If your main sport is basketball, doing soccer in the fall and tennis in the spring are probably perfect complements in terms of the physical skills you develop. But until you get skilled those sports they're pretty much just running around. Not every hooper will be a Steve Nash-esque athlete.
People like to get pedantic about this and it has admittedly changed a bit but this still seems true for the vast majority of non-famous people
I think the casual racism/xenophobia from a fairly normie Asian would curl the toes of even center-right people in the US.
Wondering how long they tolerate Bruenig, who I have my issues with but at least he doesn't do the civility shtick.
Twitter is like vaping for people with graduate degrees send skeet
At its core, reactionary centristism is just fancy people made they're being made fun of. It's why I support bringing back dueling. It'd be way less tedious than this discourse.
I've never understood why 'popularists' go out of their way to be so viscerally annoying. If your whole shtick is to be broadly appealing, constantly acting like a scoldy, abrasive dickhead is a strange way to conduct yourself.
That'd probably be fine. I'd prefer former wrestlers.
Honestly, a college degree requirement as a minimum qualification to be a professional violence worker probably gets you 80% of the way there.
I have lost my mind countless times over the fact educated people have tried arguing that schools are not vectors for respiratory illnesses. Just admit you wanted your kids out of the house to get some peace and quiet.
Wild take from Cuban. A huge part of the Lakers-Celtics rivalry was black people not from Los Angeles liking Magic and white people outside of Boston liking Larry Bird. Some of that fandom was for basketball-related reasons and some of it was uh...not.
I don't trust experts, unless it's the guy at my gym selling me questionably sourced gear out of the trunk of his car. Then they're cool.
I think it's as simple as blaming Rupert Murdoch.
My experience w/ small-time landlords has been pretty good. If you're quiet & reliably pay, they're less eager to jack up your rent because they don't want the pain of finding another decent tenant. Corporate landlords OTOH, will bloodlessly apply their algorithm and find your exact pain point.
One sign, two messages: For the Nat'l Guard: "We're sorry that stupid asshole is making you do this shit. We proudly serve our veterans" For ICE: "Go away, you fucking losers. Barely graduated high school and are scared show your face in public. Get a real job, you bitch-ass wannabe Nazi."
It was pretty cool when he had to pay Medlock $1 million though
Yeah, whenever I think American elites suck ass (and they do) I remember how much more rotten and inbred the English upper classes are.
This chart helped me understand a bit more why the business class has been acting so deliberately obtuse
This is the language of someone who simply doesn't talk to anyone normal in real life.
Civility fetishists are incredible specimens who claim to want robust debate while simultaneously being the softest motherfuckers alive.
Genuinely appreciate the insight you bring on these freaks but the abyss seems like it's staring back at you lately. No shame in tuning out for a while.
I've heard concerns about range anxiety and the (genuinely high) upfront sticker costs, but nothing against the concept of EVs per se.
We desperately need more people touching grass or we're not gonna make it.
These influencers don't even need to be explicitly partisan per se, as long as they reliably hate right-wing chuds.
I mean, I did say it was a crank theory! (The other counterpoint people have pointed out is the rise in environmental consciousness - people were more hesitant to pave over wetlands or build on steep slopes just to create a perfect grid system)
My crank theory that I nevertheless believe has some validity is that the rise in cul-de-sacs is the post Civil Rights era is an evolution in the attempt to physically segregate white homeowners from "those people" while still passing legal muster.
Incredibly telling that after they replace 90% of everyone good at the WaPo with dumbass Tory ratfuckers, people like McArdle and Marc Thiessen are still there.
He's not the most cretinous member of SCOTUS but he's easily the most oily and needlessly full of himself. The JD Vance of the Supreme Court.
I'm reading Judgement at Tokyo and it's interesting that most Japanese were at best neutral towards Hideki Tojo. Lots of people were shit of his bullshit and thought he was a jerkoff who ruined the country. Just a random thought
I watched Marc Maron's recent interview on Pod Save American and he went out of his way to mention this video twice. I am normally a "No fucking way I'm watching a 90-minute YouTube video" guy but in this case I can't recommend this video strongly enough. Apotheosis of the video essay format.
Biden's entire vibe on social issues was "tolerant grandpa" and it works perfectly for the median swing voter.
Cancel those Times subs, people. If you want actual news, then subscribe to Bloomberg or (deep sigh) the WSJ.
Sincere Never Trumpers can absolutely cook on certain topics
I don't know if you're referring to anyone in particular, but I've always sort of thought there has to be at least some right-wing money behind Current Affairs based on nothing but Nathan Robinson's whole vibe.
The Times management 100% agrees with Rufo substantively and they're incredibly thankful they can launder their opinions through him.
On one hand, I'm surprised to see a cosmopolitan weeb like Noah get so racist, but on the other hand being a weeb in and of itself is pretty adjacent to racism.
