I often think about how an LLM could write a more intelligent article than David Brooks and it wouldn't cost half a million a year or whatever insane amount of money he's paid to pump out drivel.

Get you a romantic partner who loves you the way conservatives love LARPing as an oppressed and persecuted minority.

I wish I knew where to tune into this progressive sermonizing because I can’t find it in my world

I think he means that if you watch TV long enough, you will eventually see A Gay.

Sigh.

Wow, that didn't end up where I expected. More the fool me. David "Bad Takes" Brooks.

David Brooks finds it very hard to be surrounded by people who care about others, it's a real fuckin nightmare for him

They’re even winning the culture wars and they’re still playing the victim card. Going to fake cry all the way until they put us in reeducation camps

As someone who lives in rural Ohio I am thankful I see what I see on TV because if I went by what the loud majority thinks around here, I’d feel extra doomed

david the nfl network aired a 100% ai-generated noah’s ark-themed ad for apocalypse meal kits called “4patriots” literally today

Someone tell him the Constitution is progressive.

What a load of crap. Here's a better analogy: imagine Obama revoked billions of dollars in research grants awarded to private universities unless they promised to eliminate Christianity from their Religion departments and expel all of the students who ever protested against repression in Iran.

And then the private universities all capitulated and republicans did nothing to promise retaliation once they had power

It gets so much better (worse): "For reasons I don’t fully understand, educated elites are more socially progressive than non-elites."

Especially galling that he used the word "sermonizing" to those of us who were *actually* forced to listen to literal sermons centered on the idea that we were going to hell simply because of who we are throughout childhood and adolescence

this is only true, which it's not, to the extent that conservatives have become so retrograde. and i don't even think the average conservative is! just the ones working the refs.

Fucking snowflakes.

The words of a man who still hasn't figured out where he went wrong.

You just **knew** that this opportunistic sociopath, who believes in nothing but his own advancement, would eventually come around to the "you know, Christian nationalism is...good actually." We absolutely -- and I mean this, truly -- need to bring back the guillotine.

I mean, if you consider truth and science and reality left leaning....then yeah, I guess that might suck.

i wish we lived in the world conservatives like to pretend we live in

Society if conservatives actually were as oppressed as they insist they are:

I aspire to one day be so well compensated for such bad takes. 😐

They literally only watch that shit already, what the fuck are they whining about

we don’t have to imagine it because it’s literally happening?

It should, though. Christian nationalists are bad people, and going through life as a bad person is *supposed* to feel bad. Sometimes shame and ostracism are appropriate feelings, and useful to your development as a person.

“Why can’t I just be an asshole in peace?” (Never mind I have a column)

Conservative sermonizing meanwhile is generally just called “sermonizing”, especially if you’re one of those Sin of Empathy freaks.

liberal moralizing like, “treat everyone equal.” How unchristian.

Log off of Twitter! Just log off! You won’t be “drenched in progressive sermonizing” if you just log! Off!!! That, and stop watching Fox News segments freaking out about three (3) tweets

His brain is fully pickled at this point. Just absolute nonsense

David Brooks experimenting with thought never works out for him.

*stuffs David Brooks in a locker*

“every day i have to look around and see poor people and minorities everywhere”

I keep saying: we’ve gotta start feeding these people to lions again! It’s clearly what they want.

THAT TOOK SUCH A LEFT TURN like throughout the first paragraph I was nodding in agreement like, “yeah, the current trajectory of US politics, education, and it’s media ecosystem is worrying - they’re putting PragerU in classrooms!” WTaF

Shorter Brooks: *stomps toe* But I don’t wanna treat people nice!

Wow, could you imagine if there were Christian nationalist media, Christian nationalist schools, and Christian nationalist ads run during sports events? Those are definitely things that aren't already happening

Just IMAGINE. [No imagination necessary.]

I don’t have to imagine it. We’re fucking there you condescending shit

The NY Times is such unadulterated trash

*Man describes current day Oklahoma* Can you even imagine?! You can't. You fucking secular elitist homosexuals can not even comprehend the horrors.

Were I an American, I think I’d be more concerned about the actual Christian nationalists (and white nationalists and other assorted Nazi types) running the government right now than… well, anything else. But David Brooks is built different (I.e. worse)

Yea, imagine if Christian nationalists were everywhere…that’d be terrible.

No more "fetish for being dunked on" guy than him.

also don’t even think about mentioning this kind of take until after there’s even 1 atheist, or even openly practices a non-christian religion, president

David Brooks has such loser energy

Guys, I'm thinking maybe we went too far when we made saying "Merry Christmas" a capital crime punishable by death.