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― mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
wow, the article is even worse than the headline, great job kevin
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 January 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
oh, cool! Kevin's back!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 January 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
'Elizabeth Warren is not proposing a tax; she’s proposing asset forfeiture' reads the subhead, as if asset forfeiture is not a very real thing which already exists in the usa and is regularly abused to permanently part vulnerable people from their belongings on the flimsiest of pretexts
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
holy shit that rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 January 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
pretty rough out there for rich white folks
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― mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
it is with a heavy heart that i must report that kevin d williamson is back on his bullshit
The rhetoric of elimination and the politics of resentment attached to it are dangerous and unworthy. “Okay,” wrote one critic, “but what would you do about inequality?”Good question.Nothing.
Good question.
Nothing.
If the rich were radically less rich, the poor and the middle class would, at best, still be where they are. In some ways, they’d almost certainly be worse off: A disproportionate share of U.S. economic growth, wage growth, and employment growth has been driven by a relatively small number of startup companies. As Vivek Wadhwa of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program put it: “Without startups, there would be no net job growth in the U.S. economy.” Technology startups are driven by venture capital, and venture capital is a rich man’s game. The “PayPal mafia” — the group of young entrepreneurs who got rich from that startup — went on to form Tesla, LinkedIn, Palantir, SpaceX, Yelp, YouTube, and others. Their investments helped build Facebook, Spotify, Lyft, and Airbnb, among others. Startup-heavy California has 12 percent of the U.S. population but accounts for 16 percent of its job growth and 14.2 percent of its economic output. Nobody wants to hear it, but inequality is part of what makes that happen.
so there you have it, folks - the answer to inequality is STARTUPS for some reason, so stop whining
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
Democrats are about to embark on the first woke primary, a gantlet of political correctness that will routinely wring abject apologies out of candidates and find fault in even the most sure-footed. The passage of time will be no defense. Nor the best of intentions. Nor anything else.
Any lapses will be interpreted through the most hostile lens, made all the more brutal by the competition of a large field of candidates vying for the approval of a radicalized base. The Democrat nomination battle might as well be fought on the campus of Oberlin College and officiated by the director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
it's a little over dramatic but i'm not so sure that's wrong
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
the last primary was pretty woke, most attacks on bernie sanders came from an ID politics POV
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
(all his supporters are white male racist misogynist brocialists)
If it's not wrong it's not bad either
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
republicans literally believe equity, diversity, and inclusion are bad things
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgxNXtK8Nus
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
only subtly different from holding the gop nomination battle at NRA headquarters with grover norquist officiating
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
I find the people who feel compelled to tell me that they don’t like me but like my dogs fascinating. Who are they keeping it real for? Do they walk around feeling like they proved their integrity by telling me that they like my muddy spaniel but don’t like me? pic.twitter.com/WTQ9ouDqxt— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) February 18, 2019
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 February 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
lot going on there
who is the gif of shooter mcgavin supposed to represent here? jonah?
is he suggesting that he, jonah, identifies with the deeply unpleasant villain of happy gilmore? if so, credit for self-awareness i guess
― “Emotional Interest Underwear” (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 February 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
The state of affairs.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Certainly standing athwart something or other
― moose; squirrel (silby), Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
Standing athwart a urinal
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
what an insightful anecdote that definitely really happened:Forgive me for repeating this story, but it’s a useful one: I have a relative who thinks of himself as a conservative. When I told him eleven years ago that I was coming to work for National Review, which I had been reading since I was a teenager, his response came in the form of this question: “Is that the one with that ol’ boy from New York who talks like a queer?” That’s what a pretty-well-representative septuagenarian Republican voter knew about William F. Buckley Jr. in 2008.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:57 (five years ago) link
It stands to reason that Buckley should have socked himself in the face
― Dan I., Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
my gramps told everyone in 1961 'no, that lad is just a femme-positive-cis-het-male, like most of that magazine's staff, probly due to early, but luckily limited, soy-exposure.' alt right has such deep roots
― Hunt3r, Monday, 11 March 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
lol
Jonah Goldberg is not just looking for a fight. He’s hoping for a “big, internal, honking fight” to revive the Republican Party, and to fuel the high-profile new media outlet he announced last month with Steve Hayes, a former editor-in-chief of the Review’s long-time rival, The Weekly Standard, to form a new conservative media company.Goldberg’s venture is notable in part because he’s in it, one of the few sought-out, reasonable voices in media today. But it’s also worth watching because of Goldberg’s vow to break through the siloes much of journalism now finds itself in. The new outlet, he says, will steer away from fan service when it launches this summer. “So much news we see, the audience already agrees with what they’re reading, and they want to be right,” he says. Goldberg plans to challenge the groupthink that he sees accompany “across the ideological spectrum” with “breaking political and cultural firestorms,” like the Covington kids or the Kavanaugh hearings. “If a tulip bulb mania were to break out, we want to be the place that explains both why it’s happening and why you shouldn’t sell your house to buy more tulips.”
