Dark Money by Jane Mayer

Dude I just read your transcript with Douthat and you completely mischaracterized the criticism you got. What is going on?

Maximalist Bechdel

Not all thinking is good. Thoughts can be bad. This is very silly.

"...I brought the back of my hand down across the side of her cheek in one swift motion that would land her in the nurse's office. The sound reverberated off the trees with a sickening thwack. It sounded like an isolated high-hat from one of Puffy's drum machines."

Too squeamish for self-mutilation so instead I just get terrible haircuts.

Rappers are just as funny with mixtapes. Young Thug dropped his first "album" a decade into his career.

Name a random NYC rapper from 1998 and chances are they'll be cooler than Puffy

My ratio of over-preparedness for puberty / actual androgenic hairs grown is pretty dismal.

Why did they think I'd freak out so bad? I had met adult humans. I knew where they stored their bodily hair.

Manscaped isn't a real for-profit company. It was originally conceived as a convoluted way to humiliate podcasters.

One comment is from a lesbian who thins the queer community wouldn't accept her marriage to a trans man...

I was not prepared for the comments to the Andrew Sullivan piece. Yeesh.

"He wanted equal rights for himself but his open bigotry and fealty to a repressive church meant that his writing was nakedly self-contradictory. Which made him a fun read."

Andrew Sullivan? Andrew fucking Sullivan?

so you're just racist?

lol go away

My niece already understands foreshortening, which puts her way ahead of the ancient Phoenicians. Eat it Phoenicia.

In short, no one was doing what you're doing here. If you don't get art that isn't meant for you, sometimes its best to accept that and move on.

The retaliatory violence was immediately licensed through the inciting event and not just through an abstract oppression. So memes were celebratory and unapologetic. No one was concern trolling about optics. That's why this art is so insouciant.

What do you call a barrier meant to prevent the black market sale of racist swordfighters?

An offensive fencer fencing fence.

Step 1: Get into niche hobby

Step 2: Immediately start worrying about niche hobby's imminent decline

Maybe I watch too much True Crime but it seems like the default 911 operator's tone is "incredulous":

Caller: I got shot!

Operator: You got SHOT?!?!

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Also, David deserves his GLAAD award for these reads alone.

As if you don't know who they are, I'll introduce our two debaters. [Throughout the introduction, McFarlane is visibly undressing behind his podium and donning yellow boxer shorts and a bathrobe, slinging a towel so that it completely covers his head and shoulders.] I'll do it alphabetically. He is the writer of The Incredible Hulk and Sachs & Violens and, more germane to this particular debate, the writer of the regular weekly column in Comics Buyer's Guide, But I Digress, Mr. Peter David. [Audience ovation] And [Pérez eyes McFarlane's new state of dress, including covered face] - This isn't a rebuttal yet! This wasn't the three minutes you were talking about, are they, Mr. McFarlane? (McFarlane doesn't respond.] And, if words don't fail me now, I guess visuals will have to. OK, the creator of Spawn and co-founder of Image Comics, and easily one of the more influential people in this business, Mr. Todd McFarlane. [McFarlane turns on a boom box, which fails to play. He sits back down, without a word.]

Reading the transcript of the 1993 Peter David vs Todd MacFarlane debate and holy shit MacFarlane is Michael Scott:

[𝘔𝘤𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘰𝘹, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺. 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥.]

Yup, and that friend is still rationalizing it by saying he "changed"

Of course, the vagueness is the point, so an audience can project whatever they want "Abundance" to mean.

Watching Sam Seder desperately try to coax some sort of unifying policy out of Ezra Klein while the latter just leaps from one hyperlocal anecdote to the next.

DNC: "We need a Joe Rogan of the left."

Ezra Klein: "Say no more. I'll start cussing."

He kept dropping f-bombs talking with Sam Seder and it sounded like a fifth grader trying them out for the first time.