The End Times

@TheAgeofShoddy

"The world has seen its…silver age, its golden age….This is the age of shoddy." - New York Herald

Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2018.

Tweetovi

Blokirali ste korisnika/cu @TheAgeofShoddy

Jeste li sigurni da želite vidjeti te tweetove? Time nećete deblokirati korisnika/cu @TheAgeofShoddy

  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    10. tra 2019.

    The modern condition.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  2. prije 3 sata

    The problem with aristocratic politics is the opportunity cost. What did we not pay attention to or deal with while time and effort was wasted on that ridiculous production?

    Poništi
  3. prije 3 sata

    I flatly decline to participate as a peasant applauding the passage of a noble man on a horse, basking in the reflected glow of his stature. Mitt Romney may well be the best of Republicans; but I am a republican, and a democrat, and not a retainer to my putative betters.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  4. prije 3 sata

    This is correct. Romney chose to make his stand on a meaningless vote about a sideshow issue. Even if you take him as absolutely sincere, you take him as a man whose great show of moral principle could never have changed anything. Empty symbolism at best.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  5. prije 4 sata

    The personalization of politics into questions of individual morality, individual deal-cutting, individual place in history, is the essential mark of the aristocratic mode. Agree with him or not, Romney is as much a practitioner of the politics of elite egotism as Trump is.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  6. prije 5 sati

    You get Trump vs Sanders because as godawful as both of their answers are, they at least appear to have some willingness to *do something* about real problems, even if only acknowledging them. Impeachment impeaches now those who set such stock by it far more than it does Trump.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  7. prije 5 sati

    This sort of thing clicks along below the surface, an entire generation despairing of the future for good reason, and I am expected to care above all about a phone call to Ukraine and foreign aid and the individual psychodrama of Mitt Romney? No.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  8. prije 5 sati

    The fundamental problem with impeachment has always been the same: it’s an ephemeral issue of questionable norms that has absolutely no relevance to the lives of the vast majority of Americans. That it now boils down to the personal joust of Trump vs Romney underlines the point.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  9. prije 19 sati

    “This is not normal!” does not work as a rallying cry when you use its lack of normality as an excuse to be as publicly abnormal as you have apparently always dreamed of being. It makes it that much easier for people to think “they’re all rotten, but at least Trump gives me (X).”

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  10. prije 19 sati

    “You can’t complain about Pelosi tearing up the speech given what Trump does” is a perfectly valid way of looking at things, from a moral/procedural standpoint. But the real significance of things like this is the way they, like Hillary’s emails, narrow the professionalism gap.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  11. prije 21 sat

    I recognize that I’m in the portion of Twitter which is supposed to have something to say about this speech, but keeping it real I’m spending the evening reading up on these Dodgers trades. Orange Man Uninteresting, bring on pitchers and catchers.

    Poništi
  12. prije 23 sata

    Meanwhile the truly pathological cases, those people who will never and can never be loved, sink back into the darkness, their moment over, having been taught by brief panic and appropriation that their expectations of the world were correct all along. Happy Valentine’s Day.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  13. prije 23 sata

    The loss of the capacity to conceptually accommodate significant parts of the human experience as normative, and the comparative ease (and, increasingly, status) of conceptualizing them as pathological, leads to pathology being back-fit to illegible aspects of the commonplace.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  14. prije 23 sata

    Replies here are amusing, but... this is the “autism spectrum” problem, no? “-cel” began as a way to describe people who were truly beyond the bounds of acceptable humanity, and has slowly walked out to where it now describes pretty standard youthful obliviousness.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  15. prije 23 sata

    Once you realize that Elizabeth Warren’s program boils down to “we need more Pete Buttigiegs” it becomes progressively harder to take either of them seriously.

    Poništi
  16. 4. velj

    This is a joke of course, but there exists a serious point here: to the extent that a functional elite class is a prerequisite to major public works programs, confronting and fixing elite incompetence must take priority over any other given policy idea. First rule of holes.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  17. 4. velj

    The bipartisan case for limited government:

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  18. 4. velj

    Extremely fucking normal state of affairs here.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  19. 4. velj

    We now have two candidates expressing concern about the legitimacy of results, while a third claims victory on the strength of... nothing in particular. This is well beyond “people on Twitter are so stupid with their conspiracy theories.”

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  20. 4. velj

    Choose your own adventure. Was the app down or not? If the app is fine, why is everything slower this year despite flat turnout? Why WAS this app so important anyway? Why the effort to absolve it now, when the obvious play is to scapegoat it to defend the integrity of results?

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  21. 4. velj

    You’ll never find a document to prove it, or a tape of instructions; there is no conspiracy, in the legally cognizable sense of that word. There is no act of coordination. And yet you will never, ever see Canelo Alvarez lose a close fight. A lot of things in life are like that.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi

Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.

Twitter je možda preopterećen ili ima kratkotrajnih poteškoća u radu. Pokušajte ponovno ili potražite dodatne informacije u odjeljku Status Twittera.

    Možda bi vam se svidjelo i ovo:

    ·