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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 22h

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David Brooks is an Astonishingly Lazy Thinker

More “woke right” crap.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 23h

So I read David Brooks column in NY where he so daringly suggests that MAGA’s tactics are straight out of the left. Reading things like this I become more and more convinced that there is no echo chamber more difficult to penetrate than that of the “classical lib.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

Opinion | Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.

www.nytimes.com

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 21h

15 years from now there’s gonna be whole profiles on the Crying Ginger Child if the Jays get another shot. People are placing trackers on him so they can cover him in the future.

Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 22h

I go more in depth here:

(I also update my blog regularly so feel free to subscribe!)

David Brooks is an Astonishingly Lazy Thinker

More “woke right” crap.

open.substack.com

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 22h

Brooks claims that leftist tactics and intellectual practices have failed after they were co-opted by the right, but his column shows that these can be highly effective, as long as there are people like himself to make sure that the left can never actually see them through. Thanks David.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 22h

The concept of “right wing cancel culture” is also not new, one can go back to see the reaction against The (Dixie) Chicks after speaking out against the war in Iraq, a war Brooks famously supported. This is not the “the right acting like the left” this is “the right acting like the right.”

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 22h

Brooks notes how it’s ”interesting” that the Right didn’t take the leftist ideas used to build things, but only destroy them, but any scholar of Fascism can tell you this anything but “interesting” this is exact playbook.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 22h

Naomi Klein actually covers this fairly well in her book Doppelganger. Klein of course points out how these tactics are being used in bad faith in service of a fascist agenda, but this always seems to go over the heads of moderates like Brooks.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 23h

First, not only is this a pretty lazy argument, it’s also a tired one. He’s not the first to discuss the rise of the “woke right”–that goes to James Lindsay–but the term has caught on amongst centrists who are obsessed with punching left like Thomas Chatterton Williams, or Johnathan Chaidt.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 23h

So I read David Brooks column in NY where he so daringly suggests that MAGA’s tactics are straight out of the left. Reading things like this I become more and more convinced that there is no echo chamber more difficult to penetrate than that of the “classical lib.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

Opinion | Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.

www.nytimes.com

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

The good news is there won’t be a victory parade that will feature Doug Ford.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

This is definitely disproving that whole conspiracy about how the city down on its luck gets to win the World Series.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

It broke the fucking bat dude

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

The pirate stream of the game is now playing this song during the commercial

I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself

YouTube video by Elton John - Topic

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

Normally we’re the ones who say sorry

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

Clement is such a diva.

Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

When I read the word “Microsoft” in Gibson’s Neuromancer I had to stop myself from screaming in public.

C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

Basically it’s a tweet about how every time an author writes a sci fi dystopia that clearly states “DONT MAKE THIS TECHNOLOGY” the Silicon Valley doofuses go “hey let’s make the technology and give it the name that clearly states don’t make this”

Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s deck these halls.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 1d

This is a remarkably creative interpretation of this tweet.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the Grimes Doomscroll interview and I’m imagining her having these inane conversations with Elon and him thinking how easy it would be to manipulate her.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 3d

I’m Canadian. Jordan Peterson (not a fan) came to my former campus but got shouted down and no one really cared afterwards (I wasn’t there at the time). In all honesty, that’s about as controversial as I heard things get.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 3d

I hate how the Allies had to resort to violence.

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 3d

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Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 3d

Predators smell blood, abusers know what to look for in a victim. She’s super animated, rambling, but also deeply naive and ugh- yes, passionate. He knew he could make himself look like a god to her because she was kooky enough to believe it

Graham @grahamistearingup.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the Grimes Doomscroll interview and I’m imagining her having these inane conversations with Elon and him thinking how easy it would be to manipulate her.

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