David White

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David White@dwhite10701· 9d

Someone quoted AOC's full answer (to "provide context" in defense of her), and it's notable how her framing shifts the debate from reining in the police to lowering crime rates.

David White@dwhite10701· 9d

"Seeing progressive politicians move away from their earlier feelings poses a question about what they’re moving toward. Ossé and AOC did not introduce any “woke 1” legislation or resolutions that they now have to retract. Mamdani actually attempted the opposite: the racial justice working group of DSA, among others, successfully pressured him to reverse his commitment to add almost 600 more officers and $70m to the NYPD, against his campaign promise to maintain the headcount of the force. He was positioning this move while boasting historic lows for crime in the city."

David White@dwhite10701· 12d

Just from the past weekend:

Fox News headline: "SEE IT: Mamdani booed off stage at New York City pro-police celebration: ‘Walked off in shame’
The New York City mayor lasted less than a minute before jeers and chants of 'get out of here' drowned him out"

“Well, I would say, especially when it comes to public safety, I’ve been very clear that we have our police force, we have prisons, we have jails,” Mamdani said in the interview, which aired Friday. “The purpose of these is also to ensure that we are delivering safety and justice hand in hand.”

Mamdani said New Yorkers should not have to choose between the two and praised the NYPD for its work in delivering what he described as the lowest levels of murders, shootings and shooting victims in recorded history through the first seven months of the year.

“And I also want to ensure that this is a city where New Yorkers know that that is not coming at the expense of justice,” he said.

The position contrasts with DSA’s national program, which includes a section titled “End Mass Incarceration and Police Immunity.” It calls for demilitarizing police departments, disempowering police unions and redirecting funding to public services as steps toward “fully abolishing the police and prison system.”

David White@dwhite10701· Jul 20

"Offsides in soccer is basically refs hating on niggas for doing some fly shit from my understanding lol"

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David White@dwhite10701· Jun 3

I don't know how in the hell a team with Tobias Harris could go 82-0, but I'll take it. www.82-0.com/share?id=Ann...

David White@dwhite10701· Apr 25

We're simultaneously immoral and too moral.

Headline from the Atlantic magazine: "The Left's New Moralism Will Backfire"

David White@dwhite10701· Apr 9

This album was a real gem. I'd even go so far as to call it a classic, at least in my stereo.

Album cover for the Bush Babees "Gravity"

David White@dwhite10701· Apr 9

That's hilarious

David White@dwhite10701· Mar 26

This looks like an interesting read. Though I keep looping back to the thought that if we lived in a society that was willing and capable to seriously commit to reparations like this, then we wouldn't really need reparations.

An expansive notion of the causes of America’s debt to Black citizens shapes Brown’s understanding of what the nation owes. Reparations need not only be simple cash payments (although her proposal doesn’t exclude the possibility of direct transfers) but can also include public works programs designed to benefit Black folks who have been excluded from communal goods. Given that the American economy is set up to transfer Black wealth to white hands, cash payments uncoupled from broader community programs are likely to end up further enriching whites. Subprime loans, discriminatory banking, and tax system normed to benefit white families have long funneled Black wealth to white communities. Reparations, without reforms of the broader discriminatory system, would face similar predation.

David White@dwhite10701· Mar 20

Walt "Clyde" Frazier posing in a black hat and holding a basketball on the cover of his book "Rockin' Steady: A Guide to Basketball & Cool"

David White@dwhite10701· Mar 3

Mr. Horse from the Ren and Stimpy cartoon

David White@dwhite10701· Mar 3

This goes back to Dan Yankelovich's 7 stages of public opinion from the 1990s:

Stage 1 : Dawning Awareness
In this stage, people become aware of an issue, but do not yet feel a pressing need to take action. For instance, surveys show that most Americans say child care is a serious problem when they are questioned about it, but it rarely surfaces when people are asked to name the most important issues facing the country. People acknowledge the problem, but there is little real urgency. Americans are aware of many problems, but only a few rise to the top of their list of priorities. Distinguishing between awareness and urgency is essential to interpreting public opinion correctly.

