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To: bagster

I looked at the Amerika site again and it is very odd.

I don’t have time to do any more research on it at the moment, but I randomly picked one of the weird icons on the home page (two Ys on top of each other sort of) and it took me to an article by one Brett Stevens. I scanned down it (TOTALLY FREAKING BORING)- academic “I’m smarter than you” philosophical diarrhea of the mouth. Then I checked a couple of his other articles (same style/content). So I did a search on his name. So Amerika is supposed to be conservative or something? HA HA

Bret Stephens
American journalist

Bret Louis Stephens is an American journalist, editor, and political commentator. Stephens began working as a contributing columnist at The New York Times in late April 2017 and as a senior political contributor for NBC News in June 2017. Wikipedia

Born: November 21, 1973 (age 44 years), New York City, NY

Spouse: Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

Education: London School of Economics and Political Science, Middlesex School, University of Chicago

Books: Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place? The Munk Debate on America Foreign Policy

Parents: Xenia Stephens, Charles J. Stephens

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism


1,183 posted on 06/29/2018 9:53:40 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah; Jack Black
Haha. Yea. It's obvi not a right wing site. Funny that Jack would try to pass it off as one. He probably got bamboozled. It happens. He wouldn't try to pass off left wing propaganda as right wing commentary. Right? Right?

It's kinda funny though, that he posted the very article that was in a Q post just last night.

Shoddy work, I'd say.

C'mon, Jack.

Bagster

1,190 posted on 06/29/2018 10:00:02 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: little jeremiah
I agree that the site "Amerika" is pretty odd.

The site is run by someone named "Bret Stephens", but I don't think it's the fellow whose Wikipeida bio you posted that writes for the NY Times.

I deduce that based on:

Amerika Bret's mission statement:

Amerika approaches politics as philosophy and not a team sport. We intend to restore Western Civilization through a focus on realism and a drive toward excellence. In our view, human groups succumb to herd behavior when they focus on people (means-over-ends) instead of their purpose (ends-over-means). Western Civilization fell because it relied on a type of collectivized individualism known as Crowdism; the antidote to this can be found in our most ancient traditions, including reverence and aggression. We have no interest in the football game of Red team versus Blue team politics, but turn our minds toward the eternally practical: how to adapt to our world in the best way possible and rise above all that would thwart us.

If he was the same person he'd have been fired a long time ago by the NY Times for his articles on this site.

It's quite possible that Amerika's "Bret Stephens" is a pseudonym..

I did find a podcast interview with "Amerika Bret" HERE which I may listen to, and see if his bio is included. I could not find a bio for him on Amerika site. (why wouldn't he link he Wiki bio if it was the same guy?

1,275 posted on 06/29/2018 11:51:22 AM PDT by Jack Black
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