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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the dark cabal of librarians who run everything have got a lot of explaining to do

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

Big Library wants to ~~silence~~ hush you

[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Man who has never engaged in any subculture outside of wine parties with a dress code confidentially dismisses other people for being posers

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Matty and his wife are at a party. Conspiratorially she says to him...

"I had a peek into the kitchen. Do you know what I saw?"

"No. But it sounds really bad. How bad?"

"Box wine."

"Oh, my god. I thought I knew them. Should we leave?"

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

he'd be the kind of person to be shocked that the second glass is the cheaper stuff. That's party 101, that's in the bible

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Jesus was a real one with the good wine hookup though.

He saved that wedding party.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Box wine is unironically amazing. Fuck anyone who says otherwise

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

It rules for camping, especially when backpacking. Just take it out of the box. Way easier to pack out once drained and rolled up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Franzia 4 Life

[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can’t really be punk (edgy, avant garde, rebellious, cool, fun) and also be the educated professionals who run everything.

Wow just wait until 1997 hears about this discourse

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Maybe Reality Bytes is on HBO this month or something

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Apparently unironic...

Suburban public libraries are punk rock because they exist to transfer money from property owners to leftist librarians in exchange for nothing. They are a way to stick it to the man. The educated professionals who run everything never use them.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

in exchange for nothing

They are literally providing a service in exchange for your tax money lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Imagining a Matthew Lesko bit where he's like: "The government gives you books (any book you want) for free!! It's free books from the government!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Always enjoyed that goofy Riddler-looking motherfucker

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Was that a Magacommunist dipshit? Sounds exactly like their brand of pseudo-marxist Laroucheism.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

honestly one of the dumbest guys around, just absolutely pathological in his insecurity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wait until he hears about how much money that cities spend on cops

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

These are the people that misunderstood punk to be entirely about "fuck you I do what I want" in an entirely individualistic and antisocial way. They imagine punk entirely as an antagonistic aesthetic with none of the community politics attached to it.

This is how they can claim that they are punk for opposing whatever "woke" shit they're upset about lately. And they see it as punk to deliberately upset others. Unfortunately there's a pretty large chunk of punk fans that absorb the music in the same way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every punk bar I've been in for the past 10 years has had a rainbow flag somewhere prominently displayed. There's usually vegan iconography too. It's part of the territory and it has been for a while.

More and more I'm starting to understand what was meant by "poser." People who put on a leather jacket and called themselves punk because they like a few Sex Pistols songs but then never interact with punk communities outside of buying things.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

I once saw a tweet that said 'liberals are the perfect combination of condescending and braindead.'

Matty is the archetype of that.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This mf doesn't know any librarians. All the librarians I know are very punk.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've rarely met better ppl. Something about reading to kids turns you into a super person.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is there anything Matthew Yglesias doesn’t not understand? Such a prolific and well-compensated nonunderstander of things.

Top 27 highest-earning Substack newsletters generate over $22m a year

Similarly, The Washington Post reported last month that Slow Boring, the newsletter run by Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias, has at least 13,000 paying subscribers, which would mean his Substack generates at least $1.04m. Yglesias was originally tempted to the platform with a $250,000 up-front payment (offset by Substack taking 85% of his first year’s subscription revenue). According to Press Gazette's analysis, Slow Boring should also earn at least $800,000 annually before Substack's 10% fee.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I knew he was a brunch liberal but I didn’t know he made a million dollars a year from spewing garbage. Why the fuck am I even going to college instead of just being a grown man with the brain of a child who sits at the adult table and thinks he’s mature?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There’s a niche neoliberal blob-no-thoughts corporate media position that people like Matt Yglesias, Esra Klein, David Brooks, and Thomas Friedman fill.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Dont forget the powerful family connections

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Real People pay for substack?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

allways remeber Kids, Punks are good People playing Bad , Hippies are Bad People playing good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I didn't believe this until I found out what went down at the MC5 house.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

The punkest thing is to take a quite place of learning and make it yours. "Oh, libraries are for educated professionals, isn't it it incongruous for you to be here?" Motherfucker, punk is incongruity. Visit the library in your best fit, glide down the shelves like you own 'em, wink at the grandmas watching Infowars on the public access computers while you're checking out a book on rotary engines, Professor Goodall's autobiography, and a Jane Fonda DVD

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

I love how people like Matty use the word "progressive" when they really mean "centrist". And it's a shame Matty can't put...

You can't really be punk (edgy, avant garde, rebellious, cool, fun) and also be the educated professionals who run everything.

...on a t-shirt because it's just too darn wordy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

This is prepsplaining.

How many punks got made fun of in high school because they're intelligent or even just read books voluntarily?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

I have to commend Matthew for his commitment to being so wrong so consistently. Keep on doing you Mattsaul-anime

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Don't a bunch of people in punk bands have advances degrees? Ones that come to mind are the guy from Bad Religion and the lead singer from The Offspring.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Milo Auckerman from The Descendents is a biologist.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

punk means you can't read, and the illiterate are the most punk

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Famous crusty Matt Yglesias

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

it's not my fault i'm not cool or fun, i'm educated!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

They're called sellouts, matt. They still call themselves punk because there's no law against it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

The kind of brainwave only someone who isn't at all punk and never hangs out in public libraries could possibly have.

The first sentance has too many verbs. Fails to make sense. Raises, causes, think, explores.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

The dumbest poster of all time

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

IT WAS LITERALLY A FUCKING ART MOVEMENT! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

monke-rage

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I tried to diagram that first sentence and ended up forgetting my own name

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

If Tim Pool stopped emotionally developing at 21 instead of 13 he would be Matty

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago
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