at least we're not talking about David Brooks or his puddle-deep thoughts any more
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Friday, 6 August 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
It's Friday, which means I hate-watched DB on the PBS Newshour, which means I started googling DB shit, which means I looked at his bullshit project with the fucking aspen institute, which got me to read this and now I am so filled with DB hate aaaaaaaagh AGH https://weareweavers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Weave-Relationalist-Manifesto.pdf
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 9 October 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
I mean I didn't really read it, who could possibly even, I mean for god's sake, UGH why does it exist and why does David Brooks exist, in my life, I didn't ask for this I swear
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 9 October 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link
Weeeeee are weaversI believe Brooks can get me through the night
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 9 October 2021 04:38 (two years ago) link
it met an intern two and a half decades younger https://t.co/eH3YYzXf02— inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended (@PatBlanchfield) December 8, 2021
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
lol
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
some real uh insights herehttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/america-falling-apart.htmli dunno david could it be your cohort of conservative boomers who systematically sacrificed union protections and every semblance of bottom-up community solidarity it could find in exchange for lining the pockets of the ruling class?? NAWWWW it’s probably… cancel culture or something
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
I had a moment's joy in my heart.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
then you found out he was still alive
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link
Yes, that was the letdown.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
But there must also be some spiritual or moral problem at the core of this. Over the past several years, and over a wide range of different behaviors, Americans have been acting in fewer pro-social and relational ways and in more antisocial and self-destructive ways. But why?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MUBVq2pxBZY/maxresdefault.jpg
Because the people who have the most stuff don't want to share it with people who have less stuff, especially the ones who don't look like them.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
either way it definitely comes down to choices that people make on an individual level, nothing wrong with that framework at all
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link
THIS FUCKING GUYSHUT UPSHUT UPSHUT UUUUUUUUUP!!!!!!!!!!!!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
in a fair society david brooks's pooping out his columns would be considered antisocial behavior
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:52 (two years ago) link
they totally are
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 January 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
in a fair society David Brooks' head would be on a pike as you Uber into Poughkeepsie.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 January 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
Alfred,you cribbed that from Rodgers and Hammerstein
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 January 2022 02:58 (two years ago) link
i imagine the Brooks head turning like a Billy Bass as your car speeds past, croaking, "i don't get it"
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 15 January 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 January 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
lol Tracer
― horseshoe, Saturday, 15 January 2022 14:04 (two years ago) link
also fuck this guy
― horseshoe, Saturday, 15 January 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link
Did the his wedding video get linked/discussed itt?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 15 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
oh lord. will it make me puke?
― horseshoe, Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
I can’t find it now, which is honestly a blessing for us all. I really don’t know where to begin describing it. The whole video was quite middlebrow cheesy (ok gross snobbery on my part, yes) in a way that was surprising to me? Like, a whole super-staged “first look” sequence that as you can imagine was like “oh how nice the bride joining her fatherrrrrrrrrr oh shit”
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 15 January 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
Not to mention the “oh look at the Black youth we have as guests because MORALITY or whatever oh god it was AWFUL, can’t unseen.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 15 January 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link
Like, a whole super-staged “first look” sequence that as you can imagine was like “oh how nice the bride joining her fatherrrrrrrrrr oh shit”
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Saturday, 15 January 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
Ngl, going to have a party when this guy croaks.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 January 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
I will host. It will be a multi-day affair, pack accordingly.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 15 January 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
My headstone will read “loved horses and hated David Brooks”
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 15 January 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, January 15, 2022 12:16 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
okay, would definitely puke
― horseshoe, Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
Have we talked about Weave, another nauseating David Brooks project:
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/weave-the-social-fabric-initiative/
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
Weaving is a way of life and a state of mind, not a set of actions. It’s about the spirit of caring you bring to each interaction with someone else. It’s a willingness to be open and loving, whether you get anything in return. As humans, we long for honest, deep connection. Weavers make the effort to build those connections and make others feel valued.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
actions optional
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 15 January 2022 21:52 (two years ago) link
aspeninstitute url is a dead giveaway that it is a bunch of bourgeois moonbeams
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 15 January 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
who up in this binch read Bobos in Paradise? what a time to be alive
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
I used to go to hardcore shows in a church basement in the town that book is about.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:11 (two years ago) link
lol nicethat book was truly a damp fart punctuating the End of History
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
I remember that I already hated Brooks when it came out, and my parents said it was trash, so never picked it up despite having spent quite a lot of time in that area. Got into a lot of trouble as a young teen there.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
Oh I absolutely read that shortly after it came out.
He was on to something, but that something was too close to my own boboness and my ambivalent feelings about that boboness, thus I despised it in a self-recognizing-self-hating kind of way, which probably sums up a good chunk (but certainly not all) of Why I Hate David Brooks.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 16 January 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
I think I read like the first chapter of Bobos — I remember something about Red Lobster — and gave up.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 January 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
Like, it felt very self-congratulatory that he had actually visited a real-life Red Lobster in some anonymous suburb, to get a feel for Regular People.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 January 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
Cant believe he didnt see Trump coming
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 January 2022 23:07 (two years ago) link
Low on kitchen counter space? Pull out a drawer and put your cutting board on top of it.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 June 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
this fuckin guy
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
See also David Brooks - GANGSTA!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
I can’t bring myself to share the relevant piece today but man, how much would we have to pay this guy to just stfu already?
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 24 November 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
brb just need to chop some onions on a cutting board that's sliding around on top of a pulled-out drawer
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 November 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CBkwqyQ.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 January 2023 12:25 (one year ago) link
… that they shd have picked up the check
― mark s, Thursday, 12 January 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
If American politics worked as it should, then the Republican primaries would be contests between these two different narratives and governing styles — between populism and conservatism.
But that’s not happening so far. The first reason is that Trump’s supporters are so many and so loyal, and his political style is so brutal, he may be deterring governors from entering the campaign. My educated guess is that Youngkin will not run for president in 2024; he wants to focus on Virginia. And Kemp may not, either. Kemp has taken on Trump in the past, but who wants to get into a gutter brawl with a front-runner when you already have a fantastic job governing the state you love? It could be that the G.O.P. presidential field will be much smaller than many of us thought a couple of months ago.
Gov. Brian Kemp, for example, is making Georgia a hub for green manufacturing, attracting immense investments in electric vehicle technologies. In his inaugural address he vowed to make Georgia “the electric mobility capital of America.” As Alexander Burns noted in Politico, Kemp doesn’t sell this as climate change activism; it’s jobs and prosperity.
The two narratives also produce radically different emotional vibes. The Donald Trump/Tucker Carlson orbit is rife with indignation and fury. Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin and the previous Arizona governor, Doug Ducey, are warm, upbeat people who actually enjoy their fellow human beings.
The former resemble the combative populism of Huey Long; the latter are more likely to reflect the optimism of F.D.R.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link