surely Yglesias is conveying opinions from the suspicious proletarian masses with which he has regular contact and not using them as a hand puppet to deliver his elite preferences.
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this would be a really funny bit tbh
sep 2, 2025, 7:24 pm • 19 0 • view
Your line “he attacks the bailey because he wants to see the motte defended” deserves to travel beyond its first use and man does it fit here
sep 2, 2025, 7:29 pm • 12 0 • view
i should just set up a doc with motte and bailey variants for funsies
sep 2, 2025, 7:48 pm • 9 0 • view
Some dork in the 1100s: surely the people in the motte would never attack the people in the bailey. What idiot would do that
sep 2, 2025, 7:52 pm • 4 0 • view
bot and male-y: when a bunch of dudes with sunglasses avatars and usernames like Generic8274718 all show up in your mentions
sep 2, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I like how this thread has referenced both the bailey and The Baileys and I just connected those two concepts in my head
sep 2, 2025, 7:46 pm • 5 0 • view
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He had a seance with Schumer's imaginary couple
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