"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/24/2016 at 14:17 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/24/2016 at 14:17 • Filed to: None | 9
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...where can I go for my daily dose of left wing outrage?
S65
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:20 |
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Deadspin, wherever the Gawker writers went
duurtlang
> S65
08/24/2016 at 14:21 |
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Or Jezebel!
Dru
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:24 |
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I’ll do my best:
Donald Trump is Bad
Huh. I was way too succinct. I need to stretch this into 3 more months of content somehow.
Birddog
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:24 |
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NPR?
Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:25 |
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The rest of the Internet that isn't Bretibart, FoxNews, or FreeRepublic.
jariten1781
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:25 |
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Curate your facebook friends so you old keep the lefty nutjobs and they'll lead you to sites no one here knows exist.
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ttyymmnn
> Birddog
08/24/2016 at 14:25 |
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Nah, NPR is too highbrow. I want screaming and moral outrage.
jkm7680
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:25 |
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Hahah, I was literally wondering the same thing.
To keep it short, I never visited Gawker because I liked what they reported.
MonkeePuzzle
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:26 |
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left wings... usually the ttyymmnn posts have the most wings in them...
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ttyymmnn
> MonkeePuzzle
08/24/2016 at 14:27 |
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Left and right! Or, port and starboard.
Sam
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:27 |
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A college campus on the west coast?
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ttyymmnn
> jkm7680
08/24/2016 at 14:28 |
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Neither did I, though I lean to the left myself. I went there more for entertainment. And the comments section was always a hoot, especially when the regulars ganged up on anybody with an opposing viewpoint.
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ttyymmnn
> jariten1781
08/24/2016 at 14:28 |
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I don’t Facebook. I don’t Twit, either.
Jcarr
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:28 |
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Should be able to find plenty here .
Krieger (@FSKrieger22)
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:28 |
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Huffington Post? The Young Turks?
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ttyymmnn
> Sam
08/24/2016 at 14:30 |
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I think you mean Left Coast.
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jkm7680
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:32 |
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Exactly. I’m a Republican and I never politically associated with pretty much anything on Gawker, I just visited for pure entertainment.
BKosher84
> Jcarr
08/24/2016 at 14:32 |
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Isn’t the CEO of Breitbart the guy running Trumps campaign now?
jjhats
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:33 |
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vox
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:34 |
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Jezebel?
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Jcarr
> BKosher84
08/24/2016 at 14:34 |
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Yeah, I think so. They were respectable (if you lean right) when Breitbart himself was running things, but ever since he died they’ve gone off the deep end.
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jariten1781
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:35 |
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But leftwing outrage is what you’re looking for and it’s the best signpost to point to where the real psychos get their *information*
Side note: I didn’t facebook for a long time, but then my mom decided that for her twilight years that was how she was going to communicate to her family who’re out of state. Pretty much a requirement for me now...and as soon as I venture out of the DMs to the ‘feed’ I’m just baffled how it can be a company worth a bazillion dollars...it’s like somebody took old listservs along with Christmas/engagement/baby announcement/etc cards and threw them on a page with no organization. Do.not.get.it.
blacktruck18
> Jcarr
08/24/2016 at 14:37 |
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Dammit, I was going to post the exact same thing.
qbeezy
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:38 |
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Jezzy and Gizzy have ventured there somewhat.
iSureWilll
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:45 |
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Best Coast?
Dave the car guy , still here
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:46 |
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Sometimes North Coast.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 14:52 |
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reddit.com/r/politics
Honeybunchesofgoats
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 15:01 |
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As someone who leans far left and used to comment on Gawker regularly when the starred commenter system was in place, I can say unreservedly that their commenter community is a cancer and I’m so glad they’ve been left to go kick rocks. It was always pretty nasty and cliquish, but since 1) Gawker switched to being more of a political blog and the comments became overrun with trolls looking to get a rise from the same idiots in every story, and 2) this election cycle, which really started scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to liberal commenters, the whole site just became just insufferable. At best the comments had degenerated to “fuck [story subject]” followed by a hundred stars and top comment. At worst, people were just vile.
Not to mention that the whole approval system really went to shit once the community as a whole dropped a few IQ points. Completely vile comments would get out of the grays and pushed to the top because of idiots who were so desperate for a digital pat on the back that they couldn’t resist replying to trolls and telling them that actually, advocating a black people genocide is not a good thing.
God, that place was a dumpster fire and I'm happy to see it gone.
Spridget
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 15:03 |
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Follow Jill Stein on tour around the country in a Chevy Sprint.
MUSASHI66
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 15:04 |
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Gizmodo still has plenty.
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ttyymmnn
> Spridget
08/24/2016 at 15:18 |
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Lulz
yamahog
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 15:19 |
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Would you like me to start sharing some here? Lmao
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ttyymmnn
> Honeybunchesofgoats
08/24/2016 at 15:22 |
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Oh, I agree. It was always good for its entertainment value, though, and it was a decent place to kill a few minutes while waiting for content on Oppo. As for the pivot to politics, I never saw it as anything more than a desperate move by Denton to remain relevant, even though their shift was nothing more than a dump of shallow anti-Trump stories. Which is not to say that he doesn’t deserve it. I find it interesting that the flagship site of this network was the most uninspired and turgid, and the first to go, while the other sites remained (relatively) fresh and interesting.
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ttyymmnn
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
08/24/2016 at 15:24 |
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Okay, I think I’m ready.
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ttyymmnn
> iSureWilll
08/24/2016 at 15:25 |
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According to Jim Morrison, the west is the best.
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 15:54 |
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The pivot goes back bit further than Trump, though.
Up until about 2010-2011, it was mostly still very New York-centric, stupid gossip blog with incredible recaps of stupid reality TV shows and the occasional snarky political story. Then they brought in that asshole from Deadspin and a lot of that went away, because he clearly didn’t “get” the non-exploitative side of it at all. Then they pivoted towards more serious commentary with stuff like their long form weekend series, which was actually sometimes pretty good, if not infrequently horrible (I stopped with it completely around the time that they published and essay about jury nullification written by a woman who was very clearly in a seriously mentally abusive relationship. Everyone involved with that shitshow forfeited their editorial rights as far as I’m concerned).
The current election cycle is just when their political reporting became really awful and navel-gazey, which was only exacerbated by most of the older writers leaving and the younger writers all buying into the mythos peddled by people like Nolan and Biddle that the site was somehow powerful and culturally significant.
The final nail in the Gawker coffin for me was when some idiot wrote a story about the Hampton Jitney busses that run between Manhattan and North Fork as if they were some sort of exclusive service for the super rich that ferries rich people from their multimillion dollar town homes to the multimillion dollar estates and run on the blood of the working poor, and not what they actually are, which is, you know, busses that take people who don't have a car from Manhattan to the beach. I mean, once they even fucked up being a New York blog there was just no hope for them.
Braniff747SP
> Sam
08/24/2016 at 16:07 |
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As a student at such an institution - can confirm.
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Spridget
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 16:46 |
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Make sure it runs off of Veggie Oil, weed, and Bernie Sanders dreams.
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ttyymmnn
> Spridget
08/24/2016 at 16:55 |
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And the tears of Bernie’s supporters.
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Spridget
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2016 at 17:08 |
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I assume you mean reddit’s penis tears?