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
looking forward to listening (via the black wolf subreddit)
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
I really appreciated their takedown of r/childfree. The idea that you can have a left politics centered on anti-humanism/antinatalism is disgusting to me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
Get to pirating
ok I have successfully waged war and defeated my brain damage and 30 concurrent learning disabilities to make our first episode visible on our Stitcher page https://t.co/28DOxN49j0— Ape’s Delight (@ByYourLogic) February 24, 2021
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
Davos*
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
So, in advance of our 500th ep I put out a listener poll asking people to vote on their all-time favorite eps. Excited to now share the results: pic.twitter.com/fzS8fOuWTj— Chris Wade (@saywhatagain) February 23, 2021
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
pisspig ep too low tbh
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link
the best ones are nearly all in the first couple hundo tbh
― mh, Thursday, 25 February 2021 02:09 (three years ago) link
For topic coverage maybe, but I so hated how bad Matt’s mic would sound back then. Like none of these guys had the proficiency of your basic college DJ or dive bar sound guy just to record a basic voice
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
The tables have turned in the new series. Matt sounds fine, Felix sounds like he set a phone on a table across a bare room.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
I mean a Blue Yeti is cheap and all you have to do is plug it in the the usb port
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 February 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
Yeah, and they couldn’t even do that regularly
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
It’s usually Felix, but in episode 500 it was Amber who couldn’t be bothered to speak into the microphone.
― john shopkins (naus), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Their terrible sound obscures the thing I hate most about podcasts - noise suppression when someone isn’t speaking. I find it very distracting to hear a slight hiss when someone is talking that drops out when they aren’t, it makes the noise more obvious.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
yeah personally I try not to mix out *all* the noise for that reason (and cause you risk producing other weird artifacts)
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
is Virgil just gone now? Was surprised he wasn't on the 500th episode (or maybe he is later but not so far)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
Busy with his Settling Primary Scores podcast.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
doing fine without his ultraleft stats wonk act tbh
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
amber and virgil are bad
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Monday, 1 March 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
😲 https://t.co/ij7jzlMPA3— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) March 2, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:41 (three years ago) link