broberts.lol
Just another annoying gay leftist lawyer/writer. NYer currently based in LA. Formerly brobertslaw elsewhere
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the population's knowledge of how the world works is filtered through the media they consume. The geographic isolation of the US allows for the isolation of political ideals. (Admittedly I'm writing this from a hotel room in Barcelona so this has been top of mind this week)
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It's an angle I've never really taken the time to write out, but I do think keeping American wages low to intentionally limit the average American's opportunity to be exposed to the standards of the rest of the world is part of the game. Easier to keep a limited political spectrum if most of 1/2
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"bro I know exactly the opposite of what I just said is happening right now but imagine if it wasn't, right bro?"
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This feels like the centrist nerd version of the “firebombing a Wal-Mart” bit. A lot of people saying “just go win elections” seem to never actually win elections. Especially rich with a Fetterman guy involved, whose election/fundraising success was on the back of claiming to be progressive
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Yankee Stadium has a short porch; Boston suffers from a short pole. Hate to see it.
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Is it some sort of paying cultural dues to the type of dirtbag I just narrowly missed out on being? Who's to say; I'll continue to buy packs of Camel Crush at 2am wherever/whenever permitted
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It's something that I have such conflicted feelings about- I've never been a regular smoker, I didn't grow up with regular smokers, I absolutely accept that it is a societal good that it isn't the norm... and yet! I feel essentially obligated to smoke inside where permitted (Vegas, NOLA, Tokyo)
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I'm a Yankees fan (sorry) and there's nothing funnier to me than when, 8 innings into a game the Yankees are handily winning, the camera cuts to the dugout and we see Aaron Boone vibrating with rage and screaming at the ump. Like bro at this point I'm more worried about your oncoming aneurysm
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On-demand wheat grinder (can do other grains at higher rates)
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This unlocked a memory for me and I quickly confirmed that yeah, this is ~80 minutes from my childhood home, and is absolutely the type of thing my grandfather would've stopped at driving from Lake George to Burlington or wherever we clearly took a day trip. Maybe it was only to this!
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The smart decisions is to get both and then flip (at cost, of course!) whichever we don't go to, but LA only getting 1 show to Brooklyn's 3 is rough. If Brooklyn gets varied setlists and we only get the 1 LA show and I'm still living here I'll be sad
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Wow, did not think this would ever happen. Ed's got a successful therapy practice in Echo Park; imagine having to find a new therapist because your guy is doing a revival tour with his old band. (I say this lovingly as someone who will 100% see this tour) www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapist...
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Day 2 is likely the best musically/worst with overlaps. Some brutal decisions to make.
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Shocked that Jay Johnston isn't in this administration yet. Feel like he can't be worse in front of a camera than what we've seen
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I also can't pass up the opportunity to remind folks that he had a run as Edna Turnblad on Broadway and, by all reports, crushed it.