i don’t really think so either, but otoh getting to #3 on the mainstream rock chart then probably took 100x the sales it takes to get to #1 on the hot 100 now
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hell in a bucket hit #3 on the mainstream rock chart. Not the hot 100, but arguably still a hit
KD looks like a preying mantis though, he might pop off Russ’s head and eat it.
I agree, and I experienced the book much the same way you did, but film is just such a different medium that I would have been very surprised if they had approached it with that aesthetic, and very surprised if it could have been done successfully (and even more surprised if what is clearly meant to be a blockbuster…
Everyone translates the book into their own internal vision. Meg’s attitude in the book is pretty unremittingly gloomy, but the book doesn’t particularly describe the various settings as gloomy; the Murray’s home, and the attic room, shown in the trailer track pretty perfectly with what the book describes, as does the…
Tl;dr: the “Washington Post” (aka the New York Times) has way more clout and resources than Jezebel, so it was able to finalize a story that Jezebel did a ton of legwork on, but couldn’t finalize, because... it doesn’t have the clout or resources of the New York Times (aka “The Other Other Washington Post”). And for…
Well. Chait doesn’t misunderstand the difference in the terms— he’s deliberately obfuscating the difference, for political (or simply argumentative) purposes. And that’s pretty clearly spelled out in the article. So, I’d say not only do we have a different understanding of the intellectual and political history of the…
Although I’d add the caveat that if the Democrats spent as much time actually trying to pass progressive policies as they do congratulating themselves for being smarter than Kansas, there’d be much less need to explain why the policies are good.
Oh sure, I’m not saying the label is bad, or has anything to do with why the Democrats lose. We’re agreed on the substance, in the main, although I suspect I’m somewhat further to the left— I think while you’d comfortably call yourself a progressive liberal, distinguishing yourself from the neoliberal variant, I’d say…
I understand your contention, but to my understanding the early 2000s is really not where the term progressive starts, although no doubt it contributed to greater breadth of use. Apart from the formal movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century (and the labor union and socialist-aligned third…
I’d add, reading through the other threads, that: you seem to be very strongly holding on to the term liberal and its specific meaning for you. Good for you! But I do think your personal meaning may not be broadly representative of how most people understand it any longer; the meaning you’re holding onto is much…
My first presidential vote was for William J. Clinton, first term, and I’ve been way too online for too many years, which for better or worse includes very active participation in the leftist blogosphere. Yes, centrist liberals try to co-opt every type of woke naming they can, by the same token that they discard the…
I was pointing out (via the article) that a lot of contemporary pundits and politicians who I (and you, I think) would consider neoliberals are indeed actually calling themselves liberals (Jon Chait, Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Hillary Clinton, the folks at Center for American Progress, etc etc), and that this kind…
You’re assuming your conclusions: that there has to be a “standard-bearer” for everyone to follow, or progressivism fails; that Sanders represents that now, and will have to be replaced; that Sanders, and maybe by implication other progressives like him, are de facto bad on race; that this fact did lose him the…
I don’t know? I mean, it’s a collective movement of people trying to advance progressive policies focused on racial equality, income equality, strengthening the welfare state, combating state-sponsored brutality, dismantling the carceral state, etc etc... Sanders is a very visible politician who aligns with much of…
it’s actually jack nicholson
The Democratic Party, beginning with the 70s, moved purposefully in the direction of neoliberalism, embracing much of the rhetoric and policy of the right-wing. Clinton (Bill) was quite open about the strategy. For many people who would currently label themselves as progressive, or would have previously done so, the…
An interesting erasure of the Nina Turners, Winnie Wongs, Rhania Khaleks, Roseanne DeMoros, and every other progressive POC who’s working like hell to advance the left. They are many; they are progressives; they are doing great work.
It was the same take; she’s just funnier than i am. But thank you.