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Wow, are you telling me that a magazine who views all investment markets as unethical doesn't like Wallstreet. Shocker.

“Ohio public pensions paid double in new fees to Wall Street that it saved by freezing inflation adjustments on payouts” is a bit more concrete than “not liking wall street”.

The headline could have been Jamie Dimon knits sweaters for kittens and Jacobin would talk about how the wall street banksters are mercilessly waging class war on just good old regular folks like you and me.

My point is it doesn't matter what Jacobin says on anything because they have exactly one take on everything. It doesn't make the story not true, it just makes it not worth listening to their take on it.

You're not entirely wrong but you'd be a lot more right if you read the article and actually refuted the specifics of it, not just Jacobin's political leanings.... to be fair if this was from the other side and written on Breitbart I'd expect the exact same reactions in the comments, even if it had some similarly good points.

I mean, I think Breitbart is a perfect example. I'm sure between the mounds of falsehoods and trolling they throw out, they make plenty of factually correct points. But I'm not going to validate them by reading through all of the junk just so I can find the 5% they got right and congratulate them. They are a junk publication so you just call them a junk publication and move on.

Jacobin is Breitbart on the other side of the spectrum. They don't deserve to be validated with discussion. That's my subjective opinion.

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