I’m known for changing my mind, when the facts change
lol
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
a Groucho Marxist
"those are my opinions. if you don't like them, I have others"
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
"those are my opinions. if you don't like them, I have others wait til you get a load of these...."
― men without hat tips (Hunt3r), Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Lots of retrospective posts and do-you-remember-whens today. From 2004:
Well, I could easily be wrong, but I have a feeling Cheney will crush Edwards tonight. The format is God’s gift to Daddy. They’ll both be seated at a table, immediately allowing Cheney to do his assured, paternal, man-of-the-world schtick that makes me roll on my back and ask to have my tummy scratched. (Yes, I do think that Cheney is way sexier than Edwards. Not that you asked or anything.)
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 February 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
what's the opposite of asking
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 7 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Okay, that's just...ew. And Sullivan is one of my favorite hate reads, but I don't read it for Re-puke porn.
― SCOTTISH PEOPLE ONLY (I M Losted), Saturday, 7 February 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/andrew-sullivan-i-was-wrong-cover2.png?w=244&h=391
― Brad C., Saturday, 7 February 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
So I miss this blog. Are there any other good general-discussion blog heavy on politics that I should be reading in its place? Seems like a very big readership to just send into the wind without a clear successor
― Evan R, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 23 February 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if that's a joke suggestion or not. I do read the Corner from time to time, because it's nice to read smart conservative opinions, but I'm looking for something a little less ideologically rigid (and borderline hateful)
― Evan R, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Larison often shrewd about GOP foreign policy pieties.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
u should read twitter
― brosario nawson (m bison), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
chait stepping into the vacuum, it seems
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link
i miss this blog too!
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
He must be giving an earful tonight to whoever's sitting next to him at the bar / on the beach.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 27 June 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
One-day return:
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/06/26/it-is-accomplished/
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 June 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
His 1989 article advancing "a (conservative) case for gay marriage" is worth a read:http://www.newrepublic.com/article/79054/here-comes-the-groom
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 June 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
I haven't been keeping up, so this was probably posted in the political thread:
https://newrepublic.com/article/138951/beyond-hope-barack-obama-legacy-age-trump
It's a roundtable on Obama, and Sullivan's part of it. Unsurprisingly, his is the most uncritical evaluation, so much so that he's ridiculed by the other participants more than once.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 December 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
It’s easy to mock this reductionism, I know, but it reflects something a little deeper. Asian-Americans, like Jews, are indeed a problem for the “social-justice” brigade. I mean, how on earth have both ethnic groups done so well in such a profoundly racist society? How have bigoted white people allowed these minorities to do so well — even to the point of earning more, on average, than whites? Asian-Americans, for example, have been subject to some of the most brutal oppression, racial hatred, and open discrimination over the years. In the late 19th century, as most worked in hard labor, they were subject to lynchings and violence across the American West and laws that prohibited their employment. They were banned from immigrating to the U.S. in 1924. Japanese-American citizens were forced into internment camps during the Second World War, and subjected to hideous, racist propaganda after Pearl Harbor. Yet, today, Asian-Americans are among the most prosperous, well-educated, and successful ethnic groups in America. What gives? It couldn’t possibly be that they maintained solid two-parent family structures, had social networks that looked after one another, placed enormous emphasis on education and hard work, and thereby turned false, negative stereotypes into true, positive ones, could it? It couldn’t be that all whites are not racists or that the American dream still lives?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 April 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
His primary question is worth asking. His coyly suggested (but simultaneously denied) answer, that "they maintained solid two-parent family structures, had social networks that looked after one another, placed enormous emphasis on education and hard work", is based on little more than stereotyping - which he (again, coyly) suggests are "true stereotypes" w/o offering any hint of evidence.
That is opinion writing at its laziest. Ask a worthwhile question, then give a worthless answer made up of anecdotes and intellectual sweepings.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 15 April 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
As some folks on twitter have pointed out, Sullivan never read this article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/asian-americans-used-to-be-portrayed-as-the-villains-how-did-they-become-a-model-minority/?utm_term=.e29c96639c44
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 April 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
Sullivan's take is lazy and not well-researched, compared to the Jeff Guo & Daron Taylor Washington Post article I posted..
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 April 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
Well, Sullivan seems forever locked in competition with Jonah Goldberg to see who can push out the laziest, least-researched copy, so.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 15 April 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
After commenting on this I went to the kitchen and as I started cooking supper the truly poisonous racist assumptions that are hiding in plain sight in that paragraph jumped out at me. wtf were you thinking, Andrew Sullivan?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 16 April 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
His primary question is worth asking. His coyly suggested (but simultaneously denied) answer, that "they maintained solid two-parent family structures, had social networks that looked after one another, placed enormous emphasis on education and hard work", is based on little more than stereotyping - which he (again, coyly) suggests are "true stereotypes" w/o offering any hint of evidence. That is opinion writing at its laziest. Ask a worthwhile question, then give a worthless answer made up of anecdotes and intellectual sweepings.
