Careercow Ben Collins / Benjamin Thomas Collins / @oneunderscore__ - Journo Scum

[AnOminous]

Or he just wants as many things up as many men's bottoms as possible.

I'm pretty sure he's a giant faggot and therefore loves the whole things up bums and as many as possible things.

Or to make it short, he's a huge faggot. He's into fag things. Gay things. Butt things. That's what fags do.

 

[CervixHammer]

Friend of the pod Farms Jesse "Bussy" Singal takes a swipe at Ben.

(archived for when Jesse deletes his account again)

 

[AirdropShitposts]

JUST IN: Ben hates Twitter:


Haha isn't it funny how we all have to be on every social media for some unspoken reason:


Any day now...


Disinformation Ben:


Delusional?


Gibberish?


Prices going up? Just print more money, duh:

Many of the replies to this are slightly disagreeing with Ben, they believe the answer is instead to reduce supply.

 

[Meat Target]

JUST IN: Ben hates Twitter:
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Haha isn't it funny how we all have to be on every social media for some unspoken reason:
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Any day now...
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Disinformation Ben:
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Delusional?
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Gibberish?
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Prices going up? Just print more money, duh:
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Many of the replies to this are slightly disagreeing with Ben, they believe the answer is instead to reduce supply.

"This feels like January 6th"

Bless those retarded boomers and that faggot in the buffalo hat. They gave these creeps something to cry about for the next thousand years.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Fun fact: that WaPo piece about July 4th being the hottest day ever? I almost posted it on A&N for people to laugh at. Their "records" are a set of "data points" by "climate scientists" that only goes back to 1979. And they stretch it over 125 THOUSAND years on literal extrapolation.

 

[CervixHammer]

While browsing the Blocked & Reported subreddit, I came across some Ben Collins discourse. (Archive in case the Eye of Bardfinn ever falls upon BARpod.)

 

[Meat Target]

Ben's got a Wikipedia page now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Collins_(reporter)?wprov=sfla1 (https://archive.ph/wip/PeaPf)

I found this strange:

While Collins was employed at The Daily Beast, Chris Hurst's girlfriend Alison Parker was shot and killed on live television. Though Collins had not met Parker prior to her death, the incident and its aftermath deeply affected him; he decided to pursue reporting about online conspiracy theories and the far right thereafter.

So, the "far-right" is to blame for a dindu killing someone else's girlfriend?

I'm not following the logic here, Ben.

 

[kcbbq]

Fun fact: that WaPo piece about July 4th being the hottest day ever? I almost posted it on A&N for people to laugh at. Their "records" are a set of "data points" by "climate scientists" that only goes back to 1979. And they stretch it over 125 THOUSAND years on literal extrapolation.

It's funny because we know from ice cores temperature has only been stable like it has been after the last ice age, and before that it was all over the place, and for a while it was way hotter than now. Like no Arctic ice hot.

Not dragonfly cousins with nearly three foot wingspans hot, but still hot.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Ben responds to a fan:


Embed of disinformation reporter Ben Collins talking to a woman who claims the FBI is investigating time traveling, possibly Russian, hackers putting homophobic posts by her on her old blog and also editing The Internet Archive (among other delusional conspiracy theories and lies):

edit: Just noticed Ben's still got those two dumbass books in the corner.

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

NBC News reporter blasts NY magazine columnist for liberal ‘information bubble’ dig​

NY Post / Archive

This private information is unavailable to guests due to policies enforced by third-parties.

 

[AnOminous]

bothsidesism

God I hate this retarded idiotic neologism and the sort of utter pieces of shit who use it.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

“I stand by what I said in that speech, and your work is exactly what I’m talking about. I’m sorry for you that the winds are blowing away from arbitrary bothsidesism when two sides are asymmetrical, but thankfully it’s a boon to our profession that it is.”

In another tweet, Collins referred to journalists like Chait as “country club weirdos” who are “just not living in the world we’re living in, and they’re the ones who get these fancy-ass columns to s–t on young reporters. It’s wild.”
“And guess who our bosses listen to?” Collins tweeted. “Not the young reporters. The ones they meet at the cocktail parties.”

I love how fast Ben resorts to these kind of projection insults against people who criticize him. As if he's not of the same loser class as Chait.

