Kyle Bailey
Kyle Bailey
@nerdofdoom.bsky.social
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It’s the persistent and self-defeating notion that you should simply blow in the wind with what you perceive as public opinion in any given moment without ever considering that you could take action to push it one way or the other.
The logic here seems to be that when JD Vance said Abdul El-Sayed should show more "gratitude" toward America, El-Sayed should have stayed quiet instead of saying this in response (apologies for interviewing a dynamic Dem politician rather than a centrist pundit) newrepublic.com/article/2169...
This Zeteo interview is infuriating. He can’t defend his posting or his recent writings under a little bit of oppositional questioning. It all just comes down to “my politics are popular and will win by dent of them being my politics”
Yglesias pronounces Mamdani’s name like every conservative does. What is his problem?
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Readers’ attitudes toward Stephen King are a litmus test for me. You don’t have to like his stuff, but if your opinion is he’s a bad writer it makes me think you don’t know what you’re talking about at best, or are a massive snob at worst.
I like The Shining film, but if I were Stephen King I would hate the living shit out of it
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At the end of the day it’s a really really bad look for the Democratic Party no matter how you feel about Hasan. They look more and more like a puppet that is utterly incapable of listening to or responding to the actual desires of their constituents. They are ripe to outflanked by Republicans.
The recent Hasan backlash has bodysnatcher vibes. It’s clearly coordinated, lazy as hell, and utterly self defeating. They need to move on, but for obvious reasons, they cannot. They really want the closing message of the midterm to be “we defeated Hasan, vote for us” which compels no one.