun to read an article just to find the one or two sentences of information that needed 10 paragraphs of framing to spin correctly lol, but I don’t use them as my main news source like I did even as recently as a year or two ago
In the past I’d try to read between the lines on their world reporting, and usually could get some useful information after filtering out the pro-US foreign policy tilt, but since the Ukraine war, the coverage is so disconnected from reality it just doesn’t feel useful anymore. Liberals live in a fantasyland mind palace as untethered as any QANON nut now. That transition started long before the war, but it feels like a major turning point to me…
Oh yeah I agree, I have a socdem friend that I’ve been trying to slowly convert, and basically every conversation ends with some sort of brainworms and everything gets derailed past that. Thankfully Ukraine hasn’t really come up yet, but I’m dreading having to talk about it lol.
I’ve really been appreciating @SeventyTwoTrillion’s news updates here lately though, I only noticed them about a week ago and they’ve already become my main source for basically everything but local news
