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comment by am_Unition

Sasse actually resigned from the Senate before assuming his tenure as UF president, and his opposition to same-sex marriage is the #1 thing students protested. He was fairly obviously forced in, though, yeah. He is a remarkably boring person, honestly.

I finally canceled my NYTimes membership over this obscenely pro-DeSantis bullshit. "Critics of an effective banning of all books in schools say that reading may, in fact, be beneficial for some children." How could an NYT editor green-light this article? It's absolutely sickening. We are so fucked. This isn't some right-wing op-ed, either. This is supposed to be journalism.





kleinbl00  ·  419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

NYT has been a "fair and balanced" paper since Lenin. There's this remarkable liberal amnesia about the fact that the 1619 Project is one highlight in a sea of Judith Millers, Brett Stephens and Jayson Blairs.

b_b  ·  419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah but just try canceling. They had my head spinning last time I tried. Their sales pitch is like a bad joke and eventually I was just like, “I give. I’ll do anything to get you to shut the fuck up right now. Take all my money.”

kleinbl00  ·  418 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Their retention is militant, for sure.

I believe my "safe word" was "In the year of our lord 2019 you've decided to pin the blame of the whole of the world on Generation X and you can fuck right off with that shit."

For whatever reason, hating on the NYTimes for content pre-Stephens hurt their feelings enough that they fucked off.

user-inactivated  ·  419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wish I was more cultured or sophisticated to appreciate these sorts of 'here's the facts, here's what both sides say, everything is reasonable, decide for yourself' type articles. Because the ones that tell you how you're supposed to feel are really annoying too, even when I agree with them usually.

But I'm with you, obviously bad things are happening, and it's so grating to see it all presented as two sides of a 'debate'

user-inactivated  ·  419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right, didn't mean to imply that he was doing both jobs at once. It just seems so overtly political that DeSantis passes a new law allowing the president search to be less transparent, and then immediately Fuchs resigns and a senator is put in. Like, how much more political a person can you pick ? It's just such blatant hackery.

And on top of that, he's previously very vocally anti-LGBT (like almost all republican politicians) and still equivocates some.

I'd bet money that next thing he's going to do is ban CRT to promote 'diversity of thought.'

am_Unition  ·  419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a fair question as to whether it wasn't a favor from DeSantis for Sasse's "guilty" vote during Trump's second impeachment. That's how deep and petty the Trump-DeSantis rivalry runs. Not quid-pro-quo, I mean, just something done to piss in Trump's cheerios.

And you're wrong; Those Marxist CRT Socialism LGBTQ's are RUINING this once-great country, spence.

user-inactivated  ·  419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

u mean LGBTQIAROTFLOMGHFUSJDSL+*&^%

people were posting like that on hackernews the other day, it's so frustrating

been thinking about leaving the internet more and more

wish I knew more people in person