Experts and professionals should be seen as craftsmen in the service of democracy. Liberals think the function of democracy should be for voters to rubber stamp the judgments of experts and professionals.
The Instagram stories feed of any woman with an advanced degree between ages 30 and 40 is alternating posts about having no control or direction in their personal life and about knowing exactly how society should be governed and everyone else should live
The greatest example of class solidarity at the moment is yuppies funding a huge apparatus of makework jobs for other yuppies under the guise of politics and social justice, but they refuse to admit that’s what they’re doing.
While it’s jarring to see some people who were so alarmist about COVID become so cavalier about nuclear war, the common thread is “do somethingism.” People are suffering, there must be something I can advocate for to end that suffering RIGHT NOW, unintended consequences be damned
LOL, this is so obviously a lie, try hard nerds like Stancil know they’re mostly competing against other white try hards, and adopting this line is just part of being a try hard nerd in the Trump era
The stories about the Royal Family using access to Will and Kate to squash reporting on Epstein/Prince Andrew and the Clinton camp trying to kill Weinstein reporting with access to Hillary show why, for all it’s faults, Gawker was so important.
This is the graphic NPR ran with its “bug-eating conspiracy theory” article. The people on the right are having the obviously correct reaction to utopian schemers.
NPR segment on Kanye didn't disappoint. Apparently Black people have been trying to cancel Kanye for years but he was protected because he was advancing white supremacy.
The people who control your livelihood having noxious, nonsensical, and constantly shifting rules that they expect you to abide by is a pretty reasonable thing to be alarmed by
So much about this graphic fascinates me, especially the implication that the rabble is illicitly eavesdropping on the people planning the future. “Oh settle down plebes, we aren’t even talking to you.”
It is so poisonous that social media gives such strong incentives to rush the partisan take for a developing story, no matter how many times the full picture ends up being different.
@BullyMaus
“Why do we let people live like this????” Well, for the people actually experiencing, because it’s necessary for the continuation of human life. Otherwise, good question.
Every progressive non-profit should just merge at this point. What's the reason for having so many if reproductive rights is trans rights is environmental justice is racial justice is economic justice? Would definitely cut down on overhead unless [gasp] the overhead is the point
The fact that the furry organizers felt pressured to bar children from the convention is yet another example of how it’s been seen as an attack on LGBTQ rights.
21. Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.”
I can't remember a better real life analog for Bart Simpson's "I didn't do it" than Sarah Cooper's Trump lip synching. A joke that was pretty funny the first time you saw it, but had a very short shelf life and was just beaten and beaten and beaten into the ground.
LOL, we were all there in 2016, you can’t get away with “Trump was the worst we feared he’d be!” Yglesias and Bouie thought white mobs would go around beating minorities with impunity. Half the DC press corps was supposed to be jailed. Reckless wars, camps, economic collapse…
Trump was the worst version of what he was feared to be. Today cements it. The shocking followup is that much of the country’s political establishment - and not just in his own party - have slowly welcomed him back. He’s running again and he’s almost even odds to win.
It is very strange how deferential progressives/liberals are to the views and sensibilities of the youth. I don’t recall the Times taking a great interest in what smokers thought about smoking bans.
@GOPSPN2
"Woke misanthropy" is a phrase that runs through my head a lot. It was the animating impulse of the dark side of Gawker Media. Find deserving targets and you can be as cruel as you like without being criticized.
Please submit to Will Stancil at least 25 instances of you denouncing Nazis on Twitter before taking a position on the ramifications of the Cass Report
Young progressives have constructed a fantasy world where they are protagonists in the most catastrophic, consequential moment in history, and they’re baffled why the actual world keeps going
When you can’t decide whether it’s more important to be celebrated in 250 years for your analytic brilliance or avenge yourself on Wesley Yang for making fun of you on Twitter
Boomers grew up under the threat of nuclear war and lived through the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War and draft, urban unrest, stagflation, gas shortages…The idea that the amount of hardship is what’s changing and not our interactions/ways of reacting to it is just wrong
If you have this view, fine, but you can’t also be angry that people are “allowed” to move to the suburbs and vote Republican. There are either standards of conduct or there aren’t.
When Obama recommends books like Why Liberalism
Failed or Surveillance Capitalism, the message is “I get everything is fucked, but you must understand it’s all far too complicated for me or anyone else to have done a damn thing about it. But isn’t it all terribly interesting?”
@wesyang
If you still listened, you would know the relevant question is not "How is NPR doing?", but rather "How are communities of color and trans people affected by how NPR is doing?"
