Reading about this MIT sexual harassment case wherein I the accuser, a former advisee + subordinate of the harasser, is now ordered to pay $6M in defamation — and the Times doesn’t see fit to mention that Bill Ackman and some other dude invested $25M in the guy’s defense

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Gonna punch a guy in the face so hard he falls over then apologetically say "Be careful, sir!"

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Trump gave people something to hate bond over, and a remarkably effective model for attracting attention. Social media allows it to be reproduced endlessly. The subject is almost incidental now; the mechanism is the point. I’m doing it right now, and I don’t know where it ends. Share if you agree.

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Does this entire grotesque show collapse without its central character? Do we learn how to discuss politics in terms of policies, institutions, material conditions, competing interests, and actual consequences? Or has this become a permanent feature of American political life?

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All of this is damaging to our intellectual, psychological, and political health. It trains us (all of us, whether or not we like and share) to mistake emotional gratification for understanding, repetition for evidence, and participation in a cheering section for meaningful political engagement.

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