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it's genuinely, authentically wild to me that there are professional reporters getting defensive about the blowback of Lipton's dumb post giving a christofascist regime propagandist a pat on the back for being nice in private like they genuinely don't understand the words coming out of my mouth

she is a bad faith authoritarian who lies endlessly. You are not encouraging more civil dialogue with government by praising her. You're lending her more credibility as a good faith actor before her inevitable promotion to state television, where she'll spread more propaganda.

I genuinely do not get ANY sense most of the U.S. mainstream establishment political reporters have ANY meaningful understanding of modern politics, authoritarianism, or how badly the information space has been decimated by agitprop

I feel insane watching journalists from far more "serious" publications than me espouse this high-minded principle of Serving The Truth and then insist their only responsibility is to a bunch of rules of decorum that simulate the appearance of it.