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| 2022-12-02 | |
In an essay for the December 2022 issue of The Atlantic, George Packer proposes a new theory of American power that reads much like the Biden administration’s declared approach of defending democracies over autocracies. | |
| Posted by:Spike the Hairy6811 |
| #21 You'll live longer, and you possibly could even enjoy your stay here. In that case, let him take umbrage. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-02 20:43 |
| #20 It isn’t an Atlantic article. It’s a Quincy Institute analysis of an Atlantic article. That’s why your source URL points to the Quincy Institute, Spike, not to The Atlantic. Perhaps it is the same confusion that leads you to such strange ideas about what Rantburgers believe about Mr. Soros. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-02 19:00 |
| #19 #18 It's a The Atlantic article. But hey, don't let me stop your conspiracy theories about the globalist Jew SOROS running everything. Did you know that many of our top world leaders are actually lizard people? There isn't a mod or a regular at Rantburg that hasn't had an article deleted or foreshortened without comment. I do it constantly for copyright purposes. It s much more helpful to do so. In any case, the question for the mods becomes what does it add to the conversation. This Soros article is a steaming pile of bullshit, but rather than spike it, I let it go through, knowing someone'd bitch about it if it didn't I deleted the other article because it didn't add anything. Just a judgement call on my part; call me a Nazi censor, a paid FSB Russian agent, whatever is your delight, but it is what it is. You should grow up a little bit and stop taking umbrage over simple editorial decisions. You'll live longer, and you possibly could even enjoy your stay here. |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-12-02 17:54 |
| #18 It's a The Atlantic article. But hey, don't let me stop your conspiracy theories about the globalist Jew SOROS running everything. Did you know that many of our top world leaders are actually lizard people? |
| Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 2022-12-02 17:40 |
| #17 Oh, I didn't lose it. It was submitted successfully. Moderators censored it because evidently The Atlantic is MUH SOROS. Now it's just a stub. At least readers now can decide whether they want to become dumber for the time reading the article |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-12-02 17:36 |
| #16 I’ve not looked into who supports the Atlantic nowadays — I got my fill of them when I had a subscription back in the 1980s, eventually realizing that their articles were as formulaic as Nancy Drew novels. But I wanted to see who supported the Quincy Institute, so I looked at their About page — the Open Society Foundations logo is there along with the Ford Foundation. This information is of interest to our readers, and should be to you, too, Spike. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-02 17:27 |
| #15 Did you try putting an &trade ; at the end of it (no spaces)? That sometimes helps with the formatting. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-12-02 16:36 |
| #14 Oh, I didn't lose it. It was submitted successfully. Moderators censored it because evidently The Atlantic is MUH SOROS. Now it's just a stub. I had most of the article with biting inline commentary, which I can only assume was inconvenient. Boom, it's gone and web forms had nothing to do with it. |
| Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 2022-12-02 16:02 |
| #13 Looks like it's the top headline on the front page. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-12-02 14:14 |
| #12 "Backing Up" can sometimes work. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-12-02 12:03 |
| #11 I lost a This Week in Books one time; long posts get the notepad or whatnot first from then on. "What's the banned word?" is a fun game, and all too often its a broken tag. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-12-02 12:02 |
| #10 Go ahead and compose in the comment editing box. Just copy your post to the clipboard (CTRL-A, CTRL-C) as you write. Then, if you lose it, it's there on the clipboard. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-02 11:42 |
| #9 I would very much have liked to read your biting commentary, Spike. What I do is first write everything in a notepad file then post it so I don't lose all the typed text. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-12-02 11:18 |
| #8 I wonder how often the perception that a comment has been "censored" is actually a case of the posting of the comment was botched or violated the auto-filtering rules regarding certain words, phrases and constructs here. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-02 11:10 |
| #7 I wrote some biting commentary which was obviously cut out. Honestly most of the article was there which obviates the need to click through anyway. Deny the bastards ad revenue. But then someone just had to add the "muh Soros" comment and spoil it for everyone. |
| Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 2022-12-02 11:07 |
| #6 The only guaranteed way to get everything you want published is to have your own blog. But then there's no audience, TW. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-12-02 10:09 |
| #5 Spike the Hairy6811 links to the Quincy Institute analysis of the Atlantic essay, Dron, which is itself linked to the third word in the piece — essay. But hot links you’ve previously gone to, that left cookies on your device, will not display the colour change of unclicked hot links. I have no idea why. At one point I tried bolding links so they would be visible after that first use, but it made comments and submitted articles annoyingly visually cluttered, so I stopped. It’s not censorship to publish something you submitted when the moderator suggests going to the link to read the rest, Spike the Hairy6811. It’s not even necessarily censorship if we choose not to publish something at all — lots of submissions don’t fit Rantburg’s purpose and audience. The only guaranteed way to get everything you want published is to have your own blog. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-02 10:07 |
| #4 Your 'essay' link goes somewhere other than to the essay, Spike. Here's the original essay which the Hartung guy is critical of. Interesting. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-12-02 09:47 |
| #3 Nah, censors never waste time censoring worthless material. The more out there, the better. They only delete material they don't like. Just like the left. |
| Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 2022-12-02 09:29 |
| #2 that seems to be a pattern. Guess the message is getting across. You aren't that special. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-02 06:40 |
| #1 Censored again? Wow, that seems to be a pattern. |
| Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 2022-12-02 05:42 |