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Patrick Iber
@patrickiber.bsky.social
Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. I teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Write books about Cold War culture and propaganda. Have written for the set of all publications that are not members of themselves
Agreed: I think this is resist lib town (plus some others), not tankie town
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I mostly follow people in my professional and editorial networks and honest-to-god-tankies are just not a big part of my experience here at all, but maybe they enjoy exasperating LBII, I dunno
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The primary population is definitely liberal & left folks who did not want to participate in the evolution of twitter to X. I remember someone calling it Galt's Gulch for Former Blue Checks and as a FBC myself it was hard to deny
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
huh, ok. that's not my experience but it sounds like yours is different!
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
those people do exist but do you really think that it's a ~majority~ of people on this site?
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Had some beers early in the season, just 3 yesterday [good job you], it all ebbs and flows
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Unrelatedly: what was interesting to toddlers before the existence of trains? Was it buffalo? I think it was buffalo
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Eventually they will stop being toddlers and then you won't be the parent of a toddler any longer. (Some parents set up a little light system and tell the kids they can wake you once the light turns green, otherwise they should play in their room. That might or might not work.)
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
* not actually funny
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Meanwhile the Democrats always get 49% of the vote no matter what they do and who they nominate, the end
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Brag
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
And here is The Onion's first historical parody (unless there is something missing in the archive); it would have been from 1996 but is presented as being from 1896
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I believe I've found the first "What do you think?", from March 1990. These stock photos were used in almost every subsequent issue, usually represented as UW students. Years later they were replaced with the stock photos still used
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Math says real means the rational plus the irrational, but not the imaginary
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
When El Cerrito sends its musicians, they’re not sending their best
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You would like it (History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs) I think, and the most recent episode was a cool 2.5 hours on CCR that never stopped being interesting. Every time an episode drops and I wonder if it is more than I will want on a particular band the answer is always no
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Did you just listen to the Andrew Hickey episode? You must have. If not then Aaron this is the answer to your original question
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM