I wrote about all the dispiriting stuff that's happening on Sunday. I am re-posting it today as a gift link to make sure that everyone who wants to get upset can do so as they deem fit. defector.com/beyond-belie... - ThreadSky

davidjroth.bsky.social • 121 days ago

I wrote about all the dispiriting stuff that's happening on Sunday. I am re-posting it today as a gift link to make sure that everyone who wants to get upset can do so as they deem fit. https://defector.com/beyond-belief?giftLink=7fa4fd5f7d5ef8fb5bb640451e54953f

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basketballsocrates.bsky.social•120 days ago

Reading this reminded me of a thought I had: we should have known Trump would win based on how people have been driving the past 4 years

basketballsocrates.bsky.social•120 days ago

📌

rotkoff.bsky.social•119 days ago

hard to put into words how goddamned good this is

davidjroth.bsky.social•119 days ago

Hey thanks

rectagram.bsky.social•120 days ago

“Gaudy and tumid metonym” is masterful. I shall now google “tumid” and “metonym.”

manufacturingtapin.bsky.social•121 days ago

Gee... thanks?
(In all sincerity it was the most hauntingly beautiful thing I've read in some time)

leokitty.bsky.social•120 days ago

thank you david, i am a big fan of upsetting the people i know

davidjroth.bsky.social•120 days ago

It's my job...and my passion..

morv6969.bsky.social•120 days ago

We just need a pivot to a mailbag question about can you take a sandwich in a public restroom with you. But for real life

ilikeashark.bsky.social•120 days ago

this was good I hated it

pat-stack.bsky.social•121 days ago

This was truly good writing, but in a way that made me feel bad. So I guess it was ultimately badly good?

davidjroth.bsky.social•120 days ago

Look it didn't really turn my frown upside down either.

kygosi.bsky.social•121 days ago

I mean it was good—I think a Marxist alienation reading of what our chintzy society is doing to us is pretty dead on and correct. But when you said dispiriting I was hoping for a bathtub gin recipe to get me through.

davidjroth.bsky.social•121 days ago

We are still fine-tuning this

kygosi.bsky.social•121 days ago

Those Atlantic City reforms take time. Like turning a boat

kygosi.bsky.social•121 days ago

Of course “chintzy” comes from some racist British history, fuck me.

orac.bsky.social•120 days ago

📌

seymourbermudez.bsky.social•121 days ago

Read this as something bad was happening on Sunday and was waiting for it the entire piece

nikkicolumbus.bsky.social•120 days ago

Oh wow glad I read your comment before reading the piece because that’s what I thought he was saying too!

kddean.bsky.social•120 days ago

I just can't read it, David. It's not your fault, I have to stay positive for my 17 year old daughter who now has no idea where to go to college now because blue states are completely out.
I am gutted by the stupidity and cruelty of this country

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