nostalgebraist:

The newspaper:

“Mélenchon, a far-left candidate,”

Wait But Why post “explaining” the same news story:

“Okay, so.  To understand this, we’re going to have to zoom way out first.

The first thing you need to know is that politics is kind of like a line.  We could call it the Politics Noodle.  People like to yell at each other because they’re standing on different parts of the noodle.

[6-panel cartoon of stick figures standing on a piece of spaghetti and exchanging quirky insults]

Weird, huh?

Now, imagine that Hillary Clinton wakes up one morning, and finds herself standing in her usual place on the Politics Noodle.

[cartoon of stick figure Hillary saying something Hillary-ish]

She looks to her left and sees Bernie Sanders,”

femmenietzsche:

Meet The Artist Who’s Painting America’s Most Ridiculously Gerrymandered Congressional Districts With The Colors Of Various Pride Flags For Reasons We Were Unable To Completely Discern

::the outline of a circus clown and carousel, with a regression line plotted through::

everyone who saw this coming even close was an intuitionist. they ignored polls and studies and numbers and listened to taxi drivers and anonymous commenters and nowhere randoms

2006: “Look at all these pompous NYT and WaPo pundits whose only understanding of the world outside their elite bubble comes from brief smalltalk with the peasant class. No wonder they don’t understand anything!”

2014: “We don’t talk to anyone outside our bubble but it’s ridiculous to think you could understand things by asking people, anyway.”