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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:39 AM Jun 2025

"Whether it's conservative southerners denying Black people access to restaurants, hotels, and bathrooms, or ..."

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Whether it’s conservative southerners denying Black people access to restaurants, hotels, and bathrooms, or northern liberals denying Barron Trump admission to Harvard, both side have engaged in discrimination.
June 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM

Whether it’s conservative southerners denying Black people access to restaurants, hotels, and bathrooms, or northern liberals denying Barron Trump admission to Harvard, both side have engaged in discrimination.

NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T12:34:48.778Z
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"Whether it's conservative southerners denying Black people access to restaurants, hotels, and bathrooms, or ..." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 OP
That's funny Renew Deal Jun 2025 #1
Oh puh LEEZE Diamond_Dog Jun 2025 #2
Thats a pretty snowybirdie Jun 2025 #3
Pitchbot. The account belongs to a satirist.... haele Jun 2025 #5
That would be funny except that too many people think that is a reasoned opinion. Not funny a bit. marble falls Jun 2025 #4
The Times does more damage than Fox. 617Blue Jun 2025 #6
I ended my subscription to NYT a couple years ago... bsiebs Jun 2025 #13
lol what do people think a pitchbot is WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2025 #7
FALSE EQUIVALENCY 🔥 Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #8
Fuck you, NYT! lark Jun 2025 #9
The pitchbot is a specific satire against the NYT. love_katz Jun 2025 #10
thanks for clarifying that. mwmisses4289 Jun 2025 #11
Satire died sometime in the early 2000s. Pacifist Patriot Jun 2025 #14
Wow. Way too many of us missed the point here. It's satire, folks! ms liberty Jun 2025 #12
To be fair it is INCREDIBLY hard to tell anymore. Has been for quite some time. Pacifist Patriot Jun 2025 #15

haele

(15,074 posts)
5. Pitchbot. The account belongs to a satirist....
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:17 AM
Jun 2025

Usually in line with "Space Aliens come down to teach quantum physics, ecological repair and climate change correction technology at MIT and Harvard. This is why the Democrats will get hammered over the Mid-Terms."

617Blue

(2,189 posts)
6. The Times does more damage than Fox.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:17 AM
Jun 2025

NYT been legitimizing GOP bullshit since I started following politics 35 years ago.

bsiebs

(925 posts)
13. I ended my subscription to NYT a couple years ago...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 10:30 AM
Jun 2025

But I have to disagree… Fox News is much more toxic.. it has destroyed the minds of tens of millions of Americans.

mwmisses4289

(3,221 posts)
11. thanks for clarifying that.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 10:18 AM
Jun 2025

Didn't know it was a satirical website, thought it was something the birdcage paper was using AI to generate

Pacifist Patriot

(25,186 posts)
14. Satire died sometime in the early 2000s.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 10:35 AM
Jun 2025

The corpse decayed beyond all recognition by the early 2020s.

Pacifist Patriot

(25,186 posts)
15. To be fair it is INCREDIBLY hard to tell anymore. Has been for quite some time.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 10:36 AM
Jun 2025

Fortunately, I was aware of the account or I might have taken it for something that came out of a White House spokesperson's mouth.

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