RIP David Brooks

no im not gonna fuckin do that, my guy

helps i don't eat dairy or have a secretary

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

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

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)

you assume he hasn't been here all along

the bad takes are coming from inside the message board

how does he still have a job

🤔

poor davey, he so confoozed....

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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

it's incredible to me that he had not yet used this title

An even better career summary:

I’m a columnist and I’m supposed to come to a conclusion, but I’m confused.

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

One of the things I’ve learned in a lifetime in journalism is that people are always more unpredictable than their categories.

david brooks is always going to panel discussions about oncology

whether the oncologists like it or not

i would love to know what each word of that piece of shit actually cost the NYT.

^^^

on PBS today he said John Bolton "isn't the worst pick in the world"

Gun, meet mouth

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

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What a bargain

twofer

not every day you get a 2-for-1 on the best stuff in the store

why is brooks admitting that he is a nazi, risky career move

i thought it was all the rage these days?

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

HERE WE GO pic.twitter.com/Weh92up9tK

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 8, 2018

I'm waiting for the Friedman column about the Wokeness/Brokeness/Pinocchioness 3D Triangle

the sum total of his entire schtick pic.twitter.com/ZTxYCAOnXV

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 8, 2018

David Brooks on Trump in 1987: "He makes life interesting, and by dreaming big, and getting things done, he makes city government look foolish." https://t.co/mg2dQJvQP1

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) June 10, 2018

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oh fuck yeah

jesus h. jehovah

david brooks, the brett anderson of bad takes

things there are 2 of: genders, religions

is he dead yet

Only from the neck up

waht

Big lols from Brooks:

The Trump administration immigration officials have become exactly the kind of monsters that conservatism has always warned against.

lol David Brooks is an apostate? no kiddin'

immigration officials have become exactly the kind of monsters that conservatism has always warned against

Always? Yes, always!

This sort of selective hindsight among conservatives also convinces them that they always believed MLK, Jr. was one of the great men of the 20th century, espousing a benign philosophy all right-minded conservatives embraced whole-heartedly.

If everybody in red states voted for their Democratic candidates and everybody in a blue state voted for their Republican candidates we’d have a much better Congress.

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) October 30, 2018

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If everybody wears hats on their feet and shoes on their heads the Iraq war is justifiable

— Foghorn Cleghorne (@FoghrnCleghorne) October 30, 2018

lmao I thought this revive was gonna be cause Biden just freshly sang his praises

It actually is worth reading this 2003 Weekly Standard piece by David Brooks. It's an incredible masterpiece of vanity and blindness, it's like listening to someone wearing a bright red shirt screaming about people who are so stupid they wear red shirts. https://t.co/laZ3ejuuuo pic.twitter.com/o5wExMIfsc

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) December 5, 2018

amazing that you can include the phrase 'Now that the war in Iraq is over' in a piece from april 2003 and then go on to get even more wrong but david brooks is equal to the task

Then there is the dream palace of the Europeans. In this palace, America is a bigger threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein. America is the land of rotting cities, the electric chair, serial killers, gun-crazed hunters, shallow materialists, religious nuts, savage capitalists, the all-powerful Jewish lobby, the oil lobby, the military-industrial complex, and bloodthirsty cowboy-presidents.

this is otm tho

#hesrunning pic.twitter.com/HvcAYQnYYu

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 5, 2018

In the dream palace of David Brooks, America is the land of self-effacing, highly competent white men in dark suits who quietly run the entire world to everyone's benefit, despite the world's shameful lack of gratitude.