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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
@JeremiahDJohns
Founder @CNLiberalism. Writing at Infinite Scroll. Carly Rae Jepsen stan. Send me the worst tweets on this site. https://t.co/xONcXY5PQv
Jun 27 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known.

A thread of some examples:

Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:

MGMT playing 'Kids' to a crowd of maybe 25 people on a college quad:

Apr 28 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Older books are selling, newer ones aren’t. Old music is all the rage, newer artists can barely get played. Older video games and old movie franchises suck up all the attention.

In almost every field, old art is strangling new art. 🧵 Let's start with music.

In 2010, current music was 57% of sales with 'catalog' (older songs) taking 43%.

In 2024, catalog made up a whopping **73%** of music sales. New music is increasingly irrelevant to the music industry. Image
Mar 4 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I usually try not to post too hysterically because it's not strategically useful, but you really do need to admit that the completely hysterical anti-Trumpers were right about everything.

People are always attempting to sanewash Trump's latest idiocy, and it always fails. He doesn't have complicated geopolitical theories about war and peace. He just likes Russia and likes Putin. That's it. Every idea more complicated than that fails.
Dec 17, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
It's been a long year - but it's finally time. Announcing the Worst Tweets of 2024 Bracket!

I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of the most deranged posts on this website.

Only the very worst were chosen. Now it's time to crown a champion. Image The field of 64 is divided into four regions:

* The WTF Region
* The Weird Conservative Region
* The Weird Woke Region
* The Israel/Palestine Region

Voting threads are below! May the worst tweet win! Image
Dec 17, 2024 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
***Weird Conservative Region Voting Thread***

(1) Jordan Peterson Elmo
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(16) German Pride Image
Image Vote:
Aug 31, 2024 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Recently Richard Hanania wrote an article about how - despite his belief that the GOP is a party of lazy, conspiratorial, bigoted, anti-democracy morons - he's going to vote for them anyways.

His reasoning? Economic growth.

This is very dumb, and deserves a thorough rebuttal. Image First: It's kind of insane to *only* care about economic growth. But let's concede the point. Say that literally all you care about is growth - what next?

Even in that case, it's a terrible idea to support Trump. He has terrible ideas and would be a disaster for the economy.
Jul 11, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The 'empty quadrant' is one of the most replicated findings in housing research.

There expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs. Image But that chart's data only goes through 2013, you say! Sure. What if we use a completely different data source and time period?

Top right quadrant is still empty. Image
May 26, 2024 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: Image "smoking while pregnant" Image
Mar 21, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A thread of DoorDash takes:

"I am entitled to DoorDash and can't eat a frozen dinner, because I am disabled and frozen food has 'histamines' in it." Image "I am upset that you call hand-delivery of restaurant quality meals to my home a luxury service" Image
Feb 24, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Every piece of info we have suggests that building housing reduces rents

quick thread: Image The places that build are all cheap

The places that are expensive? None of them build Image
Jan 13, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"The Houthis are allowed to attack Swedish merchant ships until Israel stops bombing Gaza" is just utterly insane logic.

"Let's start fires in Central Park until Dubai has gay marriage. I'm gonna kick puppies until we expand Medicare." What the fuck are you talking about? If you hear anyone say "it's only targeting ships headed for Israel" they are lying to you. They think you're too stupid to google for 10 seconds.

They're attacking ships completely at random - here's a Norweigan ship traveling from Malaysia to Italy.

politico.eu/article/norway…
Jan 12, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There's a whole generation whose only foreign policy views are "US invade Iraq! US bad! No forever war!"

Even in a very different scenario, where the Houthis are repeatedly trying to murder civilians, they can still only repeat "No Forever War! US bad!"

Not one of these people has an actual suggestion for what the international reaction should be to the repeated attempted murder of civilian sailors on merchant ships. Silence. Nothing. They don't care.

All they want to do, or even know how to do, is smugly yell America Bad.
Dec 14, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The Worst Tweets bracket is down to the Egregious Eight!

Vote below! Image To all the tweets that have made it this far, thank your for your contributions to The Discourse.

The committee also wishes to share this special message with you:

Dec 13, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
We're down to the 16 Worst Tweets of 2023!

Congratulations to the horrifying takes that have made it this far. Voting is below! Image The final four posts remaining in the Bean Dad region:

(9) Transfem Hitler
vs
(5) Cannibalism
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Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
***Israel/Palestine Containment Zone***

(1) Disability Representation
vs
(16) Gaza in China
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Image Vote
Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
***Chili Neighbor Region Voting Thread***

(1) Balaji's Bet
vs
(16) Tate's Incels
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Image Vote:
Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
***Coffee Wife Region Voting Thread***

(1) George Floyd Refs
vs
(16) Adoption is Trafficking
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Image Vote:
Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
***Bean Dad Region Voting Thread***

(1) "No Bananas under Socialism" discourse
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(16) My grift

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Image Vote:
Dec 11, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
After a long year, it's finally time. Announcing the Worst Tweets of 2023 Bracket!

I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of deranged tweets, awful takes, and the most insane discourses on this site. Only 64 were chosen.

Now it's time to crown a champion. Image The rules:

* No Elon Musk. It's too easy and would end up being half the bracket.
* We're not just looking for regular bad. We're not looking for normal slapfights.
* We're looking for that special brand of insanity you only get on twitter.
Oct 10, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The difference between the AOC & Tlaib statements is very interesting if you know what to look for.

I often disagree with AOC but she tends to be the most reasonable of The Squad, and that's on full display here. A short thread on what to look for in statements like these:
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Image First: AOC says directly "I condemn Hamas's attack".

Tlaib does not mention Hamas. It does not mention the attacks directly or condemn them. Reading Tlaib's statement, you literally can't even tell who attacked who.
May 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There's a type of progressivism that is incredibly concerned with "which groups had voices heard" and "Have we done lots of process and planning" and "did we equitably include all stakeholders", but gives absolutely zero fucks about whether anything gets accomplished. Progressive cities are basically run on this principle.

Here's a bus stop project in LA that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It won't do anything for anyone, but there was a lot of Fact Finding and Inclusion of Groups Whose Voices Must Be Heard.