I don't know why I still read The Guardian news site, to be honest. I'm just a creature of habit, so it's an impulsive thing. I even continued to patronize the cafe down the street from my apartment last fall while an employee who showed an amusing amount of pride for possessing demon-like characteristics harrassed, intimidated, insulted, and slandered me for months, and after my complaints to supervisors and the owner were met with apathy, a shrug, or "just ignore them."
"Them" refers to both the employee and her boyfriend — a barista and extraordinarily embarrassing supervisor at the cafe — who she had manipulated into believing, in true covert narcissist fashion, that she was the victim and I was the bully. But that's a post specifically about narcissists, and for another day. And I finally stopped supporting said cafe this past November, after having been a customer since they opened in the neighborhood in 2012. Old habits die hard.
Anyway, back to The Guardian.
I should clarify that when I say the Guardian news site, I specifically mean the US version. Of course.
Biased and misleading reporting, disabling the comment section on many if not most stories, stupid and vapid op-eds, and now, refusing to show any accountability for a story that's been called out for major discrepancies.
As I scanned the front page earlier today, I clicked on the first headline - US halts cooperation with UN on human rights violations. Not too shocking of a story — that the US refuses to show any responsibility for how its own citizens are treated — but the growing arrogance is really something else. On the right side of the story were the most viewed articles at the time.
I don't follow US politics too much now, since most representatives are phonies selling an act through elaborate campaigning, but what I do know about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is that she was proclaiming solidarity with cab drivers at one point, and simultaneously using Uber and other ride-sharing services while she campaigned.
I could be wrong but inconsistency in one's words and actions is always a red flag.
Nevermind inconsistency, though, as American politics (and journalism) consistently reminds us. But a story about a woman dancing takes two places on The Guardian's most shared list, and in the top five!
Sometimes it takes something small to reveal a big problem.
