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That YMCA dance fugue on the campaign trail is a perfect example of Trumpian camp and its appeal.

A voter could look at that and say, hey, this is a fun guy who doesn't take himself too seriously, I don't have to take the scary shit too seriously, either.

They'd be wrong. But they could

A major problem for the Trump II regime is that they are going 5x hard on Trumpian cruelty and are utterly failing at Trumpian camp.

It's there-- the Gatsby party, the ballroom nonsense, the bathroom reno-- but it is mostly siloed from the public.

All the electorate gets to see is the grim stuff

When my kids started hitting the playground and every kid had a water bottle it absolutely broke my brain.

Like what, does everyone think we are on a playdate in the Sahara?

Of course now we are converts and never leave home without them

No, but mortality is.

The Boomers HAVE to be understood as the first generation for whom "being young" was the CORE of their cultural identity: They will *always* be the first teens/college-kids demographically big enough to have 'reshaped history' - EVERY acknowledment of aging is a dagger to that

Dick Cheney was a bad guy and my main reaction to hearing of his passing is to be annoyed at how many stupid reactions I'll have to see online about living politicians not saying performatively "bad enough" things about him and how many grating clips people will post from that sh-- Adam McKay movie

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

Honestly not buying the crocodile tears from people who decided workplace trainings and Black characters in Marvel movies gave license to abandon civil rights.

A couple years ago I read that robotics companies were investing in stair climbing robots who could escort super wealthy dug-in manhattanites to doctor’s appointment like mechanical spider crabs so forgive me if I’m skeptical that they’re gonna uproot their lives and abandoned their rent control NOW

Natural Selection remains undefeated

Done

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

If the media accurately reflected feelings of the American people, this current government would have already been ousted.

...sigh.

It depresses me to remember how f---ing YOUNG these guys all are, relatively speaking, and HOW MANY "acts" there probably still are to their lives 🤦‍♂️

Ronald Reagan made monkey movies and was a Union leader. He had a full, fascinating life before he was Republican Jesus.

This happening at literally the exact same time as the Prop50 CA elections, the NYC Mayoral elections, Spanberger in VA and Dick Cheney dying is the real-life montage moment you'd get if Millennials made Zemeckis-style nostalgia movies about their own pop-history like Boomers got.

The saddest but also funniest thing about the last decade of McKay's work is that the most HONEST take I could give you about it I won't because it would be a Woody Allen quote 🙃

You’d think it would be a major scandal at least in certain circles that the CEO of America’s most valuable defense contractor gets absolutely blasted on heroic amounts of cocaine before going on TV and screaming about his stock being down 5%

Right now is the time for people who have interesting things to write or make videos to get after it.

The media empires have kicked out all their talent, and people that want actual experts and not just talking heads who spew bullshit all day, are looking for people to support and follow.

MTG is a slovenly moron who barely qualifies as a fully-evolved 21st Century human being ...BUT she's also *authentically* the sort of sentient garbage that wellborn fancy lads like Trump and Johnson only play at being (badly) for the votes.

It’s very strange to repeatedly see Democratic “strategists” observe that the party is widely seen as focusing on identity politics—in spite of the Harris campaign largely avoiding them —and concluding this is a problem with party priorities and not with losing voters to misinformation.

This is literally a joke in "BACK TO THE FUTURE III" where the cowboys don't believe Doc that people in the future *run* for leisure.

Tweet from Heritage Foundation's boss Kevin Roberts: Thank you, Jonathan Haidt, for reminding everyone Heritage yesterday that tech tycoons like Leonid Radvinsky and Solomon Friedman are profiting to the tune of millions by preying on America's young men and women. We are proud to be in this fight with you. It is time to arrest, prosecute, and convict the sick perverts behind OnlyFans and PornHub.

There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.

WIRED headline reads: Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

“The Witcher” would’ve slapped if it was a monster of the week journeying adventure show like 90s Xena.

Yea trying to make prestige(ish) TV out of "The Witcher" when not even the game* was trying to be that was probly a mistake.

*(yes I know it's also books, that's not how they got a show)

And just the basic math thing is that homogeneous nationalized rural/exurban America vs homogeneous nationalized suburban/urban America is a political system where the former is locked out of power

Brooklyn…

People want identity shortcuts for "who is worth listening to" and "which ideas are correct" and I implore you all to abandon that impulse, because that's not the world we live in.

Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.

And then still be discerning! "Am I listening to someone upper-class and invested in projecting a certain image of their country? Am I talking to someone who is conservative and supports the country's local right-wing parties? Am I talking to an activist or a worker or a zealot?"

My pain MATTERS. My oppression MATTERS. I am not just a fucking thought experiment for antifeminists and commodifiers to use to signal their own open-mindedness!

If you can't cope with the reality, complexity, and nuances of non-Western life, then SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

Diaspora communities participate in this via something of an international 'honor culture'. Many assiduously champion their homeland cultures without knowing what it's like to actually grow up in it. No, my culture is very progressive and modern and not at all "backwards", white man! How dare you!