If every “conservative” in American became more like Brooks and less like Hannity... we would still be in bad shape but our situation would be far more manageable.
― maura, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
also brooks is so stupid. like “better than hannity” is a low bar. we deserve better
better than better than hannity
― j., Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
We shouldn’t joke/fantasize about people getting tortured.
When it’s someone who is causing immense harm andis protected by vast power, like Trump, I understand the impulse as an expression of anger and desperation. But that isn’t the case with Brooks. He is a center-right newspaper columnist who is mostly famous for being a dork.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I used Hannity as a counter-example because he is a propagandist who spreads dangerous misinformation to an impressionable base everyday.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
Trump wishes he were more like Caligula, who he surely does not know, but he's more like Count Chocula, with whom he is certainly more familiar.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
We shouldn’t joke/fantasize about people getting tortured.When it’s someone who is causing immense harm andis protected by vast power, like Trump, I understand the impulse as an expression of anger and desperation. But that isn’t the case with Brooks. He is a center-right newspaper columnist who is mostly famous for being a dork.
i'd argue that brooks, as a public figure who advocated strongly for the iraq war, did actually help cause immense harm to hundreds of thousands of people in the middle east so i feel just fine about posts where i joke about him being on the receiving end of a tiny fraction of the horror he supported so glibly, and for which he has never apologised
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
So many people supported that war including hillary clinton. No one thinks it’s cool to joke about her getting dragged to a blacksite.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
no i'm cool with that too tbh
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Fine, we’re different.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
maybe if politicians had to consider facing trial for war crimes they'd be less inclined to commit them
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
Yes, a trial. Because that was your point in saying he should be secretly dragged to a black site and tortured.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
David Brooks should die suddenly and peacefully in a piano-moving accident
― moose; squirrel (silby), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
There we go.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
It even had the benefit of being funny and not sickening.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
David Brooks should die suddenly and peacefully in a testicle-crushing accident.
― 27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
No Hilllary fan here but she didn't write a column as recently as October right in the middle of this shitstorm wittingly and disingenuously substituing "Nationalism" for patriotism
he should be made to see the piano arriving from a great height
― heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
Execution by piano for that column seems too much.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
David Brooks should be arrested on unclear charges and sent on a labyrinthine journey through various courts and prisons until he realizes his guilt of the ultimate crime: being David Brooks.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
like a dog!
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
it's a false dichotomy to say that if only we were ruled by folks like david brooks we'd be better off than the folks we have now. the whole punditocracy and political class that david brooks, in his feeble way, represents, is one of the reasons we are where we are now, even if brooks himself might tsk tsk some of the more garish expressions of the moment.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
I never said that but fine.
I said that the kind of gallows humor/fantasizing about someone getting brutally tortured makes sense when it’s someone who is directly oppressing you—even though it’s still not my thing. When you just talk that way about everyone you dislike it’s just grotesque and dehumanizing.0
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
And i do think brooks is a different kind of figure than hannity, as hannity is an active propagandist for the president, who advises him informally and all the rest.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
jesus christ
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
I just said joking about torture was in bad taste!
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
treesh does display certain Christ-like qualities
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
There were actual people dragged to CIA black sites, it’s not an abstract, zany misfortune to joke about befalling conservative columnists.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
nah i think it is
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
it's definitely wrong to say that david brooks should be extradited to a special-ops blacksite for enhanced interrogation, he should be guillotined after a fair trial
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Should be condemned to a life of daily correspondence with Tom Friedman, and Tom Friedman only, and vice versa
― heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
i... don't think i was even responding to you?
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
Sometimes you change your mind in ways you never could have imagined. https://t.co/CTIfZ3QY36— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) March 8, 2019
― j., Friday, 8 March 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link
"Reparations are a drastic policy and hard to execute"
Jesus christ you guys walked on the moon, detonated an atom bomb, have massive destroyer ships on every ship and built the internet. Can we stop talking about reparations like it is some monumental task.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 8 March 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
― Van Horn Street
except for "walking on the moon", this can pretty much be filed under "white guys breaking shit". i'm willing to grant the professed incompetence of white dudes, and if they're not up to the challenge of reparations they should find something easier to do with their lives than trying to implement just governance.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
― 27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC)
yesterday my newsfeed suggested an article about a shadowy billionaire dying in a botched penis-enlargement surgery. at the time i wasn't sure why google thought i would be interested. now i understand.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
tbf walking on the moon seems pretty hard
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 March 2019 05:34 (five years ago) link
walking on the moon was also ultimately in service to the cause of white guys breaking shit
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 11 March 2019 06:13 (five years ago) link
walking on the moon is a cop
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 11 March 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
walking on the moon is a police song
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 March 2019 12:41 (five years ago) link
walking on the moon is a snack imo
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
obligatory
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
"If Stalin had a Smartphone"
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
Sometimes you change your mind in ways you never could have imagined.
This seems like the line that would be on the bottom of the poster for a really bad movie about David Brooks getting a black friend
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
Each would learn something from the other
Hahahaha
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
it would win best picture
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 March 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
it did.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 14 March 2019 00:57 (five years ago) link
again
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 March 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
rod dreher has had enough of these scurrilous scurrilisms
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5ZvFI3X4AE6cQs.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
wait...what's going on?
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link