Goldberg’s venture is notable in part because he’s in it, one of the few sought-out, reasonable voices in media today. But it’s also worth watching because of Goldberg’s vow to break through the siloes much of journalism now finds itself in. The new outlet, he says, will steer away from fan service when it launches this summer. “So much news we see, the audience already agrees with what they’re reading, and they want to be right,” he says. Goldberg plans to challenge the groupthink that he sees accompany “across the ideological spectrum” with “breaking political and cultural firestorms,” like the Covington kids or the Kavanaugh hearings. “If a tulip bulb mania were to break out, we want to be the place that explains both why it’s happening and why you shouldn’t sell your house to buy more tulips.”
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/jonah-goldberg-national-review-steve-hayes.php
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
can't wait!!!!
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
'pssst... hey buddy, wanna cut through the groupthink?'
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― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
never, ever gets old
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
Every time I see that picture I think about how humid and sticky that plasticy car seat fabric must be and how many fast food bags he had to clear out of the way to make a seat for you.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
and when he finally starts the car the empty water bottle and Dr. Pepper cans roll from under the seat against your feet.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
i am being attacked on this board and if i had mod powers i would ban everyone
― you know who deserves sitewide mod privileges? (m bison), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
There are those who believe that Trump is fit for office, in mind and character, and those who do not. That has always been the case. It has never changed. And I guess never will. To a degree, the Mueller report is like a Rorschach test.— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) April 18, 2019
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
In conclusion, Trump is a land of contrasts.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
AGAINSTRORSCHACH TESTS
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
he is vaguely rorschach blot-shaped
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 19 April 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link
*hurm*
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 19 April 2019 06:03 (five years ago) link
Lord help me, I'm looking at what National Review had to say about the Voting Rights Act this morning. pic.twitter.com/HRzhEDNmG9— David Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) April 23, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company with Steve Hayes, who was editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard when its owner shut it down in December.
Details: Goldberg and Hayes tell me they plan a reporting-driven, Trump-skeptical company that will begin with newsletters as soon as this summer, then add a website in September, and perhaps ultimately a print magazine.
Hayes, the likely CEO, and Goldberg, likely the editor-in-chief, are the founders.
Hayes tells me about the startup, which doesn’t have a name now: "We believe there’s a great appetite on the center-right for an independent conservative media company that resists partisan boosterism and combines a focus on old-school reporting with interesting and provocative commentary and analysis."
Hayes and Goldberg are seeking investors.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link
i too am seeking investors
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
word on the street is that the center-right is where it's at right now, tons of people in that category, looking for some honest news
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
the cool thing about seeking investors is if you find the right ones you don't have to seek any readers
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
^^bingo
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
aka The Buckley Dictum
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
here's an exclusive peek at jonah's new hq
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
We're going to start with a personalized license late, then add a billboard in September, then maybe some skywriting in the future.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
"Whaddup, homies. I'm coolin' it behind the Walmart in Alexandria. Hit me up if u want an assignment."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company
I coulda sworn this happened already. How many of these no-constituency outlets do they really fuckin need
― Simon H., Wednesday, 8 May 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
this pro-biden anti-busing article in the national review is extremely racist. who would have guessed pic.twitter.com/0Jmwo7i3ip— Sparky Abraham (@sparkyabraham) May 15, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 04:30 (five years ago) link
We have too many NRO threads.
We need your support to continue the unending battle against Socialists. https://t.co/GhbXvQVWJv via @MichaelBD pic.twitter.com/5vcVjLNndo— National Review (@NRO) May 30, 2019
― Simon H., Friday, 31 May 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SomberShockingArkshell-size_restricted.gif
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 May 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
Just like the right wing dove
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 31 May 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link