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mark ames was still writing for theExile diaspora in 2023

http://exiledonline.com/baldfellas-how-belaruss-failed-regim...
"'''""""'"'
  02/03/25
mark ames is still pretty cool but his grudge he holds towar...
richard clock
  02/03/25
link? i'm not familiar with this ames is a good and engagin...
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  02/03/25
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  02/04/25
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"'''""""'"'
  02/06/25
Ames takes shots at Taibbi on twitter from time to time. He ...
richard clock
  02/06/25
Sounds on-brand for Ames, unfortunately, but it also sounds ...
"'''""""'"'
  02/06/25
yeah i agree. i wish theyd make up though. they are both rea...
richard clock
  02/06/25
war nerd here, didn't know he was still writing either http:...
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  02/03/25


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Date: February 3rd, 2025 8:30 PM
Author: "'''""""'"'

http://exiledonline.com/baldfellas-how-belaruss-failed-regime-change-movement-shaped-putins-war-plan/

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Date: February 3rd, 2025 8:32 PM
Author: richard clock

mark ames is still pretty cool but his grudge he holds toward taibbi is embarrasing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5674934&forum_id=2#48619525)



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Date: February 3rd, 2025 8:37 PM
Author: "'''""""'"'

link? i'm not familiar with this

ames is a good and engaging writer, but he's always had an acerbic and kind of bitter streak that comes off in his writing, especially when the topic of the piece is russia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5674934&forum_id=2#48619538)



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Date: February 4th, 2025 2:07 AM
Author: "'''""""'"'



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:18 PM
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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:29 PM
Author: richard clock

Ames takes shots at Taibbi on twitter from time to time. He doesn't ever really explain why he's angry at him, but I gather he might have the idea that Taibbi threw him under the bus when their work at the exile got criticized for being misogynistic and shit

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-matt-taibbi.html

"Taibbi and Ames would have a bitter falling out; the two haven’t spoken in almost 20 years. Taibbi left The eXile several years before it folded in 2008, heading back to America to further his journalism career. Ames declined to comment for this story. “This sounds too depressing,” he said. “Good luck with it.”"



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Date: February 6th, 2025 8:12 PM
Author: "'''""""'"'

Sounds on-brand for Ames, unfortunately, but it also sounds like he's got some legitimate complaint there

theExile was "theExile" for a reason. Vice-esque youth-oriented coverage from an anti-Russian but still slavophilic set of perspectives. A few of the guys they employed were pariahs in mainstream journalism despite clearly being very talented and that acerbic booze-fueled tenor was the whole gist of what they were going for with it

Sad and unethical blue-on-blue backbiting when journalists wind up censoring each other, but that was also the norm for decades. This sort of thing somehow becoming the norm and striking against the spirit that underpins freedom of the press has been disastrous for the public perception of journalists and the "journalistic ethos" in the public eye

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5674934&forum_id=2#48630649)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: richard clock

yeah i agree. i wish theyd make up though. they are both really solid journalists and the exile was amazing in its prime. hitting the nyt journalist in the face with the bull jizz pie was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5674934&forum_id=2#48631021)



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Date: February 3rd, 2025 8:42 PM
Author: "'''""""'"'

war nerd here, didn't know he was still writing either http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-nato-a-memoir/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5674934&forum_id=2#48619564)