{"id":89755,"date":"2025-07-03T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89755"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:29:10","slug":"violating-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89755","title":{"rendered":"Violating The Laws Of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s getting difficult to find numbers small enough to measure how low &#8220;Rolilng Stone&#8221; has gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Their ad for The Container Store, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89301\">thinly disguised as a tongue bath for Amy Klobuchar?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89301\">slander of Nick Sandman<\/a> (oh, yeah &#8211; I&#8217;m still watching that one).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52431\">University of Virginia rape hoax<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easier to quantify the number of readable non-musical  pieces they&#8217;ve run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89301\">since PJ O&#8217;Rourke left<\/a> whatever&#8217;s left of the once-legendary magazine:  zero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But however far they fall,\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>manages to violate the laws of physics to find a little more room to drop.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2022 Mamdani is not in the country illegally <br><br>\u2022 He does not have any connection to 9\/11 or jihadist terrorism <br><br>\u2022 Mamdani hasn\u2019t actually said or done anything antisemitic <br><br>\u2022 He did not call to \u2018globalize the intifada\u2019 <br><br>\u2022 He\u2019s not a communist<br><br>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DwtpGZzXju\">https:\/\/t.co\/DwtpGZzXju<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/djtXP4fAH1\">https:\/\/t.co\/djtXP4fAH1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RollingStone\/status\/1940517104857555173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>is to fact-checking&#8230;what &#8220;Dog Gone&#8221; was to fact-checking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If someone\u00a0<em>praises\u00a0<\/em>Naziism, does one need to\u00a0<em>be a Nazi<\/em> to get condemned?\u00a0 \u00a0Mamdani praises Jihadis.\u00a0 He wrote a rap praising the Holy Land Five.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Anti-Zioinism\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>antisemitism.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He refused to condemn or abjure the phrase &#8220;globalize the Intifada&#8221;.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;He&#8217;s not a communist&#8221; &#8211; he just proposes putting communist ideas into policy.\u00a0 Tomayto tomahto.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are no numbers small enough to measure how low\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>has fallen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting difficult to find numbers small enough to measure how low &#8220;Rolilng Stone&#8221; has gone.\u00a0 Their ad for The Container Store, thinly disguised as a tongue bath for Amy Klobuchar? 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