but god told him so
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
There are four kinds of unkindness
this stuff makes you long for the hard-edged realpolitik of a thomas friedman
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
each unkindness can be turbocharged to an even lower kindness level by any one of nine cruelties
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
i swear now I see Brooks stuff or stuff about him and the only logical conclusion is that there is a high level media conspiracy to troll Alfred
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link
Did you guys know that the term “bobo” actually caught on in france?
It comes from Bourgeois Bohème, and Brooks most definitely didn't make it up, it's been around for ages in France (Paris).
Trivia: It caught on in the Netherlands from 1988 on when Ruud Gullit called annoying sports directors, who are too prominent, 'bobo's', from Bondsbons.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 07:44 (five years ago) link
lbi otm
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link
The late Tony Judt’s short passage here is all you will ever need to know about David Brooks and his “research” pic.twitter.com/AgNGqB5r9r— Moshik Temkin (@moshik_temkin) May 3, 2019
― j., Saturday, 4 May 2019 03:25 (five years ago) link
I have made fun of and/or rolled my eyes at most of his columns over the past however many years, but I listened to him on the Ezra Klein Show this week, and I have to admit that a lot of it resonated with me. Maybe I am just in the right place for it, feeling weary and cynical about the value systems I have accepted for most of my adult life.
― jaymc, Saturday, 4 May 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link
My one criticism is that he seems to think that "politics" is something that can just be waved away as not essential to one's identity, and I think he doesn't recognize the privilege in that statement.
― jaymc, Saturday, 4 May 2019 05:18 (five years ago) link
I mean, you’re talking about a guy whose business card says “fatuous oaf”
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:18 (five years ago) link
xp jaymc we're glad you're finally here, sit down, we need to talk
― j., Saturday, 4 May 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
If this was true I would like Brooks so much.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 4 May 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
I listened to him on the Ezra Klein Show this week, and I have to admit that a lot of it resonated with me.
He is successful in part for the same reason Jordan Peterson is successful -- there's some core to the message that's reasonable and even admirable (Brooks: individualism and success-worship is overrated and a sense of communal fellow-feeling is probably good for both you and society; Peterson: clean your damn room, nobody's stopping you) but that basic reasonable core is always predominantly deployed in the service of unpleasant score-settling (Brooks: the real problem with society is filthy rich Harvard liberals who worship success, individualism, and atheism and don't get that salt-of-the-earth small-town Nebraska is Real and Where It's At; Peterson: when your room is messy it looks like the nasty inside of a lady and you have to clean it up to be a Real Self-Respecting Man and by dint of that status get to explore the nasty inside of a lady)
To be clear, I think Brooks is infinitely better than Peterson
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
Brooks seems like someone who simultaneously can't envision meaning without a concept of God, and wishes he could believe in religion without doubts like those good folks in the flyover states.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.theonion.com/david-brooks-decries-incivility-of-modern-plumbing-afte-1834954527
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 23 May 2019 09:54 (five years ago) link
go fuck yourself
https://i.imgur.com/DNE5bf5.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 June 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
drive yourself into a river of fire
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
he’s still alive huh― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:25 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:25 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 28 June 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
C'mon Dems. If you want David Brooks to leave the party he's been married to for decades, you have to put something on the table and be a little more centrist, willing to please, nubile, and sensuous.— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 28, 2019
― Simon H., Friday, 28 June 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2804/0854/products/Mace_Brand_KeyGuard_Mini_Black_1_1024x1024.jpg?v=1530807023
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 28 June 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
the fact that obama and biden take this fucking goon seriously is a real indictment of their worldview
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 28 June 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Yes. We should all cater specifically to the needs and desires of David Brooks, because he is America's Everyman, perfectly typifying the lives we all lead as grossly overpaid NYT columnists and B-List media celebrities.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 28 June 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Cory Booker is a fan too, he loves The Second Wife.
― JoeStork, Friday, 28 June 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
I only wear New Balance because Nike was a goddess in a Greek culture that practiced slavery.— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) July 2, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
holy shit he needs to be punched in the mouth
― hollow your fart (m bison), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
new balance also the choice of the discerning white supermacist for a while there iirc, makes u think
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
lol like there was ever a second of doubt that Brooks wears chunky white New Balance
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
kinda figured him for and1s tbh
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
he might be enough of an 80s yuppie to rock khaki shorts and loafers w no socks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
hell I do
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah but you can pull it off
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
after extensive GIS research I regret to inform ilx that I cannot find pics of David Brooks wearing shorts, or anything other than a suit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
I cannot find pics of David Brooks wearing shorts, or anything other than a suit
His one admirable quality. No man over the age of 30 should wear shorts in public, and that's being generous.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
fortunately, unperson has always been a fount of generosity when Lord Sotosyn's involved.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
a shitty columnist over 30 in shorts u sayhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sW65ilskOC8/SnDSeirAm7I/AAAAAAAAY9k/FEqUPL1gHjs/s400/JonahGoldberginCar.jpg
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, July 2, 2019 4:05 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
question: what do you wear when it's over 100 degrees every day so that you dont feel like dying
― hollow your fart (m bison), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
a: shorts, you fuckin weirdos
Where I live it (currently, but who knows in a few years) doesn't get above the mid 90s, but I wear jeans and T-shirts about 350 days a year. The rest of the time I wear khakis. I limit my time outdoors and keep the air conditioner on at home.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
in general, life is better lived when you don't tell strangers what kind fo clothes they can't wear
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
if you (are a white guy over 30 and) don't wear shorts, your legs look weird and pale and spindly and hairy when you're naked
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
xpost
it (currently, but who knows in a few years) {...} keep the air conditioner on at home.
🤔
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
I limit my time outdoors and keep the air conditioner on at home.what a thrilling existence
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
i mean no lie i spend a lot of time indoors bc the heat is oppressive but thats also why i wear shorts
― hollow your fart (m bison), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/l1K9DfyDTJoNmma3e/giphy.gif
― DJI, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
what a thrilling existence
Home is where my books and CDs are. What does the outside world have that can compete? Other people? Fuck that.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
the outside world has shorts
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
my man
― hollow your fart (m bison), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
men over 30 shouldn't wear jeans and tshirts almost every day
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2YYDZjD.jpg
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Feeling v attacked rn
― Simon H., Tuesday, 2 July 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link