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31 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Quillette is so good. I didn't think it'd survive the broader political movement with which it's aligned blossoming into fash-aspiring Facebook-brained incoherence, but these prissy weirdos doing posts about how weird and gross they find other people have really hung in there!
This is obviously inspired by the Quillettesman with a Yale grad degree huffily blaming Arm & Hammer for selling him dog shampoo with a big picture of a happy dog on it, but I am inspired by all of these well-credentialed Big Thinkers who presumably must wear velcro sneakers.
The only other thing I propose is a general agreement to pronounce the name of the website as Quee-yet.
Here is a good story about this guy and his terrible mom. All these types of writers are fundamentally doing the same work, which mostly is being fixated on "new" cultural things that frighten them and feeling as if that response is somehow brave.

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1 Sep 20
With regard to "We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms," I will remind you that the President is a replacement-level Facebook Gossip Elder. newrepublic.com/article/159021…
Trump compulsively adds hedges and decimal points to shit he makes up to make it seem more convincing, which is something that little kids also like to do but also gives us the opportunity to imagine a plane that's 90% masked antifa commandos and also a few business travelers.
/sitting in my assigned seat answering email as the plane fills up with the looters and the rioters and the anarchists after the gate agent calls the Antifa Select Plus group to board "Uh, check please."
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3 Jun 20
Trump's signature combination of viciousness, idiocy, and pure soft laziness means that the only thing he really can think of to do with power is send someone to go brutalize other people for him and then be like "we kicked their ass, huh." There's a big constituency for that.
But I think most people can see that as the shameful thing it is. I hope and I sense that most people can see that hurting people on behalf of delicate rich sadists is a shitty, shameful thing to do.
Because of how those doing that hurting are dressed, and how people are conditioned to respond to those uniforms, there's a disconnect. But at some point I have to believe it's going to become clear that they're not only not helping, but that they see their whole job as hurting.
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18 Apr 20
The famous phrase universally associated with tremendous success and peerless executive judgment.
These astroturfed protests are pathetic and ugly, but they fit an emerging pattern for both Trump and big business types, which was established through our forever wars—just accept mass death as normal because changing course is too difficult/annoying. newrepublic.com/article/157322…
I'm not optimistic, but conservative media, Trump himself, and local GOP astroturf groups are trying to will this "movement" into being and it seems like it's still just some weird boomers in their cars and the same gun-toting divorced guys as always.
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1 Dec 19
Pardon the earnestness but good writing is so fun to find, just in the sense of some strange/surprising phrase that absolutely rings out and makes sense. I read a sentence earlier today in which Italo Calvino described a shitty beach on a sunless day as "water the color of fish."
I don't even know how I'd explain what that means, but that's why he's a better writer than me. A thousand idiotic forces try to break language every day and there are still somehow new, strange, illuminating ways to put words together.
The sentence is from Into The War, which is very short and winsome and honestly probably not really something you need to read unless you want to read everything Calvino wrote, which is something I decided at some point that I want to do.
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18 Jul 19
I won't keep spamming my TNR bit but I feel compelled to note that every stagger Trump takes towards pure racial fascism is led by Fox News. The more white nationalist they get the more white nationalist he gets, because it's all he watches and he obsesses over their approval.
He doesn't have ideas, really. He doesn't read and doesn't listen, and all he knows about what's happening in the world is what he sees on Fox News and Fox Business, which he watches because they cover him a lot. If they're going in on Ilhan Omar, he will, too, just the same.
This is how conservative media works re: staking out extreme positions and making pols gesture in that direction. This is just a uniquely stupid, uniquely insecure guy. Everyone capitulating to him is as craven and lame as they've always been. It's just not come to this before.
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