nothing good can stay, it looks up again from here

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Everything's 'clickbait' nowadays...

At this rate, maybe clickbait is good!

kind of a dumb clickbaity intro for a common sense argument tbh

Bebel said: Whatever the enemy advises us to do is harmful for us. The enemy advises us to go into the Duma—clearly, going into the Duma will be harmful for us. The enemy advises that the powers of the Duma should be extended—clearly, the extension of the powers of the Duma will be harmful for us. What we must do is to undermine confidence in the Duma and discredit it in the eyes of the people. What we need is not the extension of the powers of the Duma, but the extension of the rights of the people. And if the enemy talks sweetly to us and promises us indefinite "rights," it shows that he is laying a trap for us and wants us, with our own hands, to build a fortress for him. We can expect nothing better from the bourgeois liberals.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1905/10/15_2.htm

the opposite

Casey is great in general

half of these things I haven't actually heard of. does that make me uncool?

Aly is great, but I think people should be more aware in general that there's a huge issue of sexual assault in US Gymnastics and it really does need to get burnt down.

i do not know Aly Raisman but i want to give them a high five for seizing an opportunity to do what a lot of victims never get the chance to do.

he isn't insincere though; he admits to finding these people interesting once he gets the conversation going. I'd rather have someone listen to me, even if their enthusiasm is slightly feigned, than to dismiss me immediately. I might have a chance of getting along with them then.

I do agree with your other points though.

He's bragging about being polite, there's some points where he admits to being extremely insincere and that bugs me a lot (I don't want to think that people are just being polite when they seem to be into what I'm saying!!), and there's no actual breakdown of these are the basics of being polite. It doesn't really have a structure, it's basically a rant.

why?

as someone who doesnt know shit about interacting with people because i've never had any friends or been in a professional environment i liked it but at the same time it could sound self-aggrandising

This is so incredibly aggravating to read lol

The second paragraph was me digressing into how I don't care terribly much how Woke or Good a blog is, for the reasons given, not referring to, describing or explaining the piece at hand, mea culpa. Deputy editorship of course carries more of a signal about what the publication considers itself to be.

ok yeah that really is pretty good IMO. i don't know that i stopped reading jez for the reason they identify in that article, but i definitely am more likely to read their articles having read that critique

This was written by a Jez staff writer, not a freelancer. She's been there for years.

I posted this despite the fact it was on Jezebel, but I haven't been following it for a while.

In the end, these blog sites are all surprisingly similar. I feel like the main distinctions are low-middle-(high)^1 brow and ideology and inside each basket, it's pretty similar. The writers keep circling and their work is published where ever it's published.

1. This segment maybe doesn't really exist. Online is ephemeral, read books, journals and shit instead.

They stopped paying writers based on page views, basically. They don't have pump out stuff just to get clicks anymore.

They've also talked a lot about what woman's media is even for, and the distance between the change in the conversation and what really needs to change in the world. This was really good. So yea that's what I mean by a jez take lol.

did something change over there? i haven't read it in a long time

I meant that as a compliment lol. Jez is good now.