#Lazy both-side-ism is lazy.

Why does he keep writing edgy pieces like this? Trying to stay relevant? Desperate for money (freelance fee)?   

#WaleedAly
#Australia

Travel is bad for the climate — but what if it’s also bad for us? - ABC listen

Most of us are aware of the environmental costs associated with international tourism. But have we considered whether travel enhances or diminishes our moral lives? 

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> It begins with a righteous eagerness to write people off. And it ends much as Hannah Arendt, that great 20th-century philosopher famously observed: “The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.”

The practice of violence isn't the sole prerogative of the right wing, as there certainly have been radical left wing people who have practiced it. But guess which "side" turns to violence against *people* before *things* or *ideas*? It's not the left.

You are the worst kind of academic, Aly. The kind who uses their academic standing to promote themselves, rather than tell the truth.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20250918235432/https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/kimmel-missed-the-point-in-america-the-left-and-right-have-become-one-20250918-p5mw38.html

#USPol #WaleedAly #CharlieKirk

Kimmel missed the point: In America, the left and right have become one

The more politics becomes a series of do-or-die existential battles in which the ends justify all manner of means, the more it moves from democracy towards war.

The Sydney Morning Herald

@MorpheusB

That is #Totalitarian #Censorship - moving towards Orwell's 1984.

Tangent:
#WaleedAly and #ScottStephensAU so often look hopelessly gormless.

Currently comparing their take on #GeorgeOrwell (link below) with:
"White House senior associate staff secretary #LindseyHalligan telling Smithsonian Institution secretary #LonnieBrunch the review was “about preserving trust in one of our most cherished institutions”.

#PalestineAction #RoboDebt #USPol

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/theminefield/george-orwell/6708170

Is George Orwell overrated? - ABC listen

George Orwell is the patron-saint of the modern journalism, but does he deserve his hallowed status?

ABC listen

@kentparkstreet1

Is it telling that #WaleedAly loves #Tourism?

Ronnie Wood Takes Center Stage tonight on THE PROJECT

The Project’s Waleed Aly sits down with Ronnie Wood to discuss the new album, collaborations, and more. Catch the scoop on 10 and 10 Play.

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