Antiwar is as dead as Justin Raimondo?

I did an expanded version of this post, my callout back to David Rieff about a serious peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, at Substack.

I had sent the original to Counterpunch, heard nothing. Sent the Substack version to Antiwar, the late Justin Raimondo's home grounds.

And, egarris there, Eric Garris, Antiwar's co-founder, said:

A bit too snarky for us (quite a bit). Thank you, appreciate the sentiment.

I emailed back, and responded to myself on Twitter that, something can be totally serious even if it appears snarky.

I did NOT email him, but DID post as a comment to myself on the Substack, and on Twitter, that I guess Justin Raimondo really is dead.

That said, as I noted in my blogged obit of him, I didn't agree with his blanket antiwar stance, and outside of that, I thought he was pretty much a nutter. And, that piece reminds me that Garras is a nutter in many ways, too. I also also forgot that current editorial director Scott Horton, like both of them, is a conspiracy theorist, though not perhaps as much of a general political nutter.

Oh, well. Truthout next? Actually, per their submission guidelines and areas of interest, hard no. And, I'd forgotten it has had some recent troubles. So, I shot it to Alternet. And, I stressed in an introductory paragraph that it was NOT snark.

Also NOT snark is in that 4-year-old blogged obit, Eric, about you, Justin and Scott being nutters.

Snark? The header is high-octane, Bacardi 151 level snark.

So again, Antiwar? What's it good for? I guess that what it's good for in its own POV is just for Merikkkans. With some hindsight, especially given the Lew Rockwell background of both Raimondo and Garris, that shouldn't be surprising, either.

If I had thought of this in advance, based on old blogging, I might not have tried Antiwar. OTOH, it did let me see some of its actual hypocrisy. And, I'll take Mark Ames and Yasha Levine over you Rockwellians. Of further hypocrisy, the actual Randolph Bourne would loathe most the ideas of Raimondo, Garras et al.

As far as tone, snarkiness didn't even pop up in my mind while writing. Instead, I wondered if I was being too preachily didactic, with a "take your medicine" angle (for US-NATO-Ukraine) pushing something that isn't realistic for anybody but Vladimir Putin. I accept that as still being a possibility.