Sam Adler-Bell

New @NYMag column is about American violence

I’ll be at this tomorrow, if you wanna come hang!

@averyfjames that does sound cool

@SamAdlerBell Counterpoint: I specifically paid taxes for an F-16 to do a low afterburn flyover that flattened all of the grass around me and probably advanced my tinnitus by 20 years and it was completely worth it. Nothing pathetic about it.

loving one's country is a pathetic and embarrassing ordeal. one should do it only against his better judgment. America, being so straightforwardly despicable, pitifully sensitive, and desperate for approval, reveals the perversity & indignity of nationalism. in this way, we are a light among nations.

to be clear, i do love America. but I know how ridiculous and undignified that is. I can't help it, but I mean, come on. what a joke!

@WillSloanEsq 🫶

Watched the Columbo episode with George Hamilton. Very good.

@MZYouhana apparently! i hadn't paid attention in a while. had the impression he was still posturing as some kind of straight-talking renegade who couldn't be swayed by partisanship. tweet suggests he's auditioning for fox news channel.

@SamAdlerBell He is a cranky old conservative man yelling at cloud

Anyone under the impression that Mamdani’s 4th speech was boilerplate online leftist anti-Americanism, is either a committed conservative or disqualifyingly incurious.

tell me the truth: had you read the speech when you tweeted about it, @mtaibbi?

Like, what are you taking about bro?

@HeerJeet Mostly, yes. I also think he resented the way his thought was taken up in America in the teens and twenties: as one among many other New Thought “mind cure” sophistries.

@SamAdlerBell Rooted, I think, in Austro-Hungarian resentment -- fully justified, mind you -- over what Wilsonian foreign policy did to central Europe.

Max Eastman: “What makes you hate America so?” Freud: “Hate America? I don’t hate America. I regret it.”

Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then. What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time. Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it. Happy Fourth of July, New York City.

i have to say, i much prefer chait's "dsa = sharia communism, wake up sheeple!" line of attack to its two main competitors, "dsa sure has a lot of *white people* in it" and "this whole thing smacks of gender"

If you're a DSA party member they let you put your AC to 75, if you're in the nomenklatura, 72, central committee member, 68

don’t let them force you off the scent, Joe. you’re close to exposing the whole thing

me fr, except there are more crucifixes in my room

they're gonna play the rivoli

I don’t mean to be rude, but she wouldn’t even say his name 8 months ago.

RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/tad-devine-p…

If you're free on July 7, I'll be talking with @taddevine in NYC about why Bernie would've won