Jason Coupet
Towards a big, efficient public sector that serves the least of us. Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School. United Campus Workers of Georgia. Father of 3. Chicago southsider. Proud 〽️ichigan alum. 🏀 nut.
- What a child.
- I think we can chill on putting the term “creep” after “fascist creep.” We’ve been there for awhile now imo but maybe the rest of you can admit this now.
- It’s been depressing to realize the number of people that have grown up to be mean, petty, jealous, resentful, unethical, racist, mudslinging, messy trolling pieces of shit. In my youth, I knew there were problematic folks but I thought the modal adult was mostly well adjusted. I dunno now man.
- *A lot* of it, prolly most of it, is this society that breeds insecurity and rewards sociopathy and anti social behavior to the degree that America does. We are bred to make war with one another, and nasty, willing to shit in my neighbors lawn for ten dollars ass people can get ahead quick here.
- Despite being an absolutely thoroughly degenerate Chicago South Sider till death do me part, New York City is my favorite city in all the world man. It’s everything that makes this country great. 25 million people from every corner of this earth hustling together, talking shit and sharing food.
- I’m at a random hole in the wall bar near the Garden with a Dominican chef, a rich Indian business man, and the Irish American bartender. Turns out everybody has a daughter 13 or under and we all trading stories. The bartender has been pouring shots on the house cuz we have so much in common.
- These Republican haters are salty because for some reason they can’t enjoy this. Stop being a racist xenophobe man and come break this bread with us. There is room at this bar for the four of us, so there is room for everyone.
- Could you even fucking imagine if… lol
- You have to hand it to him. There is seemingly an endless supply of stupid mfs to bamboozle man and he is here for absolutely all of it. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/...
- A buddy of mine brought this up: Is there anybody that actually believes that assassination attempt wasn’t staged? This mf complains and whines incessantly about every tiny little MF grievance and he ain’t mentioned that shit one time I’ve heard since he won.
- That’s why I believe it’s real. The man never brings up his Ls. Even catching that stray is an L. If it was staged he’d be bragging about it and how quick he is or whatever.
- Good point
- Daily to reminder people in northern cities: Alot of the southern states would be solidly blue but many of these states make it *absurdly* difficult for black people and poor people, especially poor black people, to vote. The Shelby decision was absolutely devastating.
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View full threadYes, it’s in Georgia, which means the laws are often very conservative , we don’t have real unions and it’s hard to get funding for many of the progressive things New Yorkers enjoy. But it feels easy to imagine how different it could be without the voting…challenges.
- I did not grow up in the south, but I’ve lived here for ten years now. And while there are…peculiarities…the impulse of many liberals to paint it is a toothless red backwater is ignorant and ignores a lot of very easy to verify history and political economy. Do better!
- You don’t even need to voter suppression counterfactual to see that the backwater southern thing is false. New York City, a notorious liberal Mecca, went roughly 30% for the orange dude, and Fulton County, roughly mapping on the the city of Atlanta, came in at 25% Trump support.
- I’d also add that Atlanta *feels* more liberal that New York City does, more than Chicago too, not just in a blue versus red sense. It’s a very openly loud gay city, louder than New York. It’s a blacker city, a lot less buttoned up and in some sense more free.
- But even in states that appear deep red, like Alabama, it’s probably worth thinking about what the counterfactual might be without voter suppression. Alabama and Mississippi have centuries old aggressive voting shenanigans, often violent. Would they bother if it would be red anyway?
- For instance, Alabama required IDs to vote, then closed all the DMVs in black counties lol. Straight up Jim crow shit. The south is not a swath of backwards idiots, but a mini nation of semi feudal states rigged for minority rule. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
- This is pretty straightforwardly the case in purple and former purple states like North Carolina, Florida, and…others lol. North carolina was caught in an email exchange explicitly plotting to require forms of id that black people were less likely to carry. www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1...
