Saying the sun will burn out tomorrow is the equivalent to saying the sun will not burn out tomorrow. In your world, they're both predictions. smh

I'd hate to go through life with your levels of pedantry.

Uh, of course they are both predictions. One is a better prediction but that doesn't make it not a prediction. This is called reality.

Right. The sun not burning out tomorrow is reality, not a prediction.

I'm very impressed with your pedantry. You must be fun at parties.

wow you're ****ing stupid

most of these liberals in the media are elitist ****s who do think Ebonics is a sign of low intelligence, but can't say it because it'll be racist!

Trump talking like an average person is a high crime and a sign of stupidity in their eyes.

lol these nyt elitist liberal ****s.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/o...ype=collection

As an Italian American, I am also offended by this Jewish person's cultural appropriation of my heritage. That's how I'm supposed to Leftist, right?

You are saying that an average person talks like a prejudiced braggart who is frequently vulgar and belittling.

David Brooks isn't a ****ing liberal

Bull****.

You're right though, liberals aren't liberals any more. He's just a bourgeois elitist.

Jiggy has never heard of David Brooks but has very strong opinions about him LOL

you believe that the self described "conservative" on the nyt who praises Derrida and Bourdieu is not a liberal

you probally think John Scarborough is also not a liberal lol

Sometimes when I've never heard of one of the 5 or so most famous columnists in America I like to take a little trip to Wikipedia:

I've got to read these Brooks pieces praising Derrida and Bourdieu. That sounds amazing. Do you have any links?

I read it on wikipedia so it must be true, let me shut off reason and evidence to the contrary because I read it on wikipedia

No, tomorrow it will (probably) be reality, but today it is a prediction. I am not that fun at parties but it has little to do with my pedantry.

This.

I am an elitist. What's your point?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/o...ype=collection

this is his recent piece on bourdiue, I'll try to find his derrida love piece

http://www.brandl.com.au/derridas-breakfast/

ah yeah the love fest to our favorite French "philosopher"

Joe Scarborough was literally a Republican congressman before he went on TV you ignorant dumbass

Hahaha. Hahahahahahahaha.

Because, you know, that Italian food is so elitist.

Hahahahahahahaha I can't stop laughing. They should have went to a Chinese takeout joint, "egg foo young" would have blown that girls mind!

I'd have just mushed her right into the deli counter.

I guess Joe really pulled one over on the Florida panhandle when he fooled them into putting a liberal plant in the House for three terms lmao

You think I was unaware of that?

rino's a word for a reason

wil has definitely also never heard of David Brooks lol

I wonder how many other people the left hates we can trick these people into also hating by calling them liberal elitists, and then by extension get them to reject their ideas. Judo flip the whole lot of them into Warren voters in 2020 just by saying Bill Kristol opposes her and ****.

The Bordieu piece is legit but this book was not written by the David Brooks of the NYT, but by an Australian with the same name. See here.

I just skimmed the Bordieu piece real quick but it's not clear to me how it contains anything that would disqualify a person from identifying as conservative. I mean, it's kind of a fluff piece, but the core argument ("Donald Trump... [is] a genius at the symbolic warfare Bourdieu described. He’s a genius at upending the social rules and hierarchies that the establishment classes (of both right and left) have used to maintain dominance.") doesn't seem like one that's particularly liberal. And I think Bordieu's concept of habitus is fairly useful, sociologically. I also don't see any reason to think of it as a particularly partisan concept. It's just a way of thinking about social capital and its relation to political and economic power.