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David Frum being a writer for a US magazine, it seems perhaps worth taking his snickering with a grain of salt.
by eatonphil 2y ago
David Frum being a writer for a US magazine, it seems perhaps worth taking his snickering with a grain of salt.
- keybored 2y agoOr just taking it with a grain of salt since it’s David Frum. :)
- eatonphil 2y agoI was resisting criticism of him and The Atlantic this one time. :)
- defrost 2y agoHe's the Joe Rogan of Canadian born NeoCon's, former hype man and color commentator for both The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the Bush Jr. administration, ... put your hands together for David Frum!!
- skhunted 2y agoI’ve found the opposite to be true of him. Can you point to things he’s said that make you take him with a grain of salt?
- eatonphil 2y agoPersonally my gripe is not so much with Frum as with The Atlantic overall which has been consistently fear mongering. There is certainly a lot of bad in the world but The Atlantic stance seems over the top. The Conversation and Rest of World are two much more even magazines in my opinion.
- skhunted 2y agoI’ve never heard of The Conversation before. Just looked at an article. Here’s a snippet from the article There’s both bad news and good news about climate change in the future. The bad news is that as long as we keep burning carbon, it will continue to get hotter and hotter. The good news is that we can substitute clean energy, like solar and wind power, instead of burning carbon, to power the products and services of modern life. This is something I’d expect to see written in a 6th grade textbook trying to get past Texas’ textbook adoption committee. They pretend to give a nod to the climate change deniers by writing, “there’s good news and bad news..” with the good news being a non sequitor. One can use clean energy and strive for that regardless of whether or not climate change is real. The website did seem much less alarmist than Fox News, CNN, etc.
- eatonphil 2y agoI'm not sure there is a staff. Post authors are academic researchers and PhD students around the world. I don't mean to say every article is good. I've just been impressed by what I've read so far.
- skhunted 2y agoYeah looking at one article is not a basis for a valid judgment. I did get the impression that it really is “left leaning” in a way to appeal to conservatives by coming across as non partisan. I’m a pseudo socialist so being left leaning is not an issue for me.
- addicted 2y agoIs there anything incorrect in what he’s said though? It’s a few hundred character Tweet that has been reproduced fully. You don’t even need to know the author to assess the contents of the tweet.
- eatonphil 2y agoHe took a pretty uncharitable view. Maybe BRICS is doomed of course. And I'm not particularly hopeful. But I'd rather hear perspectives either from both sides or from folks who I can trust as more independent.
- throw0101a 2y ago> He took a pretty uncharitable view. Frum took an accurate view IMHO. Unless you think that property rights (and window incidents) in Russia are not a problem, or that China already has good transparency in their economy… Do you think those things?
- eatonphil 2y agoNo I agree, it's just the attitude that seems concerning. Like it encourages not taking these countries seriously, and not looking hard enough at ourselves to see how we can do better too.
- addicted 2y agoIt encourages not taking BRICS seriously. Which is absolutely correct. BRICS as an organization is a joke. The individual countries should be taken seriously. Which western countries finally have started doing over the last couple of years. The watershed moment was Russia’s attack on Ukraine. It finally dispensed with the neocon idea that they could spread free market democracies in Russia and China by simply trading with them.
- throw0101a 2y ago> Like it encourages not taking these countries seriously, and not looking hard enough at ourselves to see how we can do better too. One can also take the countries seriously but the 'BRICS project' not-seriously.