Lee's description of the classist ethos at the intercept reminds me of Drew Magary's "Why Your Team Sucks" series at Deadspin (I know, hang with me). The first few years it was irreverent and even kinda insightful, but eventually the "shittiest" part of every single franchise became the way its working-class fans dress/talk/drink/eat/consume football and the focus of the articles was just shitting on those people.
Great interview - I made a point to listen to the whole thing. Fang nailed it with the disconnected people at the DSA meetings and the office at The Intercept. These are contemptible people, and need to be called out and mocked as much as possible.
Haha good stuff - end of the second paragraph is pure gold!
Here in the bad neighborhood school, the ppl Fang talked about are invisible -- both in influence, and in how often they come to consort with the bad neighborhood rabble. It’s an oddly pleasant experience. Insulated from cancel culture and little wokery to speak of.
This podcast kind of danced around one of my favorite leftist tropes....
Where they write off half the the country as "garbage humans" because they aren't sufficiently "accepting and understanding of different points of view".
I was under the impression that the Silicon Valley VIPs attend Burning Man, albeit with a lot of normies. (*) So some of these delightful attendees are wearing costumes and bartering/ giving presents 1 week of the year, and funding psychotic activists the other 51 weeks. Cognitive dissonance anyone?
(*) From Wikipedia, “Burning Man has since evolved into a destination for social media influencers, celebrities and the Silicon Valley elite."
Great interview. However, I had no idea what burning man was. I was confused the first 15 minutes of the interview. You could have easily explained what it was in detail...instead I had to look it up and figure out what it was. The conversation started with the assumption everyone knows what burning man is.
I thought Tucker was fired downstream of the $787 million Dominion lawsuit. I never saw him as being screwed. The depositions revealed that Tucker didn't believe much of what he was reporting but knew his market and the product they demanded. They also revealed he had disdain for Fox management and he actively recommended retribution (screwing?) against colleagues that contradicted the fraud storyline. He thought he was too big to fire but Fox decided he was too much of a self centered liability to keep.
Patriot Purge was pretty unhinged and caused the exit of moderates Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg from Fox. Whether Tucker feels personal anger or betrayal now is immaterial, it seems that anger and betrayal is the product his audience demands. With more competition and losing his platform, it does not surprise me if he if he is becoming more fringe to stand out. He knows what his demo wants and as their leader he must deliver.
I honestly don’t think it’s that far fetched to think that San Francisco could turn into Detroit at some point. Obviously SF has a lot more intrinsic factors going it’s way that Detroit never had (e.g weather) but divestment can be contagious.
Restaurants have definitely gotten a lot better over the past 10 years in non-major cities. I went to Virginia Beach earlier in the summer and I couldn't believe how much better the restaurants were compared to when I left the area in 2010.
>It's not an affirmative vote for Trump, it's a loud, "stop fucking with us" to the elites.
Ding ding ding ding ding.
80% of the Trump support is a middle finger to the current political establishment. And yes that makes little sense when talking about a major party ex-President, but there it is. People don't like the current political arrangement and it has very little legitimacy, but it also has a stranglehold on the levers of power and so the dissonance and frustration grows.
Lee's description of the classist ethos at the intercept reminds me of Drew Magary's "Why Your Team Sucks" series at Deadspin (I know, hang with me). The first few years it was irreverent and even kinda insightful, but eventually the "shittiest" part of every single franchise became the way its working-class fans dress/talk/drink/eat/consume football and the focus of the articles was just shitting on those people.
Well, consider the source, and that all makes sense. Magary is human trash.
Great interview - I made a point to listen to the whole thing. Fang nailed it with the disconnected people at the DSA meetings and the office at The Intercept. These are contemptible people, and need to be called out and mocked as much as possible.
Haha good stuff - end of the second paragraph is pure gold!
Here in the bad neighborhood school, the ppl Fang talked about are invisible -- both in influence, and in how often they come to consort with the bad neighborhood rabble. It’s an oddly pleasant experience. Insulated from cancel culture and little wokery to speak of.
Oooh! Im so excited for this one!
This podcast kind of danced around one of my favorite leftist tropes....
Where they write off half the the country as "garbage humans" because they aren't sufficiently "accepting and understanding of different points of view".
not asking if he engaged in the orgies was a choice
I was under the impression that the Silicon Valley VIPs attend Burning Man, albeit with a lot of normies. (*) So some of these delightful attendees are wearing costumes and bartering/ giving presents 1 week of the year, and funding psychotic activists the other 51 weeks. Cognitive dissonance anyone?
(*) From Wikipedia, “Burning Man has since evolved into a destination for social media influencers, celebrities and the Silicon Valley elite."
Great interview. However, I had no idea what burning man was. I was confused the first 15 minutes of the interview. You could have easily explained what it was in detail...instead I had to look it up and figure out what it was. The conversation started with the assumption everyone knows what burning man is.
Surprising!
I thought Tucker was fired downstream of the $787 million Dominion lawsuit. I never saw him as being screwed. The depositions revealed that Tucker didn't believe much of what he was reporting but knew his market and the product they demanded. They also revealed he had disdain for Fox management and he actively recommended retribution (screwing?) against colleagues that contradicted the fraud storyline. He thought he was too big to fire but Fox decided he was too much of a self centered liability to keep.
Patriot Purge was pretty unhinged and caused the exit of moderates Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg from Fox. Whether Tucker feels personal anger or betrayal now is immaterial, it seems that anger and betrayal is the product his audience demands. With more competition and losing his platform, it does not surprise me if he if he is becoming more fringe to stand out. He knows what his demo wants and as their leader he must deliver.
This is was good. For California voting. It all goes back to rank choice voting. Ranked choice is the common core of voting.
I honestly don’t think it’s that far fetched to think that San Francisco could turn into Detroit at some point. Obviously SF has a lot more intrinsic factors going it’s way that Detroit never had (e.g weather) but divestment can be contagious.
Restaurants have definitely gotten a lot better over the past 10 years in non-major cities. I went to Virginia Beach earlier in the summer and I couldn't believe how much better the restaurants were compared to when I left the area in 2010.
>It's not an affirmative vote for Trump, it's a loud, "stop fucking with us" to the elites.
Ding ding ding ding ding.
80% of the Trump support is a middle finger to the current political establishment. And yes that makes little sense when talking about a major party ex-President, but there it is. People don't like the current political arrangement and it has very little legitimacy, but it also has a stranglehold on the levers of power and so the dissonance and frustration grows.