
gyrofry posted:sammy... https://samkriss.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/how-to-politicise-a-tragedy/
once again demonstrating that one sure way to get published is to learn how to use a lot of words to say nothing

solzhesnitchin posted:yeah that article sucks though
it only sucks until you compare it to all of the other articles published in the past 24 hours

Petrol posted:It does such a good job of not actually saying anything political that it was republished by both Jacobin and Slate. Realtalk I don't want to shit on deadken but all this sort of thing achieves is giving the reader, no matter their political persuasion, the self-satisfied feeling of being right to have some kind of opinion, like the smile that creeps across one's face after smelling one's own farts.
i had almost exactly this thought when i read it. thank you for stating it better than i could
and he has written some good things, so what is this bullshit