Stage 2 : Greater Urgency
In Stage 2, people move beyond awareness to a sense of urgency. The dominant sentiment is often a panicky appeal to "do something!" Health care moved squarely into this second stage when the economic recession of the early 1990s had many people terrified about losing their jobs. Much of this anxiety was channeled into worry about insurance coverage. Although the health care issue had been kicking around for years, the public's concern rose sharply in economic bad times. In today's more comfortable economy, health care has receded as a top tier issue, and the debate centers more on the quality of care than on lack of insurance coverage.

Stage 3 : Reaching for Solutions
In the third stage, the public begins to look at alternatives for dealing with issues, converting free-floating concern into calls for action. Often, the public's attention focuses on choices that experts or policy-makers have crafted without being helped to understand the implications. Since people do not fully understand the choices presented to them, stage three is a period of stunningly false endorsements, that is, the public expresses support for a proposal but backs down as soon as the costs and trade-offs are clarified. In the health care debate, for example, people favor broad expansion of health care coverage for children, low-income workers and others, but support wav…

Stage 4 : Wishful Thinking
This is where the public's resistance to facing trade-offs is most manifest as people initially assume they can "have it all." On difficult issues — ones that require significant change or sacrifice — the public's wishful thinking must be overcome before people come to grips with more realistic solutions. With health care, people start with the assumption that complete health care is a right, and that insurance should pay for any treatment that will save lives, regardless of the cost. Yet the public balks at increased premiums and out-of-pocket costs. The public shows resistance to facing realistic costs and trade-offs on the issue of health care.

Stage 5 : Weighing The Choices
In this stage, the public does "choice work": weighing the pros and cons of the alternatives for dealing with an issue. Stage 5 is hard work, as people come to understand that easy, cost-free solutions are unlikely to work, and that seemingly simple solutions may have down-sides. When the public has given a lot of thought to an issue and proposals for addressing it, they begin to hold firmly to their opinions even when presented with unpleasant consequences. One example currently being played out around the country concerns raising standards in public schools. People are now more familiar with the debate, and their support for raising standards holds, even as they acknowledge that raising standards could result in higher drop-out rates, and even when they consider the prospect of failing youngsters who have tried hard, but have not learned what is expected. Stages 3, 4 and 5 can be grouped together under the general heading "working through" — a term which encompasses rational thought as well as feelings and ethical concerns.

Stage 6 : Taking a Stand Intellectually

Stage 7 : Making a Responsible Judgment Morally and Emotionally
The two stages of resolution are linked, but different. People are quicker to accept change in their minds than in their hearts. In Stage 6 people accept an idea, but they usually do not act on it until they reach Stage 7.

It can take decades for some issues to arrive at the last stage of public opinion, and the issue of women in the work place is one such example. Over time the public has come to accept the idea of women working outside the home and strongly endorses ideas such as equal pay for equal work and non-discriminatory hiring. The only kernel of the issue that remains even somewhat controversial is whether mothers of young children should work outside the home. Even here, although many Americans express concern about how children fare in today's working families, very few blame women for working for selfish reasons, and most believe that it is entirely possible to be a good mother while in the labor force.

The intellectual resolution of Stage 6 requires people to clarify fuzzy thinking, reconcile inconsistencies, consider relevant facts and new realities, and grasp the full consequences of choices. The emotional resolution of Stage 7 requires people to accommodate themselves to different situations, change their own thinking and behavior, and confront their own ambivalent feelings. The final two stages can be grouped together as the stages where the public comes to resolution about an issue.

David White@dwhite10701· Feb 11

You don't remember HMV?!

HMV store on 72nd and Broadway in Manhattan.

David White@dwhite10701· Feb 6

A chart showing the incarceration rates among founding NATO countries. The U.S. incarceration rates are overwhelmingly larger than those of the other countries on the list.