Yale and other Ivies really teach a certain affect more than anything. How to bullshit to a certain milieu. A lot of early twentysomething dweebs pretending to have the opinions of fiftysomethings they're trying to curry favor with.
No dooming.
Rufo is trying to do a Claudine Gay on ... Cracker Barrell. Their brains are just cooked.
Are you going with wood or metal? Trying to decide myself
If you're staying on Twitter for engagement or reaching people, that just tells me you're a text cel (complimentary) who is unwilling or unable to do YouTube or TikTok. I prefer text myself but don't bullshit about why you're on Twitter. Bouie posts IG videos w/ more hits than Yglesias tweets.
It was so obvious these idiots would regret their vote within less than a year and yet the summer/fall of '24 they simply would not hear anything contrary.
There's this constant conflation of "activists using annoying acadamic language" with "normal Democratic politician trying to win an election". 90% of elected Democrats do not talk like that.
There is a reason why Megan McArdle has always had a pundit job despite being demonstrably quite stupid. Many will notice she is still at the WaPo after they purged actual journalists and honest opinion writers.
A while ago, there was an NBA analyst (who I generally liked quite a bit) use "chuffed" to describe something about a league dominated by black Americans and I was like "Nah, no British shit. You're not covering the fucking Premier League"
A moderately fit woman who does CrossFit could bang out more pull-ups than Duffy or Hegseth. Isn't this performative masculinity shit at least supposed to be ostensibly impressive?
Co-sign - it's like if Adam Curtis was commissioned to do a documentary on the dumbest assholes alive. It's so fucking good. The editing and writing are phenomenal. 10/10.
I think that's probably right. There are absolutely MAGA chuds in the northeast who would be copperheads but I suspect most would either shut the fuck up once bloodshed started or would be {REDACTED} by their neighbors.
Granted I'm not a military knower, but I have no idea how a hot civil war in the U.S. would actually work. Seems like it would be an awful combination of The Troubles and Bosnia, but I probably lack imagination and further context.
So we're just going to go with 'outside agitators' again, huh.
Every generation is destined to go through something stupid like this:
Absorb their two Senate seats and I'm fine with that outcome.
Both are fine, entirely dependent on goals and health. If your joints are fine and you want to get as strong as possible, go heavy as fuck within the confines of good form. If your joints are fucked but you still want to build muscle, light weights+higher, highly controlled reps works great.
Southern progressives are our strongest soldiers without question.
When you wonder whether he's going after Cook because she's black or because he's trying to undermine Fed independence, the answer is both. He loves that he gets to do both.
People really don't appreciate the profoundly dumbass nature of the Maine electorate. It's basically like West Virginia once you leave the coast.
I'm not exaggerating when I say having something like Khan Academy when I was in middle and high school would have literally changed my life. Math pedagogy in the US is soooo fucking bad. This is one area where AI tutorials probably couldn't be any worse than the teachers many kids have.
FWIW, I generally fucking hate podcasts. The only ones I regularly listen to are Odd Lots (for learning interesting, esoteric shit) and If Books Could Kill (to hear shitty books getting deservedly mocked and laugh at you guys pushing each others buttons)
We all deserve our own little pet dude we defend even though other people find them annoying or problematic. I have adopted David Frum.
I like it - one of the knocks against Sara Gideon in 2020 is she wasn't a lifelong Mainer. I think that's stupid, but the people of Maine elected Paul LePage twice, Jared Golden is a thing, & did a Biden-Collins ticket split despite razor thin Senate margins, so yeah they deserve a dumb campaign.
Late adopters remain undefeated
When Trump entered a fugue state and danced onstage for 40 fucking minutes and it didn't get drumbeat coverage over his mental acuity, I knew things were fucked.
Yeah, but that's entirely his fault. He's spent the past 5+ years doing contrarian engagement farming and people are sick of his tendentious bullshit. No one to blame but himself.
No dooming allowed.
Other than Yglesias (who I've come to fucking hate) most of these people range from "fine" to good.
I would like to thank you for your service and I look forward to you guys being incredibly vicious towards this book and TCW's utterly dogshit prose.
We're gonna spend the next decade posting this for young, aimless dudes obsessed with masculinity, huh
This has also bothered me. Ezra has never been a wonk. People with PhDs who deal with primary data and do original work actually figuring out the hard shit are the "wonks". Ezra is a conscientious generalist who accurately summarizes the work of real wonks. A good thing, but there's a difference!
Honestly man, if you wrote under a pseudonym like "James Bowie" and had an AI generated generic white dude for your headshot you would not get these responses. It's wild.
It's so beautiful. He's done engagement trolling for so long that people are so beyond bored with him to even respond and he's furious.
