agree w simon about TA even tho i find them endearing. will is good at radio; he doesn’t get stuck expressing the same thought four stammering times in a row without seeming to notice; when he has a brief as he does here he moves thru it briskly and clearly. p basic stuff sure but midcentury cia is my heart music; will almost always have time. felix has absolutely nothing to say in these situations tho: he just reduces to the occasional sarcastic rephrasing of something just said.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 12 February 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
TrueAnon is schticky but these episodes where Will narrates but Felix and Matt don't kick in anything are brutal. Riff baby riff
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Friday, 12 February 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
I think I respect QAA so much because they're actually putting in something close to the amount of work I'd be putting in if my day job was to make a podcast. unfortunately in the effort rankings chapo is still way above average
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 13 February 2021 08:18 (three years ago) link
trueanon's third 9/11 ep was absolutely embarrassing, literally spouting loose change talking points. was disappointing because the episodes prior setting the historical context were really compelling
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 13 February 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
why did they invite two Bruenigs if only one talks
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
Liz Bruenig joined in the chorus of bad op-ed writers complaining about prep school teenagers and cancel culture today.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
^^otm. i really do like the show even if sometimes it gets into the weeds, but this was the one time where it veered into youtube crank territory. just a mess.
and you're right: the 2 preceding were excellent context and, you know, based on real shit that happened.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 05:32 (three years ago) link
xp "it would be kewl if a major newspaper had a leftist op-ed writer" (monkey's paw clenches into fist)
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 09:14 (three years ago) link
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:30 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is what you're complaining about?:
I understand the other ppl here but isn’t bruenig just saying she rather wouldn’t want to chaperone the bizarre concept of a New York Times field trip for rich kids?— MB (@MBR1998) February 16, 2021
So so terrible. I hear she's a xtian too
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
bruenigs reporting on the death penalty is quite good, i imagine her christendom maybe aids her in that?
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
absolutely have her blocked on twitter, however
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
I don’t really have any beef w EB and probably agree w her 90% of the time, but I do think it’s a little fucked that the only unapologetic socialist with a legacy media job in this country is a pro-life catholic
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
I honestly don't know what that spat was about. She made a joke about not wanting to chaperone rich kids around. who wants to fucking do that? all the back and forth afer that seemed like people not reading the tweets they were responding to. After that she mainly said she didn't let grandparents watch her kids because they were too loose with the N word.
― akm, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
Bruenig’s princeling comment isn’t objectionable if you completely ignore the context, yes!
Prep school kids are probably little shits and all their future wealth should be taken by force if necessary.
It’s also 100% okay for them to correct their grandparents for being racists or transphobic.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
If your tweet involves getting on a thread agreeing with Bari Weiss and Conor Freikorps, it’s probably a bad tweet.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
Important to know
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
why does the online left love this religious reactionary and her obnoxious nerd husband so much
― Left, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
because fuck off
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
eat shit
― Left, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:22 (three years ago) link
is this praxis?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
I don't follow either of them closely but I sometimes read Liz Bruenig's columns and they're generally pretty good! Far better than the vast majority of opinion writers, not that that's a high bar. I don't get the feeling that her personal feelings about abortion are doing much that's measurably harmful but perhaps i'm mistaken.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:52 (three years ago) link
Matt seems pretty good on economic stuff, particularly when dismantling hack neolib fantasies. and Liz's personal thoughts on abortion aside, wouldn't you rather her have that gig than Bari Weiss?
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
what if, and hear me out here, those two weren't our only choices
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
shit yeah and hear me out heere i mean i'd be all for NYT & WaPo hiring actual leftists. i think Briahna Joy Gray should have a show on MSNBC and Sam-Adler Bell & Matthew Sitman should be on NPR
but the guys who sign those checks probably don't agree with me on most things
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:42 (three years ago) link
I'm saying you don't have to pay attention to those two, you can dedicate even more time to paying attention to the folks you just mentioned for example
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
and Liz's personal thoughts on abortion aside
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
I was raised catholic so I give her a pass on that because she is not, to my knowledge, advocating for the repeal of Roe v Wade which puts her in line with probably half the catholics I've ever known. she has written great stuff on the death penalty. sometimes she tweets dumb things. her op-eds are pretty good. whatever, she's neither the greatest person in media nor the worst.