@n1kk1m
Why we're using 'womxn'
No, that's not a typo: 'womxn' is a spelling of 'women' that's more inclusive and progressive. The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional barriers womxn have faced, and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.
@fxxfy
Bureaucratic language shields everyone — bureaucrats, politicians, wonks, academics, activists — from responsibility. Everything is administration and technical knowledge, nothing is choice or values.
There are few beliefs out there more deluded than that if the media had been MORE explicit in their contempt for Trump it would have made voters LESS inclined to vote for him
@DavidWoycechow2
“no cap” in the letter, and administrators in a very liberal area seeming more concerned with the teacher’s behavior toward the student than vice-versa
We’ve convinced younger generations there’s no human condition, only the experiences of intersecting categories. For race, it means thinking one can only connect with art made by the same race. For sexuality, it means anyone who connects with you must have been closeted.
@faceyouhate
People are so used to having their intelligence insulted by movies that a movie expecting them to bring their own knowledge of Charles Manson to bear on a film is offensive
Libs be like “at every other point in human history the heroes were those who questioned and defied the narratives of the powerful, but now that’s dangerous misinformation and we need to seriously reconsider the whole ‘free speech’ thing”
@allahliker
I wonder if any of the 538 types are factoring in control of state government into their models. The pandemic is giving cover to both greatly expand or greatly contract accessibility to voting, could cause significant swings
@GarbageApe
Someone once described NPR listeners the same way and it helped me put my finger on what bothered me about it. It’s about feeling smart and informed and concerned without feeling obligated to change a single thing about your own life, beyond empowering the right experts
It’s going to be fascinating in 15 or so years to see how leftwing professors deal with the cognitive dissonance of their only students with college-level literacy being homeschooled or from classical Christian schools
@willmenaker
"We'll do whatever it takes to win your votes. Anything."
"We need health care and are drowning in debt."
"Hey, do you kids remember Colin Powell?"
@sanrio_pilled
My favorite online trope is that Tumblrism has been the norm of human existence only to have been subverted by white Christians in (1700? 1950? 2022?)
Sorry, but you don’t get to start from “anyone questioning their recommendations is a bad and dangerous person who should be drummed out of polite society” then fall back to “doing their best in an unknown and fluid situation”
Earlier today I learned that
@kanyewest
was officially kicked out of JP Morgan Chase bank. I was told there was no official reason given, but they sent this letter as well to confirm that he has until late November to find another place for the Yeezy empire to bank.
@toad_spotted
“Who cares if this revolution in human self-conception emerged from systems designed by power and capital to advance their interests?” the socialist intoned sagely.
A group of five to six kids just starting doing donuts and creating skid marks on the Pride Mural. Right in front of me as we’re reporting on three people getting arrested for doing the same thing last night.
@KHQLocalNews
Hilarious watching people pivot from finding dog whistles in every OK sign and use of the number 14 to “come on guys, be fair, everyone gets one mulligan on a standing O to the SS”
This clip of Rogan accepting correction with good humor compared to the “OMG fucking OWNED!” spin from partisan hacks is a good insight into why Rogan dwarfs them in popularity.
Oh my God. Joe Rogan tried to say Biden is unqualified by claiming he said something that TRUMP said.
He got fact checked in real time. This is amazing.
(h/t
@Mediaite
)
The premise here is that leftists have no responsibility for the consequences of the policies they support unless their entire utopian agenda is enacted
The "urban crime policy" that leftists support is giving every person a good school, good housing, good food, a good job, good mental healthcare, & a supportive, nurturing community. Are these policies in place? If not, kindly shut up about "leftists killed by their own policies"
Lonely assholes who get off on being waited on, unlike noble city dwellers expecting every need to be met by a low wage worker they don’t have to speak to with a couple swipes on their phone
Being skeptical of expertise when the gatekeepers of who gets presented as an expert are millionaires employed by media conglomerates to sell ads for Lipitor is pretty smart, actually
@ByYourLogic
Say what you will about Tarantino, but at least when he rewrites history he has Hitler machine gunned in the face. Sorkin’s dream alternate reality is that everything is the same but Wolf Blitzer is smarter
Nearly all major non-Fox media is geared towards people who are relatively well-educated, relatively affluent, and relatively liberal. During Trump, media perfected how to sell its product to these consumers. Whatever the story, just shoehorn in the following elements:
@wesyang
The frustrating thing is that the people doing this must know that "white privilege" could be called a "Myth" with the same kind of subdivision, they just know that no one whose opinion they care about would undertake the exercise