The last person to notice the building is on fire doesn't deserve a prize. Especially if he's been excusing arsonists for decades. - ThreadSky

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social • 3 days ago

The last person to notice the building is on fire doesn't deserve a prize. Especially if he's been excusing arsonists for decades.

Reposted from sarah jeong

reeling about the prospect of having to apologize to david brooks

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pishaward.bsky.social•3 days ago

Plus he either has no clue about the massive 50501 movement or is ignoring it. Both options are garbage.

detectivemittens.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m going to be generous here and say that it’s because he’s unaware because he’s wildly out of touch…

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean we're building coalitions and we should welcome them in, in most cases, but that's not the same as lavishing praise of them for showing up in the eleventh hour....

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•3 days ago

But in this case we're not talking about your right-straying auntie in private life; we're talking about a leading centrist-conservative voice who's been harming the public conversation for decades.

dvbee.bsky.social•2 days ago

NAME: FASCISM
Let's review this week
The IRS watchdog was removed.
Fed Chair faced pressure.
Courts overlooked due process
Universities and Law firms fell in line,
But Harvard remained steadfast
Murkowski broke the silence - NOW Lisa is afraid
AOC and Bernie continue to march
#weekinreview

keir-pdx.bsky.social•3 days ago

If Pythagoras, who believed the earth was round, met an Greek who had believed the earth was flat but now grasped the enormity of a round earth, well, I hope Pythagoras wouldn't judge but welcome them. It's not time to count angels on the head of a pin, it's time to pull together for a new vision.

russ741.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean, literally within the last year:

russ741.bsky.social•3 days ago

I expect he fancies himself a leader, but... no. There's room for him in our big ol' tent, but his spine's way too flimsy to be a load-bearing tentpole.

nancymittens.bsky.social•2 days ago

This.

lizamazel.bsky.social•3 days ago

oh ffs.

i mean ultimately the goal is for all these overplayed, overpaid fatuous twits to go work putting in the little iPhone screws or be baristas or something

sorry, that was a bit Maoist. I meant: just fire/deplatform their asses

lizamazel.bsky.social•3 days ago

right, i think the tenor is less "wow, thank you, David Brooks, Our Hero" and more "holy shit, as bellwethers go that's kind of ominous for this admin"

also note he's "not a protest person," doesn't march, & like, bitch, it's not that hard, really, go on, give it a try

so precious still

corybee.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seriously, he can come with us, but he needs to shut up about anything that isn’t how wrong he was

billbuchman.bsky.social•3 days ago

David just wants the Bobos to let him back into paradise

enjohnston.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also, this is maybe the only modestly interesting/intelligent thing the guy has said in....I don't know how long. In an equitable world, he'd never have such a perch.

lizdynan.bsky.social•3 days ago

And dividing people into exotic deli meat knowers and the rest. He's not even Earth Two, he's in an entirely different galaxy.
(sorry, can't abide him)😋

ricecp.bsky.social•2 days ago

Muster

https://bsky.app/profile/silencedogoodbos.bsky.social/post/3ln4uwxqq5c2n

retepsenhol.bsky.social•3 days ago

Amen, sister. “I’m shocked at the behavior of the monsters I’ve excused, justified and enabled for decades.” Welcome to reality, Mr Brooks. Now retire.

ericswedlund.bsky.social•3 days ago

David is welcome in the coalition, but he has to sit in the back and shut the fuck up

bobbin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Apparently he’s “not a movement guy” and doesn’t “attend” rallies, so not exactly showing up. Us “stifling progressives” are too much for him, but I guess he’d like us to do the work of organizing Trump’s takedown anyway, but maybe without naming our pronouns. God I hate that guy.

professorplague.bsky.social•3 days ago

I get some real mixed feelings about finding myself on the same side of the street as the most guileless and consistently dead-wrong man to ever slap a byline on a NYT op-ed column.

tomwprice.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fair, but if lavishing praise helps them feel better about bringing others along and expanding our base, then that's (part of) the work.

