Everything posted by Bozo_Casanova
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The Lost Generation essay
I only know what I saw, and broad based denial of opportunity based on race and gender to people in a specific range of career bands is what I consistently observed in that period. That’s my direct, first hand, experience so I don’t really know what else to say other than that I think everyone’s intentions were basically good. That’s marketing malpractice. Going around apologizing is not how anybody wins. My point here is to locate a legitimate source of resentment, point to the modest progress that was gained, and think about what lessons it can teach.
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25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
It’s a waste- professional 3 pt shooters are a dime a dozen these days. Flagg is too elite in forward motion to be taking set shots when he could be collapsing defenses and kicking out.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
We're just sick of OKC's shit. And we means the rest of the league.
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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
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The Lost Generation essay
Really good post- all I would say is that millennials have gotten the worst deal in American history. GenX had to wait. GenX didn’t have our financial futures intentionally destroyed in order to save the people who destroyed the economy and blew up the contract with labor.
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The Lost Generation essay
I think that is the intention. That’s one of the reasons it disturbs me. The other reason, which is far more troubling, is the truth it contains, because real grievance is much more powerful in politics than the confected variety. Look at this thread. Multiple people are copping to the fact that yeah, millennial men probably were discriminated against en masse in certain fields for about a decade exclusively based on their race and gender, but most are kind of brushing them off as “mediocre white men.” But since the vast majority of all people in the workforce and population are pretty mediocre, what y’all are really saying is that it’s fine for an individual to have their opportunities limited because of their race and gender if it squares up the ledgers of representation grievances. That’s a real political problem for progressives, among other things. Maybe he is, but I’ve seen a lot of what he’s describing. It was pretty pervasive at big companies and in tech for about a decade. Again, it’s going viral because people are recognizing their own experiences in the essay.
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25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
The threat of what, long rebound? It would be great if he develops a decent 3, but even if he doesn’t he won’t be a bust. Giannis makes/shoots 3s at the same rate Flagg does, and I wouldn’t call him a bust.
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Surly Boxing Thread
Agree on all counts.
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Elise Stefanik needs her own thread. She's gonna be a GQP big player.
When I heard this news today I was getting a propane fill at U-Haul and it was so satisfying I almost asked the attendee for a cigarette.
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The Lost Generation essay
I can only speak to what I’ve seen. Among millennials I’ve never seen anyone exceptional passed over ever. Exceptional people are exceptional. But in the 2010’s I saw lots of well qualified millennial males disqualified from consideration for promotional or mid career opportunities strictly on the basis of maleness.
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The Lost Generation essay
I’m not sure who you are responding to here.
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The Lost Generation essay
Dude, whatever the number is- normalize for the zip code where they lived in high school and see what you’re left with.
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The Lost Generation essay
For somebody under 45? Nah. If you take away the ~5% with money and family connections and they are just as fucked as everyone else. It’s nice not to get shot, tho. That’s not nothing.
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The Lost Generation essay
Honestly, I think it’s about the same. To achieve the basics of “The American Dream” in this world requires three or more of the following: - brains - looks - family connections and money - good health - hard work White men, out of the box, have one really big advantage: if they interact with police they almost certainly won’t die. That’s a very big deal and I don’t want to minimize it. But otherwise, the vast majority of white men under 45 are just as fucked as everyone else and the vast majority of them will struggle all their lives and not amount to shit.
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The Lost Generation essay
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I only saw what happened in global tech companies, and a TV writers room has no relationship to college degrees, but I agree with you there. .- The Lost Generation essay
Ok, but taken at face value what do you think? Look there is a lot about this essay I find very silly. But the reason why it resonated with me was because it aligns with my first hand experience and direct visibility to what was happening, which is what 956 saw as well and describes above. If I was a millennial male who was denied opportunities exclusively on the basis of my race and/or gender I would be pretty bitter and pretty cynical also, and I have to think it drove a few people straight into the arms of the American right wing or whoever wanted to pursue that grievance.- The Lost Generation essay
Yeah, that seems like a pretty significant and really bad impact.- The Lost Generation essay
That would be the "who gives a fuck?" portion of the essay.- The Lost Generation essay
But, again, that's the point - one slice of one group was discriminated against and the big winners weren't (by and large) less privileged. So we wind up getting a more gender diverse mix of rich kids moving up in the world. Or maybe richer kids. Was it worth it?- The Lost Generation essay
I don't speak for all of corporate America but you should read what 956 wrote about his experience, because that was in line with what I saw in global corporations and Big Tech over the course of about a decade. In other words, I can't honestly say that "the best candidate we can get" was a huge part of the equation when it came to early-mid career promotion, hiring and recruitment. And he's especially dead-on about gay guys not counting.- The Lost Generation essay
But, that's not his core complaint. His core complaint is that millenial males, particularly the white ones were individually denied opportunity while the power structure stayed the same. Which is really hard to argue with. Gen X is not millenials. Both of you guys should read and not skim - the essay is not about Gen X or Gen Z - it's about what happened to millenial males over the course of a very specific decade. And I would also say to both of you - you're lawyers and in one of the most gatekept professions there is, and one which exercises more aggressive cultural hygiene and self-protection than any other, with the possible exception of police. In other words, you're part of the power structure. Of course things are mainly the same.- The Lost Generation essay
put another way, you didn't read the essay- The Lost Generation essay
And that's exactly the reaction I would expect from someone who doesn't read the essay- Trump’s America
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