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― 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
https://i.imgur.com/F3ZDChF.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 17 March 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YuHHL2zbos
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 March 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
David Brooks, who left his wife for a 23-year-old, is lecturing people about morality again.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 3 August 2023 19:55 (nine months ago) link
These revives are cruel.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 August 2023 20:27 (nine months ago) link
That column feels like such a rehash. "Let me tell try another story on you," one that I've been telling in various forms for 25 years. Bobos go to Harvard and order mortadella, etc.
― jaymc, Thursday, 3 August 2023 20:53 (nine months ago) link
Recently I have been kept awake at night by the question of which man I would choose as my stranded-on-a-desert-island companion: Tucker Carlson, Adam Gopnik, or David Brooks.Answer: walk into the ocean, wait for sharks.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link
LOL
What if death is not an option?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:08 (nine months ago) link
I mean we should probably poll this, right?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:09 (nine months ago) link
Who would be easiest to kill and eat? Probably Brooks.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:10 (nine months ago) link
Very fatty, though.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:11 (nine months ago) link
Brooks would be easiest to kill but Carlson's flesh would be more tender. Like a soft pork chop.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:16 (nine months ago) link
sundried balls might be better tasting too
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:20 (nine months ago) link
nah tried'em once
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 August 2023 21:45 (nine months ago) link
Back in the early '00s when Sound Opinions had a message board, they had this thread that was always at the top titled "Chris Cornell, R.I.P." - stayed there until the board went under around 2010. I totally forgot about it for a while, and years later when I heard Cornell passed away, I remember thinking, "this is really weird, but why do I feel like this is a tasteless joke?" Took like a few days before I remembered that thread.
― birdistheword, Friday, 4 August 2023 00:40 (nine months ago) link
David Brooks death watch
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 17:48 (nine months ago) link
That column feels like such a rehash. "Let me tell try another story on you," one that I've been telling in various forms for 25 years.
It is pretty much a summary of points he's been making over and over, and it basically leaves us where we started, with no real idea of how the Democrats should change tack to try to appeal to these disaffected voters.
― o. nate, Friday, 4 August 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
Brooks’ aversion to ever mentioning racism is comical. “Why are all these white men sticking with Donald Trump? What could it be?”
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 August 2023 21:54 (nine months ago) link
[insert pondering emoji]
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 22:01 (nine months ago) link
He mentions it and acknowledges that it's a factor, but thinks its too self-serving for the liberal elite to blame losing the middle-class entirely on racism.
― o. nate, Friday, 4 August 2023 22:02 (nine months ago) link
"Many Republicans support Trump no matter what, according to this story, because at the end of the day, he's still the bigot in chief, the embodiment of their resentments and that's what matters to them most.
I partly agree with this story, but it's also a monument to elite self-satisfaction."
― o. nate, Friday, 4 August 2023 22:03 (nine months ago) link
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Greedy, mean, racist, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
― earlnash, Friday, 4 August 2023 22:03 (nine months ago) link
"Let me tell try another story on you," one that I've been telling in various forms for 25 years.
absolutely no one can write 1500 worthwhile words every week for 25 years, let alone a damp nilla wafer like brooks. these jobs should not be lifetime sinecures like 'supreme court justice'
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 August 2023 22:09 (nine months ago) link
Even Hunter Thompson did a lot of recycling.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 August 2023 22:10 (nine months ago) link
He's really going for a most-stupidity-in-one-month record here — right after that last terrible column he has 6,000 words in The Atlantic on why America is so mean now. (Spoiler alert: We don't teach good morals. Like they did in the olden days. When people were more moral and definitely treated each other better.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 03:04 (eight months ago) link
When everyone had a sense of belonging. Everyone knew where they belonged.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 17:49 (eight months ago) link
A delightful tidbit dropped just now on Bluesky about Brooks and his child bride:
My best celebrity sighting is the time I saw both of them at a fancy restaurant and he put his laptop on the table and ignored her the whole time
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 August 2023 00:50 (eight months ago) link
yo is it true that david brooks got sonned in a beef with smokehouse restaurant in newark airport terminal a
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:31 (seven months ago) link
Truly amazing. Elvis Telecom just posted this on Bluesky:
I was passing through EWR when all that was going on. Probably should have live-posted but goddamn airports are full of crabby boomer men who play with their food when they drink too much. CBGBs inside terminal C is like a catch basin for them.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:32 (seven months ago) link
Hwe also tried claiming that a double scotch and hamburger cost him $78 or whatever.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 September 2023 00:17 (seven months ago) link
The ownage:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0SvW2RZCfWdgxVAVAZ17tQ8uebnTzLeiRpQDkC4FMHphog2XaR6tjc8avZf6hmaaxl&id=100063580360247
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 September 2023 00:46 (seven months ago) link
a voice for the workin' man
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 September 2023 00:57 (seven months ago) link
#Legend pic.twitter.com/3wwPUGvlR4— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 22, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 September 2023 02:24 (seven months ago) link