Because right-wind ideologues have gotten super skilled at hoodwinking the common people into thinking they're on their side.
NYT is only center-left within the American political spectrum. In any normal democracy they'd be a pretty staunchly conservative paper. They have a long history of cheering for all kinds of American imperialism (Nicaragua -> Iraq War -> drone strikes, with Israel as a consistent through line) and they have a long history of shitting on or downplaying candidates who are more or less smack in line with the country's population's general political alignment (Bernie Sanders / Mamdani), because they are way too far left for the media's political alignment.
They're eating a hell of a lot more than the people in Gaza
For those who were curious, "home" means South Korea, not their homes they made in the US.
Also there's this:
Lee’s government even promised at least $50bn of investments during his recent meeting with Trump, a gesture that resulted only in a “crackdown” against South Korean citizens.
CBS, are you paying attention? Probably not.
Seriously. I am having trouble finding the Reddit AMA from before the election (which is its own little brand of worrying), where one of the New York Times editors was asked why they were so hyper-critical of Biden on a few different valid bases, but willing to give a broad free pass to Trump on many objectively horrifying things he was doing or planning. And they basically said, well Trump's popular and Biden is not, so we're reflecting that reality, it's okay if you don't understand news you're not a professional like me 😎.
I'm glad if they found their voice now that it's more or less too late, but I still admit to a little bit of guilty desire to see Trump's goons smash up their offices or something, so that maybe they'll take the lesson a little more thoroughly to heart, and fucking remember next time what their fucking job is.
Yeah. If you look at what the directives have been from above, it's very very obvious in retrospect that ICE would be just wandering around arresting people completely at random, because they will literally get in trouble if they do literally anything else.
For now. Graduating to siccing these extralegal structures and punishments against peer enemies is usually in the game plan at some point.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure the edition I read did not include all the strikeouts and misspellings, but for some reason the machine text I could find did, and I like this version of it better.
And the next year, it will be worse, and the year after that worse than that. Until the oceans die, and the croplands, and a lot of the cities. Life will survive, probably our species too, but our civilization and the paradise world we currently inhabit will not.
Tell me I'm crazy, are not Safra Catz and Satya Nadella naturalized citizens? Subject to arbitrarily getting fucked up any time any of them steps on the wrong tail? Neither was born in the US. Catz is presumably safe, because she's ~~white~~ Israeli, but...
What the Jesus Christ man
I would be a little bit surprised if the people in charge of high-level trade are that simple-minded.
China was already a great reliable trade partner. They have other issues as does any nation, but attractiveness for trade wasn't really one of them, they were already pretty bangin' in that regard, and the US losing its status as a good investment doesn't suddenly mean that Chinese markets will become always a safe investment by default. I feel like these narratives like "trade relations = loyalty and friendship, there can be only one favorite nation-crush" are sort of for public consumption.