if you were in high school or college from 2001 to 2004 there is a decent chance that half or more of your conversations were just you and your friends performing chappelle’s show bits
also lines from his HBO specials. cannot count the number of times i used “i want some of that purple stuff” at parties in college
one last thing about chappelle’s show: i will always be astounded they aired the “blind black white supremacist” sketch on television, even cable
incidentally that was the sketch that introduced 13/14-year-old me to the idea of “social construction of race”
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“our cities are concrete hellscapes but at least i always have a place to park!”
even in a place like charlottesville, it is an uphill battle to convince decision makers that actually, yes, you can have a vibrant downtown without building hundreds of additional structured parking spaces
“i disapprove of the virus’ killing spree but it supports pro-life judges and that’s enough for me”
“you know, i am uncomfortable with how the virus wants to infect my respiratory system and use me as a vehicle for its own propagation, but its tax plan would really help the economy”
the congressional leadership strategy of running on health care did not work, AOC gave a constructive interview noting the ways in which moderate Democrats did not maximize their own advantages to their own detriment, and the response is to, i guess, double down on failure.
One helpful thing here would be if people got out of their feelings and actually read what Ocasio-Cortez said, which wasn’t “adopt my views” but “build campaigns that can actually reach voters where they are, especially digitally.”
As I understand it, AOC’s message is this: There’s nothing stopping moderate Democrats from building institutional capacity, adopting cutting-edge techniques, and modernizing their campaign infrastructure, and progressives are willing to help if they want it.
I've said this a few times before but I am not so certain there is anyone who can replicate Trumpism and get the same political results except for Trump. Somehow, we still greatly underrate the extent to which Trump's sui generis celebrity is his special sauce.
Yep, tens of millions of people over the course of a decade watched a "reality" television show that relentlessly pushed the idea that Trump was among America's greatest businessmen. Who else has that kind of juice?
Some future Republican may be able to assemble a winning coalition for a similar politics, but I don't think we can just assume it will be Trump + competence, since I don't think Trump's appeal to marginal voters happens on the level of "normal" politics.
rewatched MICHAEL CLAYTON and boy, this movie. it’s perfect. flawless. and those last fifteen minutes? sublime.
the crazy thing about it, upon this rewatch, is that in memory it feels like a movie that is constantly moving, but it actually has these nice moments where it just breathes and lives in the world its built.
it's a nearly two hour movie that feels barely longer than 80 minutes