here's a transcript of the interview for folks who want to check it out
http://johnhalle.com/outragesandinterludes/?p=741
sounding like a bitter crank while being otm has been reed's stock in trade for a while, but yeah, he goes pretty deep here
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
wait, who are the #alt journos precisely?
RE Reed and TNC: all the "he thinks he's baldwin, but HE'S NOT BALDWIN and he has NOTHING TO SAY" stuff just makes him sound dumb. the thing that pissed me off about the TNC sanders reparations piece wasn't so much the reparations thing (although IMHO he should have included the obama quotes on reparations from 2008 in the text of the original article), it was starting from the position that Sanders is completely unelectable and should just be a washboard for our wildest policy dreams. and like, TNC is such a good writer and makes you sit back all contemplative, feeling smart for having considered all the possibilities... but it's primary season, man, and the actual effect of him writing that piece is a bunch of smug fence-sitting libs feeling vindicated for backing hillary
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
bernie is obvs a huge risk electability wise and i dont think its unclean to point that out, also if he did win via being matched up v trump that his presidency cld be a huge disaster is worth thinking abt at least, tnc and krugman calling him a fraud is weird tho like hes def less of a fraud than most politicians which is not to say he is without fault but their criticism seems to exist in some sort of weird bubble where hes not running against the people hes running against
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
I don't see the problem w tnc's piece really
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
But I'm prob a smug fence sitter who wd be ok w backing Hillary
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
i am too, idk the article just incensed me cause it seemed to take the position of, 'well this guy is unelectable and can ask for anything he wants so why doesn't he ask for this policy which is infinitely more unpopular than anything else on his already controversial and legislatively impossible platform and that i also wrote a masterful longform essay calling for (well except that said essay wasn't really a straightforward argument pro reparations but more of a complex historical tour of factors causing racial wealth inequality since slavery and i even admit in the essay itself the political impracticality of the policy in the near future)' when like, idk bernie is probably thinking he has some kind of a shot, genuinely wants some kinda revolution and is polling pretty good numbers. like it's amazing he has as much of a shot as he does on the platform he has, saying he should go even further is like those communists who immediately denounced Syriza
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
how is Twitter reacting to TNC clobbering Clinton today over her Confederate take on Reconstruction?
Clinton's presidency being a huge disaster is also worth thinking abt at least (as well as her 'electability' christ what an asshole word)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
morbs how did u find the election talk inside the twitter thread
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
i clicked on this is bcz being *on* Twitter is bad enough, i couldn't imagine what you have to say about it.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
do u have a twitter account if so what is it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
http://adequateman.deadspin.com/twitter-drove-me-crazy-so-i-stopped-using-it-1754598896
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
haven't read the actual body of that piece but i could've written the headline at any point in the last three years
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
it p good tbh
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
guys there is a thread for dismantling white supremacy (obv!!!!) please bring your tnc etc thorts there
rolling thread for the dismantling of white supremacy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
i thought deadspin was sports
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
lol
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
is like those communists who immediately denounced Syriza
otm, you mean?
― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
not sure that analogy really holds
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
idk if you get points for being right for the wrong reason in hindsight
― flopson, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 26, 2016 9:43 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
from your dumb article:
tweets are like toxic potato chips
from you:
twitter as junk food is the most common entry level ass face criticism
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 20:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
that whole article is undermined by this idea, though:
Twitter isn’t where I made memories. On the contrary, it’s a void that sucked up opportunity to form them. There’s nothing tangible about that.
she just sounds confused.
luck for her twitter is going to shit, so it's cool, she won't need help deleting it
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:38 (eight years ago) link
“she”
― markers, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
s/he
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
pulling one sentence fragment out and attempting to construct an own out of it is the most twitter ass face thing one cld do
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
feel like the conclusion he comes to ("now i am EXPERIENCING the splendor of nature UNINTERRUPTED") is not actually my experience with quitting twitter
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
rather it is what everyone tells you happens when you unlock yourself from an app or whatever
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
also contrasting twitter with a movie made very carefully over a long period of time feels kinda silly
he def over sold it but hes right abt the annoying things ppl do on there and that they are annoying and lame
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
thing is, the writer isn't even saying s/he quit twitter. it's that s/he didn't curate her timeline and now s/he just uses it a little less. it reads like a stream of conscious creative writing piece, with little coherence
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
let me lol at this though:
It would be foolish to denounce Twitter entirely, as that would wage war against technology (technology will always win).
investors don't even like twitter. it would wage war on nobody
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 9:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm disappointed this wasn't a rickroll
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
wow the twitter jr pundit cru has imploded over "berniebro" accusations and everyone is accusing everyone of harassment of one another for like disagreeing and being super zingy and nasty on all sides.
its just children hurling fruit at one another on all sides
― Option ARMs and de Man (s.clover), Friday, 29 January 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
tempted to live tweet the very contentious first caucus in nation next week
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 02:49 (eight years ago) link
extremely woke gamer was such a great handle and always made me laugh #rip
― -san (Lamp), Friday, 29 January 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
shit like this is so far beyond what any scifi writer cldve ever imagined https://storify.com/nkallen/a-spiral-of-confusion
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 03:48 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/stefan_bc/status/692919121936261120
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 04:09 (eight years ago) link
wow twitter is wild
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
twitter is lit fam
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
im assuming sarah koenig got swarthvillian banned too someone needs to write a more thorough explainer
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
no wait thats the serial person lol sarah jeong
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 04:54 (eight years ago) link
i thought her coverage of the snowden trial was very good but it seems she might be... bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 04:57 (eight years ago) link
Tweetbot just updated over to the new corporate-mandated "heart" and I'm so disappointed.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 January 2016 05:46 (eight years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, January 29, 2016 4:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Friday, January 29, 2016 4:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa lmao
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 05:58 (eight years ago) link
a friend of mine who used to be as deeply invested in these twitter beefs as i am now has been trying to remind me: "these people arguing so loudly with each and dividing into factions? don't matter to anyone but themselves. i can virtually guarantee you nobody caucusing monday knows what the fuck a bernie bro is"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 05:59 (eight years ago) link
omg stop laughing at me and help me understand this inconsequential gossip between likely totally awful ppl on both sides
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 06:01 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2u2a1UAAAt1A7.jpghttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2u2nbUEAE7kU_.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 06:02 (eight years ago) link
calling in the calvary on ppl joking abt u calling in the calvary
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 06:03 (eight years ago) link
have totally not figured out how this relates to berniebros or who the berniebros are
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 06:04 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2iJ9WUcAIH__Q.jpghttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ2iJ8gUsAEc7qE.jpg
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 06:06 (eight years ago) link
are the berniebros from reddit if so how did ppl who also think reddit is bad end up getting banned