Over the past few years I've learned that an opinion piece is truly (truly!) nothing more than an opinion. As in, "It is my opinion that the facts I quoted in my piece are accurate." This in no way means that the facts ARE accurate, only that the writer wants to believe that the facts are somehow true or verified. All through covid we heard, "Experts say..." only to learn that the so-called experts were just flying by the seat of their pants and/or following the approved narrative.
Neocons and Leftists are in total agreement with Dr Jack Kevorkian, who left the prison
cell I personally helped put him in to go home and drop dead, on opioid policy: Controlling pain at the end of life, encourages sick people to live longer and consume more benefits
The only way to turn a profit on a bankrupted Social Security system is to persuade working people to suicide before they consume any of the benefits they were taxed to provide for themselves. Hey, when pols need a bridge built to nowhere or a foreign war through which they can launder money, they want We, the People, in whose name they act, to die for them because it makes them feel beloved and wanted.
The DOPESICK propaganda machine, while decidedly second rate compared to Leni Reifenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" and Sergei Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin", has nonetheless:
1) protected human trafficking across our nonborder
2) protected 2,000 jobs held by Chinese technicians and science advisors sent to Mexico, manufacturing Fentanyl and methamphetamine for the Cartels
3) shamed Pro Life activists for suicides and overdoses perpetrated by the Cartels as a sales tool to advertise the strength of their illicit drugs, by falsely accusing Catholic and Jewish hospitals of being "too humane" at dispensing pain medication when medically necessary
4)Slandered the Sackler family for saving billions of dollars of hospital expenses on patients who could transfer from surgical wards directly to nursing homes for physical therapy, using the patented long-acting formulations of two generic drugs made by Purdue Pharma, and last but not least
5) Making a useful, patented drug formulation without first doing tens of billions of dollars in federally subsidized university research, putting the Sackler family on a par with Robinson Crusoe for burning the idol of Chan Ii Chih Thaungu with fire. How dare they invent something without first glorifying a University. People might figure out to think for themselves and start asking questions, and Democracy might break out of its cage and become normal again. Just what was so awful about an intellectual proving his or her wit and wisdom by actually answering stupid questions wisely? Is it that we graduate people and hand them high school diplomas, without getting them smart enough to realize that injecting enough bleach in your veins will turn you into a corpse? If educators are unable to prove facts that were already proven before, they need to find a less challenging occupation and let in someone who can teach.
"...there is no such thing as objective truth; that there is only narrative, and that therefore whoever controls the narrative – whoever gets to tell the version of the story that the public hears – has the whip hand."
Exactly why it was so hilariously funny when the Marxist journal "Social Text" got an April Fools paper from a University of Chicago physics professor, purporting by means of a bunch of equations, to show that the force of gravity is socially constructed and we might just be able to switch it on and off by imagining the proper ideas...and oblivious to the date, they published it.
I have found that I can get the same in depth, balanced options from watching “The View. “
OMG, that's funny and oh so true.
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Fabulous. The fact checkers who ignore Pharma's fingerprints on everything are really something to marvel at.
Over the past few years I've learned that an opinion piece is truly (truly!) nothing more than an opinion. As in, "It is my opinion that the facts I quoted in my piece are accurate." This in no way means that the facts ARE accurate, only that the writer wants to believe that the facts are somehow true or verified. All through covid we heard, "Experts say..." only to learn that the so-called experts were just flying by the seat of their pants and/or following the approved narrative.
To the NYT, all truth is subjective.
I read the Times but mostly the news section. I too have found many of the opinion pieces just bizarre, like that Gessen one.
Neocons and Leftists are in total agreement with Dr Jack Kevorkian, who left the prison
cell I personally helped put him in to go home and drop dead, on opioid policy: Controlling pain at the end of life, encourages sick people to live longer and consume more benefits
The only way to turn a profit on a bankrupted Social Security system is to persuade working people to suicide before they consume any of the benefits they were taxed to provide for themselves. Hey, when pols need a bridge built to nowhere or a foreign war through which they can launder money, they want We, the People, in whose name they act, to die for them because it makes them feel beloved and wanted.
The DOPESICK propaganda machine, while decidedly second rate compared to Leni Reifenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" and Sergei Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin", has nonetheless:
1) protected human trafficking across our nonborder
2) protected 2,000 jobs held by Chinese technicians and science advisors sent to Mexico, manufacturing Fentanyl and methamphetamine for the Cartels
3) shamed Pro Life activists for suicides and overdoses perpetrated by the Cartels as a sales tool to advertise the strength of their illicit drugs, by falsely accusing Catholic and Jewish hospitals of being "too humane" at dispensing pain medication when medically necessary
4)Slandered the Sackler family for saving billions of dollars of hospital expenses on patients who could transfer from surgical wards directly to nursing homes for physical therapy, using the patented long-acting formulations of two generic drugs made by Purdue Pharma, and last but not least
5) Making a useful, patented drug formulation without first doing tens of billions of dollars in federally subsidized university research, putting the Sackler family on a par with Robinson Crusoe for burning the idol of Chan Ii Chih Thaungu with fire. How dare they invent something without first glorifying a University. People might figure out to think for themselves and start asking questions, and Democracy might break out of its cage and become normal again. Just what was so awful about an intellectual proving his or her wit and wisdom by actually answering stupid questions wisely? Is it that we graduate people and hand them high school diplomas, without getting them smart enough to realize that injecting enough bleach in your veins will turn you into a corpse? If educators are unable to prove facts that were already proven before, they need to find a less challenging occupation and let in someone who can teach.
"...there is no such thing as objective truth; that there is only narrative, and that therefore whoever controls the narrative – whoever gets to tell the version of the story that the public hears – has the whip hand."
This is the story Orwell tells in Animal Farm.
Exactly why it was so hilariously funny when the Marxist journal "Social Text" got an April Fools paper from a University of Chicago physics professor, purporting by means of a bunch of equations, to show that the force of gravity is socially constructed and we might just be able to switch it on and off by imagining the proper ideas...and oblivious to the date, they published it.