David White@dwhite10701· Jan 13

The Ringer did a very good Pro v Con article on Tomlin a couple of weeks ago, and this point here was the ultimate "pro" point that overwhelmed all the "con" arguments for me.

And he’s remarkably good at prevailing in close contests. Over the long haul, you would expect a coach’s record in one-score games to hover somewhere around .500. Tomlin is a career 111-68-2 (a .619 winning percentage) in such games, over a sample size that adds up to more than 10 full seasons. Since 2021, the Steelers are 47-36-1 overall despite having a point differential of –72. You might think that he can’t keep getting away with this, but somehow he always does.

Tomlin made the playoffs when Roethlisberger’s arm was completely cooked. He made the playoffs when alternating between Kenny Pickett, Mitchell Trubisky, and Rudolph at quarterback. He made the playoffs when juggling washed Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. The Tomlin Steelers are the embodiment of next-man-up culture—so long as the next man is perpetually a mediocre passer whose foremost goal is to not screw up.

David White@dwhite10701· Jan 3

Schumer: "it makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."

David White@dwhite10701· Dec 17

Pretty straightforward.

Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet on Twitter:

This is, on further reflection, so nuts. In so-called ordinary times, for whom was ordinary talent enough to succeed? "I'm a white guy with ordinary talent, and in ordinary times that would be enough" is the other side's point!

David White@dwhite10701· Dec 10

NBA player John Starks in a Chicago Bulls uniform.

David White@dwhite10701· Dec 5

If you see this, quote post with your model of positive masculinity

Spenser and Hawk from the TV series "Spenser: For Hire"

David White@dwhite10701· Nov 4

You know why

chart of NY Times columnists rating Trump's actions. The only one in the "positive impact" side of the chart is his actions on "DEI".

David White@dwhite10701· Oct 27

Miracleman shutting down Margaret Thatcher

A page from the comic book Miracleman, where Miracleman dismisses Margaret Thatcher.

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David White@dwhite10701· Sep 12

And let's be clear: the mainstream pundits are falling over themselves to praise someone with the same level of political sophistication and insight as these guys

David White@dwhite10701· Sep 5

We know who counts as "real"

Mr. Weisman, who joined The Times in 2012, was under scrutiny for messages he posted on Twitter on July 31 and Aug. 7. In the July 31 posts, he implied that it was inaccurate to describe certain politicians from urban areas as being representative of the Midwest and the South. He specifically mentioned four Democrats: Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Lloyd Doggett of Texas and John Lewis of Georgia. Three of the four are minorities.

“Saying @RashidaTlaib (D-Detroit) and @IlhanMN (D-Minneapolis) are from the Midwest is like saying @RepLloydDoggett (D-Austin) is from Texas or @repjohnlewis (D-Atlanta) is from the Deep South,” Mr. Weisman wrote. “C’mon.”

Mr. Weisman, who is white, deleted the tweet and a pair of follow-ups after they were criticized as racist on Twitter and in the African-American-focused online publication The Root.

David White@dwhite10701· Sep 5

The Passion of the Weiss pan of TPAB pegged it perfectly.

Despite the album’s aspirations towards the avant-garde, To Pimp A Butterfly isn’t even particularly innovative. The blending of jazz, funk, and neo-soul has been a cliché of progressive-leaning hip-hop since the late 1990s. Basically, anything the Soulquarian clique ever released. Common’s Electric Circus, Q-Tip’s Kamaal the Abstract, The Roots’ Phrenology all moved towards sonic eclecticism that Kendrick is dabbling in. Like Kendrick’s latest, the musicianship on each of its predecessors was virtuosic. However, each fell victim to the same plague of prizing atmosphere and abstraction over tight songwriting.

David White@dwhite10701· Aug 25

Fuck Bush, but his reaction to Trump's first inaugural address was hilarious

But, according to three people who were present, Bush gave a brief assessment of Trump’s inaugural after leaving the dais: “That was some weird shit.” All three heard him say it.

David White@dwhite10701· Aug 7

I couldn't possibly be mad about this one.