And feelin’ virile
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
Love this dude like I loved Nino.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
don't you mean Sheev
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
Darth Brooks does have a marginally better ring to it than several other Darths that have been suggested over the years
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
I dunno, I’d confuse that way too much with President Skroob/Dark Helmet
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Saturday, 20 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
David Brooks really wants to know he’s scoring with his new wife
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Saturday, 20 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
Just what we were all waiting for, Brooks on Jordan Peterson. Thanks, NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opinion/jordan-peterson-moment.html
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
This is like Werner Herzog gets turned down for prom pic.twitter.com/pKBDRhEb0i— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) January 26, 2018
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
..Women are choosy maters. … Most men do not meet female human standards.”
Brooks quoting this because his wife reminded him he just baaaaarely makes her standards
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
it's fine though he knows he can just go out and buy another one when she's fed up
― flappy bird, Friday, 26 January 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
stupidity of the point aside, something about the wording "women are choosy mater" just grates, what an ugly terrible writer
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
good too be a man and accept whatever woman will take you
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
this is the kind of writing you can only solicit on a six-figure salary
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
choosy maters choose jif
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
lol
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Also this: "Most men do not meet female human standards" strikes me as highly implausible. Is he trying to inflate the significance of the fact that he mated?
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
For example:
https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20060601/how-many-men-become-fathers
Nearly 50% of men age 15-44 report having had at least one kid (including adoptions, which is probably not a huge percentage). But that doesn't even account for the huge number of people in that age range who just haven't had kids *yet*.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
The always salty Tom Scocca is extra salty today in his Brooks thread
Every David Brooks column is a humiliating self-portrait but this one really gets to the core of his vacuous nebbishy authoritarianism pic.twitter.com/ykqh4ghWVO— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 26, 2018
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
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....