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i waited 75 years and all i got was this lousy t-shirt (trigger warnings: race, intelligence, anorexia, economics, secondary sources) (numbers surrounded by [ ] are footnotes, scroll to the bottom.…

You say you want a revolution, The classic criticism of the old media vanguard (e.g. The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and the Times) and its readers is that they are bland, archaic, and afraid to take a stand on anything meaningful, willing to quibble about fine points of gun control and healthcare policy but too stodgy and corporate to take on the deeper issues of consumerism, exceptionalism, and privilege. And while this condemnation is probably apt, it does not apply to the way you and I consume news. The danger of internet-age media—the millions of bloggers and columnists typing and the…

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