Everything posted by Bozo_Casanova
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Trump’s America
- General Health Care/Health Cost thread
You act like that’s a bad thing. Healthcare is the single biggest factor that prevents people from seeking better employment, choosing to live on one income instead of two, or starting businesses of their own. When employers can’t handcuff their workers with healthcare, wages are the primary tool they have to keep them, and if they choose not to pay market rate, they will suffer the consequences. Don’t confuse bondage with benefit.- General Health Care/Health Cost thread
That is a key feature, maybe THE key feature of any reform that seeks improvement to the private health insurance market, not a bug. All employees are ALREADY paying the full boat cost, they are just bartering some amount of their labor for it and giving their employer the entire tax break, in return for a suboptimal risk pool and no portability.- 25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
- Trump’s America
The saddest retard on planet earth also drops wack rage bait- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Wordle 1,651 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩- Slutcon (Apropos of Incels, White Male Millennials, Gen Z Nihilism, #MeToo, and Declining Birth Rates)
This sounds like something Dr Marvin Monroe would say on The Simpsons- Slutcon (Apropos of Incels, White Male Millennials, Gen Z Nihilism, #MeToo, and Declining Birth Rates)
💯- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Wordle 1,650 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩- 2026 Surly 10,000 Pushup Challenge
No pullups, but I’ll do 10k pushups and squats- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Wordle 1,649 4/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩- 25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
Flagg doing work tonight- Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Ppl- The Lost Generation essay
Yes, that was super dumb. It’s funny, I run into that a lot with younger millennials. They seem to labor under the impression that there was some golden age in the recent past when things were fair. I have no idea where it comes from.- The Lost Generation essay
I think it will bring back some of the ones we want, and also probably help stop the bleeding. I think we are talking about a lot of things here: 1) younger people taking the blame and paying a social/economic price for the actions/inactions of older people, mainly boomers (an immense subject matter) 2) How affluent white progressives have been unaware of, or in some cases actively ignored or even celebrated the negative consequences to a subset of younger people 3) how MAGA enlisted resentment about that and channeled that towards their own ends 4) what it takes for progressives to reestablish or maintain credibility with middle and working class millennials. Paying attention to them and indicating that their struggles are understood isn’t good enough by itself to make a political difference, but I do think it’s required for any sort of policy or plan or candidates to resonate. It’s the whole podcast thing- Kamala Harris should have done Theo Von and flown to Austin to do Rogan and not done anything special other than be herself as honestly as she could and to push back as much as she wanted. The point of doing those venues would have been to signal to their audiences that they matter.- The Lost Generation essay
It is counterproductive. Recognizing something and accepting it as real (ie, not an act) is not validation. But you can’t really be credible to another person if you don’t take them in good faith and try to understand where they’re coming from. That’s very different from agreeing with them. It’s not a great analogy but for example, I’ve spent a lot of time with homeless people. Some of them are very angry and blame a lot of people for their problems, including people who are trying to help them. The first step when you try to reach those people is just listen, nod their head, and indicate understanding. But you must not validate because that can enable their worst ideas and actually doesn’t help get to them.- The Lost Generation essay
Again, I think you are projecting. I’m blaming progressives for, among other things, failing to help minorities and disadvantaged people, and putting the performance of helping ahead of results in order to protect their own power and status. You can miss me with the rest of all that.- The Lost Generation essay
Now I’m confused. Where did I yell at anybody for that?- The Lost Generation essay
What? No. One of the weirdest things about this thread is the conflation of empathy, which is merely an effort to understand and accept the reality of another person’s experience and view of the world with some kind of performance, like an admission or apology or explanation or whatever. It’s just super odd.- The Lost Generation essay
Exactly- The Lost Generation essay
Evidently the counter argument to that position is “quit blaming minorities,” and “bringing back racial covenants.”- The Lost Generation essay
If this means that it was something I thought was worth talking about, indeed that’s why I wrote that. No. That’s not what that means, which is only what it says- if I personally were a millennial male who was denied opportunity, I would be bitter about it, and I have to imagine a subset of those people (ie “a few”) were radicalized by the experience. Thank you for a close read, however: That is not my worldview or anything like it, so let me make this clear: - I very much do blame our current situation on affluent white progressives for abandoning majoritarian middle class economic interests in favor of narrow social issues and reinforcing their own economic security and social status. - I have NEVER proposed giving back goddamn inch on anything, particularly when it comes to opening up opportunities in the workplace. - I spent a good bit of my career working on this stuff, which is why I’m trying to be thoughtful about how we could have done more and better. Hope that helps. As for the screed at the bottom, it’s got nothing to do with me, what I think, what I said, or what I do, but if it made you feel better to get it out, I’m glad.- Media Bias Thread
I can’t find it, but apparently they had DOJ and DOD on the record. That’s the executive branch, ie, the White House. Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly can’t decide who to be today:- The Lost Generation essay
Yeah I was like “don’t give up on the ticket scalping.”- 25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
“That’s not the game these days” because elite 3s that can attack the rim through traffic are so rare. - General Health Care/Health Cost thread
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