I don't care if Osborn has the politics of Joe Manchin or slightly worse. I think it's cool if he wants to run as an independent because of the (D) brand in Nebraska. Caucus with the Dems like Bernie or Angus King and work to crush Republicans is all that's needed for now.
I also feel like if someone hates their feed, that's a skill issue on their part. Bluesky has really good filtering/blocking, muting tools. Use them and block people who get out of pocket!
It's frankly appalling that Mississippi is even allowed to be a sovereign state. The white people of Mississippi deserve representation of course, and the only safe way is to combine the merge the state with Alabama to the outsized influence of those freedom hating reactionaries.
America if the former Confederate states weren't structurally over-represented:
Steelmanning fascists is really fucking weird when you think about it. "Hey there little buddy, I see you're trying to kill me. You seem to be fumbling with the gun, though. Let me take the safety off. There you go. Want me to stand still for you?"
For me, the leftist anti-YIMBY schtick really is pretty much what it's like when other subject matter experts hear Elon or tech bros confidently spout absolute bullshit on topics they know well. It really makes you reevaluate your opinion on people you used to sorta respect.
Ohio as the Hungary of America really does seem to fit.
Many people are saying that when Trump finally {REDACTED} it will be the biggest party of all time. Like, every country on Earth winning the World Cup.
My god, I *wish* the tech bros tried to turn the Bay Area into Singapore or Toyko. That would have been some actual Jane Galt shit and would have been cool as hell.
Self-hating pundits with soft hands: "We must reclaim masculine virtue and celebrate blue-collar works and building things with our hands." Actual blue-collar fathers to their kids: "This shit sucks. My back and elbow always hurts, and my co-workers are assholes. Go to college."
For any self-loathing "PMC" white collar workers - you can always try something else. There are other options besides endless bitching!
Imagine telling Ukrainians you're going to treat them like Palestinians (particularly since 10/7) and expecting them to stop fighting, what the actual fuck.
Even David Frum, who very, very early clocked the Tea Party and has always hated Trump, still cites Obama actually trying to win the election against Romney as a slur upon the great man's honor.
It's already happened with Hollywood actors. Tough to get cast without a respectable social media presence, so it makes sense (in a bad way, imo) that it now applies to politicians.
Not a coincidence that the current gerontocracy leading the Democrats came of age during the Reagan-Bush era and have undiagnosed or untreated political PTSD. They're like beaten dogs.
"If Obama had simply conceded the 2012 election to Mitt Romney, the GOP would not have gone flaming, batshit fascist, as a favor" is something I've seen otherwise sane conservatives claim. Whether it's Nixon, Bork, Romney or whoever, it's always this "look what you made me do" shit.
To be fair, Troy and many other urban cores in the northeast outside of Boston or NYC do suck shit.
It's not the only reason, but our government is currently controlled by fascists because a critical mass of white men have been driven insane by criticism that's mostly substantively reasonable but rhetorically kinda out of pocket. Definitely worth re-calibrating tactics since this outcome sucks.
I'm not the OP, but I immediately thought of legacy journalists & public intellectuals on Twitter constantly attempting to be high-minded but also post publicly about their petty grievances to the entire world. Can't do that on a public platform. Sometimes you should just STFU and keep it zipped.
Understood, but the entire idea (not always realized) for unions is solidarity, so explicitly endorsing the party who wants to abolish unions period is truly galaxy-brained idiocy. All he had to O'Brien had to do is shut the fuck up. Literally the only thing.
I mostly just appreciate a well-written show with strong performances and intentional cinematography. Increasingly rare in the age of streaming slop.
Very tactically savvy endorsement by the Teamsters. Enjoy the right to work environment, chuds.
This is really Bari Weiss' only skill and to be fair, she is superb at it. Shit journalist, shit writer, awful person but she's very good at exploiting a market niche.
The Senate is an awful institution that has made our nation worse for no reason, but "Ah, yeah 100 seats. Neat!" is sort of an underexamined reason why it hasn't changed much. If we can't abolish it, guess we need 100 roughly equal states.
Yep - the Electoral College math was always going to be difficult for Harris, but her not even winning a Gore-like popular vote victory has really given permission for a lot of elites to let Trump run wild.
I've always thought if Elizabeth Warren were a dude named "Bill Warren" she, or rather 'he' would have gathered more of Bernie-like following.
Realizing John McCain was right
For people are aren't committed anti-AI ideologues, I think goalpost shifting bullshit artists like Altman are the biggest red flags and makes them side eye anything AI related. Coming on the heels of NFTs, crypto, the metaverse and other assorted bullshit it's a perfectly decent heuristic, imo.
It's fine for *them* to study the humanities and social sciences at Ivy League schools. The problem is when everyone else graduates university without thinking and speaking like a chud Heritage Foundation staffer.
You went to Reed, correct? That always seemed like one of those schools that you really can't fuck around at, regardless of major.