- 💯 I live and work with a lot of middle and upper middle class liberals. Some of them have good values. Many others do a lot of posturing but materially are awful petty crass opportunists that are deeply invested in status and hierarchy. They *enjoy* inequity and rig systems for their kids.
- I just learned My 11yo has spent the weekend writing a 12 page literature review exploring the links between socioeconomic status and educational outcomes. For fun. And it’s solid. North of the quality of our median undergraduate. But more importantly…wtf. What kind of kid does this for fun.
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- Your child sounds healthy and well adjusted lol.
- I swear the 4yo came out of the womb obsessed with sports. It gets worse every year. He is finally old enough to play on “real” teams and omg he takes it so seriously. In baseball he’s the only kid on the field never screwing around. Hes always ready. Look at him at shortstop. It’s his religion.
- lol 💀
- I swear this media tries so hard to whitewash violent fascism.
- American media are truly stuck on stupid. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
- Whew man www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fda...
- I’ve often wondered aloud if American fascism was so hard to recognize by liberals because they are expecting uniformed brownshirts. But a lot of America’s most violent fascism has always been deputized. Anyone can get a war weapon and act as their own racist Brownshirt and kill whoever they want.
- 6’3, 225 is the exact height and playing weight of prime Terrell Owens. Hats off to my mans for keeping himself absolutely shredded with Filet O Fish meals and golf carts.
- My best guess is 6’1, 315-335. No way he’s a pound under that.
- Casino > Goodfellas
- Same lol. Someone right wing nut job sent a fake pipe bomb looking thing with confetti innit to my office because I said homeless people soundly be homeless over on that other site. I told my therapist and she almost fell out of her chair.
- 11yo: I’m not going to school today. I don’t feel like going to math. “Yes you are. I’m your dad and that’s that.” 11yo: How are you going to call yourself dismantling race and class hierarchies outside while you reinforce a hierarchy at home? Huh? Man middle school is…something.
- lol underrated tweet
- You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
- It’s hard to argue that any of the masculinities we have been socialized into are healthy. But our current world where the resentful misogynist keyboard hater comment box troll defines a “real man” is strange. The words we grew up with for people like that were surely not masculine ones lol.
- I was explaining this to my students yesterday. I was introducing cost benefit analysis, and we went through the baseline expectations for a firm-level CBA. We then went through a social cost benefit analysis, and they were blown away at how much harder and more rigorous they usually are.
- Shocker lol. Man higher Ed is in trouble.
- I just mostly feel bad for the kids doomed to grow up in these households man. So much suffering and death.
- “Riffs!” “Yeah right!” Yalll don’t even know what I’m talking about do you. Youngsters!
- “I thought this would just put the negroes in their place but turns out to this administration I’m a negro too and now I’m upset.”
- Academics have been pedantic and annoying for as long as there have been universities. Magically the public now notices it and hates us? Nah dawg. What it is is that the minds of disaffected men these institutions now confer elite status on women and minorities. So they don’t like them anymore.
- Been saying it forever: election rigging in the south works wonders.
- This new Bill Burr special man…I hope every Democratic Party member watches this. It’s just so on point.
- This was always it. This the same reasoning as “I don’t watch the NBA, they are a bunch of lazy rich crybabies.” Alotta folks just can’t stand the idea of rich black people. Racism is such a profound social force here. It’s often stirring the drink when it doesn’t look like it on the surface.
- “I don’t understand how any of this works but I have a super strong opinion about it, and if you politely point out that evidence suggest something different, I will call you an elitist who talks down to me and blame you for my fascist sympathies.”
- I think I believe in evil now.
- Yall ten years ago: why would a bunch of faculty ever need a union (sigh) we are not factory workers I hate unions blah blah deadweight loss blah blah Today: the furher says the university has to fire anyone who says anything bad about him I hope I dont go to the camps for saying tariffs are bad
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- Yo my side of town in Atlanta is so instructive of this. The “In this house we…” lawn sign houses…turns out they really really like aggressive prosecutors man. Like they like them a lot.
- I swear to god this is the only thing that makes any sense.
