It should say 'rejoin" -- he was a nineties staple.
I heard that fool praise Palin yesterday morning when flipping through cable news and nearly yarfed into my oatmeal.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
when you guys are saying "editorial page" you are referring to the op-eds, right? because the times editorial page ain't bad
― k3vin k., Friday, 7 February 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah, poor phrasing on my part
― balls, Friday, 7 February 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
acc to the article linked the reporters don't like the op-eds or the editorial page
― Mordy , Friday, 7 February 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/way-we-live-now-by-david-brooks.html
― Murgatroid, Friday, 7 February 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/3508663/travis-bickle-clap-o.gif
― balls, Friday, 7 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
Murgatroid, that link is priceless.
― Aimless, Friday, 7 February 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
god the suffering that you have to be willing to endure to put something like that together
― balls, Friday, 7 February 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
"All my life I’ve been a successful pseudo-intellectual."
― marcos, Friday, 7 February 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
his lack of self awareness is breathtaking.
― nothing a reincarnated ronnie james dio couldn't fix (brimstead), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
Said forty seconds ago on NPR: "This is the problem with democracies. If we lived in a country run by elites, which I believe we should, we would" etc
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
woooowwwww
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 February 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
he shd be murdered not because he deserves it or anything just as a prank
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 February 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
"I was speaking out in Minnesota — my hometown, in fact — and a guy stood up in the audience, said, 'Mr. Friedman, is there any free trade agreement you’d oppose?' I said, 'No, absolutely not.' I said, 'You know what, sir? I wrote a column supporting the CAFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade initiative. I didn’t even know what was in it. I just knew two words: free trade.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/opinion/sunday/friedman-start-up-america-our-best-hope.html
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 16 February 2014 08:17 (ten years ago) link
"speaking out"
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 16 February 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
Minnesota isnt a town iirc
― lag∞n, Sunday, 16 February 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
it's a village
― mookieproof, Sunday, 16 February 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
it takes a village to create friedmans
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 February 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
unfuckingbelievable
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
spiritual experiments led by the charismatic and the zealous are essential to religious creativity and fruitful change. From the Franciscans to the Jesuits, groups that looked cultlike to their critics have repeatedly revitalized the Catholic Church, and a similar story can be told about the role of charismatic visionaries in the American experience. (The enduring influence of one of the 19th century’s most despised and feared religious movements, for instance, is the reason the state of Utah now leads the United States on many social indicators.)
challenge for ross douthat: name fruitful change or innovation resulting from outliers jim jones, reverend moon, l-ron hubbard, chas manson
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:17 (nine years ago) link
this column is formulaic recycling, cherry-picked from others work (a time honored and lazy journalistic ploy when the till is empty come deadline). no surprise that douthat quotes philip jenkins who dismissed the 70s cult phenomena as hysteria fueled by secular media. i think jenkins argument is disingenuous and politically motivated. what's forgotten in this revisionist argument is the extreme psychological manipulation that was a defining characteristic of 70s-style charismatic cults. the human toll, lives ruined and personalities exploded, not to mention the suicide victims in jonestown who douthat somehow never mentions.
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
what has happened, from the post-moon unification church to the second-string cult a relative of mine is involved with, seems to be a backing off from the sick controlling nature of the groups (due to decades of bad publicity) and a subsequent mainstreaming of former fringe elements.
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
Thiel’s argument is broader: Not only religious vitality but the entirety of human innovation, he argues, depends on the belief that there are major secrets left to be uncovered, insights that existing institutions have failed to unlock (or perhaps forgotten), better ways of living that a small group might successfully embrace.This means that every transformative business enterprise, every radical political movement, every truly innovative project contains some cultish elements and impulses — and the decline of those impulses may be a sign that the innovative spirit itself is on the wane. When “people were more open to the idea that not all knowledge was widely known,” Thiel writes, there was more interest in groups that claimed access to some secret knowledge, or offered some revolutionary vision. But today, many fewer Americans “take unorthodox ideas seriously,” and while this has clear upsides — “fewer crazy cults” — it may also be a sign that “we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.”
This means that every transformative business enterprise, every radical political movement, every truly innovative project contains some cultish elements and impulses — and the decline of those impulses may be a sign that the innovative spirit itself is on the wane. When “people were more open to the idea that not all knowledge was widely known,” Thiel writes, there was more interest in groups that claimed access to some secret knowledge, or offered some revolutionary vision. But today, many fewer Americans “take unorthodox ideas seriously,” and while this has clear upsides — “fewer crazy cults” — it may also be a sign that “we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.”
correct implication to draw, that the tech-startup boom has evidently been trying to exploit our latent willingness to follow cults, and that 'managerial capitalism' is becoming (again) a cult that increasingly permeates all interactions at all levels of society
― j., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:38 (nine years ago) link
we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered, families left to be abandoned, life savings left to be handed over.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
new flavors of kool-aid to have people wonder whether we have drunk
― j., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
Ross DO THAT
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
ross DOUBT IT
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
fuck douting a hat
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
tricky dick we hardly knew ye
where to begin
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
reading the headline, i thought maybe ross would call for watergatesque sabotage of trump and/or carson
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
as if the politics of racial division as practiced by republicans in 2015 isn't 100% pulled from the nixon playbook
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
lmao douthat is so far out in left field, a devout catholic millennial who hates college but loves philosphy and nixon, this really is what the times shdve been looking for in its token conservative all along total irrelevance
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
ikr!eagerly awaiting catholic convert ross "defender of the faith" douthat's review of spotlight
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Sunday, 22 November 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
Got really depressed when I saw the popup tell me that was my 10th free NYT article of 10 for this month
― welltris (crüt), Sunday, 22 November 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
pray to God, he'll give you an 11th free NYT article. Bishop Doutaht will intercede.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 November 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
what's with the not-quite-austen first line
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Sunday, 22 November 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
I thought it was a truth universally accepted that Democrats who want to be president want to be Ronald Reagan.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 November 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
nope sorry this human-sized ambulatory scrotum is still The Worst
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/opinion/sunday/from-obama-to-trump.html?mwrsm=Email
― rmde bob (will), Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Reminds me of Addison DeWitt: "You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
no question the Obama people, understanding how social media works, have sold an image of the man that does correspond to every loathsome thing about the imperial presidency since 1945, but boomcrashpow 'that's how we got to Trump' is terrible fiction. I can imagine the delight on Brooks' editors face as they thought of the sharing/click possibilities.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
boomcrashpow 'that's how we got to Trump'
IN THAT PRESIDENT...
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
If Obama proved that you can run a presidential campaign as an aspirational cult of personality, in which a Sarah Silverman endorsement counts for as much as a governor or congressman’s support, Trump is proving that you don’t need Silverman to shout “the Aristocrats!” and have people eat it up.
― iatee, Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:46 (eight years ago) link
crazy that political kingmaker Sarah Silverman didn't even get an ambassadorship after all she did for Obama
― iatee, Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
such a fucking prig
― rmde bob (will), Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
James K. Polk wasn't on snapchat i'll tell you what
― Option ARMs and de Man (s.clover), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
Chapo Trap House picking apart Douthat's book is just wonderful.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:50 (seven years ago) link
That sounds fun, there a link?
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-30-freeway-ross-douthat-pt-2-tha-harvard-plug
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link
Not updated nearly often enough, but hilarious: https://twitter.com/ralphdouthat
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 13:13 (seven years ago) link
They don't get to the book dissection for a little while, but the opening bit is good too.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link