chapotraphouse

I grew up and lost all respect for Nate over something really trivial that made me realize he was full of BS. He said imperial measurements are better because you could say you ran "4 miles", he said saying you ran 3.2km would just sound stupid so why would you want metric? Does he think people in countries that use metric are agonising over having to round distances (just like imperial would the majority of the time) or wish they could express it in miles? Does he always run in exact mile increments every single time? Rant over but it made me irrationally mad. He might have been joking but didn't care enough to find out.

Guessed correctly one (1) time and built a decade-long career on it despite never coming even close again

Hi Nate, there are over 50 universities protesting now. Last I checked, 50 does not equal 8, but unlike you I'm not the Math Expert so maybe I am wrong.

TIL all American 18-34 year olds are Ivy League college students.

Love that this dude is living proof that viewing the world as numbers does not make someone smart.

These fucking Twitter liberals have spent so long arguing against leftists, that they really cannot comprehend the fact that the leftist position on Gaza is entirely mainstream, overwhelmingly popular, dominant. They are the absolute fringe, the weirdo wackos. They are Democrats who are to the right of most Republicans.

Lmao if you look at the list of universities with pro-Palestinian encampments like half of them are state unis with acceptance rates around 50-90%

I told the kids thier opinions don't matter. Can I get back in good graces with the establishment my Lords?

Is Nate a dipshit or is Nate paid to be a dipshit?

aim for the new york times for the love of god.

nate pissjar

the numbers are in, but maybe some $20 dollar words will make them go away

I love how it’s obvious common sense that - as cool as the protests are - you can’t take some 50 protests that involve a relatively small number of people even as a total of the respective student bodies and extrapolate that as indicative of what tens of millions of people in an age cohort think. Literally no one is saying that. But Nate has to add some very technical sounding words to let you know he very smart and is a very big boy who understands everything better than you.

How can one hold an entire galaxy in their brain

I mean yes, he's right, but not in this context. I don't see any protests at Harvard or Yale or Brown and if I did, they would probably be midnight marches with torches and pointy white hoods. These boys aren't going to sacrifice their future careers in the CIA to attend a Gaza rally.

I'm struck by this passage from Against Empire by Michael Parenti, published 30 years ago:

Mainstream pundits and propagandists label our desire to move away from corporate militarism and imperial domination as weakness, folly, isolationism, or self-defeating pacifism. But there is another name for the course of action that aims to wrest the wealth and power out of the hands of the military-industrial complex and the multinational investor class and give it back to the people so that they can become agents of their own lives and social conditions: it is called democracy, the victory of the republic over empire.

Nate Asbestos