[rgreeko42]

I truly do not understand how Noah Smith, a truly vapid and frankly unintelligent writer, makes it to the front page of this website so often. His writing goes whichever way is soothing to those with money and power.

[princealiiiii]

On top of that, he has a deep hatred of Chinese, Russians, and Palestinians (basically anyone unaligned with US policy) that he likes to blame for everything - not just the governments, but the actual people of these countries.

[jauntywundrkind]

I wish we had better ways to build these cases. To collect the various anecdotes and whinges, to aggregate them them together. I want evidence, bona-fides, or a list of comments I've liked with people doing criticism on someone, to be able to drop down when bad people and bad outlets show up again in the feed.

Noah Smith definitely deserves this warning. All sorts of stories of ridiculous overconfidence & oversimplification in the the dumbest of reasonings, dating back for many many many years.

I'd assumed growing up others would also tend towards the ultra online, that the smart ones were pioneering a lifestyle of intelligence and consideration, of hunting for context to understand the tidbits er run across, to consider widely. I'd assumed networking would spawn & spread to help show the back stories of those who we read.

But today, the lack of social defense against bad and or incomeptent seems so so so resounding in the world.

[AnimalMuppet]

He submitted hard data for all of his claims, and admitted what he did not know. That is not what I think "truly vapid and frankly unintelligent" looks like.

But look, feel free to submit articles that you think are better...