https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/climbing-the-bell-curve-to-the-cathedral i feel like maybe 5 posters on here keep up with the "online intellectual drama" that underlies this piece, but the overall narrative is very good and something I think lots of tmb'ers could identify with like MAYBE Truman knows this drama? maybe? someone make me not the only one
I cannot make you not the only one. I am unfamiliar w the blogger or the guy he’s referencing. This guys prose is pretentious as hell. The other guy sounds like a psychopath tho. all that made my brain hurt a little.
he ran as like a justice dems progressive so yea that was considered a given. He’s proven to be full of shit time and time again but this is just an easy layup that he blew. Backtracked on it tonight.
you're welcome and its really just a world where tmb's own type of drama plays out among public intellectuals, national writers, authors, etc. everything is the same.
10 fucking dollars is such garbage, I got paid 12 dollars to spray pesticides on houses Like fuck, 10 fucking dollars?!?!
Motion to change senate and house salaries to the 40/hr rate of their lowest paid constituent No OT, no hazard pay, no outside income allowed period, all previous funds placed in untouchable trust for the duration of their tenure
I left that hating everyone involved. Come to think of it, I’ve never come across a sub stack that wasn’t unbearable.
public office should pay fabulously well, same with public servants, all should be competitive with private sector positions this is oddly unpopular but stop booing i'm right
It sounds like the modern equivalent of the bohemian coffee house where Marx and Engels did their thing, but douchier. Although they were douchey too
I know we don’t hobby shame around here but trying to keep up with any of that drama is something I’m going to pass on.
Marx was an elite shit poster. That's one of the sneaky funniest things about reading about history, how basically everyone important were these self entitled blow hards to some degree. There's obvious elite posters like Mark Twain, but the GOAT American poster is probably Benjamin Franklin.
to be clear I don't intend to, if you follow some of the people I post regularly Serwer/Bouie/Yglesias/etc they'll like a post from somebody that gets into your feed and you'll end up ingesting the cliff notes version of what's going on passively that substack post got retweeted by two people I really like so I just read it. probably the third substack I've ever read. the day I start paying for substacks is the day I want tmb to put me down.
i know who Moldbug is but it's been probably 5+ years since i've heard that name. there's a subreddit called dark enlightenment where these people gathered to talk about how democracy has been a catastrophic mistake and whatnot
my morning read is Weiss into Taibbi then to finish myself off Sullivan then a short drop and a sudden stop
and that guy is a close friend of Thiel who finances and is a close friend of the Trump gang always fun we're going to have to invade silicon valley one day aren't we
I remember thinking at the time it was mostly just tech libertarians jacking off about how the future would be better for the West if it were engineered instead of basically randomly chosen by people's short sighted herd mentality They were also super obsessed with getting back to the "traditional family," which doesn't seem very libertarian but whatever
libertarianism is weirdly not a position held for that long for almost anyone, it quickly transitions into more liberal/lefty spots like the author here, or just regressive fascism (or technofascism in this case) probably stems in part how you arrived at libertarianism in the first place how you exit it
tech people and hating women is as american as apple pie tho, so reactionary positioning is the rule more than the exception
You mean other than install kill squads that they no longer control that kill their families so now they have to flee for their safety? Almost every country with people freeing to America are doing it because of something America did.
Fuck, Arizona is doing shit similar to Georgia. Its pathetic she is holding on to some antiquated program born out of racism to continue racist policies.
Speaking of Taibbi here he is being just an unbelievable dumb shit. How he has any following I do not understand. And why is Rolling Stone giving him a platform?
i'm baffled by some of these dudes losing their minds, it seems like social media is very hard on a certain type of medium talent white dude
He's kind of gone the way of Greenwald. I used to enjoy his writing but the Russia stuff seems to have broken his brain. Anything short of a tape of Putting saying to Trump directly "I'll help you get elected, bro" and he'll continue denying any connection I also stopped listening to his podcast when they played clips of literally every time Klobuchar told that stupid Trump hair joke. It was seriously like 5 minutes of nothing but that joke
It might be just as simple as guys who are assholes and have always been assholes like Trump because Trump is King Asshole
Occasionally I get bored and feel a little masochistic and will mix it up w the idiots on the homeboard. They always throw Talibbi and Greenwald in my face as “leftist that admit the truth”. It sucks because the nuanced discussion of why they are shit now is a non starter.