lmao
― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 October 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
I think maybe you aren't grasping the essentials of what happens in France.
perhaps this is why I'm asking why it is superior to countries that just pay waiters
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 25 October 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
they do pay servers, but in addition they provide servers with guaranteed tips
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 October 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
my partner is a server and gets stiffed by customers frequently (which actually costs her money because of the tip pay out to the kitchen)
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 October 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
I’ve been traveling pretty constantly since this impeachment thing got going. I’ve been to a bunch of blue states and a bunch of red states (including Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah). In coastal blue states, impeachment comes up in conversation all the time. In red states, it never comes up; ask people in red states if they’ve been talking about it with their friends, they shrug and reply no, not really.
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
man of the motherfuckin people david brooks yall
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
when i see what an unserious void he is and how much money he's made, it makes me believe that i can accomplish anything
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
the fact that he is just a bad prose stylist, just straight-up shitty at writing, and that he continually, year after year, relies on this anecdotal "red states think like this, blue state think like this" bullshit is just galling in the extreme to me. douthat gang for life
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 November 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
no it totally is rigged, but it could be rigged _in my favor_
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Friday, 1 November 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
* head explodes *
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
It’s hard to run for national office from California or New York. The urban parts of those states are so unrepresentative you don’t understand what you’re about to face. https://t.co/S7AsKZ5Ly1— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) November 29, 2019
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 November 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Let me, David Brooks, tell you about Chicopee Massachusetts
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 November 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
the flyover whisperer
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
huh how did Reagan and Trump do it?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
his optimistic "look back" at the 2020s includes President Biden of course
then he ends it with the Mets winning every World Series, which is a big fantasy clue-in
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Nurse, he's up.
Over the past few years wages for workers toward the bottom of the income stream have been rising faster than wages for those toward the top. If the bosses have the workers by the throat, how can this be happening? https://t.co/kKVbXVcSDH— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) January 17, 2020
― brownie, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
Bournemouth doomed this year unless this guy can return from the dead soon
― anvil, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
David Brooks reassures us: billionaires aren't hoarding an ever-greater share of the world's resources. Rather, if you're on the wrong side of the inequality paradigm, you simply need to increase your productivity. https://t.co/3uuzlIPr6C— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 17, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
I think David Brooks' comment kind of makes sense, and am not sure how Taibbi extrapolates to get to his point
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 January 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link
well I can't deal w/ the first half of that sentence, Dan
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 January 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
People whose values are "guns, patriotism, abortion, masculinity" are not swing voters.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
now now, you cant have political legitimacy as a politician or political party unless u get clearance from the demographic most associated with domestic terrorism.
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
you guys are right
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:45 (four years ago) link
Can’t share details, but one time David Brooks wrote a column that was so bad—so wildly off-base, wrong about basic political history and tax policy—that I and others had to pull an all-nighter working on a line-by-line rebuttal. We had a 3am conference call, about its wrongness. https://t.co/xTSVn92GUk— Brian Highsmith (@bd_highsmith) February 5, 2020
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
no he's right i wonder how that would have played out
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/
right in the fuckin pocket, this one, a true master at work
― j., Tuesday, 11 February 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
for the first time in my life, i'm sorry i'm not an Atlantic subscriber. just so i could cancel for publishing this boob.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
fucked if i’m gonna read the whole thing but the opening section has huge divorced-guy energy and thus is classic brooks territory
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 06:33 (four years ago) link
I’m not going to click on that, is it some warmed over eugenics, bc that’d be pretty on brand for the Atlantic no?
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 06:39 (four years ago) link
idk, it's really long, i'm just gonna assume he thinks we should live in longhouses, raise each other's babies
― j., Tuesday, 11 February 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
a lissome and willing young research assistant for everyone who wants one
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
oh boyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcBXfod8U7c
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link
tasteful
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 07:16 (four years ago) link
This article is one extended fart noise but right before I could take it no more:
it’s not just the institution of marriage they’re eschewing: In 2004, 33 percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 were living without a romantic partner, according to the General Social Survey; by 2018, that number was up to 51 percent.
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 07:35 (four years ago) link
Oh my god the videoIt’s a parody video THAT ISN’T
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
This morning I'm spending time being mad that any woman with David Brooks' teeth would never had made it to television, even PBS.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
aww, david looks so happy to be giving his daughter away at her wedding!
*thirty seconds pass*
oh god david what are you doing? david, noooooo!
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
i hate you so muchg right now
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
he's a dumbass throughout, and it does seem to almost veer into "i'm going to ask my millennial wife to open up our marriage", but.............................. this isn't the worst column
he's just, as always, unimaginative and far too nostalgic when he tries to think of alternatives (charity and apps!)
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
For instance, might I recommend leaving your wife for your young research assistant https://t.co/LA29D50kSU— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) February 11, 2020
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
Read about "the Bernie lens" in today's column
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
I actually was going to post that column this morning. I'd even typed out a whole rant about it, then I decided to delete it and get on with my day.
Anyway, I agree with the first two-thirds of the column -- Bernie will likely win the nomination because he has a clear message! -- but then he totally undercuts his point in the last third with bad-faith reasoning and centrist pablum.
― jaymc, Friday, 21 February 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/bernie-sanders.html
― honky wonk badonkadonk (crüt), Friday, 28 February 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
lol the most coveted endorsement
― adam, Friday, 28 February 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
the end of liberalism u say? sounds fuckin’ great
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 28 February 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
sorry to expose y'all to David Brooks, but this foolishness is such fucking catnip to medude absolutely *loves* to pretend communist revolutionaries usurped beneficent liberal democracies pic.twitter.com/tGwF59SXx1— Alex P 👹 (@SaddestRobots) February 28, 2020
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
Eventually Brooks will see that the waters around him have grown and that sooner or later, he’ll be drenched the bone. His old world is rapidly fading.
― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
Seriously if american upper classes weren’t so fucking greedy they wouldn’t have had this problem. But the myth of equitable growth is only tenable when people can afford to live.
― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
Susan Sontag, 1978: "Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning—that meaning being invariably a moralistic one." David Brooks, 2020: pic.twitter.com/9uOHJyYgtc— inverted vibe curve (@PatBlanchfield) March 27, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link