Brother Manns From The 5th Floor

+1. Ran out of space and wanted to have a focused tweet. Which individual Dem is a neoliberal is irrelevant, they haven’t been a New Deal, “let’s embrace big govt” style party for decades.

The phrase “feigned helplessness” comes to mind.

Didn’t Clinton start the outsourcing of Dept. of Ed student loans mgmt to private companies? And Obama kept doing it? And when it came time to pause/forgive the loans under Biden, those same private debt servicers fought against it?

To be clear- we should do it! We need a candidate who is serious about building up the Dem party, and not serious about getting Republicans to like them

+1. The 24 Harris criticism made me think about this - she was targeted (by liberals) for being “too progressive” during the 2020 campaign…but all the Dems were.

They beat Bernie, and then when back in office, they became pragmatists. DC statehood could be the 28 version of reparations

Would love a code good brother, whenever you get a chance

Agree on the Africa point. There’s a good chance they follow the Chinese way and not the West anyway. I think of the Chinese company Xiaomi. 10 years ago they’re making obvious iPhone knockoffs. Now they have electric cars that are better than anything the US does.

Rich aloof fail son is his character arc. I became more sympathetic to him by the end; his options weren’t great with that piece of work as a father.

Agreed. Until they change I’ll happily call myself a New Deal Democrat, and call them Diet Republicans

I think there was an episode with Melfi, where she really lays into his father. “Your dad got you in the life, dad cheated on your mom; dad gave your family pet away! Can you hold him accountable?”

And Tony’s like, “Yeah, my mom sure did a number on him, and all of us!”

Weaponized ignorance, that’s what I’ve been calling it

And also, Twitter was perpetually undersized compared to its peers and had, what, a decade of pop culture dominance?

This was also true in DJT 1. There has to be dozens of instances of this. It also confirms that Fox News runs the Republican Party, not the other way around

I’ll be honest and say I was a teen during those years, but wasn’t the flip flop on the Iraq War what sank him? Or rather, he never shook the flip flop label. It’s wild that even well into 2004, being against the Vietnam War was still controversial

This should be mentioned more. The “wreckers on the Left” were better team players than the centrist lane that through Biden under a bus and wanted debates moderated by Taylor Swift 😒😒😒

@theverge.com what’s the best way to view these these days? RSS Readers? Fancy email client? Did Surf or any of the other social feed apps ever get going?

I completely missed the “younger Americans” nonsense when I first saw this.

My Reddit feed has been full of Vegas “it’s dead here/it’s not dead here” posts for about a week. There’s some consensus around it just getting too expensive, too bougie, and the classic hotels going away

Just had my anniversary viewing of the new 4k Clueless release. I can confirm she was spitting facts

“Defund the police was a bad slogan.” Yeah whatever. Call it what you want, but this is a conversation about money, and what local governments choose to prioritize

I call them “class reductionists” but I’m sure they would disagree. There is definitely a flank to the Left that has viewed any racial justice issue as a distraction, or worse, detrimental, to class struggle, so they’ve been just as “anti woke” as the right

Ether

Even if I were to attempt to get through the screenshot post, you could ask - which empire has had a damn near monopoly on shaping the world in the past 75 years? Like there’s something about people getting their way, then disputing the results of their actions that gets me 😡

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Cheers mates

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the manosphere stuff isn’t new. they were glorifying redpill pickup artist types when I was a teen. the problem is that podcasts and streamers more perfectly replicate the experience of hanging out with social peers than any mass medium in history and the human brain can’t cope

Democracy- in all spheres of your life, economic dignity, A revival of public life- public goods, public utilities, public parks, and more

Marvel Comics: Buddy, we’ll have 4 Spider-Man # 1s before the end of the decade!

Hate it. It’s all “The Man Show 2.0”

Point taken. Although it says something that checking online has replaced “consensus of your friends” or “asking dad, uncle, male role model you like”

Got me feeling like Eminem with a lot of this- “And where were the parents at while Timmy was getting introduced to race wars via YouTube?”

This brother gets it.

This Bieber #SWAG production is on point