I think of a million bands from Mexico
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:27 (five months ago) link
Hell, in the picture at the top of the article she looks like Jenni Rivera.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:34 (five months ago) link
Matthew Schmitz
Trump Is Lawless, Yes. But in the Name of a Higher Law.
Mr. Schmitz is a founder and an editor of Compact, an online magazine.
― rob, Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:42 (five months ago) link
bring me a higher lawohhh
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:49 (five months ago) link
Mr. Trump may pose a threat to our political system as it now exists, but it is a threat animated by a democratic spirit. It is the threat of the outlaw hero, a figure of defiance with deep roots in American culture who exposes the injustices and hypocrisies of a corrupt system.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:36 (five months ago) link
this CANNOT be real
― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:37 (five months ago) link
it's kind of funny watching these staid republican types tie themselves into pretzels
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:42 (five months ago) link
This has got to be written by one of those “debate me” guys. JFC
― that's not my post, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:43 (five months ago) link
they claim otherwise, but Compact is extremist right-wing, not staid GOP
― rob, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:46 (five months ago) link
Missed the restaurant convo but Scott was v v otm. My parents had one place for 30 years and another for 14. They sold the second place in 2006 and it's been 5 places since. It is such a hard business. Please used to ask me all the time if I was going to takeover. Literally never crossed my mind.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:52 (five months ago) link
how can we possibly know what the kids want if they refuse to debate a famously open-minded former ronald reagan speechwriter
When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen. @Peggynoonannyc describes her visit to Columbia before the raid. pic.twitter.com/S2fxZZVXwe— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 4, 2024
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 May 2024 21:08 (five months ago) link
halp, I have suffered brain death from reading these words:
Maureen Dowd
The Truth Hurts — Especially When Bill Maher Dishes It Out
10 min read
― rob, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:00 (four months ago) link
i was just about to post that
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:11 (four months ago) link
and yes, it is a puff piece that could have been written 20 years ago.
Maher evokes the twin archetypes of the wisecracking kid who sat behind you in school and the grumpy uncle who sits next to you at Thanksgiving. He’s a rebel with a cause: He actually cares about the things he complains about, so there’s heart behind the cynicism.
Jerry Seinfeld called the consistently high level of Maher’s editorials “shocking.” “Your brain is worthy of all the attention it gets,” he teased Maher on “Club Random,” Maher’s podcast.
His range may be explained by something Maher, a Cornell history major, writes in his book: “I watch the History Channel like most guys watch Pornhub.”
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:22 (four months ago) link
lol jesus christ
― subpost master (wins), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:25 (four months ago) link
The best part of that article is that neither Maureen Dowd nor her editors know what the phrase "a wide berth" means:
My idol is Jonathan Swift, so I think that satirists — the other “Swifties” — should be given a wide berth. Sometimes they’ll miss the mark, sometimes they’ll be offensive. But we need our jesters to hold up a mirror to our society, now more than ever.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:44 (four months ago) link
lol that's so bad it almost seems subversive
― rob, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:56 (four months ago) link
(on the editor's part)
It's more that it's archaic, in the sense of "room to maneuver a ship around to avoid hitting rocks" but very No Way NYT nonetheless
― felicity, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:58 (four months ago) link
No you see "a wide berth" is the population problem that Swift attempted to solve in A Modest Proposal
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:00 (four months ago) link
pun that I had missed
― felicity, Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:16 (four months ago) link
"a wide berth" means to avoid entirely iirc, I think she meant to say "give them some leeway"
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:09 (four months ago) link
we have not given this article a wide berth
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:09 (four months ago) link
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wide_berth
― felicity, Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:11 (four months ago) link
I recently had to explain this term to a non-English speaker, but really, NYT?
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 May 2024 23:35 (four months ago) link
To be fair I agree most satirists should be given a wide berth.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 19 May 2024 12:18 (four months ago) link
Bill Maher in particular
not interested in any meaning of wide berth that isn't about that wagon
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Sunday, 19 May 2024 14:58 (four months ago) link
a wide berth isn't something you're given, it's something you earn
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:00 (four months ago) link
Mitch McConnell: We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s
(admittedly I am a tiny bit curious which mistakes exactly he's talking about)
― rob, Thursday, 6 June 2024 19:31 (four months ago) link
the New Deal
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 June 2024 19:44 (four months ago) link
I clicked and he thinks the US isn't spending enough on defense -_-
― rob, Thursday, 6 June 2024 19:54 (four months ago) link
We really fucked up in the 1930s when we didn't spend enough on the military and ended up losing to Hitler
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 June 2024 19:55 (four months ago) link
nyt opinion page has been worthless lately. david french ffs
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 7 June 2024 05:05 (three months ago) link
lately?
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 7 June 2024 13:49 (three months ago) link
letters section: 3 academics saying the lab leak article was bullshit, balanced with 1 guy in Arizona who agrees with it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/covid-origins-lab-market.html
― master of the pan (abanana), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:46 (three months ago) link
Pamela Paul's latest, about why protests aren't for her, reads like Jean Teasdale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/opinion/protests.html
― jaymc, Thursday, 20 June 2024 23:58 (three months ago) link
I refuse to believe Pamela Paul is real.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 June 2024 11:46 (three months ago) link
It’s weird that people want to protest when they could just publish their random thoughts in the New York Times.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 21 June 2024 12:14 (three months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QoZViuo.jpeg
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 July 2024 22:31 (two months ago) link
everyone points this out and the just keep doing it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 July 2024 23:44 (two months ago) link
Pamela Paul
Why Is the U.S. Still Pretending We Know Gender-Affirming Care Works?
no clicks for transphobes
― rob, Friday, 12 July 2024 17:53 (two months ago) link
A question a child might ask...
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 12 July 2024 18:02 (two months ago) link
Why do transphobes think "I'm extremely concerned about the epistemological questions regarding this one single issue and this one single issue only. Btw no amount of social research or medical evidence will assuage me" is persuasive
(sincere apologies to Pam P if she also has deep concerns about the epistemology of vaccine science)
― rob, Friday, 12 July 2024 18:20 (two months ago) link
Pamela Paul can eat shit and did
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 12 July 2024 18:33 (two months ago) link
and die
You may have been right the first time too
― omar little, Friday, 12 July 2024 18:37 (two months ago) link
lol amazing typo thanking u tabes
― rob, Friday, 12 July 2024 18:40 (two months ago) link
Yea we can (and do)
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 12 July 2024 18:41 (two months ago) link