America is now a tinpot kleptocracy run by a fascist imbecile. The nonpartisan stewards of our norms and institutions are in denial. None would hesitate to call a leader from the Global South illegally taking a plane from the Qataris a corrupt exchange. But here? We need different language. - ThreadSky

ositanwanevu.com • 7 hours ago

America is now a tinpot kleptocracy run by a fascist imbecile. The nonpartisan stewards of our norms and institutions are in denial. None would hesitate to call a leader from the Global South illegally taking a plane from the Qataris a corrupt exchange. But here? We need different language.

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obviouspseudonym.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Elites in America has been in a disassociative state for nearly a decade, at minimum. Reality is too scary to face, so they won't.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Am I being native to think that guy must be making a mistake…that he misspoke or something? Maybe he just got back from the dentist and he’s still partially under sedation.

kle138.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The NYT is not doing their readers a service - or enhancing their own credibility - by their strange and hamhanded parsing of words and blatant double standards. It is very obviously and extremely the opposite.

Speak plainly and tell people what is happening. How is this possibly so difficult? 😭

raferake.bsky.social•6 hours ago

we already seized two of maduro's planes under questionable circumstances, so this makes a trifecta

bryanjoiner.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Or a democrat

winstonsmith2024.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Trump isn't even shy about it anymore and it will probably get worse.

nostaticatall.bsky.social•6 hours ago

ah, but did covid inflation stop under biden or merely stop increasing as fast as it had been? think quick - this will be all we talk about for the next 2 years!

leftinfighter.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Isn't the problem that the nonpartisan stewards simply cannot speak like normal people and are too locked in to approaching everything with nuance and measured language and good faith to meet a present moment where that approach is simply insufficient?

jstephenclark.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Yeah, hurling slurs against people with mental disabilities, like “normal people” do. Right, little mouth?

greenlightening.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They’re not nonpartisan.

buffalodanny.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Bingo

weekendfairy.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Accountability for crimes of corruption and venality comes first, but I yearn to see epistemic accountability for confident falsehoods and sneering sophistry. Journalism aside, is there nothing a talking head can say that will make them lose a sinecure once obtained? So much for cancel culture.

weekendfairy.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Basically: if I ran a publication, and a writer I hired was consistently wrong or facile but got clicks, I have a civic duty to let them go anyway, presumably to start their inevitable Substack prematurely. Maybe, in the long run, this would produce a populace who gave such persons fewer clicks!

humanity101.bsky.social•4 hours ago

benalpers.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Refusing to call torture "torture" two decades ago was a watershed for our media's utter refusal to speak truth to (Republican) power.

nhallerwilson.bsky.social•5 hours ago

As was refusing to take action on weapons after Columbine, Sandyhook, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas…

Protecting the weapons/weapons holders and not the kids

kjy1066.bsky.social•6 hours ago

American Exceptionalism requires that we talk about our country's flaws as honest mistakes when any other country doing the same would be viewed as a malicious acts

ositanwanevu.com•6 hours ago

It's an inability to process that the things that are happening are actually happening that might do us in. An unwillingness to accept that things we've willing to tolerate brought us here and may bring us here again. The death we are choosing is suicide by self-image. "In America?" Yes, in America.

mariabustillos.com•5 hours ago

It hardly matters if we realize it or not, it really only matters that there are ten Republican senators who do

and like lol. I dunno man

garbagefriend.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The fact that the last D presidential candidate was a prosecutor and corruption was not a centerpiece of the campaign against the GOP and Trump is reflective of what a US law is really about

dmrma413.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Don't worry the New York Times on the way to explain it to make it sound like it was just a normal thing do happen

victoriascott.bsky.social•6 hours ago

it feels like a nation of deluded protagonists. we collectively seem to believe that talking about American Exceptionalism would preserve our values and systems, and actual action is for “lesser” societies. it’s so stupid.

gengarro.bsky.social•6 hours ago

A whole country of Baghdad Bobs, angrily lecturing "inferior" nations on their shortcomings while around them, buildings crumble and hostile forces march by.

catsashimi.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It feels like AA: the first step to defeating fascism is admitting we're in a fascist regime. But for too many, admitting that is an unacceptable blow to the ego.

theedingus.bsky.social•6 hours ago

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