kathleenflint.com•3 days ago

David Brooks can come to the march but under no circumstances should he expect to be honored for doing so

lizdynan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ack no. Because as soon as we reach even the slightest lull in hostilities they start up talking about middle grounds, compromises etc and the whole cycle begins again.😬

pdpittsburgh.bsky.social•3 days ago

at a social event with liberals who 2 weeks ago dismissed the protests as pointless. now because of Brooks, they are showing some interest. One person even asked about joining the local Tesla protest. Channeling my inner Mariame Kaba, I said "welcome"and gave him the protest info. sigh

alanneff.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe we phrase it this way: "Thank you, Mr. Brooks, et al, for finally waking the f**k up from your decades-long political coma."

scorkran.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you. He really thinks he discovered first virtue, now urgency.

whoarewekidding.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is all stupid, the only thing that matters is it coalesces into an agreement to do something, and actions to actually do that thing. If the result is just arguing about who was right when, it's just more of the same pointless navel gazing.

seekingtheroot.bsky.social•3 days ago

Every point he makes in this piece was applicable & clearly perceivable on Tue, Nov. 8, 2016, as well as on Fri, Jan. 20, 2017. He, Dem leadership, and all other leaders who take America seriously have failed us catastrophically. NOTHING has changed but for the implementation of what he promised.

dribrats.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XXtoCjk5c

evilgalprods.bsky.social•3 days ago

hot damn, Rebecca

mannahattamamma.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you. Ditto Lisa Murkowski et al

radewyngaert.bsky.social•2 days ago

lol

tadummmmmmmmmmmm.bsky.social•3 days ago

But he quoted Marks! (-:

escarton.bsky.social•3 days ago

All that matters is that people come together to fight what is going on. Blaming, name calling etc- just perpetuates all the reasons we got to where we are. No prizes. I'm just grateful to anyone who wakes up and is ready to take action. I am focused on this present moment.

mellowwayne.bsky.social•3 days ago

His persnickety use of progressive in that piece, didn’t exactly cozy him up to liberal ideology, but I’m glad more conservatives are speaking out, if five-7 years too late.

heidilifeldman.bsky.social•3 days ago

💯

blurosie.bsky.social•2 days ago

He deserves no credit IMO
He helped form this moment

mytfinn.bsky.social•3 days ago

At some point we have to gather all the advocates we can. No matter from whence they came.

thatgd.bsky.social•3 days ago

Now is not the time to harass former Trump supporters for starting to see the truth. Now is the time to invite them to join us in solidarity to save the country.

If they want to be our allies, we need to focus on that.

Otherwise we’ll do that Democratic Party thing, and attack our own interests.

davidmizner.bsky.social•3 days ago

I's absurd to think he's ally. The uprising he envisions is a conservative one. In that very column he dismisses the Bernie-AOC rallies. He wants a Lincoln Project revolution. It's a fantasy. A popular front, sure, but it should be and would be driven and sustained by progressive politics.

bike-lab.org•2 days ago

Wendy Brown gave a lecture on campus during T's first term, that fascism was "neoliberalism's scorpion tail." Brooks, McConnell, etc. were willing to go along with Trump to retain power, thinking they could control him.

Brooks is finally getting that they can't.

nancydrigotas.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly. He's just another collaborator looking for new friends. The old ones told him to fuck off years ago.

uptownscott.bsky.social•3 days ago

Having Brooks on board is permission for non-progressives to take notice and participate.

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes it is but he still doesn't deserve a prize.

smhten.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sure but Brooks is noticing a lot more than some other people who should already have done so, eg Chuck Schumer.

maggiemarbles.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's far from the last. There are people who still think the smoke is air freshener. To the extent people like Brooks have a mission, it's to persuade them otherwise.

isaac32767.picknit.com•3 days ago

Worse than that: he's still talking about "stifling progressivism." That makes him pro-arsonist, and in denial about the fact.

jimfusilli.bsky.social•3 days ago

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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