Friends and I have been sharing that one back and forth since at least Feb 2017. Evans & Ciarelli's THE FBI IS MY CHRIST is a good representation of hashtag-Resistance brain as well.
I prefer Pitino's "Larry Bird is not walking through that door" meme, but any Kamp Krusty ref gets a like from me.
I'll never get how many center-left voters keep thinking some deus ex machina's going to save them from the right. Like, how long can you avoid picking up the gun and fighting back?
They can't even *not criticize* the people actually fighting back. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
Trump's been great for the PMC (in the short/mid term). If you own stock, other than a few flutters in March and back in like '18, this crazy Nazi shit is always money in the pocket, whether it's Trump or Bush or Reagan. Their 1% cronies get away with millions and the 10%ers get a couple extra thou in their 401k, until it crashes.
But they hate his boorish boorish manner, and unless there's an active uprising in the streets they get to tell themselves that not being a Republican is the same as being the Opposite of a Republican and they live in as much of an abstracted fantasia as the worst MAGA (Just talk to any Boomer Dem about 'Russia', I dare you). So passively hoping for The Rules to kick in is just too much for them to resist. It's passive, it lets them pretend they're on the left, it assumes some Q-like magical outside confluence of forces will set things right, it reifies protocol and procedure and politesse...
Frankly I've ranted myself into a corner, I dunno how to stick the landing, I'm just gonna note that the guy was in open violation of like, President's rule number one and only the day he swore in still owning the Post Office hotel, and only doubled and tripled down after that. And the only thing that moved the Dems to get up off their asses after three years was him coming after one of their Failkids' no-show fuckaround 500k/yr jobs.
"I'm as left as you can get. No one is more left than me. I am literally the most left person alive so here's why the people to my left are wrong to protest cops/complain about rape when Dems do it/complain about carceral slavery when Dems do it/et cetera".
But given the pedigree I wasn't sure if you were one of those guys who hate Gawker but come onto the comment boards to smug about how they're 'not real journalists' or something.
I'm recalling you've had some solid comments (and more importantly liked mine) which means you're a scholar and a gentle-person. But in the moment, I just read it as 'I don't like what this guy writes about so he's not a writer.' I actually started to call you out but then reeled it back at the last moment.
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Friends and I have been sharing that one back and forth since at least Feb 2017. Evans & Ciarelli's THE FBI IS MY CHRIST is a good representation of hashtag-Resistance brain as well.
I prefer Pitino's "Larry Bird is not walking through that door" meme, but any Kamp Krusty ref gets a like from me.
I'll never get how many center-left voters keep thinking some deus ex machina's going to save them from the right. Like, how long can you avoid picking up the gun and fighting back?
They can't even *not criticize* the people actually fighting back. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
Trump's been great for the PMC (in the short/mid term). If you own stock, other than a few flutters in March and back in like '18, this crazy Nazi shit is always money in the pocket, whether it's Trump or Bush or Reagan. Their 1% cronies get away with millions and the 10%ers get a couple extra thou in their 401k, until it crashes.
But they hate his boorish boorish manner, and unless there's an active uprising in the streets they get to tell themselves that not being a Republican is the same as being the Opposite of a Republican and they live in as much of an abstracted fantasia as the worst MAGA (Just talk to any Boomer Dem about 'Russia', I dare you). So passively hoping for The Rules to kick in is just too much for them to resist. It's passive, it lets them pretend they're on the left, it assumes some Q-like magical outside confluence of forces will set things right, it reifies protocol and procedure and politesse...
Frankly I've ranted myself into a corner, I dunno how to stick the landing, I'm just gonna note that the guy was in open violation of like, President's rule number one and only the day he swore in still owning the Post Office hotel, and only doubled and tripled down after that. And the only thing that moved the Dems to get up off their asses after three years was him coming after one of their Failkids' no-show fuckaround 500k/yr jobs.
"I'm as left as you can get. No one is more left than me. I am literally the most left person alive so here's why the people to my left are wrong to protest cops/complain about rape when Dems do it/complain about carceral slavery when Dems do it/et cetera".
I'll never tire of laughing when people describe jf as a "writer" or "journalist"
...He wrote for Vice and Deadspin? Both of which are(were) journalistic outlets dealing in print?
when was his last byline at either of those
and let me be clear i love jf's work but he's a streamer and podcaster
what's important here is that we all love jf. and dogboner
and people say the left doesn't have a unifying message
No idea, I honestly had to google him.
But given the pedigree I wasn't sure if you were one of those guys who hate Gawker but come onto the comment boards to smug about how they're 'not real journalists' or something.
I'm recalling you've had some solid comments (and more importantly liked mine) which means you're a scholar and a gentle-person. But in the moment, I just read it as 'I don't like what this guy writes about so he's not a writer.' I actually started to call you out but then reeled it back at the last moment.
I get that. Listen to jf's podcast Your Kickstarter Sucks and thank me later