Not worth asking
― 龜, Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
i mean it's _worth asking_ (assuming you, for whatever reason, haven't given the idea serious thought before) why some minority groups are more well-off than others. though it's probably a more appropriate question for google.com than an op-ed
― k3vin k., Sunday, 16 April 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure what 'primary question' exactly is being talked about here, like
why have asian-americans been so successful in many way = question worth asking
does asian-american success prove that racism is actually nbd = question not worth asking
though I got the impression that Aimless was talking about the former?
― soref, Sunday, 16 April 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
Asian-American and Jewish men are not seen as threats to white male supremacy
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Sunday, 16 April 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link
I’ve always felt a little insecure about my homosexuality because I’ve never really understood camp. Well, I do understand it as a concept; it just doesn’t come naturally to me.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 April 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
And is it any wonder that reactionaries are gaining strength? Within the space of 50 years OR SO SINCE REAGAN SLASHED TAXES ON THE RICH, America has gone from segregation to dizzying multiculturalism; from traditional family structures to widespread divorce, cohabitation, and sexual liberty; from a few respected sources of information to an endless stream of peer-to-peer media; from careers in one company for life to an ever-accelerating need to retrain and regroup; from a patriarchy to (incomplete) gender equality; from homosexuality as a sin to homophobia as a taboo; from Christianity being the common culture to a secularism no society has ever sustained before ours.
ftfy andy
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/andrew-sullivan-why-the-reactionary-right-must-be-taken-seriously.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 1 May 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
speaking of reactionary
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 May 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
I don't wanna cross-pollinate too much between the stupid people thread and this one, but this New York magazine gig has really hammered home for me how well the old description "a stupid person's idea of a smart person" applies to Sullivan. He's superficially well-read, and can write a whole sentence with no punctuation errors in it, but he's a fucking imbecile.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 1 May 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
the most withering read of Andrew Sullivan is the one by Sarah Schulman, in Gentrification of the Mind pic.twitter.com/rQ31B7WPet— Sarah Nicole Prickett (@sylvia__north) February 2, 2018
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 February 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/andrew-sullivan-will-there-always-be-an-england.html
send this guy back to his imaginary white kingdom
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgTnf4OVQAA9U15.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 June 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Of course, as a lot of people have pointed out on twitter already, the Dems already offered him the wall a couple of times in their big immigration reform deals, and he refused it.
― Frederik B, Friday, 22 June 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
Honestly. Andrew Sullivan is tiresome. You can't have that high church pomposity yet celebrate yourself as a heretic. It comes out as a wash.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 30, 2018
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 June 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
Fun lil' thread here
Holy cow. Sullivan got a federal simple possession charge tossed because he was rich and famous and his citizenship application was pending. Now he wants a wall. https://t.co/MvEk2PH61l— Charles, Star of Mic Dicta (@Ugarles) June 23, 2018
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 June 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
he really loves people in power huh
― the bhagwanadook (symsymsym), Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
i wish someone had nuked the 90s new republic from space
― maura, Monday, 25 June 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
― the bhagwanadook (symsymsym),
he loves daddies
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 June 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/did-trump-just-help-stop-brexit.html
I accidentally read a few paragraphs of this without checking the byline at all and I was like who is this catastrophizing accelerationist madman writing for nymag? Jesus he's fucking lost it. I knew this when he was obsessing over the Palin children, but why is he still getting paid by anyone to write this lunatic dribble?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 14 July 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
andrew sullivan’s newest column is complete garbage and i’m embarrassed to be even tangentially associated with it— brian feldman (@bafeldman) August 3, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 August 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
Everyone's dunking on Andrew Sullivan but you can hardly blame him for his feeble attempt to reason when he's cursed with the sloping brow and shallow brainpan of an Irishman.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) August 3, 2018
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 4 August 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
lolll
― the bhagwanadook (symsymsym), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
Hate this overpaid asshole
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 August 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
a bologna sandwich with a British accenthttps://splinternews.com/andrew-sullivan-can-fuck-right-off-1828090872
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
so repulsive.
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 4 August 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
to see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 4 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
he is a middle-aged adult and he has been getting paid for 15 or however many years to indulge his fetishization of white masculinity in a weekly column. it's so empty, stupid and disgusting.
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 4 August 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link