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The menswear guy spends a ridiculous amount of time just trying to own people in his replies which honestly seems extremely childish.

e.g. I saw someone say "Don't try to go toe to toe with him, he grew up in [snakepit forum with lots of insults]" — these forums are for morons (for which there is time and a place)

I don't see the similarity with Levine.

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He absolutely wastes the bits dunking on dumb people in the comments, but his on topic writing is unparalleled. Take his most recent blog post, American Space Cowboys. It's an indepth discussion on the fashion of the Apollo 11 trainees. That kind of article doesn't happened very often and has lots of fundamental principles and history of workwear dress pieces.

My Levine backlog has grown to the size of multiple novels by now; but I guess I consider Derek's dunking on people in his replies as similar in spirit to Levine's making fun of weird crypto stuff and NFTs?

Sure, one is less personal, but the ~ vibe ~ doesn't seem that much different. That's one of the things that makes reading Money Stuff so fun!

I think Levine works because he writes like a company memo written after a glass (but no more) of wine.

Your company memos sound much nicer than mine!

Levine does this more or less objectively as he’s pointing out the fallacies of crypto bros. Like Sam’s box theory, which turned a fallacy into fraud

I'm pretty sure that everyone who reads him for his knowledge would agree that the research (even if from his own past writings), formatting, illustration of his many threads take him much more time than the one-up replies.

They're also pretty easy to ignore (unless you somehow feel offended by them), and mainly appear on people's feeds because of how retweeted they are.

So I don't feel offended but one of them was scrapping with a minor (and once fairly controversial although I think he's cleaned up his act a lot, but I still don't trust) British political figure for not wearing a suit right or something, because he suggested that his ideology destroyed the world of menswear that he hankers for.

I'm sort of inclined to agree even if I don't care.

Dispute aside, I just found it a bit strange because the other guy shops at primark (cheap and crap mass produced clothes) and hates wearing suits, but he just kept trying to dunk on him. I'd hate to be friends with someone like that.

Obviously if you just want to know if your suit is good or not then it doesn't matter.

Yeah second this. Most of Levine’s critique is well-aimed, well-reasoned, and well-directed at significant people. Menswear’s “critique” consists mostly of trying to “own” random hundred-follower anons. Same vibes as Ben Shapiro “owning libs” by “debating” random, unprepared college students.

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