Will Witwer

Why do Magic: The Gathering Arena usernames go so hard?? I have a huge screenshot collection lmao

@SchmittNYC well try living full time in that bad boy then - why the fuck should we care even one iota about the finances of second home buyers?

Here’s a 5.9M condo in Manhattan. It’ll be bought by someone Mamdani/Hochul claim isn’t paying their “fair share”. They’ll pay a $132,000 mansion tax at closing. And then pay $5200 a month in property taxes. Mamdani and Hochul will now add another tax to this bill.

Man crazy how there’s always *just enough* Democrats to stop consequential votes from passing. Ah, well

@billybinion Hate to break it to you but “contempt for the superich” is a popular attitude. Do you think the wealth inequality in America should be ignored?

Setting policy aside, the worst thing about Mamdani’s mayoralty is his very obvious contempt for the wealthy—as if they’re evil simply because they’ve made money. He films himself outside a rich man’s home, *names the guy* and sneers. Terrible quality in a leader.

Piss Teams Up With Shit

It’s so awesome Bill Watterson is only 67. Made a masterpiece from age 27 to 37, and then has just been chilling since. Beautiful.

they'll put a woman in prison for a miscarriage but you can state your intent to let your kids die from a preventable disease and its fine

Written in 2014. But still applicable today.

@mattyglesias so in your view these tweets are sufficient and we can just relax about our opposition party only feebly protesting this war?

@SarahLongwell25 “I didn’t and don’t care about Piker…but Tim wasn’t considering how bad Piker’s positions are” ????? Like call me crazy but he can’t be both a powerless outsider and also someone we need to critique for 45 minutes on a podcast

Look, the dumbest thing about all this is that I didn’t and don’t care about Piker. Piker never comes up in focus groups with voters as someone they’re following—the way a Rogan or Tucker or Candance does. I don’t think he’s singularly making an impact on politics in any way commensurate with the attention he’s getting. But I care about Tim. I agreed with @Timodc’s original point that using Piker as a litmus test is dumb. Calling up Jon Ossoff to ask what he thinks about Piker is dumb. It is an unnecessary distraction. But I felt like Tim’s discussion of Piker was too dismissive of some of Pikers more toxic positions. And that was the part I wanted to react to. There’s nothing I can do about the fact that the internet distortion field has overtaken the whole thing. And that people are debating my views in a way that is totally divorced from my actual, very-well documented views. That’s just part of what happens when doing this work. The only thing I can do is keep saying what I actually believe. And what I hear voters saying they believe. But politicians can reach voters who are angry about the Iran war and even about America’s relationship to Israel without going on the stream of a guy who said America deserved 9/11. But, it’s also no doubt true that he’s being elevated by the whole conversation and the right answer to questions about him should probably be “Piker, who?” Because that’s what most voters would say if you asked them.

The implication here is so funny I can't even think of a joke

it’s such bullshit that you can’t reprogram the Roku sponsored streaming service buttons!! possibly the biggest problem facing society today quite frankly

Israeli authorities confess they are singling out the Shi'ite Lebanese population for destruction. This is textbook ethnic cleansing, described as "Israel's message" by the @nytimes.

@Slate twitter is such dogshit these days

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@wwitwer @JonesOnTheNBA ….and the left wing is politically motivated to destroy traditional Christian values. While arguing that they want “inclusivity” and equality, for all. Which is why some people are playing dumb.

Yes, there’s a line here between religious/full of faith and fanaticism. Fanaticism is usually by someone that is dealing with a mental health issue. I don’t know why people try to play dumb on this kind of stuff.

Meanwhile a $1.5 trillion defense budget request is coming before Congress on Friday.

@irisketball He seems to follow some of the dumbest people on here - fully agree it’s not random

@wwitwer i don't think it's entirely random with KOC lol

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@irisketball KOC the even more intense version of this phenomenon lol

every time

@BBW_BFF I’m mostly familiar bc they have made fun of her on Chapo a lot - I hate her politics but also she’s dumb and a bad writer. So her embracing AI feels like the culmination of all of that.

@wwitwer I've heard her name before but up until now I have been blissfully unaware of whatever her deal is

no. regret to inform you I enjoy being a writer - to me doing all this shit myself is essential to the gig - and also I'm not a huge fucking brainless loser.

@BBW_BFF She’s been stupid for so long lol

and to me it's upsetting to see a columnist at the Washington Post cheerfully admit to using a chatbot - a person with more money and job security than me who is also doing much less work.