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  • George KG George K

    "“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"

    Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.

    (can I say that?)

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    Catseye3
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    @George-K said in The Descent:

    (can I say that?)

    As a cisgendered man, you can't say anything about women anymore.

    Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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    • Catseye3C Catseye3

      @George-K said in The Descent:

      (can I say that?)

      As a cisgendered man, you can't say anything about women anymore.

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      George K
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      #4

      @Catseye3 said in The Descent:

      As a cisgendered man

      Well, look who's being pretty presumptuous about my self-identification.

      Harrumph.

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      • George KG George K

        @Catseye3 said in The Descent:

        As a cisgendered man

        Well, look who's being pretty presumptuous about my self-identification.

        Harrumph.

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        Catseye3
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        #5

        @George-K Oh shit, that's true. My humblest apologies.

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        • JollyJ Jolly

          https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-washington-posts-descent-into?s=r

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          Aqua Letifer
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          #6

          @Jolly said in The Descent:

          https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-washington-posts-descent-into?s=r

          Their podcast on CRT was pretty good.

          Please love yourself.

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            LuFins Dad
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            #7

            she geared up to sue the paper for discrimination (that suit was dismissed with prejudice by a D.C. judge in March).

            Wait, why is she even still employed at this paper?

            1. If she honestly felt she was being discriminated against then why on earth would she stay?

            2. Why would the Post continue to keep her on? The woman tried to sue you…

            The Brad

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            • George KG George K

              "“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"

              Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.

              (can I say that?)

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              Horace
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              @George-K said in The Descent:

              "“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"

              Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.

              (can I say that?)

              “I have long considered Dave a good friend,” Sonmez wrote. “It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong, and makes it all the more uncomfortable to call them out—even though it’s necessary to do so.”

              Witness what righteousness does to a mind that is already slightly unhinged. Never doubt for a moment that she feels she is courageously fighting the good fight, as she flails wildly at the world, to punish it for her mental illness.

              Education is extremely important.

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              • MikM Offline
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                The money shot to me was this quote.

                "When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?

                I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  George K
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                  #10

                  Read the thread, LOL.

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    George K
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                    image.jpeg

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      Horace
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                      #12

                      lol. High status lefties in the wild. We need to get the zoologists on this. This species deserves an encyclopedia entry.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • MikM Mik

                        The money shot to me was this quote.

                        "When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?

                        I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "

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                        Axtremus
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                        @Mik said in The Descent:

                        The money shot to me was this quote.

                        "When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?

                        I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "

                        It’s not for we rarely literally print anything several hundred thousand times anymore. It’s just electrons and pixels, often with silly things going viral racking up millions of views.

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                        • AxtremusA Axtremus

                          @Mik said in The Descent:

                          The money shot to me was this quote.

                          "When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?

                          I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "

                          It’s not for we rarely literally print anything several hundred thousand times anymore. It’s just electrons and pixels, often with silly things going viral racking up millions of views.

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                          Horace
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                          @Axtremus said in The Descent:

                          @Mik said in The Descent:

                          The money shot to me was this quote.

                          "When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?

                          I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "

                          It’s not for we rarely literally print anything several hundred thousand times anymore. It’s just electrons and pixels, often with silly things going viral racking up millions of views.

                          One prints stuff on a screen. Every time the pixels change colors to represent words, those words are printed.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                            George K
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                            Seen on twitter:

                            What's the breakdown in the average WaPo staffer's workday between:

                            • monitoring colleagues' tweets/retweets

                            • complaining, on Slack and in Twitter, about offensive ones

                            • digging into who liked which tweet

                            • running gender-breakdown analyses of tweet-likers

                            • doing journalism

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              Aqua Letifer
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                              Journalism is dead. Journalism remains dead. And we at the Washington Post have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death by our keyboards: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What tweets of false virtue, what misguided ideology shall we now have to peddle? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?

                              Please love yourself.

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                              • George KG George K

                                "“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"

                                Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.

                                (can I say that?)

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                                jon-nyc
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                                @George-K said in The Descent:

                                "“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"

                                Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.

                                (can I say that?)

                                Are you a biologist?

                                "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                                -Cormac McCarthy

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                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                  @George-K said in The Descent:

                                  "“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"

                                  Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.

                                  (can I say that?)

                                  Are you a biologist?

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                                  George K
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                                  #18

                                  @jon-nyc as a matter of fact, my undergraduate degree was in biology.

                                  So there.

                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    George K
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                                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                      Horace
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                                      I am sure she will accept this gracefully, learn from the experience, course correct, and move on.

                                      Education is extremely important.

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                                      • HoraceH Horace

                                        I am sure she will accept this gracefully, learn from the experience, course correct, and move on.

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                                        George K
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                                        @Horace said in The Descent:

                                        I am sure she will accept this gracefully, learn from the experience, course correct, and move on.

                                        You're a kind man, Horace (sorry for saying "man," that was presumptive of me). Thank you for being gracious.

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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