The Economist - 2022-01-01 - January 1st, 2022

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  lisiva5995
  December 31st, 2021
  

  

  So there’s this really funny and simple thing you can do to find the truth. Take whatever the left accuses the right of, and that is what the left is doing.

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  Jack_Milad
  December 31st, 2021
  

  @lisiva5995 my god, that was incredible. The word you’re looking for (and concept you’ve just mastered with the heartiest dose of irony in the history of mankind) is ‘projection’.
  And if you did it any harder, you’d be screening movies on the surface of the moon.

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  Tanzimkh
  December 31st, 2021
  

  

  Thanks, mate for uploading before the release date. Keep up the good work. Really appreciate this.

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  Rankin1515
  December 31st, 2021
  

  Just finished the bumper was edition and and ready to take on 2022. No better way then to start with your invaluable uploads - please keep them coming. I also really appreciate your work

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  Gweilo
  December 31st, 2021
  

  @lisiva5995: if you think “The Economist” is “the left”, you’ve never read it. But that’s a good bet about anything you comment on here.

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  wchristina94
  December 31st, 2021
  

  

  Thank you, love you, you are making our world a better place to live. Thanks.

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  edbroadway
  December 31st, 2021
  

  The Economist, … The Left? lmfao yaah she’s never got
  pass the cover @gweilo

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  caesar963
  December 31st, 2021
  

  

  Those consarned commies @ the Economist! When will their reign of red terror cease & desist?!

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  BohemianBlogger
  December 31st, 2021
  

  

  Thanks buddy - Great start to the New Year! Have a good one, all the best!

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  isblanc
  January 1st, 2022
  

  

  Thanks a lot!

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  Airfish
  January 1st, 2022
  

  

  @lisiva5995 you’re talking about The Economist, for God’s sake!

  So, basically anyone that criticizes the Republican Party is leftwing? Because The Economist editors and writers would be fascinated to learn that they are left wing, commie, tree hugging pinkos …

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  biscuit1
  January 1st, 2022
  

  republicans, independents, democrats:
  can’t we all just agree joe biden sucks??

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  uglyzeus
  January 1st, 2022
  

  

  Merci beaucoup

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  userabuser
  January 1st, 2022
  

  On the subject of The Economist’s bias I will only say that having read the rag for well over 20 years a lot of times when I think that they’d taken up a controversial position with moral terms like “should,” “ought,” “behooves,” etc. that somewhere further down in the article I’ll often times notice that they’ve in fact given the opposing side a strong advocacy with “playing the devil’s advocate,” “although,” “it should, however, be conceded that,” or some other such qualification. So that at the end I’m not quite sure what they’re position is. The available facts are usually laid out pretty well and the reader is invited to make up her own mind. I don’t mean on some clearly defined issue that most sensible people would support and on which there does seem to be some fairly solid consensus. I mean wading into some murky waters like their qualified support for Narendra Modi, now PM of India, back in 2014, as an example.

  The writers and editors are self-reflective enough to have over the years even considered their own biases. They usually at such times concede that they do lean toward classical liberalism (you might call this libertarianism now but that term is pretty loaded these days) in advocating for respecting the consent of individuals to some pretty extreme extent, free trade, multilateralism, free competition, democracy, and other affiliations that used to be taken as fairly conservative positions. I don’t mean climate-denialism, racism, anti-vaxxerism, flat-earthism, xenophobia, QAnonsense, blind-following of that cult-leader demagogue Trump, conspiracy-theories, and whatever other bunk is now taken to be de rigueur to be a conservative in America.

  I think anyone willing to earnestly work toward well-informed position that is also willing to concede their central thesis if they’ve been shown to have been mistaken or shortsighted or otherwise occupying a less-than-ideal stance is definitely someone worth listening to. And over the years they have admitted to have been wrong.

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  Airfish
  January 2nd, 2022
  

  

  @userabuser: well said!
  And as someone to the left of The Economist, I think it’s very worth reading for exactly why you say. Ultimately, The Economist forwards or at least allows for real discussion. That’s a Godsend these days.

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  skay
  January 2nd, 2022
  

  Lisiva5995- First, The Economist is a pro-capitalist publication which explicitly promotes a neoliberal POV, by advocating for markets & privatization wheverever possible, for govts to construct and enforce market-based “solutions” as well as liberal democracy.

  Second, While the Dems do engage in gerrymandering in some areas (Illinois, for example), they have not made a concerted effort to do so nationwide by taking over state legislature majorities across the USA, as the GOP has done with the explicit aim of gerrymandering — and restricting the ability of people of color to vote (by, say, limiting the number of voting sites in majority-black areas).

  In contrast, the Dems continue to focus most of their efforts on registering & persuading voters to get out & vote Democratic.

  The GOP focuses on taking/holding power — and to cater to its far-right base while in power — even without persuading the majority of voters to vote Republican, or support the party’s far-right court nominees, regulatory reforms, and legislation.

  This is something the GOP has been doing for 20-30 years. See the work of Hacker & Pierson for proof: Off-Center (2005) and Winner Takes All (2010)

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  golemija
  January 3rd, 2022
  

  

  Thank you for sharing the audio edition on time every week. Your kindness is greatly appreciated.

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  krissukas
  January 5th, 2022
  

  People are already arguing politics in audiobookbay comments section 😂😂😂

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  balasus
  January 7th, 2022
  

  @krissukas, When are they not? Admittedly, the OP is extra specially stupid.

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  Diabold
  January 7th, 2022
  

  @lisiva5995
  In a world where paying for things upfront and a middle school education are considered left-wing, I suppose I see why you’re confused about what constitutes conservatism anymore and what does not.

  To be fair, we all are.

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  tslu
  January 7th, 2022
  

  

  What’s wrong with listening to what the other party is saying. Haven’t we divided ourselves enough in this day and age, left vs right, liberal vs conservative, Dems vs. GOP, commies vs capitalists, east vs west, U.S. vs China, us vs them…… Can’t we get closer to each other? Are we really doomed as humans?

  Read/Listen to the Economist and you will become better informed human being!!!

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