thinking about this we need to bring back @jamellebouie.net's proposal for a social democratic george will it is time for people to grow the fuck up
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"You fetishize the material culture of the 80s and 90s because you wish you were still a child." "I fetishize the material culture of the 90s and 00s because of the deliberate, active engagement required to use them." "We are not the same."
aug 26, 2025, 4:44 pm • 2 0 • view
It's time for people to grow the fuck up is a great slogan, actually.
aug 26, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I have never seen a series of tweet that so clearly scream I never wanted to grow up.
aug 26, 2025, 3:37 pm • 8 0 • view
This person is pining for happiness in the past speaks volumes of the empty, sad life of the present.
aug 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 5 0 • view
its me, i'm the social democratic george will
aug 26, 2025, 3:37 pm • 120 3 • view
Time to buy those stylish little round glasses, then, Jamelle. Get with the program. 😁
aug 26, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
if so, you'll need to start working in a bit more rhetorically overwrought baseball posting
aug 26, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
you're a better writer though
aug 26, 2025, 3:42 pm • 4 0 • view
I'd almost say it's worse than this. These are the kinds of people who almost knowingly voted in, supported, championed the kinds of people who did bring down Toys 'R Us and Blockbuster and brought an end to late 1990s prosperity. Now they want to blame everyone else for their own actions.
aug 26, 2025, 3:53 pm • 10 0 • view
how on earth are we doing palingenetic ultranationalism for the 50s-80s does no one in this movement have self-respect. or any sense of honor
aug 26, 2025, 3:41 pm • 58 6 • view
nope they have none thus we in fiction look for a klingon who feels like a stranger in a strange land who is looking for this concept of honor and honesty
aug 26, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
if the dad for Oedipus does not exist, the Orphan would create and imagine a good daddy (or bad dad) and thus he is smart and wise enough to answer the two riddles of the Sphinx (the joke is the quest does not have a single event, and thus at the moment of triumph he became paranoid like his sire)
aug 26, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Not even that, this is all second-era Clinton term stuff. When he was embroiled in sex scandals and bombing Sudanese factories, etc.
aug 26, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
“Wokal distance’s” nostalgia is apparently for the mid/late 90s to mid 2000s or so which gives away the game that this is all Peter Pan Syndrome almost as much as the toys and video game posters.
aug 26, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
There is no coherent political worldview that could possibly tie the US from 1995-2005 as a unified golden age unless you’re from a parallel universe where 9/11 just didn’t fucking happen.
aug 26, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 0 • view
and when we pair these images with the "daddy" stuff... just astounding any grown person would sign on for this kind of self-infantilizing
aug 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 9 0 • view
gahhhh
aug 26, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
He is the social democratic george will!
aug 26, 2025, 3:53 pm • 3 0 • view