fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1635966339356475392?s=20

Frosted Flake posted:

Finkelstein's book is fantastic, by the way.

“The telling thing is, after slogging through Remnick’s 600-page tome, the reader isn’t a whit the wiser where Obama stood on anything or what he stood for. If the book parses not his policy but, instead, his prose, not his substance but, instead, his speeches, that’s because Obama couldn’t claim ownership of a single distinctive policy. When he set out on the presidential campaign trail, Obama wasn’t driven by a core message, a specific policy agenda to which he was wedded, that was then amplified by the hype engulfing him. On the contrary, he was hype in search of a core. His campaign manager, Plouffe, enumerated as among the first tasks confronting him, to “flesh out our core message and provide some substance—like health care and energy plans—to go along with the hype.” The “core” message distilled by Obama’s campaign team—in particular, strategist David Axelrod—could have been lifted from a Democratic Party primer; it was as daring as walking a tightrope one inch off the ground."

It's funny, because he echos so many things Christman has said during the Bernie campaign and after, but during the interview Matt was totally mute.

Ytlaya posted:

It is extremely funny thinking about the fact that people have probably ugly-cried IRL because of this

Someone scrolling through Twitter and seeing Adam Friedland in a fedora and just tearfully punching their pillow

i say swears online posted:

oh my loving god

https://www.gq.com/story/taylor-swift-matty-healy-adam-friedland-ice-spice

bedpan posted:

google podcasts is doing you a favor

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Ytlaya posted:

I feel like a lot of people become addicted to the sort of "mass affirmation" you can receive online if you talk about your traumas.

It's basically like Munchausen's, where people need to keep making stuff up to get that sweet dose of positive attention/sympathy. It's particularly insidious because the stuff they complain about actually does happen to other people, who could often use the positive attention/advice (and unlike in real life, it's often hard to falsify their claims).

edit: Like you mention, the best option is to just ignore people who do this.

Shipon posted:

god the way the right wing is treating pride month and LGBT stuff in general is such an example of this, they're acting exactly like the triggered soy college bluehairs from 2016 youtube compilations

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

rip

he should go back on tafs to talk about it

https://twitter.com/tmz/status/1665779265940467712

Fellatio del Toro posted:

shes leaving him for adam

KomradeX posted:

Wait had RWN really been going that Russia blew up their own pipeline

Dmitri-9 posted:

Why are literally all celebrities Russia hawks now? I followed Whit Stillman and I get nothing but poison tipped umbrella dispatches. I followed Andy Kindler and it is all russiagate all the time.

slippery doc posted:

https://twitter.com/AdamFriedland/status/1669173714221506560?t=ftX1vnCvCmdhpTJeAl9cOQ&s=19

lol

crepeface posted:

the terminally online left has no power to affect anything and also: lol, did that actually happen?

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

its so cool matt from chapo and croup coughfield have almost the exact opinions now it seems




"World History hurts my feefees and since we collectively can't do anything about it or Systemic Discrimination, delusional, outright Reactionary revisionist history is ok" (wrt to the previous episode referring to PragerU teaching Lost Cause garbage to students).

"Our current dumb loving country is making GBS threads out tragedy after tragedy and since we're currently powerless to do anything about it its just misery porn not worth even acknowledging"


These are dumbest takes I've seen in a while and frankly its honestly infuriating the more I think about it. It's just so intellectually cowardly to me that the only way some people people here cope is by getting mad at other people for acknowledging the world literally and proverbially being on loving fire

Gripweed posted:

this feels like one of those things where when I listen to the episode I'll discover this isn't actually what he said.

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

ok how can i personally reverse every single monstrous Supreme Court decision in the last five years?


give me anything

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

Normalpeople also believe nanochips are in the covid-vaccine, so whats your point?

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

then you know little of Real America it seems, dear goon

Reality is the movie Gummo but somehow worse

Ytlaya posted:

The one thing I disagree with here is that the Democrats would do better with any other nominee. Despite low approval, I'm pretty sure Biden would still do better than any other possible Democratic nominee.

The main reason for this is that, more than approval, I think the biggest factor is "how much the politician is hated by 'independents' and Republicans" (since partisan Democrats are voting for him regardless and - just like their Republican counterparts - are mostly motivated by antipathy towards the other party). And Biden simply isn't someone who inspires much hate - he mostly just inspires ambivalence. It's why they have to focus so much on Hunter. But if you got someone like Kamala or something, it'd be very easy to spin up the right-wing rage machine against her (for a variety of reasons).

edit: I think Democrats are likely to win the presidential election simply because either 1. (if Trump runs) Trump inspires more hate in Democrats than Biden inspires in Republicans, or 2. (if Trump doesn't run) the Republicans have literally no one else who is remotely popular.

Popy posted:

i cant stand podcasts with ads bro

an ad run in the middle of your podcast is deah i do not care how good ur pod is its not gonna happen

i say swears online posted:

it is absolutely crazy that I can name like seven old cumtown sponsors offhand and not really any from somewhere else. it's such good marketing

Private Cumshoe posted:

If the Naomi is Klein you're doin fine