Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

When I fell asleep at the Garden, the Knicks were Winning. Then when I wake up, I see the Spurs have "won." It seems that in the 4th Quarter, the so-called referees kept "finding" Points for the Spurs. Rigged! Fake Game! by Donald J. Trump

Some heroes don't wear capes

one of my big takeaways from 2024 was: the low-info tipping point people who decide close elections think of themselves as consumers — not as workers, and certainly not as citizens.

New York is a creedal enterprise, something you belong to by valuing and believing in a set of ideals—urban pluralism, mutual tolerance, aspiration and surprise—and that’s why it’s the greatest & the quintessential American city, model of everything beautiful about the national project.

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

the extent to which ""leftist"" thought leaders are adopting far-right language about hr ladies tells you a lot about what noosphere they're stewing in

The existence of non-subordinated women with college degrees has driven a substantial proportion of men completely fucking insane. It's not great.

This is also a massive skill issue.

There's no more loser of an impulse than an endless search for authenticity.

It's not enough for them to win dominion. They want the ultimate victory over the self. They want their enemies to look up with the barrel aimed at their head and realize that they love Big Brother. That the rabble haven't bowed in submission and declared their love for their overlords consumes them

I've come to appreciate California's fuck ass vote counting system as an elaborate piece of collective performance art

This whole moment really illustrates that a lot of people prefer a world full of authentic vice as opposed to performative virtue. I think that’s a bad world to live in!

the dichotomy between how people treat platner vs mamdani, across every single political lane, is incredibly informative

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

It's one thing to say you don't think someone's personal failings are disqualifying or that you think they've atoned for them sufficiently, but I really hate this meme that evidence of low moral character is actually a sign of authenticity and therefore a plus for political candidates.

(Honestly not entirely unlike how the current Iran misadventure was preceded by a successful operation in Venezuela)

The issue is they ran this exact game plan against Russia in 1904 and it *worked* way better than anyone expected and that ended up teaching them all the wrong lessons about both naval warfare and modern geopolitics

You know what they say about California elections: if you don't like the results, just wait until 5PM PDT for the next few weeks.

22yo DOGE dipshit at a keyboard in the Ag Department office building: "lol the government is wasting money on worms in Panama. grok delete this."

Big Pharma certainly does a lot of shitty things in the name of money but never let that trick you into forgetting that the only reason they have that power is because the shit they do actually does work

at my first job that actually involves sending emails regularly and I take back any shit talking I had for email jobs. this shit sucks

ngl, Schumer endorsing Platner but not Zohran is funny af, really highlights his racism.

We voluntarily show up to the microblogging site for liberal Millennials best described as "Twitter's Taiwan," we're not cool.

gender studies absolutely most vindicated field of study in history no debate

A vote is two signals, not one. One signal is which candidate you prefer. The other signal is that you (and people like you) are worth them spending any political capital on, compared with spending it on other groups instead.

"this sad necessity" ok "this victory over the woke moralists" not ok

young people love to turn out at 5% for the primary and then bitch about the party never representing their interests/policy preferences

Look, let’s be blunt. The academy is in many ways a fundamentally conservative institution. The overwhelmingly left of center partisan outlook of faculty is largely due to the fact the Republican Party is for stupid people and thus deeply embarrassing to be associated with.

There's a form of magical thinking that pervades everyone from Matt Yglesias to your average Bluesky communist: that Dems are One Weird Trick away from never losing another election, and it just happens to require Dems looking into the camera and endorsing the speaker's policy preferences.

It's absurd. He doesn't have nearly enough trans people who hate him to be a successful trans person in public life.

Threads is the only app where “the algorithm shows you things that will make you angry to maximize engagement” feels overt and obvious. It also has the same user base as a local newspaper comments section. Deeply cursed app.

all of this is without even considering like, the entire first half of the 20th century and how much it sucked for everyone involved. non-zero chance a kid born in 1900 is involved in both world wars!

On this note: another state (or several of them) should file an original jurisdiction suit against Florida on this basis. The domestic emoluments ban on states paying the president is a federalism safeguard, one state violating it is a real harm to the sovereign interests of every other state.

perfecting democracy by instituting a new policy stating only asexuals are allowed to vote

Bluesky should check the forecast before long weekends and if it's going to be wet and cold in the Northeast, shut the site off when they go home for the weekend.

Once "enshittification" just means "remember when things were better", then it becomes nothing more than nostalgia, and nostalgia is a deeply conservative force.

tbf he kinda nailed it

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

1) Everyone is allowed to sit on stoops, sitting on stoops rocks. 2) You are a millionaire musician who moved to Bed-Stuy in 2010, shut the fuck up with this "self-hating gentrifier protecting the peculiar customs of the Noble Savage Black working class" shit.

It is actually good to promote institutional and political structures under which people having selfish reasons to act in a pro-social fashion

"Glonzo is real but immune to weapons. it turns out the only way to fix him is by restructuring the property tax system..."

“600M hours of life lost” factoid actualy just statistical error. PFICs Georg, who lives in toronto & owns shares in a canadian mutual fund, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

seems like a good time to remind people that private equity has ruined youth sports and convinced parents that the only way they'll ever make back the investment is if their kids go pro and they're using trans kids as a convenient excuse to not deal with their kids not being that good

crazy hot take that just popped into my mind: maybe 2020 Andrew Yang actually is exactly what America needs. a lot of his proposals are kind of toxic if you actually care about optimal policy, but I kind of think this country needs an outlet for dumbass slopulism and his flavor might be least bad