I’m not the one calling him a trolley but I will concede that he does seem to self-identify as a journalist.
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these companies aren’t capitulating to evil; they’re ignoring a request to pointlessly throw themselves into a random inflammatory clickbait story, without even knowing the writer’s agenda. Even if they wanted to campaign on the issue, that’s literally the last way they’d go about it.
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while we’re congratulating Twitter for being such goddamn heroes, consider: they could have banned Turmp a year ago – they don’t need a reason – and he might very well not be president now.
And if your instinct is to reply “that’s just crazy, they’d have lost revenue”, well, maybe think harder about where Hannah Arendt might have located the banality of evil in this picture.
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I dunno.
If I ran a survey with people in the street that asked ‘are you okay with murder/rape/[something else abhorrent]?’ and the responses were one ‘yes’, one ‘no’ and the rest crossed the street to avoid my questions I could come up with two views on that:
'A minority support [abhorrent act]‘
or
’Most people would not rule out [abhorrent act]’
Both, technically, true, but give a very different world view.
Of course there are no ‘journalists’ on this blog site.
Except for the regular Guardian writer I would consider an actual journalist, who may well have picked up the leading headline skills from the newspaper world at large.
Don’t worry though, you don’t have to use the ‘are you disappointed?’ meme.
I’m not, as I’ve come to expect it.
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and yet you’re still here, complaining about being disappointed in the site.
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Acxiom probably already has this data… and not on the list for some reason.
Visa and Mastercard and all the banks have plenty of data that could be used.
The IRS might have this data because of charitable contribution records.
The phone companies?
It would not be hard to come up with a prospective list.
Well, as long as they’re willing to hire me with an exclusive contract. It would be very wasteful if someone else were working on the project at the same time, right?
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Reducing the reverb of the echo chamber is a good thing. I’m very happy to have people who’ll stick around to complain.
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Well no, they’re still here, complaining about the site.
It is possible to choose to read Cory’s posts, while still wishing he would pump his brakes occasionally vis-à-vis the swivel-eyed hyperbole.
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As someone who has had a full on twitter flamewar at least once with Cory (we made up later) over DRM, I completely understand being critical of Cory at times. That said, it seems like just about every time he posts something even vaguely edgy, there is the inevitable comment from a regular here calling him names. I mean, our poster full on called him a “trolley”:
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The Intercept is far from fake news. It is actually one of the last vestiges of actual honest to god journalism. The editors, Betsy Reed, Glenn Greenwald, and Jeremy Scahill, are all well respected and have won numerous awards for online and investigative journalism. Please be a little more careful when throwing out ‘fake news’ accusations.
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The only name on the list that surprised me was Twitter.
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If this is supposed to paraphrase Benito Mussolini, that’s not a real quote.
That would counteract his narrative of Cory as a trolley.
The more intensely people contribute to a blog or forum, the greater the chance that someone will consider them a troll. It happens to all of us sooner or later.
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I was going to give them points for “…in what remains a dangerous time.” But rereading it, they’re not reflecting on the danger of trump, they’re just being standard cartilaginous fish avoiding the obvious answer. Which, for me, is the same as “No answer”.
But Bernie Sanders is among the foremost advocates of corporatism. He advocates for government to incorporate medical care and higher education.
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Ignoring the fact that that’s a ludicrous take on his positions, at least on higher education (and if he wants to nationalize healthcare, then i’m glad he’s willing to go that far), you have the notion of corporatism reversed.
Corporatism is not the control of industries by the government, but rather the control of the government by corporations. Or more properly:
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While I think Cory frequently posts alarmist, inaccurate, or just plain misinformed articles I think his heart is in the right place and he honestly believes in what he’s writing.
I certainly don’t think that he’s trolling readers and I’m glad he posts here (even if at times his posts fill me with “someone is wrong on the internet” levels of frustration).
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Read further down in the article you linked to Fascist Corporatism and the linked writings of Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile. The Fascists used the word “corporazione” both as a description of the syndicalist organization of society and to mean the incorporation of all human activity into the state. Fascism taught that the promotion of the state was the primary objective of humanity and that the state should incorporate religion, industry, family, education, etc. In English we call this totalitarianism. As a philosophy Fascism prescribes no particular economic organization. It recognizes that different organizations are appropriate for different cultures, eras, and levels of development. Thus the Fascists first attempted to organize the Italian economy as syndicates. After being deposed by the Fascist Grand Council Mussolini broke with this concept and endorsed socialism in the German created Italian Social Republic.
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