Time for a new pinned tweet thread to share and promote some of my work.
You know me as "Ruck Cohlchez" online because I have a few reasons to maintain some anonymity. But besides posting a lot, I write articles, record podcasts and music, and stream, among other things.
My red flag is people who describe a story about a teenager in New York City whose brother died, whose classmate committed suicide, who was sexually assaulted by a teacher, trying to process his trauma and his mistrust of adults, as "whiny suburban white boy problems"
Why is Catcher in the Rye a red flag for me? It's not an automatic no, but I just can't relate to "whiny suburban white boy problems". Sorry not sorry. (Also, I'm not minimizing mental health issues, I'm neurodivergent myself, the book is just off puting/childish to me.)
beyond our actual politics, what i just realized is that this was the moment the show went for us from "oh, this could be us, two stoner fuckups trying to make it in the big city" to "oh, right, in real life they're actually rich, well-connected NYC white women"
Seeing all those "By the age of 35" posts and reflecting that if you turn 35 this year you were 18 on 9/11 and your adult life has been one of watching the world slide increasingly into hell and opportunities to build something for yourself become increasingly scarse
All these fucking "I hate nudity and sex scenes" takes are the natural endpoint of what happens when people who've spent 15 or more years having to convince themselves their baby entertainment for babies is actually very mature and deep encounter actual adult stories
I want to ask people like this if they realize that in eight years they've gone from "your demands for health care and a living wage are unrealistic" to "your demands to not support genocide are unrealistic," and what that says about the moral direction of the Democratic Party.
it's fascinating to me the difference in how libs and cons attack Bernie
Cons: He's an honest man who fights for what he believes in, but those things are all insane and evil
Libs: He's a liar who has been (((sneakily))) building a 40-year reputation just to (((backstab))) Dems
You know, even setting aside her history in the public eye, it's not hard to see how Hillary lost 2016 given that her two most prominent public traits are 1)naked ambition for the presidency and 2)sneering contempt for voters who want their values represented and lives improved
When asked about US voters upset with the choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton says:
"Get over yourself. Those are the two choices."
Really glad to see she's learned lessons from her 2016 defeat then!
@sneako
So you're using a fake screenshot to smear a man who was murdered by cops for no reason almost three years after it happened. You must be very proud of yourself and what you're doing with your life.
Die Hard is a Christmas movie because it's about a man with twelve followers who threatens the status quo and is ultimately sentenced to death by an agent of the state
BREAKING: Israel just bombed the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza, one of the oldest churches in the world.
Dozens of Christians are injured, some in dire condition, and many Palestinians remain trapped beneath the rubble.
Excited to announce the launch of my new podcast,
The Dershow. I will be giving u my honest, unbiased, unfiltered assessment of politics, law and life everyday on the Dershow. I promise you will not be bored.
Oh God, apparently the Hillary documentary tries to give Hillary credit for inspiring AOC and Rashida Tlaib to run! The same Rashida Tlaib who booed her at a Bernie rally. Fucking surreal.
Joss Whedon is perfectly representative of modern nerd culture because he acts like a gee-shucks guy who just loves geeky stuff but he's really a huge creep obviously driven by major sexual resentment
It's one thing for Joe Rogan to endorse a candidate. It's another for
@BernieSanders
’ campaign to produce a video bolstering the endorsement of someone known for promoting transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, racism and misogyny.
@joe_warmington
"I'm filming a bunch of children without their consent, to prove that someone ELSE is a pervert"
Hey you should tell their parents you were doing that and see how that goes for you
They already do this. They've done this for decades. They're doing it right now. The right does not play fair, they will not play fair, they have never played fair, and no matter how much of show you make of playing fair with them, they never will play fair.
On the one hand, the Lincoln Project spent almost all the donations they received on their own personal consultancies and more Repubs voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016; on the other hand, they protected their founder who offered teenage boys jobs in exchange for sex for months
and from a purely fictional standpoint, i didn't find it in character, especially for Ilana. i picture Ilana supporting Bernie because he's going to legalize weed, and telling anyone who tells her he's not going to do that that they're anti-semitic.
It's so weird how every comedian who talked up women and feminism like Louis CK and Aziz Ansari did became openly reactionary after their predations were exposed
@jenny_briar
Do you... really think there are not Indian people in America?
Calling Indian food "British food" you can take the colonizer out of the colony etc etc
A socialist Black woman won the Democratic primary for Buffalo's mayoral race. Since then:
-The incumbent tried to run on the general ballot as an independent
-The government discussed eliminating the mayoral position
-The New York State party chair compared her to David Duke
New: NYS Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs apologizes for the analogy he used. But says that he stands by his argument that it is not a requirement for the Democratic Party to endorse a Democratic candidate who wins the primary
cis men over 35 love ruining parties by insulting people's record collections and demanding gazpacho and stuffing the celebrities hat with obscure jazz musicians of the 40s and 50s
Oh, and one more note I didn't include-- despite all Holden's been through and despite all the ways the adults in his life have let him down, the one idea he stays fixed on, that motivates him, is to protect children from all that! "whiny suburban white boy problems" though.
