quoproquid.bsky.social
he / him, đłď¸âđ âď¸. i work on IR and security policy but mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. design lead for TNO. makes silly election games.
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well, they did leave behind some really lovely cafes
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itâs considerably less fun to watch the machine bleed to death when you are trapped inside it
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thanks jamelle
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yeah, i don't think red white and royal blue is *terrible* within the genre but it would be nice to get some diversity instead of the usual cadre of 18-21yo protagonists
(i believe "the summer we ran" is predominately set in the 90s when the characters are 18 with a 25-year flash forward)
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when will the cowards in the romance industry publish some barely concealed triden fan fic? when will they subject america to jfk/nixon slashfic?
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there was no reality in which the editorial board was going to endorse zohran but burying their opinion in such an awful, meandering piece seems to me the best way of undermining their own influence
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the metro section vanished without explanation in 2020. there are still quite a few cultural and human interest stories but stories on nyt local issues have seemingly become a smaller and smaller proportion of the paper as it focuses more on national and international news
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a very odd piece that has only glancing interest in "the cityâs challenges" but spends a lot of words attacking bill de blasio and extolling the virtues of san francisco's daniel lurie
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i wouldn't like it, but i think i would at least respect a piece that very explicitly endorsed cuomo for reasons directly connected to the specific challenges new york faces instead of burying the lede in 2,000 words about "thoughtful liberal governance" largely unrelated to local issues
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i am very confused by a paper that says it won't do any local endorsements, increasingly seems disinterested in NYC issues, and is unable to communicate in a way that would be understandable to new yorkers
like, turner was a good houston mayor but how many new yorkers use him as a mental model?
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a guy who thrives in splendid mediocrity
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my expectation for lee is that he'll continue to muddle along, winning elections due to inertia and utah's partisan lean
he'll never get the recognition he thinks he deserves but also won't experience any kind of comeuppance. he'll maybe lose a primary in 2046 when he's one trillion years old.
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there was some novelty in a sitting us senator who poasted like a 4channer but the schtick has become old and tired. he's not very smart. he's not very charismatic. he's not influential. he's not well-respected.
you can't silence a senator but he's not also doesn't deserve anyone's attention.
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the @basedmikelee account emerged as an attempt to earn attention from the WH as a right-wing influencer, but Lee here plays a C-lister.
he *can* get engagement and outrage, but people like catturd and benny johnson are bigger figures with greater audiences. many young Rs view him as "try-hard".
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he went dark a bit after 2016 and then, as all these people do, convinced himself that he was actually trump's indispensable ally.
he has claimed that he was vital to trump's impeachment defense and election fraud claims (he was marginal). he pitched himself as a possible AG (MAGA was apathetic).
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arianne chill-out sessions with dorkstar
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the sign that made me go â????â the most
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total victory for jasmine crockett thought
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i guess the tl;dr of this thread is that the joe biden posture of âthere are very good republicansâ and generalized defense of institutions seems to be pretty close to dead
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i wish i could remember the exact language but i saw some something very similar, something about Miller being German
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aside from generalized resistance to trump, i do think itâs notable how all attendeesâfrom the Liz Cheney people to the Socialist Alternativeâwere comfortable calling for the complete destruction of ICE and compared its members to the Gestapo and the Klan
just a complete desire to see it eradicated
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but this isnât really being funneled anywhere by officials, a fact that many people seemed aware of and frustrated with.
Lot of âDonât Rank Cuomoâ
chants and a lot of really favorable talk of Zohran and Lander for being âwilling to fightâ
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the vibe was very âDem Tea Partyâ less in terms of radicalism and more in terms of frustrated, anti-estab energy
once, i realized i was marching near an older woman with a âGood Night and Good Luckâ hat & poster about due process and thought what an odd person to be the vanguard of a movement
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folks, to be clear, I donât think this is a bad thing. i wouldnât be in the protests otherwise.
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seeing people with liz cheney placards marching side by side with people brandishing the hammer and sickle lends to⌠an interesting energy
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dismal
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many are saying this
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roblox would have been a much better pull. Minecraft as well (albeit to a lesser extent)
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though as i write this, it also occurs to me that this could just also be a natural result of much wider swathes of society now being tech literate whereas a decade or more ago, the average internet user would still have been quite young (meaning sites have to cater to fewer interests).
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this is perhaps dating myself but i socialized online through various web forums where everyone was roughly my age and then gradually progressed to forums, channels, etc intended for slightly older audiences.
those kind of devoted spaces don't really exist anymore outside, like, neopets.
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listen, we all said and did stupid shit in high school. in the grand scheme, this is pretty tame.