Interesting article, one I appreciated reading. There are a few points which don't sit right with me, and I would love to read a rebuttal or even just a simila

Interesting article, one I appreciated reading. There are a few points which don't sit right with me, and I would love to read a rebuttal or even just a similarly styled article by someone on the other end of the spectrum. (Reading any one side of the news is to live in an echo chamber. It is hard to avoid confirmation bias, but if you don't make any attempt to hear truth you will surely not. My guidelines: 1. I can talk with my friends about politics only as long as we each agree to hear each other out, to not repeat ourselves, to respect each other, and to not let it get personal. This took awhile, but I now hear perspectives that amaze me. 2. Any article that gets me upset must be matched by another article with another perspective, even though it will invariably get me more upset ;) 3. Learning the truth is objectively a value, and it is worth getting the truth at the cost of being wrong. Better to get an uncomfortable truth before it comes at you in a conversation of 1, 'cause in a debate you have a bias to avoid eating crow. 4. The media are a bunch of liars, and their objectives are NOT to get you facts, their objective is to sell you a story. If you are relying on a story from the press, you are relying on Cinderella and Snow White. 5. Just because your team did something wrong or the others did something right doesn't mean you have to switch teams. There is a "programmers law" that you shouldn't discuss any software unless you can list at least five things that the other software does better than the one you prefer. Even Windows has 5 things it does better than Linux.)