Chait is absolutely not a "bothsider" in the slightest, he attacks the left when they're being utterly and completely stupid and harming their own goals, not because he thinks "two sides are symmetrical" since I doubt he's ever written anything about how Republicans, right-wingers, conservatives, whatever you want to call them are superior to progressives. Much like Matthew Yglesias, Jesse Singal, etc. his entire thing is "hey, socialism is awesome and we should do it, but this idea you've got sounds pretty stupid and like it won't bring us socialism and might actually harm us from achieving it by empowering our enemies." Ben's argument is basically "NO! WE SHOULD COVER OUR EARS AND GO LALALALALALA WHENEVER ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING BAD ABOUT OUR ALLIES! AND OUR ALLIES ARE ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE AND WE SHOULD SUPPORT THEM UNCONDITIONALLY!"

Ben's also lucky, Chait hit him just for that line in his speech. Chait could have easily dragged him for all the disinformation he's personally posted, Chait's done this before and killed some rising "journalist" stars with it. If we're going to have this faggot war Ben wants, I'd rather have Chait as my faggot than Ben.

 

[Meat Target]

God I hate this retarded idiotic neologism and the sort of utter pieces of shit who use it.

Anyone who uses it is implicitly saying, "I am too stupid and arrogant to ever consider the possibility that I am wrong."

 

[AnOminous]

Anyone who uses it is implicitly saying, "I am too stupid and arrogant to ever consider the possibility that I am wrong."

And that's pretty much what "bothsidesism" means. It means "there's my opinion and then there's insanity." The sort of idiots who use this argument see nothing wrong with it, nor that it is obvious insanity itself.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

And that's pretty much what "bothsidesism" means. It means "there's my opinion and then there's insanity." The sort of idiots who use this argument see nothing wrong with it, nor that it is obvious insanity itself.

That's because you're insane. Have you tried simply not believing anything wrong and only knowing correct things? Why do so many people choose to reject the correct scientific mass party line? Because they're insane. Only an insane person would reject something that's correct.

 

[Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet)]

"Bothsideism" is the type of term used by people who say, as a friend of mine did with a total lack of irony, that "the news doesn't have a left wing bias. It has a reality bias."

Because it's just reality that there are 800 genders, and you can be born in the wrong body, and drag queens should read to children. Why can't you see reality, bigot?

 

[CervixHammer]

(archive)
Yes, Ben, you do want to be chief of the censorship police and arbiter of what information on the internet is "true". If Elon Musk made your life hell, it's a hell of your own making because you are a Twitter addict, and you cannot stand people posting things you do not approve of. Go eat one of those disgusting chop suey sandwiches and cry about it.

 

[FATTESTCUNT 2.0]

Why don't all of the people who claim to hate Musk and Twitter and who think their lives are literally "Hell" now, have some principles and just leave the site? There are several alternatives, including leftist hugboxes.

That alone exposes them for the bullshit artists they are IMO. Their egos and desire for likes/retweets/attention is far more important to them than anything else.

 

[An automatic clown]

Why don't all of the people who claim to hate Musk and Twitter and who think their lives are literally "Hell" now, have some principles and just leave the site? There are several alternatives, including leftist hugboxes.

That alone exposes them for the bullshit artists they are IMO. Their egos and desire for likes/retweets/attention is far more important to them than anything else.

Even a fat 1.2gpa indebted Midwestern rube finds a nut once a decade.


They won't ever leave.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

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Yes, Ben, you do want to be chief of the censorship police and arbiter of what information on the internet is "true". If Elon Musk made your life hell, it's a hell of your own making because you are a Twitter addict, and you cannot stand people posting things you do not approve of. Go eat one of those disgusting chop suey sandwiches and cry about it.

Can I step back from that aspect and look at the structure of Ben's contention here?

We should first look at Elon's question, which isn't a stupid one. What's the internet? A mostly textual (but increasingly less so) representation of society. That's all it is. Really, just people's thoughts put into words and images. A mass printing press. Elon's not asking about "the internet" he's asking about society. I'm not saying that's what Elon intended to ask but it's what his question is really about as would become evident the instant you tried to answer it in any way. The internet is a means, a series of tubes, not the "thing" itself.

Ben's response is expressly ignorant. People "studying" the internet who worked at Twitter don't understand society (or the internet) even if we grant that they were experts in whatever they were studied and understood that. At best we can say that they understood a particular subgroup, likely highly active Twitter users I imagine, and it's simply a false premise (aka disinformation) to assume this could be extrapolated to the internet (or society) as a whole.

Elon could hire every internet "researcher" on the planet and never understand the internet especially because it would change as they attempt to research it. Ben rejects this premise because he believes that anyone who claims to be an expert has a complete and total understanding of everything. (Something that almost none of those experts, at least the good ones, would actually ever claim themselves.)