yeah, for example this guy:http://www.youtube.com/user/nigahiga/videos?sort=p&flow=grid&view=0
has six videos with over 40M views EACH, including "how to be ninja" and "how to be gangster"
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
xp the use of "appeal to authority" is kind of amazing. who is Tyler Cowen? well, he's David Brooks's friend. what makes him a good judge of what makes someone a public intellectual? not sure here, but he's David's friend, and we trust David
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
"Choosey Maters" is my favorite Smokey song iirc
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
apparently Tyler Cowen is a libertarian economist and blogger, not coincidentally another shithead who also gets paid to write by the NYT.
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
tyler cowen is a big-wig dignity wraith at george mason university (the academic version of mordor) funded by the sauron boys, charles and david koch
https://economics.gmu.edu/people/tcowen
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
a real doozy from our boy today. apparently Democrats are throwing away their chance at winning overwhelming legislative majorities simply because they can't shake this nettlesome need to defend a woman's sovereignty over her own body. at one point Brooks envisions a world in which Roe v Wade no longer exists and the decision of whether to keep abortion legal is left up to the states. the way he hand-waves the idea that (in his own estimation) roughly 40% of states might make it illegal literally took my breath away.
― evol j, Friday, 2 February 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
hey they can always move to a nice blue state like his
this fuckin guy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
We need to acknowledge our vulnerability here.
Isn't this like the definition of concern trolling?
― jmm, Friday, 2 February 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
next column is gonna be about your decades-younger wife taking issue with your misogynist views
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 February 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
i still can't get over the huge disparity between his idiotic & inarticulate columns and his appearances on PBS with mark shields, where he comes off fairly reasonable and milquetoast. whoever's ghost-writing his columns is trolling
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
I can; different environments draw out different aspects of our personality, don’t they? One can be a real asshole online and quite personable face-to-face and be so unconsciously
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 2 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
it's not just a difference of disposition, he's ideologically a different person. i get what you're saying though
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 February 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
Maybe the camera light triggers some deep personality flip; the Manchurian Pundit or something
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 2 February 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
Often a fellow with a new young wife becomes an embarrassment. David Brooks is the same embarrassment he was with the old wife.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 21, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-blasts-david-brooks-for-suggesting-the-left-should-show-respect-to-gun-owners/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 February 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Sadly, not that kind of blasting.
― Simon H., Friday, 23 February 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
I had this weird dream, it was some TV show where David Brooks was going to be "embedded" as a player on an NBA team (I guess like George Plimpton & the Lions?)
anyway I was watching this show on TV and he was sitting there wearing a basketball uniform and shoes and stuff but still wearing his "smart guy" glasses and was just sitting there in the timeout never shutting up and making all these "observations" and the players were clearly annoyed then he was actually talking to the coach about the play coming out of timeout as if he expected to actually play in the game
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
lol I can see it
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
i bought some sopressata today and it is impossible for me to hear that word without thinking about that dumb fuckng column from last year
― marcos, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
Imagine lying in bed and hearing David Brooks whispering "sopressata" in your ear.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
!!
― marcos, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
no
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
no im not gonna fuckin do that, my guy
helps i don't eat dairy or have a secretary
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
what a lazy stupid hack, how does he still have a job
let's go to the source......ah yes "good and evil," the principal antagonism of marxist thought pic.twitter.com/aVN6cXaBoh— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) March 9, 2018
― Simon H., Friday, 9 March 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
there have been some really weird and poorly-formed socialist critiques of public choice theory lately
hold my beer and i'll show you how really weird and poorly-formed critiques should be done
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 March 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
if I wanted to read long-winded spiels of received wisdom, I don't need to read Scott Alexander. I can go back and read my own posts here.
someone get David Brooks on ilx (no)
― mh, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
you assume he hasn't been here all along
― Simon H., Friday, 9 March 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
the bad takes are coming from inside the message board
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 March 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
how does he still have a job
🤔
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
poor davey, he so confoozed....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/opinion/speaking-as-a-white-male.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region
― scott seward, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
his widdle head hurt....
I’m trying to think this through and I’m not sure how
brooks sums up his entire career in 11 words
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
it's incredible to me that he had not yet used this title
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
An even better career summary:
I’m a columnist and I’m supposed to come to a conclusion, but I’m confused.
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
On the one hand, the drive to bring in formerly marginalized groups has obviously been one of the great achievements of our era. When you put together a panel discussion or a work team, even on a subject like oncology, you don’t want to have a bunch of white males sitting up there. We know that something valuable will be lost.
gosh, even onocology? heavens
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
One of the things I’ve learned in a lifetime in journalism is that people are always more unpredictable than their categories.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
david brooks is always going to panel discussions about oncology
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 March 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
whether the oncologists like it or not
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Friday, 23 March 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
i would love to know what each word of that piece of shit actually cost the NYT.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 23 March 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
^^^
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 23 March 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
on PBS today he said John Bolton "isn't the worst pick in the world"
Gun, meet mouth
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
If you ever wondered who David Brooks was (literally) listening to
Are there better podcast hosts than Tyler Cowen and Sam Harris? I can’t imagine...— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) April 12, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De3jmuVUcAIJN-s.jpg:large
― you bet, nancy (map), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
What a bargain
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
twofer
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link
not every day you get a 2-for-1 on the best stuff in the store
― you bet, nancy (map), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
why is brooks admitting that he is a nazi, risky career move
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
i thought it was all the rage these days?
― you bet, nancy (map), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
sadly that is not a real headline, but i don't think we should let that dissuade us from punching either david brooks or nazis in the face
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 08:39 (six years ago) link