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 (five years ago) link
What a bargain
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
twofer
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 03:56 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
i thought it was all the rage these days?
― you bet, nancy (map), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 04:36 (five 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 (five years ago) link
HERE WE GO pic.twitter.com/Weh92up9tK— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 8, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 8 June 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
I'm waiting for the Friedman column about the Wokeness/Brokeness/Pinocchioness 3D Triangle
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 June 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
the sum total of his entire schtick pic.twitter.com/ZTxYCAOnXV— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 8, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
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
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dfl_yJOW4AA4al6.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
oh fuck yeah
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
jesus h. jehovah
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
david brooks, the brett anderson of bad takes
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
things there are 2 of: genders, religions
― the bhagwanadook (symsymsym), Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
is he dead yet
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
Only from the neck up
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
waht
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 14 June 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
Big lols from Brooks:
The Trump administration immigration officials have become exactly the kind of monsters that conservatism has always warned against.
― burzum buddies (brownie), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
lol David Brooks is an apostate? no kiddin'
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
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
https://i.imgur.com/WMv7rfu.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/WMv7rfu.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/WMv7rfu.png
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
If everybody wears hats on their feet and shoes on their heads the Iraq war is justifiable— Foghorn Cleghorne (@FoghrnCleghorne) October 30, 2018
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
lmao I thought this revive was gonna be cause Biden just freshly sang his praises
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
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
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
#hesrunning pic.twitter.com/HvcAYQnYYu— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 5, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, December 5, 2018 7:45 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he's so close to getting it
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
minus the jewish bit
What lessons will they draw from the events of the past month? How will the fall of Saddam affect their voting patterns, their approach to the next global crisis? One way to think about this is to conduct a thought experiment. Invent a representative 20-year-old, Joey Tabula-Rasa, and try to imagine how he would have perceived the events of the past month.
Joey doesn't know much about history; he was born in 1983 and was only 6 when the Berlin Wall fell. He really has no firm idea of what labels like liberal and conservative mean. But now he is in college, and he's been glued to the cable coverage of the war and is ready to form some opinions. Over the past months, certain facts and characters have entered his consciousness, like characters in a play he is seeing for the first time.
The first character is America itself. He sees that his country is an incredibly effective colossus that can drop bombs onto pinpoints, destroy enemies that aren't even aware they are under attack. He sees a ruling establishment that can conduct wars with incredible competence and skill. He sees a federal government that can perform its primary task--protecting the American people--magnificently.
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 08:26 (five years ago) link