What a relief to read this brief sensitive note. I just drifted over to the “Free Press” pages where a clueless hoard of vicious commenters are outdoing themselves comparing the students protesting war to Hitler Youth; celebrating the incineration of children, glorifying the poor kids dying for oil companies, as giving their lives for ‘f…
What a relief to read this brief sensitive note. I just drifted over to the “Free Press” pages where a clueless hoard of vicious commenters are outdoing themselves comparing the students protesting war to Hitler Youth; celebrating the incineration of children, glorifying the poor kids dying for oil companies, as giving their lives for ‘freedom’.
Our world is reaching a point where death, never welcome, will seem less like leaving a wonderful party, and more like walking out of an awful movie before the end.
Good people give me hope, make me want to stick around. And that’s why I read this column.
Brilliant statement about the inevitable. The economist Ludwig von Mises, in the same vein, was once asked what the best hedge against inflation was. He replied, "Old age."
At least the young are no longer drafted into slavery, uh, service. I feel bad for the ones who see it as their only opportunity. I hope industry comes back to the United States so they have better options.
Still have tax slavery and it’s much worse in USA Today for the middle class if you take into account all taxes sales property ferderal state city excise tolls for driving, gasoline tax, water etc
You have a point. Russia is much more capable of producing the arms it needs, and primarily those arms, not technological wunderwaffen that costs billions to build and hundreds of billions to maintain.
I unsubscribed months ago because of what I knew would be the very one-sided pro Israel position that b a r i always takes. She is of course entitled to her own opinion, but free, the Press is not. I don't miss it at all. I still have Matt and Glenn
Nellie has lost a lot of her sassiness over the last 9 months . What was a “ must read” has become a routine. Bari has Always been such as a NYT alumnae, she has not changed much from the herd
I'm outta there when the month is up too. I'm not going to participate in moderated discussion and yea, the content morphed into something I didn't originally buy.
They are very one-sides on Israel. I still appreciate keeping a pulse, though, because overall it’s always helpful to find ways to avoid succumbing to echo chambers. Nellie’s TGIF sometimes has me laughing out loud - and not because I agree with her about things but because she keeps it light, which I think it important.
Understandable. Before 10/7, I enjoyed much of the content from contributing writers. Not so much with TGIF, though, as I felt Nellie was not only still too biased, but also cited too much legacy media, which I had subscribed to TFP as an *alternative* to legacy media.
Yeah, I don’t read TGIF as news so much as for laughs and the level of news that just lets you know some of the conversations that are happening - and helping myself not to take my own views too seriously. I don’t even read it every week and rarely read all of it (usually long!) But I also want to make sure I’m never getting too narrow about reading only one side of things. Also, they just publish a lot which gives the opportunity to pick and choose that way.
I get that too! And feel that too. It can be annoying and frustrating. We all have to tend to our own minds and sometimes that definitely means avoiding some voices - the freedom to speak, not speak, listen and not listen!
I started subscribing to The Free Press after Bari Weiss was one of the Twitter
Files writers.
Damn, did that place change Oct 7.
There were more conservative voices here after Matt’s work on Twitter, but they added richness, not hateful drivel. New subs to the Free Press seem to be relatives of either Ben Shapiro or Ariel Sharon.
I know without asking you’ve been called an antisemite over there; have you gotten “Jew-hater” yet?
Really? I can’t get my head around the use of bots. The comments section is definitely full of a lot of insufferable commentary. I either ignore it or make a contrary comment and try not to come back to it, lol.
What a relief to read this brief sensitive note. I just drifted over to the “Free Press” pages where a clueless hoard of vicious commenters are outdoing themselves comparing the students protesting war to Hitler Youth; celebrating the incineration of children, glorifying the poor kids dying for oil companies, as giving their lives for ‘freedom’.
Our world is reaching a point where death, never welcome, will seem less like leaving a wonderful party, and more like walking out of an awful movie before the end.
Good people give me hope, make me want to stick around. And that’s why I read this column.
Brilliant statement about the inevitable. The economist Ludwig von Mises, in the same vein, was once asked what the best hedge against inflation was. He replied, "Old age."
At least the young are no longer drafted into slavery, uh, service. I feel bad for the ones who see it as their only opportunity. I hope industry comes back to the United States so they have better options.
Still have tax slavery and it’s much worse in USA Today for the middle class if you take into account all taxes sales property ferderal state city excise tolls for driving, gasoline tax, water etc
Ha. The US is finished even in weapons production.
You have a point. Russia is much more capable of producing the arms it needs, and primarily those arms, not technological wunderwaffen that costs billions to build and hundreds of billions to maintain.
It won't come back as long as people keep buying imports.
Then why stay here if the opportunity is there?
What opportunities? Slave labor?
So glad I recently unsubscribed from The Free Press. Could no longer stomach their completely one-sided articles and comment sections. Blech!
I unsubscribed months ago because of what I knew would be the very one-sided pro Israel position that b a r i always takes. She is of course entitled to her own opinion, but free, the Press is not. I don't miss it at all. I still have Matt and Glenn
Nellie has lost a lot of her sassiness over the last 9 months . What was a “ must read” has become a routine. Bari has Always been such as a NYT alumnae, she has not changed much from the herd
My sentiments exactly!
I'm outta there when the month is up too. I'm not going to participate in moderated discussion and yea, the content morphed into something I didn't originally buy.
They are very one-sides on Israel. I still appreciate keeping a pulse, though, because overall it’s always helpful to find ways to avoid succumbing to echo chambers. Nellie’s TGIF sometimes has me laughing out loud - and not because I agree with her about things but because she keeps it light, which I think it important.
When I let my paid subscription go, I was saddest to lose TGIF. I still think Nellie is a gem, but I can't support the warmongering right now.
Understandable
Understandable. Before 10/7, I enjoyed much of the content from contributing writers. Not so much with TGIF, though, as I felt Nellie was not only still too biased, but also cited too much legacy media, which I had subscribed to TFP as an *alternative* to legacy media.
Yeah, I don’t read TGIF as news so much as for laughs and the level of news that just lets you know some of the conversations that are happening - and helping myself not to take my own views too seriously. I don’t even read it every week and rarely read all of it (usually long!) But I also want to make sure I’m never getting too narrow about reading only one side of things. Also, they just publish a lot which gives the opportunity to pick and choose that way.
I get it. I used to feel the same. But there were just too many things she got wrong (intentionally or not), leaving me more frustrated than amused.
I get that too! And feel that too. It can be annoying and frustrating. We all have to tend to our own minds and sometimes that definitely means avoiding some voices - the freedom to speak, not speak, listen and not listen!
Amen to that!
my post on The ( not so) Free Press includes a link. please take a moment to read about Willian "Bill" Butler. a true American hero.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/William-Butler-veteran-and-volunteer-dies-4365011.php
I started subscribing to The Free Press after Bari Weiss was one of the Twitter
Files writers.
Damn, did that place change Oct 7.
There were more conservative voices here after Matt’s work on Twitter, but they added richness, not hateful drivel. New subs to the Free Press seem to be relatives of either Ben Shapiro or Ariel Sharon.
I know without asking you’ve been called an antisemite over there; have you gotten “Jew-hater” yet?
I can't with the "Free Press" anymore. Ew. On the bright side, most of the "commenters" are probably bots.
Really? I can’t get my head around the use of bots. The comments section is definitely full of a lot of insufferable commentary. I either ignore it or make a contrary comment and try not to come back to it, lol.
No, seriously: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/22/are-you-chatting-with-an-ai-powered-superbot
Very interesting, thanks for the link.