Turning from the obvious Kissinger outrage, I greatly appreciated your good capsule summaries of the rationales for DSA and leftist as distinct from incoherent liberalism (to say nothing of right-wing lunacy).
The astonishing, almost breathtaking tone-deafness of their praise of Kissinger is the most damning element of their celebrity. In the end, human rights was only the means to which this "power couple" ascended the Americo-politico social mountaintop.
To me what was most revealing about the Chotiner piece was the last line: "If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else."What's interesting is not that he said it but that he said it in the clear belief that it would work, because in the past editors have happily scrubbed articles on request. Ultimately, he believes that reporters are like him - in the bullshit business. And all of this talk of "freedom" "equality" and "integrity of the press" is just shit you say to keep the wheels of elite privilege turning so you can cash royalties from your Star Wars tie-in and drink with war criminals.
This and the reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder has been a clear display of who US liberals actually consider to be "people". I'm sure if you asked Cass Sunstein whether a Cambodian life matters, he'd say yes, but he obviously doesn't really believe that.
Elites never cease to fascinate me. The whole “Henry Kissinger is a war criminal but he was very generous with his time” thing reminded me a little of Bernie Sanders saying “Joe Biden is a friend of mine.”
Like, yeah. When you eat Senate Bean Soup together every day, you’re going to become friends with people. I like when people write about these difficulties.
Turning from the obvious Kissinger outrage, I greatly appreciated your good capsule summaries of the rationales for DSA and leftist as distinct from incoherent liberalism (to say nothing of right-wing lunacy).
The astonishing, almost breathtaking tone-deafness of their praise of Kissinger is the most damning element of their celebrity. In the end, human rights was only the means to which this "power couple" ascended the Americo-politico social mountaintop.
To me what was most revealing about the Chotiner piece was the last line: "If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else."What's interesting is not that he said it but that he said it in the clear belief that it would work, because in the past editors have happily scrubbed articles on request. Ultimately, he believes that reporters are like him - in the bullshit business. And all of this talk of "freedom" "equality" and "integrity of the press" is just shit you say to keep the wheels of elite privilege turning so you can cash royalties from your Star Wars tie-in and drink with war criminals.
This and the reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder has been a clear display of who US liberals actually consider to be "people". I'm sure if you asked Cass Sunstein whether a Cambodian life matters, he'd say yes, but he obviously doesn't really believe that.
Elites never cease to fascinate me. The whole “Henry Kissinger is a war criminal but he was very generous with his time” thing reminded me a little of Bernie Sanders saying “Joe Biden is a friend of mine.”
Like, yeah. When you eat Senate Bean Soup together every day, you’re going to become friends with people. I like when people write about these difficulties.