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I occasionally write long posts but you should assume I'm talking out of my ass until proved otherwise. I do like writing shit sometimes.  

 

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Be 18+ or be gone you kids act fuckin' weird.

 

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I tag all of my posts complaining about stuff #complaining, feel free to muffle that if you'd like a more positive cohost experience.

 

 
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v-raze
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Someone doesn't want you to read this article.

The Wayback Machine got a snapshot of it and as of this posting you can still read it live on MSN.

Interestingly, Wagner's author page on Road & Track is still up, and included a link to the article when I started writing this, but said link is now gone. I couldn't find a social media account for Wagner with recent posts (other than twitter, which is now so hostile to guest viewers that I don't even bother with more than a cursory glance, since you're served a vomit of random posts spanning the last seven years instead of, you know, today).

Really curious what the story is here, but the most likely explanations seem pretty apparent based on the article's content. Scathing commentary on wealth inequality, combined with close and candid photos of people who, as Kate mentions early in the work, have 'bought their way out of public life' and would most likely prefer to stay that way. It may have made it past the editor's desk, but someone with some pull didn't want the article to remain published in its original form.

plumpan
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Below is the full transcript I copied from my still open tab. This includes image alt-text, and anything else that "highlight all + copy" grabbed.

The moment this goes back up on the webbed site I'll delete this post. Please drop a comment here if it does.

plumpan
@plumpan

The MSN host of the article is now down. Wayback is still up. Safe to say at this point that this was 100% intentional and it's not going back up. See also this screenshot from hellsite (stolen from xkeeper thanks x).

Only other thing I have to say about this is: Please stop watching F1 lol.

plumpan
@plumpan

My comment remains the same lol

tl;dr the Editor In Chief says he didn't know about the article because it was only going up on the website, and it wasn't a good fit for the publication or whatever. Plenty of ways to interpret that, I don't care to speculate past a "sure, whatever dude."

EDIT: If this wasn't a more serious thing I'd make a joke about this being just another case of motorists having no regard for cyclists, but even that is just another extension of this class war bs.

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queerinmech
@queerinmech

after some digging on multiple Twitter accounts i can see the remains of some deleted tweets on her own account which people had commented on

the original tweet about the article was here https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/1763598895475458266

with replies like

Davy Pottel @drpottel
Fantastic work.

I’d love to hear you report on the experience of going to F1 as someone like me in the cheap seats.

lawrence dunn @l_dunn1
"The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever. People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body." 🤌

Louis Capizzi @louis_capizzi
Lol, this is ridiculously good. There’s probably not a better pure writer in sports journalism than Kate. So cool they basically let her do the modern evolution of H.S. Thompson at the Derby

Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites
this is a stupidly good read

based on Google search results, Road & Track's deputy editor, Raphael Orlove, posted about it too but it has since been deleted from his feed as well, and of course Google no longer provides cached pages because they hate us all

there is a Reddit thread linking the original article with guys pissing and moaning about it because they do not understand the narrative style (and incidentally would have missed the point of Thompson too) but one commenter asks:

friendinfremont
anyone know why this article was nuked from the R&T site?

that is all i have been able to find

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doctorwednesday
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Today I have learned that articles on MSN are completely unreadable, with all the animations and ads and random flashy things encrusting the margin and indeed breaking up the text. I can only assume MSN is meant for the illiterate, or the aspiring illiterate...

(I read it on the archive site instead)

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v-raze
@v-raze

Oh, yeah, definitely. I use microblock and kinda forget sometimes how much more obnoxious sites like that are without it. Wanted to share it anyways though, since it was the first place I found the article still listed and archive.org is a bit slow at times

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