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It's pretty amusing the article rather undercuts it's own point by having an ending that makes no sense as the writer didn't bother to fact check who said the closing quote until after publication.

Journalism and the commentariat are in a pretty consistent state of always being so bad there's nowhere left to fall to.

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This article is trying way, way too hard with its prose, and not hard enough with its content.

A lot of it is "argument by adjective" with phrases like "small, sad, thwarted" having the responsibility for making the case that the author is trying to make.

You could replace all the adjectives with positive ones and change nothing else, and it would make an equally good case for the opposite position.

> I'd also submit that he and his cohort has no idea—no idea how much anger there is about what he and his cohort have done to make every aspect of life flatter and crueler and riskier and worse, and no idea how lucky he is that all that rage is still being pointed in, and not up.

This is pretty loud and clear to me!

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