he furiously pulls out his palm pilot and with quaking hands writes a note to remember for the morning: "it's far away"
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4roxM8hUMk
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
Aghanistan...istan so far away
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofYl3dataU
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyK1bZZ7E-s
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
It is beyond my powers of imagination that "give war a chance" was ever written or published unironically.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
is he dead yet
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
He was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat".
This is Afghanistan we're talking about. Check the map. It's far away.
― jmm, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/acTZjmp.png
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIxlgcuQRU
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 August 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFaSpca_3Q
This is his super villain speech
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 August 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
The world is bubble
― jmm, Friday, 20 August 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
i was going to post that speech but i felt too much second hand embarrassment to even copy the link once i looked it up
― criminally negligible (harbl), Friday, 20 August 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fKBZsdw.jpg
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/IsYX0BS.png
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
But what if humanity tried giving war a chance? Has anyone thought of that?
― jmm, Friday, 20 August 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
war, while it poses many downsides, has been responsible for many advances. the drone technology that was developed to fight terrorism in the middle east has been adapted to deliver amazon packages to consumers. so overall, a complicated issue, not 'all good' or 'all bad'.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
war - what if it's good for some people
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
commercial innovation per war death is higher than innovation per civilian death
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
there is a common perception that companies are REQUIRED to maximize profit over all other prioritized. although i have skimmed a full page of google search results of op-eds suggesting that it isn't technically true, let's face, it's fucking true
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
My colostomy bag is smarter and has more nuance than Thomas Friedman
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Monday, 23 August 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
not a joke, incredibly
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDHYQpvVQAQKdH5?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
I saw that today and actually burst out laughing in bed, waking up my partner in the process.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Friedman started coasting so long ago he came to a complete standstill in 2010
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
by 2015 he was encrusted with fungus
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
“i’m sure they would buddy! hey have you cleaned your room yet?” https://t.co/H0mcU6ggdw— edie (@multiplebears) November 1, 2021
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link
We’ve never seen this tactic before from Beijing: We’ll clean our air, but only if you let us buzz Taiwan’s airspace and choke off the air of freedom in Hong Kong.
He is so good at metaphors.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
The earth is FLAT, don't you know.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
My column: Biden-Cheney 2024? https://t.co/T3OaMtWbhC— Thomas L. Friedman (@tomfriedman) January 12, 2022
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
jfc
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
great job on the pin, NYT graphics dept
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure we are being punked.
― jimbeaux, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
Imagine The Consensus! The Alignment!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
AOC/MTG
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
Cruz/Sanders
― jimbeaux, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
looooooooooooool
what a fool
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
Thomas Friedman, professional wise man, dreams things that never were and asks, "why not?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
I haven't actually read the column and don't see any need to, I'm just going to imagine it takes the form of a conversation with a commonsense taxi driver — an aspiring immigrant putting his son through Harvard by driving 23 hours a day and trading in crypto between fares, who just doesn't understand why "those people can't work together for all of us."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link
Saving a democratic system requires huge political sacrifice, added Levitsky. “It means A.O.C. campaigning for Liz Cheney” and it means Liz Cheney “putting on the shelf” many policy goals she and other Republicans cherish. “But that is what it takes, and if you don’t do it, just look back and see why democracy collapsed in countries like Germany, Spain and Chile. The democratic forces there should have done it, but they didn’t.”
Liz Cheney or facism. Not a choice, but an echo.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
When you accidentally click a link to a new piece of his on Putin, shrug and vaguely read it, and then encounter this bit of combined sociopolitical and music criticism:
If you look at his behavior, it seems that Putin is quite frightened today by two subjects: arithmetic and Russian history.To understand why these subjects frighten him, you need to first consider the atmosphere enveloping him — something neatly captured, as it happens, in lyrics from the song “Everybody Talks” by one of my favorite rock groups, Neon Trees. The key refrain is:Hey, baby, won’t you look my way?I can be your new addiction.Hey, baby, what you got to say?All you’re giving me is fiction.I’m a sorry sucker, and this happens all the time.I find out that everybody talks.Everybody talks, everybody talks.It started with a whisper.One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a foreign affairs writer reporting from autocratic countries is that no matter how tightly controlled a place is, no matter how brutal and iron-fisted its dictator, EVERYBODY TALKS.
