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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT Pitchbot: Whether it's the right painting Swastikas in blood on synagogues, or the left writing
Whether its the right painting Swastikas in blood on synagogues, or the left writing pro-choice slogans in chalk on Susan Collins driveway, both sides will stop at nothing to intimidate their opponents.
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NYT Pitchbot: Whether it's the right painting Swastikas in blood on synagogues, or the left writing (Original Post)
demmiblue
May 2022
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Lars39
(26,109 posts)1. Good grief
Bettie
(16,109 posts)12. It is a parody account
"pitching" the next NYT stories. Mocking their general bothsiderism and knack for making it all about why it's bad for the left.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)14. Thanks, Bettie
I can usually tell guess I need some rest.
choie
(4,111 posts)18. Thank goodness
I literally felt my blood pressure rising.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)2. Somehow, one thing does not seem to equate to the other...
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)3. No. Just No.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,501 posts)4. .
Love it!!
Hekate
(90,686 posts)5. Pitchbot is doing a fine job of sarcasm there
Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)6. They seem to get better every day.
Cha
(297,240 posts)7. Stephen King may be Bangor's scariest guy, but even he couldn't
Buns_of_Fire
(17,177 posts)9. And don't forget -- it was in pastels!
And they used the most verboten language imaginable -- "please"!!!
Will this ever-escalating language of intimidation ever end? (Posting from my fainting couch.)
Cha
(297,240 posts)11. LOL.. poor S Collins... How will
she ever RECOVER?! Her fucking "Concern" must be OFF the Charts?
💙💛
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)15. The chalker asked Sen. Collins to clean up her mess
Oh, the humanity! Can you imagine how that must have pierced Susan right to the heart?
Iggo
(47,552 posts)8. Both of these things are not like the other.
iemanja
(53,032 posts)10. Typical NYTimes
and a reason I subscribe to the Washington Post instead.
Ocelot II
(115,693 posts)13. You do know that's a satire account making fun of the NYT?
iemanja
(53,032 posts)20. No, I didn't
But the joke works because it speaks to reality, doesn't it?
Ocelot II
(115,693 posts)21. That's a sign of effective satire!
Takket
(21,568 posts)16. the saddest thing about pitchbot his how close their satire is to the real thing.
Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)17. Trigger warning.....pastel chalk