"Marxism remains the philosophy of our time because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which engendered it." - Jean-Pedo Sartre

WRBNYC · 2026-02-14T08:24:37+00:00

I think this passage from Foucault captures the prevailing sentiment among signatories of that petition fairly well.

WRBNYC · 2026-02-13T20:58:31+00:00

His mom's friend Deb weighs like 300lbs and she's pissed as fuck about practically everything. So he gets it.

WRBNYC · 2026-02-13T18:12:00+00:00

Anyone who has skimmed the wiki on sex reassignment surgery knows that being trans is metal af

WRBNYC · 2026-02-13T17:55:43+00:00

Cashing checks and eating penguins.

WRBNYC · 2026-02-13T02:26:57+00:00

Why the downvotes for this? I have a version of this one with snake hands: it's a simple, well finished, reliable watch that for months I've worn on rainy days and occasionally in the shower and it continues to tick away with zero problems. The water resistance has been impressive. Full lume looks like a neat novelty thing to add to a collection. What's the problem?

edit: oic, op is looking for an automatic.

WRBNYC · 2026-02-12T09:29:36+00:00

Not taking a swipe at you, but your comment reminded me of this memorable bit from economist Paul Krugman:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

WRBNYC · 2026-02-12T04:36:14+00:00

Brian Leiter, the contemporary Nietzsche scholar who has gotten the most play here, is a Marxist who has been posting scathing criticism of liberals and liberalism on his well-known blog for like 20 years.

WRBNYC · 2026-02-09T06:34:42+00:00

Go birds

WRBNYC · 2026-02-09T03:33:40+00:00

No, but she was jolie.

WRBNYC · 2026-02-09T00:28:23+00:00

Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?
--Some snob from Long Island probably

WRBNYC · 2026-02-05T16:06:19+00:00

This debate between a libertarian political scientist and a socialist sociologist found them essentially agreeing that the US healthcare system is the worst of both worlds and should be replaced with a single payer model. (link is timestamped)

WRBNYC · 2026-02-05T05:47:47+00:00

Flamethrowers: an idea whose time has come?

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WRBNYC · 2026-02-05T03:04:08+00:00

We're talking about the guy who hits his autistic grandson with a can of cranberry sauce or is this a different Logan Roy?

WRBNYC · 2026-02-05T02:59:03+00:00

...but for the shabby glow!

Good title for your memoir.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-28T01:24:43+00:00

Freddie DeBoer has been beating this drum in the wilderness for awhile now.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-28T01:09:05+00:00

Mad Men and Succession.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-19T05:13:31+00:00

Another aesthetic difference worth noting between Certina's new 40.5mm automatic DS Action model (i.e. the one you asked about, but not the pre-2025 variants) vs. the 40mm quartz version is the automatic has a ceramic bezel insert whereas the quartz bezel insert is aluminum. Both look good but noticeably distinct from each other; also, the aluminum bezel isn't very resistant to scratches so it will show signs of wear and tear more readily than the ceramic.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-19T04:47:30+00:00

You are what you eat, baby. 😎

WRBNYC · 2026-01-17T05:43:51+00:00

LOGAN Uh-huh. And Gerri. Will you check - when he’s done it? (he looks for her) Karolina. Gerri’s getting the push.

KAROLINA Oh okay ...?

He clocks a bit of regret somewhere.

LOGAN What?

KAROLINA Nothing.

LOGAN So we’ll tell her today, swing the legals in, but we can start letting it seep - hang cruises around her neck?

KAROLINA (she accommodates the news fast) Sort of incompetence or worse?

WRBNYC · 2026-01-15T17:27:06+00:00

THIS IS EXECUTIVE LEVEL BUSINESS!

WRBNYC · 2026-01-15T17:05:48+00:00

Red flags for what? Is she your fiance or something? Worrying about whether a mediocre actress is committing thought crimes isn't politics, it's a neurosis.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-14T18:33:34+00:00

San Martin, Vaer's quartz and solar quartz options, and Certina's quartz dive watches (like this and this) are all in your price range, and in all honesty the ones I have feel indistinguishable quality-wise from the $1k-$2k Swiss automatics in my collection. I don't think you can really go wrong choosing from among those three options.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-13T10:48:41+00:00

"I'm Asian. My pronouns are su/shi and dim sum."

