I wish we had better ways to build these cases. To collect the various anecdotes and whinges, to aggregate them them together. I want evidence, bona-fides, or a list of comments I've liked with people doing criticism on someone, to be able to drop down when bad people and bad outlets show up again in the feed.

Noah Smith definitely deserves this warning. All sorts of stories of ridiculous overconfidence & oversimplification in the the dumbest of reasonings, dating back for many many many years.

I'd assumed growing up others would also tend towards the ultra online, that the smart ones were pioneering a lifestyle of intelligence and consideration, of hunting for context to understand the tidbits er run across, to consider widely. I'd assumed networking would spawn & spread to help show the back stories of those who we read.

But today, the lack of social defense against bad and or incomeptent seems so so so resounding in the world.

On top of that, he has a deep hatred of Chinese, Russians, and Palestinians (basically anyone unaligned with US policy) that he likes to blame for everything - not just the governments, but the actual people of these countries.

because he's a true American

He thinks as Americans think, speaks as Americans speak

tbo if anyone who doesn't think and speak like he does, he/she is not as american as Noah Smith is

He submitted hard data for all of his claims, and admitted what he did not know. That is not what I think "truly vapid and frankly unintelligent" looks like.

But look, feel free to submit articles that you think are better...