I posit that Jeet’s brain was already cooked, as he thought Masha and Bear was a great children’s television program

Masha and Bear is fun but very very bad lessons

Jeet helped me get published in The New Republic, a piece that argued that by refusing to end his campaign Bernie was preventing Dems from fully preparing for the general election. 3-4 months later he was begging for praise from the Jacobin & Chapo crowds. Dude never accepted Russia helped Trump

Holy fuck

Nate is, I think, more of an ego thing yeah. Jain’s completely losing the plot seems more apt but yeah Jeet just completely cooked his brain.

I think what cooked him was bing friendly with tankies (or tankies adjacent people) especially Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel

Wasn't Jeet's brain precooked tho? I remember unfollowing him as his takes got weirder and weird and this would have been like 2019

He had Taylor Lorenz on his podcast just today to talk about her “scoop” on dark money in progressive organizations.

LOL - Jeet has some absolutely delusional takes. Raining in Israel by having them bomb just about everyone. What next, get Israel to bomb Europe?

Nate got high on his own supply and got addicted to gambling and Jain never had a brain to fry to begin with

Oh no Jeet used to be better

Jeet was already fried, see ukraine

He spent a long time on Twitter before Vlad got it into his head he could march into Kyiv.

I mean, that makes him kind of a bad example for post Musk takeover brain cooking. His is mostly of a type that predates Covid as well, while e.g. Jain's cooked brain seems to have a distinctly more X-dot-com flavour

fair, i mean this is not a unique case of lefty brainworms and is a historically pretty common thing

At the end of the day, all lefty journalists bifurcate into Michael Tracey or Glenn greenwald and they’re pretty much the same thing too.

eh I don't agree with "all" but an annoyingly large number do for sure.

It's a real problem

YES. Look at that dude’s recent posts. Nothing there. Vapid nonsense

we were ALL at risk of getting TweetFried by being on an algorithm edited by a sociopath.

My theory is the "data" guys still have to look at actual data occasionally, which is a slim thread connecting them to reality; JH doesn't even have that anchor, it's all *~ViBeS~*

Each camp has touched off from reality in different ways. Silver got sad over Covid and went nuts when people who used to like him called him out for embracing anti-vaxxers and other contrarian covid nuts. Jeet went nutty chasing affection from Chapo types.

Both of those guys cooked their brains long before Musk bought Twitter.

Silver radicalized after everyone blamed him for Trump in '16 after spending months shouting at him for giving Trump a chance.

Conservatives made fun of him for being wrong lol

(Since he still had Hillary as the strong favorite)

Yeah, like 66-33 but the raw shift from "how dare you give him a shot" to "why didn't you predict this you loser" on the left was some real whiplash.

I really don't think this is a plausible reason he broke.

He basically went mad at the left in the Trump years over that and I think everything else is downstream from there

Silver was still offering normal takes until Covid broke him and he embraced a whole bunch of quacks because he wanted card rooms to reopen.

He trained his ire entirely on what he believed to be “the left” after that. Note: his caricature not terribly accurate.

Yeah, right? It got real weird on here last year during the election, seeing people talk about Silver. We'd obviously all kinda moved on from him but seeing people talk about him as an obvious Trump-loving Thiel stooge was...certainly a vibe. He's Nate Silver lol. A dork.

He’s not a Trump lover but he hates what he imagines the left to be now and that may drive him there eventually. But he isn’t there yet.

And Jeet just wanted the esteem of idiots who hated him and refashioned his whole pundit persona to chase that— and they still hate him.

Jeet was always a bad poster. He said really stuff to the original post even about Hillary and Trump!

I think that was the start, but Covid catalyzed it pretty hard.

and, most importantly for any implications, all that cooking occurred _before_ the takeover and the resulting algorithm shift

Jeet got bullied so hard he started sucking up to his bullies, which is kinda sad except for the part where his current politics involve being a massive asshole