the nyt should replace bari weiss with dennis perrin obv
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
perrin sure can deliver pith in 256 words or leth
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
lol
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
bari weiss? more like....uh, barry white's "your political correctness is my political core weakness"
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
I assume these people quitting think this is some John Galt-type revolution, when in reality everyone is going to ignore the fuck out of them now.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
nah, would be shocked if bari weiss isn't writing in a big publication soon enough.
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Speculation is that she's going to be joining Andrew Sullivan and Ben Shapiro in some kind of horrifying new right-wing project that will be feted in the Atlantic, TNR, etc. and ignored by the sane reading public.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
The Alt White
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Weiss does mean 'white' in German (sorry if that was the joke).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
i wish cancel culture actually canceled these people :(
― carin' (map), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, July 14, 2020 2:25 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
god i was prepared for these clods to toil away in their lil online enclaves, but this sounds like a rw vox and i cant deal
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
The Internets should have destroyed and eliminated every single Opinion department at every newspaper...and yet they survive.
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
opinion is the only thing that gets reliable clicks anymore
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
we have Times Radio over here, and given how Weiss has just left the NY Times, makes sense that the virus would spread to you lot as well
― imago, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
Agreed, Traces. And think what the NYT et al would look like if the page was formatted like Reddit and things were voted to the top.
Would actually be pretty great if the NYT posted number of clicks next to each section, article, byline, etc.
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand) at 2:57 14 Jul 20opinion is the only thing that gets reliable clicks anymorelocal sports
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
lol all the Bari fans are on twitter doing the “but she didn’t say that” bullshit to anyone who implies she thought her coworkers at the NYT should have been punished for not liking her
the entire shtick is so insanely thin, she writes drivel with absolutely no substance but with an obvious ~subtext~
if you get the subtext right, she and all her goons say “she didn’t say that! you’re the bad guy!” and if you get it wrong then it doesn’t matter
she’s basically someone blowing a giant dog whistle and if you can’t hear it, she just looks like a moron blowing into a whistle that makes no noise, a completely useless venture
― solo scampito (mh), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
local sports
true
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
local sports are canceled too! haha
― carin' (map), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
personally love the culture of cancel
Dennis Perrin never tweets about local sports
*begins Morbs stopwatch*
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
new republic is quite good these days many xxxpost
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
keeping with the dog whistle theme, it’s COMPLETELY SURPRISING that every conservative dipshit (including Ted Cruz!) is tweeting about how sad it is that the terrible nytimes.. didn’t fire her? idk, something bad apparently happened but it’s hard to say what
mysterious how all these dogs are showing up to comment, as if they... heard something
― solo scampito (mh), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
Glenn Greenwald had planned to produce a documentary about Martina Navratilova, with Kimberly Peirce of Boys Don't Cry renown. And then...
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/14/cancel-culture-martina-navratilova-documentary/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
fyi if anybody is interested i have a little postscript to my rampage this weekend itt up on my blog
https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2020/07/14/list-of-animals-with-fraudulent-diplomas/
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius)
fascinating. what does dennis perrin have to say about all this?
I for one am excited for Friday, when we learn that Charles Koch and Peter Thiel are funding a new website called Heterodoxxx featuring an all-star lineup of canceled pundits. It will be like Quillette, except US-based and with every blogger earning $300,000 a year.— David Klion (@DavidKlion) July 14, 2020
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
what does dennis perrin have to say about all this?
I support The Letter. I only wish I had a chance to sign it. @MadMenQts pic.twitter.com/ReZaEGO53t— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 8, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
now that is a name xp
― imago, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
dennis perrin supports The Letter. he ain't got time to take a fast train, and anyway he would prefer to watch a video of it on youtube.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
i'm trying to think of something less important than The Letter 'controversy'
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still thinking
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
thanks morbz, it really enriches all of our lives when you go onto threads about things you don't care about and talk about how little you care about them. unfortunately, i must regretfully decline your stealth request for me to start going on every thread on "i love baseball" and bitch and moan about how unimportant baseball is to me.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
The saddest thing in the world is that Dennis Perrin tweet has 3 retweets and 17 likes.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
thanks morbz, it really enriches all of our lives when you go onto threads about things you don't care about and talk about how little you care about them.
new ilx board description
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
The cultural oxygen swallowed up by The Letter legitimizes my posts objecting to same. You're welcome!
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
this thread has a huge weight of significant posts regardless of the letter
― Dan S, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
agreed
― sleeve, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
what a moment
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
There is literally nothing less important than baseball IMHO.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
"This thread has a huge weight of significant posts"
New board description?
― everything, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
baseball is not important, hence hugely significant
google "jacques barzun heart and mind of america"
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
Baseball is very important in that serious baseball fandom is a sign that someone's thoughts on other things are not to be taken seriously (cf. Will, George).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
every serious baseball fan i know detests Will and his baseball writing
anyway back to your PC horseshit
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/15/guardian-announces-plans-to-cut-180-jobs?
Sadly doubt this liberal shit-rag will go to the wall. Too many of the clever liberal vermin have money to indulge the bigotry and left-bashing.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Douthat on cancel culture. Smarter than anything written by his dumbshit peers (Weiss, Sullivan, Stephens, et al.). I don't even think I'm sorry I read it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
morbz just because i would like to demonstrate that the intersectional left is fundamentally characterized by diversity and not the ideological conformity its critics accuse it of, i actually kinda like baseball
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
So do I! I've attended games at three different World Series that the Indians have lost since 1995, you kinda have to be a fan to keep exposing yourself to that kind of agony.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
the intersectional left is fundamentally characterized by diversity and not the ideological conformity its critics accuse it of
why_not_both.gif
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
tbh off the top of my head I can't think of too many topics on which the woke/intersectional/extremely online left is currently notably divided or exhibits a wide range of viewpoints that don't result in kneejerk derision. the efficacy/worthiness of electoral politics, the morality and legislation of sex work, and...?
not alleging that having a narrow set of acceptable-to-the-in-group opinions on a given topic is necessarily even bad! I don't think the left needs a pro-capital-punishment wing or indeed an anti-trans-rights wing to get by
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.)
yeah i'm not going to talk to you about whether or not covid is a chinese hoax. debate culture redefines things widely accepted as facts facts as opinions and its idea of "diversity" is a willingness to argue about goddamn anything, so long as there are no lasting effects whatsoever from that argument. unfortunately, i got actual shit i gotta get done, and endless arguments are kind of a distraction from that. if you're interested in competitive sports, i'm told baseball is an excellent pastime.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link