Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
I mean, maybe there is another Matthew Walther in Three Rivers, Michigan (pop, 7,905) *also born in 1990* (via @kendrawrites.bsky.social).
(Seriously tho, the NYT should amend the article to note that this guy does, in fact, vote).
It wasn't just the headline, he lied in the article too. And they didn't even bother to change that.
Only with the most slimy mental gyrations could you claim that this meant "I always voted but I'm not planning to next time". What he wrote implies that he put it into practice already.
I mean, "I have managed to renounce [voting] with very little difficulty" is clearly a claim that he refrained from voting at least once. and found it easy.
Otherwise of *course* it's with no difficulty if all you've done is think maybe I won't vote next time. Makes no sense that way
He duped them
Funny follow up on this, I msgd a link to the article to someone who asked and noticed that linked that way, it still shows the old BS headline, both in text and written into the artwork.
The paper is devoted to giving a platform to hard right-wingers and keeps getting embarrassed by them.
Who was the libertarian professor at Chicago or George Mason or Claremont who said voting was irrational or pointless? Have we checked into whether they've voted as well recently?
I've been predicting "I was writing as a personna to make a point" or something, which will be ridiculous of course but have the virtue of making the pointing and laughing even louder and thus more entertaining.
I've read the NYT daily since I left home at 18, over 30 years ago. It will make canceling my subscription a difficult. But that piece plus how Ukraine and Trump don't seem to be worth being above the fold makes it far less difficult.
I mean the DNC does owe us a better candidate. I voted for one in the primaries last time and they gave us Biden. I voted for him and I’ll do it again just to stop the fucking psychopaths trying to destroy the country because our legislators and courts sure as fuck aren’t doing much to stop them.
It might be less difficult than you think. I canceled my subscription many months ago, and haven’t really missed it. It’s MAGAfication and doom and gloom and outright lies just became too much.
Ok, up until this point I've been "Never too late to do the right thing" on NYT subscriptions but if tomorrow anyone still has an NYT subscription I am going to make certain assumptions that will be unpleasant, unflattering, and completely fair.