― akm, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
hey guys nothing would make me happier than to choose who gets to talk on cable news or pen op ed columns in the paper of record
you can dedicate even more time to paying attention to the folks you just mentioned
where i direct my attn probably doesn't have much impact
i'm more interested in a cohort of comfortable and inordinately powerful suburbanites (whose politics mostly boil down to hating Trump and binging MSNBC and praising David Brooks as "one of the good ones") getting exposed to actual good ideas/ people who aren't cynical jabbering idiots. and yes, it's a bummer that Liz seems to be one of the few leftists with a mainstream platform.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:02 (three years ago) link
not that *she* has one, per se, but that so many smart deserving folks do not.
and i think that's more or less by design.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
It’s a bit odd that some people think LB is somehow occupying the NYT socialist columnist position that would surely go to someone better if she just resigned after realizing she was bad
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:19 (three years ago) link
ok fine I'm thankful for the scraps we're given
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:22 (three years ago) link
0 people think that
― Left, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:23 (three years ago) link
Troll on
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
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― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
whenever some microceleb from this subculture does reasonably well in some hated establishment forum their fans just seem to suspend any suspicion of said forum in their case, instead of asking why this forum is interested in this person in particular, or what interests they might share
― Left, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
would you rather have trump than biden? probably not but that doesn't make biden good or ok. the reasons he's not good are the reasons why he was allowed to win
― Left, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:42 (three years ago) link
lefties sniping at each other online while lawsuit millionaire (who now supports tort reform) Greg "Wheels" Abbott is on Fox telling tens of millions of guileless dipshits that *windmills* are why Texans don't have power tonight
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:42 (three years ago) link
love the bruenigs. f the haters
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 06:08 (three years ago) link
Nobody who puts “momma” in their Twitter bio is a friend of mine
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 06:21 (three years ago) link
man the QAA episode about 5D reality and Champ Parinya is really stressing me out, just bizarre delusions about Trump being some kind of Maitreya figure and corporations and the military being saviors.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 18 February 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
... pic.twitter.com/iIHrDIyKUR— QAA Podcast (@QanonAnonymous) February 18, 2021
― JoeStork, Thursday, 18 February 2021 23:53 (three years ago) link
Will and Matt Bruenig are surprisingly sober and fair minded on this ep
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 February 2021 01:37 (three years ago) link
you could hear Will's physical pain at possibly having to give the dems credit for somethingthe Limbaugh death roast was their best segment in ages
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 19 February 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
felix isn't gaming...no amber....the guest talks sometimes...no cringe takes....this is the stuff
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 19 February 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
I had decided to quit listening to every episode and then bitching about it in this thread, but this was a really great episode, felt like they were engaged
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link
"the future is quite literally just one end of the political spectrum taking turns owning the other while everything burns, until we've had enough" has also been the feeling I've plucked out of the air recently
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 06:25 (three years ago) link
Matt's pessimism agrees with my feelings generally but I also worry about him popping a blood vessel in his brain.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 February 2021 06:41 (three years ago) link
it doesn't even feel like pessimism to me anymore tbh
dropped in on true anon this week because the topic (purdue/mckinsey) interested me, was not expecting brace to seriously discuss his own experiences in detail with a minimum of wisecracks
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
Yeah it was kind of good to hear Brace be earnest about something
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
Time For My Stories is Matt and my look at American collapse through, in our opinion, our 20 most important TV dramas. from Gunsmoke to This Is Us. first episode will release at midnight on Stitcher premium— Ape’s Delight (@ByYourLogic) February 23, 2021
Don’t know if this is a bit but lol if $120k a month in Patreon isn’t enough so they had to do a Stitcher Premium spinoff.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link