The media reacts to Substack's success the same way the Democrats react to the Virginia elections: By assuming that their product would be wildly popular if only they marketed it better.
The media reacts to Substack's success the same way the Democrats react to the Virginia elections: By assuming that their product would be wildly popular if only they marketed it better.
They didn't even have that level of self-awareness when it comes to the Virginia election. Instead it's just, "if you don't like our product, you're a racist."
Let's kick the level of self-awareness down even another notch. In the tail end and aftermath of the election, there was a neck-snapping shift from trying to push a product (CRT-etc) to denying it ever existed in the first place. The best they could do was mock a few parents who couldn't give an on-the-spot grad school level critical analysis of why they opposed CRT.
AND finely parse the phrase "is not in the curriculum". Despite the fact there are tons of (pretty large) receipts from consultancies and "advising firms" and other transparent race-grifters who ARE in the schools. Which seems an approach more designed to provide plausible deniability than to properly educate children.
What ever happened to, "You don't need to sell the sizzle when you've got real steak?" Americans used to understand this--and American journalists understood it. 'Man Walks on Moon' doesn't need adornment.
I still don't understand what the point of the whole thing was. I guess dad jokes are basically dick jokes. "Hey, I walked on the moon!" See Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS (1972).
You leave us to infer there must be a great deal about human motivation you don't understand. As far back as the historical record stretches, and doubtless for millennia before that, people have always wanted to see what's in the next valley or on the other side of the sea.
Ah, sorry to rehash an old comment, but I have always loved ECC's "The Fucking Moon." It is an artistic statement that adequately summarizes my feelings about the whole enterprise.
Surely just going there was accomplishment enough--and newsworthy. 'Where no man (or for that matter, any other Earth-bound creature) has gone before,' right? Career journalists of the era had been waiting their entire lives to be able to run that headline.
The media reacts to Substack's success the same way the Democrats react to the Virginia elections: By assuming that their product would be wildly popular if only they marketed it better.
They didn't even have that level of self-awareness when it comes to the Virginia election. Instead it's just, "if you don't like our product, you're a racist."
They are actually doubling down on it everything being racist. I didnтАЩt see that coming. I should stop having expectations.
Let's kick the level of self-awareness down even another notch. In the tail end and aftermath of the election, there was a neck-snapping shift from trying to push a product (CRT-etc) to denying it ever existed in the first place. The best they could do was mock a few parents who couldn't give an on-the-spot grad school level critical analysis of why they opposed CRT.
AND finely parse the phrase "is not in the curriculum". Despite the fact there are tons of (pretty large) receipts from consultancies and "advising firms" and other transparent race-grifters who ARE in the schools. Which seems an approach more designed to provide plausible deniability than to properly educate children.
What ever happened to, "You don't need to sell the sizzle when you've got real steak?" Americans used to understand this--and American journalists understood it. 'Man Walks on Moon' doesn't need adornment.
What exactly was accomplished by walking on the moon, though? I guess Stanley Kubrick got a movie out of it.
Dad jokes.
IтАЩm not even kidding. Armstrong would tell really bad stories about the moon, then quip, тАЬGuess you had to be there.тАЭ
;)
I still don't understand what the point of the whole thing was. I guess dad jokes are basically dick jokes. "Hey, I walked on the moon!" See Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS (1972).
Tang?
Remember back when Pel├й was endorsing Tang? It ain't just for astronauts any more. I'm surprised Shatner didn't beat him to it.
http://yoshicast.com/transformers-review-issue-36-spacehikers/transformers-36-ad-tang/
You leave us to infer there must be a great deal about human motivation you don't understand. As far back as the historical record stretches, and doubtless for millennia before that, people have always wanted to see what's in the next valley or on the other side of the sea.
There are no more next valleys.
Let me know when Mars Colony is happening.
It ain't a Dad joke till it's full groan.
I see what you did there. Respect.
Ah, sorry to rehash an old comment, but I have always loved ECC's "The Fucking Moon." It is an artistic statement that adequately summarizes my feelings about the whole enterprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKxsljxKhc
Surely just going there was accomplishment enough--and newsworthy. 'Where no man (or for that matter, any other Earth-bound creature) has gone before,' right? Career journalists of the era had been waiting their entire lives to be able to run that headline.