What is happening with editorial boards is not normal. You need to understand this first.

They are not part of the newsroom, so anyone telling you that is lying. What happened at the LAT and WaPo are the beginning. Have you not read history? They come for you. You just think it’s more steps away.

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    They didn’t endorse Trump. They are all playing Switzerland. Read the stories and vote. Just vote people!

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      A non endorsement is an endorsement in itself.

      If you sit at a table with 9 other people and 1 is a Nazi and nobody says anything, you’re at a table with 10 nazis.

      I had an early friendship tested one night unexpectedly because our friends contractor (an English ‘expat’) started confiding in me after quite a few pints about some actual Nazi shit which I nipped in the bud but would not let him off the hook-our conversation was mostly between us but my friend caught enough of it (and a follow up conversation later) that the Nazi is no longer his local contractor.

      Fuck these guys.

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        If you sit at a table with 9 other people and 1 is a Nazi and nobody says anything, you’re at a table with 10 nazis.

        People regularly fail to grasp this.

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        I spent a semester in apparently Northern Germany. You saw a Nazi, you got the fuck out. They’re going to win.

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      Yes. And they didn’t not endorse Trump, as well. Which is the whole point here. They are laying down their arms just in case the wannabe authoritarian fascist dictator happens to win.

      And the one fighting chance, outside of voting, and taking up arms, is a free press. Benjamin Franklin knew this and used it to its fullest capacity. And that is what is dying — without a free press, the vote is then in danger because any semblance of truth is already dead.

      Then what are we left with?

      Guns. And death.

      And guess who benefits from that?

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        You know what the worst part of this is? Considering buying a gun so that at least we’re evenly matched. I don’t like that the idea was ever a thing.