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Hinkie is aware of this phenomenon. “I’m superkeen on that topic,” he says, which is not surprising. Hinkie is superkeen on a lot of topics. This is a man who listens to books on 3X speed on Audible and curates his Pocket account the way some men once curated album collections, because if you really want to understand something there’s no better way than to spend six hours reading a book someone... Sam Hinkie: After The Process | SI.com

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hinkie confirmed illuminati

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50 Best Albums of 2016 50 Best Albums of 2016 | Rolling Stone

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for real big ups to rolling stone for making this all on one page. nothing worse than needing to click 50 times and reload each page. list is typical rs so nothing to get too worked up about.

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The year's finest hip-hop album had a vision as radiant as its pink-sky cover art. Chance the Rapper's third mixtape combines radical politics and heavenly uplift to create life-affirming music that refuses to shy away from harsh realities. He uses the optimistic, joyful sounds of gospel choirs to soundtrack his hopes, fears and blessings, ... 50 Best Albums of 2016 | Rolling Stone

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heh.

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On Saturday morning, I biked to James’s apartment, in Clinton Hill, where the guys were taping their first post-election podcast. James set up his laptop on a coffee table and dialled Christman in from Cincinnati. The room was c... What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left? - The New Yorker

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stop verbing “bike”!

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My bad, I thought this was a general Americanism, thanks for showing me it isn’t

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i mean it kind of is, nearly everyone except frequent cyclists use it, but it just sounds so gross. i know bikesnobnyc had a good bit about this in his book but im too lazy to find it rn.

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From the beginning, the “Chapo” guys lambasted Republicans as well as Democrats, but it was their critique of liberal thinking, and the assumed Hillary Clinton ascendancy, that generated energy and attention. After the journalist Brendan James appeared on their third episode to discuss a profile he’d written about S... What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left? - The New Yorker

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the difference between liberal and leftist is an important distinction here

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I assume somebody had to explain to you who Killer Mike was. Yes, they did. The name got me a little bit nervous. But Killer Mike has never killed anybody. It's just, he's a killer rapper. Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump's Victory, Identity Politics, and the Failures of the Democratic Party | GQ

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...nd Jimmy Kimmel. The Ellen Show, that gets out. That's good. It gave us just enormous exposure into millions of homes that otherwise we would not have had. But my major lament of the campaign is that media goes overboard to make sure that we do not have the kind of serious discussion we need and that it is kind of a little bit strange that you have to go on a comedy show in order to have five minutes to talk about serious issues. What does that say about American political culture, that you have to go on a comedy show? I'm old-fashioned, and I think that politics and public policy are serious issues that need serious discussi... Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump's Victory, Identity Politics, and the Failures of the Democratic Party | GQ

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What are some of the things we can do to change this? The current system encourages media conglomerations to go for ratings (aka ad revenue) above all else, which leads to lowest common denominator drivel quite often. They’ve shown they’re not interested in doing what’s best for the discourse at the expense of their own pockets, so I’ve seen people suggest that the media be publicly funded. That makes some sense, but there could/would be even more overt propaganda if funding was reliant on an institution that is supposedly separate. It could easily turn into a situation where the government withholds funding if, say, CNN was exposing mass-surveillance – like they did with Federal Highway funding to get the states to acquiesce to their drinking age limit.

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If people aren’t interested then you can’t make them interested. Expanding PBS could help but ultimately the problem is the lack of demand. Find formats that people do want to watch. Get an equivalent of Question Time.

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RIP Fairness Doctrine.

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...h to that. But you can’t run a campaign—you can’t run a party—based on the facts that some of your supporters will vote against Republicans because of a, b, and c reasons: racism, sexism, homophobia. You need to stand for something! It’s not good enough to say, “Well, I’m not a racist, I’m not a sexist, I’m not a xenophobe, I’m not a homophobe, you gotta vote for me.” You need more than that! So it’s not like they’re just voting against somebody, they’re voting for somebody. And I think that’s where we have to radically sharpen our message. Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump's Victory, Identity Politics, and the Failures of the Democratic Party | GQ

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Along those lines, Chait also takes issue with how politically correct culture doesn't seem too concerned with hurting the feelings of privileged people by calling them bigots. He told me, "This disconnect shows one of the problems that the Democrats had in this race, which is this idea that privileged people's feelings are to be ignored and discounted, which is not helpful... The P.C. Culture Problem - What Is Political Correctness?

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Talks like a bigot, acts like a bigot…

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...talk about systems of power and group identity and justice, and the right wants to talk about individuals. There are riots in Ferguson, and the right says, 'Why are these people burning down stores?' The left looks at people in Ferguson and says, 'The system is why people are burning down stores.' And the right says, 'You need to explain that to me.' And the left says, 'It's because you're racist.' And then the right says, 'Go fuck yourself.' That's how the conversation goes." The P.C. Culture Problem - What Is Political Correctness?

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James Baldwin answered the question in this very magazine back in 1968. Shapiro can do all the mental gymnastics he wants, but he’s not truly looking for an answer.

Esquire: How would you define somebody who smashes in the window of a television store and takes what he wants?

BALDWIN: Before I get to that, how would you define somebody who puts a cat where he is and takes all the money out of the ghetto where he makes it? Who is looting whom? Grabbing off the TV set? He doesn’t really want the TV set. He’s saying screw you. It’s just judgment, by the way, on the value of the TV set. He doesn’t want it. He wants to let you know he’s there. The question I’m trying to raise is a very serious question. The mass media-television and all the major news agencies-endlessly use that word “looter”. On television you always see black hands reaching in, you know. And so the American public concludes that these savages are trying to steal everything from us, And no one has seriously tried to get where the trouble is. After all, you’re accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting. I think it’s obscene.

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James Baldwin answered the question in this very magazine back in 1968. Shapiro can do all the mental gymnastics he wants, but he's not truly looking for an answer.

>*Esquire*: How would you define somebody who smashes in the window of a television store and takes what he wants?

>BALDWIN: Before I get to that, how would you define somebody who puts a cat where he is and takes all the money out of the ghetto where he makes it? Who is looting whom? Grabbing off the TV set? He doesn’t really want the TV set. He’s saying screw you. It’s just judgment, by the way, on the value of the TV set. He doesn’t want it. He wants to let you know he’s there. The question I’m trying to raise is a very serious question. The mass media-television and all the major news agencies-endlessly use that word “looter”. On television you always see black hands reaching in, you know. And so the American public concludes that these savages are trying to steal everything from us, And no one has seriously tried to get where the trouble is. After all, you’re accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting. I think it’s obscene.

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