To understand why these subjects frighten him, you need to first consider the atmosphere enveloping him — something neatly captured, as it happens, in lyrics from the song “Everybody Talks” by one of my favorite rock groups, Neon Trees. The key refrain is:
Hey, baby, won’t you look my way?I can be your new addiction.Hey, baby, what you got to say?All you’re giving me is fiction.I’m a sorry sucker, and this happens all the time.I find out that everybody talks.Everybody talks, everybody talks.It started with a whisper.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a foreign affairs writer reporting from autocratic countries is that no matter how tightly controlled a place is, no matter how brutal and iron-fisted its dictator, EVERYBODY TALKS.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
Tom Friedman has Still Got It pic.twitter.com/LuMI8CBucn— Keith Harris (@useful_noise) May 7, 2023
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
does anyone know what year this photo is from
https://i.imgur.com/jjJGUfk.png
― z_tbd, Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Year of the Walrus
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
I sometimes think about the time a C-suite exec at my then-employer was speaking at a departmental meeting and went on a tangent about something in Friedman's The World is Flat book and I left thinking... wow, I don't know about this exec
and he was gone from the company within the year
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
I remember Taibbi's classic take-down of that book. I wonder which of them is worse these days though.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
I think Friedman's never tried to be unorthodox and if someone's coming to his work and picking up ideas from it, that's... probably an indictment of how well-informed they are
His writing can be terrible but it's just an articulation of things his readers already believe, but haven't written bad articles about
― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
absolute king shit
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFbhdU9XAAAUPFv?format=jpg&name=900x900
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFb_ZW_XUAAndy3?format=jpg&name=small
also says My guess is that the next week or so is likely to be the most important in the Gaza war since Hamas launched it on Oct. 7.
just the least self-aware person in the world
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 February 2024 21:00 (seven months ago) link
When you have been spewing BS for so long you have no longer have a sense of the stench.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 February 2024 21:44 (seven months ago) link
“Is there a better description of Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq today?”
I’m no Middle East expert, but I’m gonna go with yes here.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:02 (seven months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/israel-war-rafah-riyadh.html
Friedman's got a great plan folks to solve all Mideast issues if you ignore what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, women and others in Saudi Arabia and those in Yemen (he mentions none of these drawbacks) --
the U.S.-Saudi-Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic-security deal that the administration is close to finalizing the terms of with the Saudi crown prince. It has several components, but the three key U.S.-Saudi ones are: 1) A mutual defense pact between the United States and Saudi Arabia that would take any ambiguity out of what America would do if Iran attacked Saudi Arabia. The United States would come to Riyadh’s defense, and vice versa. 2) Streamlining Saudi access to the most advanced U.S. weapons. 3) A tightly controlled civilian nuclear deal that would allow Saudi Arabia to reprocess its own uranium deposits for use in its own civilian nuclear reactor.
And last, the United States would bring together Israel, Saudi Arabia, other moderate Arab states and key European allies into a single, integrated security architecture to counter Iranian missile threats the way they did on an ad hoc basis when Iran attacked Israel on April 13 in retaliation for an Israeli strike on some senior Iranian military leaders suspected of running operations against Israel, who were meeting at an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria. This coalition will not come together on any continued basis without Israel getting out of Gaza and committing to work toward Palestinian statehood. There is no way Arab states can be seen to be permanently protecting Israel from Iran if Israel is permanently occupying Gaza and the West Bank. U.S. and Saudi officials also know that without Israel in the deal, the U.S.-Saudi security components are not likely to ever get through Congress.
The Biden team wants to complete the U.S.-Saudi part of the deal so that it can act like the opposition party that Israel does not have
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/israel-war-rafah-riyadh.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk0.rXgm.WH78ETdBDTbF&smid=url-share
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 April 2024 21:34 (four months ago) link