As someone who just lost a coworker to Upenn, their endowment is pretty massive. If it only takes 175m to change their policy on a deeply held belief, then it will be a massive stain followed by mass protests.
Schumer once they impeach ACB, "We need to replace her, and it's not an election year. Only having 8 judges would be far worse than having another psychopathic nazi. For these reasons I approve of Jenny Thomas for SCOTUS."
Great read. Too exhausted right now to finish it. These fascists need to meet more resistance so I can sleep at night... It's real hopeless hours out here, but I guess that's what they want.
I don't think acknowledging morals as relative to the culture they exist within exempts decrees of immorality. Relative to their culture, it is. Should they speak from the point of view of a culture that they don't understand? I personally think it's a sliding scale where, to the extent it harms other people, it needs to be viewed more objectively just, and where it doesn't harm, it's fine being a difference in opinion. The only downside to this is that sometimes you don't know enough about a topic to know there are victims, and so your prescriptive thoughts can change very quickly about the morality of it. Perspective is important and should always be maximized to avoid this problem.
As cringe as liberals are, I don't know if it's politically savvy for a progressive writer to do a long format hitpiece on an alternative to Joe Rogan and other much worse podcasts. Clickbait in general is an accepted necessary evil on YouTube and while Meidas is potent example of how bad it looks for an outsider looking in, I don't think that should have been the crux of the article.
The author's criticism of Palestine coverage is valid, but making that the entire personality of the left does risk chasing away people who are already heavily biased against it from Fox, for example. It's not great to avoid it completely, but from the sound of it, they haven't entirely removed it from their coverage. Also, they criticize the Trump focus, but that is probably what political refugees from the right are thinking when they search for new shores.
I personally prefer Humanist Report, Vaush, and Hasan's politics, but if Meidas is more successful, it's easier to pull liberals than fascists to the left.
Honestly this behavior is going to keep getting highlighted from Biden because he was an absolute stubborn idiot. He had polling showing him losing to Trump with over 400 electoral votes for MONTHS before dropping out. He blamed his family for staying in as long as he did, obviously it was him or what was left of him.
Zoe Bee as well, she's a teacher who speaks largely in lecture video essay format. Here are the 4 videos I've seen of hers https://youtu.be/cLKMW1LII7c https://youtu.be/4NAiPYaogCw https://youtu.be/ZhWxDgJv7PI https://youtu.be/ZUz1nCRJJBg
All highly recommended, Joel too