I think it's cool how the "Jews will not replace us" right and the "Bernie Sanders is a fake Jew" center have come together to fight anti-semitism by silencing a black Muslim woman
@elonmusk
@historyofarmani
"the government shouldn't just give people money but it should overthrow countries and murder millions so i can get cheap lithium and keep building my profits on blood, which is mine and my family's legacy"
Beyond their many accomplishments in sketch comedy, In Living Color is the reason we get legitimate Super Bowl halftime shows now. They counterprogrammed an episode against halftime when the NFL still just got whatever marching band and they blew their ratings out of the water
@Housturd
@Arr
This is, unrelated, why I think comedic actors on the whole are better than dramatic actors, and why you so often see comedic actors succeed when they pivot to drama
Is there some kind of quota for blue check white woman writers and making broad, sweeping tweets about men that are clearly about some specific ex-boyfriend
the awkward smart boys with no game in high school who turned into hot tall sluts in college are now starting to lose their hair and become ugly … circle of life
The Ohio Dems redistricted to cut Dennis Kucinich out of a seat for standing up to Obama on the public option but sure there's nothing the party can do to pressure Joe Manchin
As far as I can tell, the Kamala Harris campaign is staffed by Hillary 2016 people whose main objective is to prove that their campaign strategy wasn't completely useless, by repeating it step for step in 2020
This is the part I can't get over. It's like not even a heretofore recognized subspecies of douchebag. They're all just so goddamned weird and nothing they say makes any sense, and I'm familiar with a lot of strains of weird and nonsensical people.
@mattyglesias
Matt Yglesias always there with the dullest faux-intellectual take used to justify human suffering. I guess it's easy to not care about student debt when you're a Yale legacy kid who's never left the Acela corridor and your Vox stock keeps you wealthy.
the people Obama is lecturing about not voting are the ones who voted for him when he promised them "hope and change" before fucking them over and making everything horrible about our capitalist empire even worse
the gall of him to lecture those people for being disaffected now
@bungarsargon
It's amazing how all the most untalented people with the most unearned wealth in the most phony make-work jobs are all in lockstep repeating the talking points about how bad it is to help people who actually do real work and struggle to pay bills
Liberals: Bernie Bros are a cult of personality, a bunch of children
Also liberals: Joe Biden is my daddy. Kamala Harris is my mommy. Elizabeth Warren is also my mommy. Every national Democratic politician is one of my parents. I'm baby
After massive protests against unaccountable murderous police, the media ran a bunch of articles blaming the movement for an imaginary spike in crime, then Democratic Party congresspeople all voted to do the exact opposite of what the protesters wanted
@ItsPhetz
@evren__7
"I did all the research, I don't need no medical expert establishment, now please explain this to me in terms a very small child would understand"
Ilhan Omar: AIPAC money influences policy
AJC: How DARE you
Donald Trump: You Jews may not like me, but you love your money, and you know a Democrat will take it from you
AJC: Sir, we love you and thank you for your service, but please try not to talk in obvious stereotypes
@JoyAnnReid
@FiveThirtyEight
Another one for the greatest hits file, along with "Bush sued Gore," "My homophobic writing was actually done by time-traveling hackers," and "My guest today is a MAGA body language expert here to explain how Bernie Sanders behaves too Jewishly to be trusted"
Speaking of best line reads… I would like to submit Patti Harrison’s inspired, sublime delivery of *every single word she utters* in this ITYSL sketch.
@nerdybyptw
@Beastlychuk
@LA_SocialistRA
@shane_vadnais
That's right, pal. The profit motive has nothing to do with keeping a business open and making workers come in after a natural disaster. It's just, uhhh, the boss really enjoys the job and hanging with his work family.
burger flipping jobs shouldn't pay minimum wage because they're for high schoolers. that's why every fast food restaurant closes between 7 AM - 4 PM. so all their employees can go to school.
@these_qualia
There's like an entire subculture that's invented a persona for Mulaney more or less based on what he looks like and not any of his actual material or what he's done. Very weird!
@ItalianBladee
@DahliaZahava
lmao yeah
even if it were true, that's the sort of thing you can keep to yourself while supporting the strike, rather than calling everyone "ableist as fuck" for not personally catering their labor-solidarity action to you
@rudegyalbae
Maybe if you didn't live your life with your head deeply buried in hateful stereotypes of everyone around you, you might experience one moment of authentic human joy and connection ever in your life
@IsaacDovere
What are Democrats doing about any of those things? I know you're a spoiled millionaire rich kid, so the consequences of those things are entirely hypothetical to you, which is why you can equally pretend that electing Democrats fixes them.
Considering voting for Biden under the theory that the Democrats are openly and intentionally trying to lose, so him winning would be the best way to spite them
@EpicVerseStudio
Y'all can act like this is a dunk or you can think about it, because it's good advice if you let it be. Women don't like guys who resent women. You'll be happier and have better relationships with them if you let that resentment go.
i'm also reminded of when Whitney Cummings tweeted something about how the comedian's job is to take you on a spooky hellride through their mind dungeon or some such nonsense, and Marc Maron responded "Maybe also to be funny"
2020 is the end of a 75-year experiment in what happens if you raise an entire generation to believe they're individually special and supplement it with lead fumes for the first half of their lives and far-right propaganda for the second half. Turns out they destroy human society
@Casey
lmao i love how you just assume you'd survive two wars and all of that because you are the protagonist of reality and bad things cannot happen to you
never served but fantasize you'd be a supersoldier if you did. play less Call of Duty
@SomersErin
"I'm less concerned with the proportions and jawline of People's Sexiest Man Alive than I am with the near certainty that people of equal sexiness have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -Stephen Jay Gould, probably
@jamesrbuk
@meurigjenkins
"What if instead of people fighting for their freedom to exist, they were a hate group? What then?" I dunno, what if a frog had wings? What if you had been born with a brain? What