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I'm speaking not as a conservative at all, but someone who values reason and calm argumentation.
Activism and agitation belong elsewhere.
It was. You must be young. The NYT was a big reason that the center left went along with it. I have never forgiven them for that.
You are assuming that I support Trump, or that the author does. I don't, and he doesn't. You are engaging in what-aboutism.
Two things can be true at the same time. Sorry if I'm not as tribal as you are. Feel free to go find that on Twitter with the rest of the dopamine addicts.
BTW, along with most people who read, I already know about the diplomats and Trump's misdeeds and hate them as much as you do. The fact that you assumed I didn't is the problem. "DefundThePolice" will get him reelected. If you don't know that, you either don't live in the US or have never been outside of a coastal city.
Seeing the person you're responding to's attitude fills me with a sort of depressing frustration. As a center-left person myself, I engage with people and I'm always up against the wall of what-aboutism. If I criticize Trump those folks start a rant about Obama or Biden. If I criticize the topic we're talking about here, I'm reminded about how mean the GOP is.
For years I've been trying to wrap my head around this.
HN doesn't like political conversation, I get it. But a HN-friendly topic would be, is technology itself to blame for this insane bifurcation of conversation, from topic-by-topic or subject-oriented reasoning and debate, to this head-scratching angry tribalism? Or is it just human nature somehow (whatever that means)?
That media reports on these events or provide opinion pieces is not core to the accountability issues.