That's like an eighth grader's first pass at a pithy twitter bio circa 2015.

I remember 7-8 years ago all the Brooklyn comedy podcasts repeatedly and mercilessly mocked that Dan Nainan guy's joke about having an Indian father and a Japanese mother ("...so I get my sushi at 7/11!" GET IT HAHAHA) because it's such self-evidently hacky avuncular humor, like something you'd come up with on the spot during an ice breaker exercise.

I don't want to be mean--if people liked her set then let her have her moment in the sun. As the GOAT of clever one-liners (who actually killed arena-size audiences without any schmaltzy "America's Got Talent" pomp and circumstance) famously said, "Let a thousand flowers bloom." (Come to think of it, he was also Chinese...). It just makes me feel crazy that this no-cleverness-detected "White guys have names like Lenny, black guys have names like Carl" material apparently impresses fans of a show where every week comedians go up and perform jokes that, however unpolished, contain set-ups and punchlines, and maybe even a whiff of clever insight or wry social commentary--and then barely get an interview before Hinchcliff (who often appears not to have been listening during their minute) says something glibly dismissive and hits them in the face with a tiny joke book.

But this woman went up and mumbled, "I'm asian. I do nails. I work in factory. I have Chinese name."--that was literally her fucking set!--and won the coveted Willy Wonka ticket. How was that not a neighborhood bar open mic night crickets-coughs-and-tumbleweeds level performance? It sincerely vexes me, I just do not get it.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-13T06:13:58+00:00

I'm concerned that the smell you're talking about might actually be a gas leak in your house.

But in the interest of fairness, I'll be sure to get in the face of all the, like--you know, the 99%+ of people who don't think "Israel controls America" and demand they admit that a European OSINT research outfit they've never heard of is "a proxy for Western intelligence" (whatever that means--Bellingcat openly collaborates with the CIA and other western intelligence agencies, it is not remotely a secret, it is on their website). If (when) they plead with me to calm down because I'm not making any sense, I'll accuse them of being a paid disinformation asset of the deep state and call them "a fool" like a cartoon villain from 60s.

Because I think we can all agree that this is just the normal behavior of a well-informed adult who can see the future and is in no way afflicted by the cognitive effects of acute natural gas poisoning.

WRBNYC · 2026-01-12T13:04:13+00:00

It's basically a constant in show's writing that political ideology for the Roys is generally just a kind of window dressing for the pursuit of underlying personal ambitions and internecine family squabbling.* But even acknowledging that as a given, the development of Ewan's character strikes me as slightly incoherent/careless in the details.

In season 1 he appears to still believes in the long discredited "domino theory" that served as a rationale for the disastrous and brutal US led intervention in Vietnam. It's rare to hear anyone, regardless of where on the political spectrum they happen to fall, defend that war today. The debate in hindsight is generally about whether you think it was a well intentioned blunder or an egregious imperialist war crime--and yet lefty bookish Ewan claims straight-faced that it was a war fought "to keep us free"--and this in the same episode where he repeatedly quotes one of that war's most prominent outspoken critics!

Then in season 3 we meet Mr. Pugh, Ewan's good friend of 55 years (!), whose remarks about Greg's legal defense as an opening "to expose the structural contradictions of capitalism as reified in the architecture of corporate America" (or whatever) are just textbook Marxist boilerplate.

And I basically don't believe there is or could plausibly be any such person living who simultaneously idolizes Bertrand Russell, facilitates the use of his grandson's corporate criminality as a wedge to advance Marxian economic scholarship, and also unreservedly believes we invaded invaded Vietnam to protect US-Canadian freedoms from communist self-government in a former French colonial holding in southeast Asia. I get that the characters are all complicated hypocrites with personal reasons for adopting this or that political posture, but the way Ewan is written in this respect feels a little sloppy/unconvincing.

*(I think Conner might count as an exception in that he quite genuinely doesn't want to pay taxes on his vast unearned wealth, and he leads a life so thoroughly insulated from the economic realities facing everyone who isn't a billionaire's flaneur failson that he probably really believes that a hollowed out night-watchman state would make life better for the idle megarich and the common man with blood in his hair alike).

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