{"id":83938,"date":"2022-11-23T07:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83938"},"modified":"2022-11-23T07:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:16:49","slug":"open-letter-to-all-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83938","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To All Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To: Every Single Progressive
From: Mitch Berg, Obstreperous Peasant
Re: Berg’s 18th Law<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To some extent, I created Berg’s 18th Law to protect me, and people like me, from going out on long, brittle factual limbs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law is pretty clear<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing the media writes\/says about any emotionally charged event \u2013 a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything \u2013 should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident. \u00a0It will largely be rubbish, as media outlets vie to \u201cscoop\u201d each other even on incorrect facts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But after a couple of days of listening to people like you claiming that all conservative social and economic thought was a form of “stochastic terror” aimed directly at LGBTQIAetcetc people, it’s worth noting that I wrote it even more for you<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: Every Single ProgressiveFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreperous PeasantRe: Berg’s 18th Law To some extent, I created Berg’s 18th Law to protect me, and people like me, from going out on long, brittle factual limbs. The law is pretty clear: Nothing the media writes\/says about any emotionally charged event \u2013 a mass shooting, a police shooting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,130,18],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-83938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-tc-media-bias","category-pc","tag-bergs-18th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83939,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83938\/revisions\/83939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}