The only thing journos do these days is write about group chats.
In fact there’s actually a journo writing about one right now. It’s Ben Smith, the guy who published the fake Steele Dossier. He’s writing about a 300+ person group chat that I sometimes post in, along with a bunch of other people.
One recent chat was with my friend . Now, Joe and I have known each other for 20 years, we’ve co-invested on many deals, and we broadly share the same values around freedom, capitalism, technological progress, and the like.
But we did differ recently on the extent to which the US had tried to contain China.
Broadly speaking, I think the US has always had an interest in remaining the #1 world power, and that it traded with China only because it felt it had many levers over the PRC in event of a dispute. By contrast, Joe felt that the US had been naive towards China until recently, at which point it came to its senses and realized China was never interested in playing win/win games.
Joe thought I was being too sympathetic to the CCP view, because they do claim the US is trying to contain them. I said an unchecked CCP would indeed be very nasty, and that’s why the US was actually right to try to contain them. And basically we came to agreement in the DMs and moved on. Which is of course how all men who aren't NPCs operate: you debate things, sometimes you have a difference of opinion, and you move on as friends.
Yeah. I know. This is genuinely completely uninteresting to anyone — except a journo:
I sometimes feel bad that tech so completely destroyed the journo business model that they’re reduced to picking over our discarded notes, like crows drawn to landfill. But then I remember that if the journos were capable of useful work, they would have ceased to be journos long ago.