Why do Democrats do this to themselves? This is delusional and anti-democratic.
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Cancel culture is so bad we canceled this law professor and now he has a book deal with a big label publisher while people we haven't canceled are begging mere law students to publish their Serious Articles.
Today's defamation lesson is to think through Scott Adams's statement and count how long it takes you to realize it's completely unworkable in a legal system with a right of free speech. It should ideally take 5 seconds but don't worry; as long as you're within several hours, you're still ahead of Scott Adams.
Remeber that there is a difference between being a libertarian and a staunch right-winger who doesn't care about state violence, and between being a decent lawyer and a decent person.
Almost every time I see this guy tweet-raging, he's being dishonest at some level. He's a team loyalist who voluntarily chose to work for the bad guys.
I think this NYT profile of Chris Licht is supposed to be empathetic (with the groanworthy headline "The Education of Chris Licht"), but he sounds like a jackass who's Peter Principled himself by saying what other people want to hear.
For example, compare the observation that much of news is desperate and name-call-y (counter: it's not "news") with what would motivate a "news" CEO to consider hiring athletes or comedians. From where do you think Keith Olbermann crawled, Chris?
"Local 50-Something Divorcee's Mother Still Fighting Battles for Him" is an Onion headline.
Not to be lost amidst the daily main character news at the bird site, Trump's lawsuit against every member of an unincorporated board claiming the below statement was made with actual malice is probably the most frivolous thing I've seen in the few years I've been following these litigation disasters.
Setting aside jurisdiction/proper party issues, an opinion based on independent investigation of multiple 3rd party reports is the antithesis of actual malice *and* it self-nukes causation.
If you wrote a novel and your billionaire main character had this much petty loser energy the reviewers would all tell you it's ludicrously unrealistic. "Come now, what billionaire industrialist CEO of multiple companies (which is already a stretch) has the time to argue with trolls, much less the personality to mingle with the hoi polloi?"
Like aliens landing into an Indiana Jones movie, it moves directly into farce because it doesn't make sense with our narrative tradition.