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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 12:34:10 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Kevin كيفين Pluck

   I was saying the other day that I wish we had a better collective memory about which public figures and news sources had been catastrophically wrong in the past so that we can take that into account when they speak now, and this incredible long game “fuck you” from @kevpluck is a perfect example of that wish granted:
   https://mastodon.nz/@kevpluck/111655425029220243

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     Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 12:53:03 JST Stu

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     • Kevin كيفين Pluck

     @inthehands @kevpluck A long list of receipts would be brilliant.

     I'm a member of an old forum where a climate change thread was started in 2009. Usual denial nonsense. I bump it occasionally, to point out similar idiocy as the Daily Mail in early posts.

     Anyway, as I grew up in the UK, it blows my mind how a rag like the Mail got such a large international following. I mean, fair enough, they nailed the Internet transition. But it's an absolute tabloid.

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     Avi Rappoport (avirr) (avirr@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:53:59 JST Avi Rappoport (avirr)

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     • Kevin كيفين Pluck

     @inthehands @kevpluck McArdle admits her spectacular fails (in her piece on pro-abortion backlash):

     "I won’t say this is the wrongest I have ever been; that would be ridiculous, given that I supported the Iraq War, and thought the collapse of Lehman Brothers would instill a bracing sense of moral responsibility in the financial sector. But I have not been this wrong since I decided in 2016 to go on holiday after the election, because I thought there would be little worth covering in Hillary Clinton’s presidential transition."

     gift source article: 🎁 https://wapo.st/3S04UNJ

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     Avi Rappoport (avirr) (avirr@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:54:00 JST Avi Rappoport (avirr)

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     • Kevin كيفين Pluck

     @inthehands @kevpluck I agree, would like a group to hold pundits to account. Did you see McArdle’s list of her failures? It was striking.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:00:54 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Avi Rappoport (avirr)
     • Kevin كيفين Pluck

     @Voline @avirr @kevpluck Hey, I say props to anyone willing to say it publicly. And this particular op-ed is really pointed; she’s not pulling any punches about her own wrong-ness. I’ll take it. I mean, not her advice, but her mea culpa.

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     Voline (voline@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:00:55 JST Voline

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     • Avi Rappoport (avirr)
     • Kevin كيفين Pluck

     @avirr @inthehands @kevpluck
     Has Megan McArdle ever been not wrong? She should be well used to the feeling by now.