The Atlantic showing, once again, that their mission is to normalize fascism, including by explaining away fascist incompetence, no matter how ridiculous it makes them look. - ThreadSky

maxkennerly.bsky.social • 23 hours ago

The Atlantic showing, once again, that their mission is to normalize fascism, including by explaining away fascist incompetence, no matter how ridiculous it makes them look.

Reposted from Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈

Oh my fucking god

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maxross.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Not really an engagement with what she wrote about animals.

cdpositive.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Added to the *journalists that are brain dead" list. 🙄

rob-sheridan.com•22 hours ago

March: “It’s weird that planes could ever land safely”
April: “It’s weird that the economy was ever good”
May: “It’s weird that polio was ever eradicated”
June (pamphlet edition): “It’s weird that we ever had an internet”
July (scrawled on the walls at journalist detention camp): “It’s weird that

rondomane.bsky.social•22 hours ago

First They Came (America's Version)

thewesterhazys.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The Atlantic is Rudy Giuliani at a press conference of once good magazines, the hair dye of facism leaking all over while they tried to pretend they are serious thinkers.

paulytheism.bsky.social•21 hours ago

"Do we really even need to eat? Where did this trend start?"

hashelhoff.bsky.social•22 hours ago

How is it “fascist incompetence,” when eggs were expensive even a year ago?

wisenerdan.bsky.social•23 hours ago

It would be ridiculous not to think that an article about eggs supports fascism.

rednecklefty.bsky.social•18 hours ago

We'll be reminding Annie's kids about this when they're in college.

vax-o-licious.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Don't understand this critique at all.

How is an article that mostly just explains the structure of the egg production industry "normalizing" fascism? Also, if you are sincerely concerned with animal welfare, there is nothing about the industrial production of eggs that you can support.

zkahn.bsky.social•23 hours ago

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victorzilla.bsky.social•23 hours ago

This has to be some Vegan activism thing..

maxross.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Reading the article would reveal this to be true.

plsdoitbetter.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Just wait until you hear about what happens to male chicks on egg farms

jonathan.caprell.com•22 hours ago

Lowrey wrote about how bad Donald Trump villainizing the Civil Service was three weeks ago, and about how bad he has been and will be for the economy before that. Believing that this being written or published is a boon to Trump, or an impediment to resisting him, is an exercise in self-deception.

jonathan.caprell.com•22 hours ago

That’s basically right, its at the intersection of animal right advocacy generally and the economics of raising–culling–subsidizing chickens; it’s a pretty radical article in its content, but the presence of Donald Trump puts pressure on people to read stuff through the warped lens of his fascism.

spencerdow.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Maxx,
We've always been at war with Eastasia Egg Prices...

ryantoole.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Papers may simultaneously publish content on a variety of topics though? I mean, top of their front page right now:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/least-now-we-know-truth-about-trump-and-vance/681872/

And a couple articles down:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-titushky-ukraine-russia/681869/

Not much explaining away of fascism there

georgethomas.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Reminiscent of Soviet revisionism.

jagsaysstupid.bsky.social•23 hours ago

“You don’t really NEED milk.”

maxross.bsky.social•23 hours ago

You need to repeatedly rape and impregnate a cow and prevent her offspring from drinking any of their mother’s milk in order to harvest from her.

There are farms that claim to have happy cows. But statistically speaking, you certainly don’t exclusively eat cruelty-free dairy.

jagsaysstupid.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I bet you’re fun at parties.

pibbly.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Interestingly, I’ve found that people can be entirely different in their demeanors in different social settings, such as discussing animal rights issues online versus attending a lighthearted event.

jagsaysstupid.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Interestingly, I’ve found that shrill scolds are incredible bores in all facets of life. But I’m glad your results have varied.

pibbly.bsky.social•19 hours ago

One person’s shrill scold is another’s raiser of interesting points.

plsdoitbetter.bsky.social•5 hours ago

You don't like the criticism so naturally you employ the "if I don't like it then nobody does" defense mechanism

tsunamidoug.bsky.social•4 hours ago

jagsaysstupid.bsky.social•4 hours ago

🤣🤣🤣

moltvikh.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It’s an article with an overview of the history and economics of eggs, mentions ill treatment of chickens, poor decisions made around bird flu. The mentions of Trump have to do with his weaponization of the price of eggs during the campaign and the inadequacy of their response to the problem.

moltvikh.bsky.social•22 hours ago

*ed. “his”, not “their”

moltvikh.bsky.social•22 hours ago

This summary not generated by AI because I actually read the article.

moltvikh.bsky.social•22 hours ago

👏👏 consider reading the article before you post. 👏👏

67jojow85.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Trash mag. Only Kool-Aid drinkers read it. Like faux news

caitbrie.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Ezra Klein’s wife. What a pair.

maxross.bsky.social•23 hours ago

All other critiques about them aside, they are genuinely ethically vegan.

piperpottery.bsky.social•6 hours ago

How does one define “ethically vegan”?
Is it not flying?
Forgoing any use of AI & most of the cloud based technology?
Using mass transit exclusively?
Only replacing stuff when it truly wears out?
Do environmental impacts matter - or is it more “don’t eat stuff w/ eyeballs”?
I have always wondered.

plsdoitbetter.bsky.social•5 hours ago

None of those things are included and it's not just about diet

https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism

piperpottery.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Interesting. Is it correct to say that exploiting the environment and resources animals need to live is excluded, then? And is it ok, as a vegan, to eat foods or use items that have exploited humans during the production/harvest and/or manufacturing process?

plsdoitbetter.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yes and no. Humans are animals too.

Also, isn't honestly just plain not the case that the demand for anything that's bad for the environment isn't driven primarily by non-vegans just based on statistics

ryanb123.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Like I get this conceptually as a drunk nerdy conversation topic, but **gestures around** is this really the time and place?

desarrayed.bsky.social•23 hours ago

awesome

we're entering the "you should have been grateful for the artificially low costs of things that this administration has rightfully corrected" phase of gaslighting

svetbeard.bsky.social•23 hours ago

“It’s odd that anyone ever failed to recognize the divinity of God-Emperor Trump.”

zazecki.bsky.social•14 hours ago

What an insane headline

midnightaccident.bsky.social•22 hours ago

meanwhile in the uk...

yeetski.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The Klein-Lowery household lay out the welcome mat for facists

moltvikh.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Did you actually read the article word for word? Be honest.

squrleygranpa.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Looking forward to the next column.

Ideas:
Its weird that Democracy was ever a thing...

jonathan.caprell.com•22 hours ago

You’re a really politically sophisticated guy; and, I just cannot myself frame how anything—anything—at all about Lowrey writing or The Atlantic publishing this article is meaningfully an attempt to, or even an inadvertent expression of, explaining away fascist incompetence. How?

alexforscience.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Get past the awful title and at least read the central argument before lashing out:
“Americans’ egg addiction has been made possible only through billions of dollars of technological and infrastructural investment, as well as the immiseration of billions of animals.“

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