SopwithCamus

the key to understanding today's moment in journalism is specifically a subset of elite journos at NYT/Free Press/WaPo who basically adopt the position of the main character of NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) when it comes to their role in the news

I don't understand why people indulge themselves in this. It's not funny. It's not cute. It obviously helps normalize the idea. So much damage has been done by media people wanting to feel a little frisson of naughtiness over the last decade.

This stuff is almost always just someone extrapolating from the people in their own life.

Jake Tapper has a 15-year-old son, a fact I only know because he got very publicly upset when some random podcaster made fun of how his son wants to be a cop.

“Gen Z” is probably one 15-year-old boy he knows

One of the crazy things about American Christo-fascism is that it is one of the most brazen and vulgar heresies ever conceived of. Like even if the Carpocratians were really hosting church-sponsored orgies and painting icons of Pythagoras they would barely edge these freaks out.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Tweet from John Podhoretz reading: "My mother was a Heritage board member for 40 years. You have befouled her, you rancid wretch of an amoeba." quoting Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, tweeting: "There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts:"

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

Said it before, saying it again: conservatives ruin the sanctity of marriage AND polyamory

This sounds like the Chinese model of drug detention, which combines compulsory treatment, social isolation, and forced labour. The fact that authoritarians in the US & China increasingly resemble one another no longer surprises me.

one thing we’ve got to accept in the Chinese Century is that their soup spoons are simply better than ours

I’m vaguely curious how many of the people applauding this would be allowed to comment on China if held to the same standard.

The problem with saying "USSR bad, everything they ever did was bad, they are so bad that even discussing facts about them should be illegal" is that 1) it's easy to kneejerk to "Everything the USSR did was good", and 2) we can't have a meaningful discussion about actual Soviet policy on things.

What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.

Black water doesn’t mean anything to people anymore ? Like

I remember running around outside in the early morning before school and there being frost and dead leaves on the ground IN SEPTEMBER. There are 80° days in the forecast for NEXT WEEK! NOVEMBER! I want to wear my leather jackets and sweaters and pea coats! 😭

this was basically Vance's latest interview!

Top caption: “When the German High Command asks where Army Group Centre went.” The central shrugging figure has a head photoshopped with a man’s face (likely representing a Soviet officer), holding a map labeled “Operation Bagration (Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation), Part of the Eastern Front of World War II.” On the right, another cutout of the same man in a red shirt holds a different Eastern Front map. At the bottom, a smaller cutout of the man shrugs next to the caption: “Operation Bagration.”

historical revisionism on main, post Allied memes

My opinion on the American electorate bottomed out when an Ohio relative told me should thought abortion rights had been curbed there by Biden because he was president when it happened.

the trajectory of the Red Scare girls is a good example

There were some Soviet housing wins, but the idea it was available on a whim is very wrong. My parents were renting "privately" when they had me, and for a long long time after that - just as they likely would have to in post-Soviet Russia later.

begging people to read this @buddyyakov.bsky.social book, Nove, and Konrai

It is truly My Crippling Insecurities are now Everyone’s Problem, on a global scale

Honestly, I think Nintendo won the console wars by virtue of thinking “what can we do that differentiates our product from an inferior gaming PC?” and then doing that.

Platner tattoo discourse is further proof that the social sanctions against explicitly racism and Nazism have catastrophically broken down, even on the left. We would not be speculating about the contents of his heart if this scandal had happened 15 years ago.

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Trans rights didn’t take away your food benefits. However, transphobia did.

Bigotry affects us all. Form an Antifa group and fight back.

METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

like, literally, we could stand up a small newspaper with an operating budget of $2.5m/year in every medium-sized city in america using the money raised in one presidential cycle. it wouldn't even have to make any money.

the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.