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wildcat09

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  1. Maybe sit this one out.
  2. I think we're done here.
  3. I doubt this was intended as a joke, but it's a fucking great one, man.
  4. It's good to know his division won't miss him when Ukraine drone strikes him.
  5. Oh good, GRU is quoting ChatGPT now.
  6. Sure you do, you hit the nail on the head that it's personal for him. He was acting out like a baby and wanted people to indulge his tantrum.
  7. I tried this, but my dog is an asshole to other dogs. Now I'm all out of ideas!
  8. We learned that the Trump administration is desperate to hide something and is very bad at cover ups.
  9. Right. A big part of growing up is realizing the world doesn't revolve around you and that you can do everything right and still get the short end of the stick for arbitrary or no reasons at all. We can and should work to provide a system that helps alleviate the worst symptoms of that and to minimize the unfairness, but there's no way to actually eliminate unfairness and create a perfectly meritocratic system. There will always be some number of people who have bad luck. It doesn't help anyone to indulge their anger and encourage them to attribute their bad luck to false causes. These guys don't need JD Vance's bullshit, they need Shoresy:
  10. The real thing they're spending the money on isn't meeting women, it's meeting women who can't say no.
  11. I'm imagining that scene in As Good As It Gets where the lady asks him how he writes women so well, except instead of being an asshole Roth is just very uncomfortable with the idea that he understands them at all.
  12. This reads like an Andrew Tate post.
  13. Man, you very clearly need to talk to a therapist. ETA: seriously man, what the fuck is wrong with you? That’s the kind of response you should expect to get punched in the face for if you said that shit to a grown man in person.
  14. I've been a bit simplistic in some of my responses because I didn't have the time to give this 5,000+ words when shit needed doin over the weekend. What I and Dahobbs and others have been pretty clear about though, I think, is that we are willing to believe that some young white men have been discriminated against by silly employment policies, but that it isn't a real widespread issue. There's reams of data backing up the fact that it isn't really a widespread issue. It's certainly not as severe an issue as Republicans pretend it is. That means that many, and I believe most, young white men who believe they've been discriminated against are wrong in that belief. Now I can empathize with why they wrongly think that. I grew up in a conservative family surrounded by conservative families. I remember the whispered racial grievances of the 90s and 2000s. We were all too good and too respectable to be racist; that was for white trash. But my mom and tons of friends' parents would talk about how it wasn't fair that underperforming black kids were taking our spots in college and that reverse racism was the only real racism left in America. It's easy to start believing that shit and if you start believing it might be true you'll start spotting things that you think reinforce it as you progress through life, because the world is a big place with a lot of people in it and many of those people make mistakes and some of those people are just shitty people who do bad things. I was a shitty student from a middle class home at a very diverse high school full of high-achieving minority students. I absolutely could've gone down that path. I like to think I'm smart enough that I never would've fallen for it, but if I had been born ten years later and Trump was mainstreaming unapologetic racism again at the time I was becoming an adult and politically aware, I could see an alternate timeline where a version of 19-year-old me bought into the racial grievances. I think about that alternate me and I wonder: would it help turn him away from that path to have a liberal tell him that those peddling the racism were right about him being screwed over to help some dumber black kid or whatever? Fucking of course not. "Even the liberal [centrist pundit] agrees with us that the left has gone too far" is some of the most effective conservative rhetoric. The idea that reinforcing that rhetoric would result in liberal political gains is insane. Of the white boys and young men who've bought into these false racial grievances, some are undoubtedly open to persuasion. Those who are a little smarter than most of the others, those who have some liberal friends, those who stumble onto a lefty podcast that starts to make sense to them, etc. But persuading all those young white men requires convincing them that their racial grievances are mistaken. And for the very select few who might've been unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and actually did get shafted for being white, we can say "shit man, that sucks and shouldn't have happened, but you can't let that experience poison you." Using me as an example again, my dad died from medical malpractice when I was a teenager. That experience has undoubtedly impacted how I feel about our healthcare system. If that had happened now to alternate me, with frauds peddling woo healthcare bullshit from the White House, I could see him buying into it. But I didn't buy into it, even though I was pretty familiar with all of that woo bullshit 20 years ago, because I wasn't surrounded by people saying "well you know RFK Jr. is right that there are a lot of problems with the healthcare system!" It was still the type of thing only kooks bought into and that helped me look at their bullshit critically. If we were talking about healthcare rather than discrimination, Bozo's proposal to reach me would've meant indulging my worst feelings and most wrong beliefs. It would've meant telling me something like "you're right to be angry, they killed your dad for money." But that's not what happened; what happened was that a doctor who was by most accounts a good doctor made a horrible mistake, because he's a person and people make mistakes. I'm very glad Bozo wasn't there to tell me comforting lies when I was at my worst; I'd be a worse person today if he had.
  15. Fewer boys are applying for colleges for a very simple reason: more girls are. There’s a type of male (conservative) who wants absolutely nothing to do with anything that woman do. We’ve seen this in various professions (e.g. teaching and nursing) and now we’re seeing it in education. They’re not being denied opportunities, they’re refusing them. Because they have shitty parents that instill shitty values in them. There’s not an equivalent to Title IX that can fix that.
  16. The utter failure of Bidenomics begs to differ.
  17. This sounds like a recipe to turn even more young white men against the Democratic party. What you're prescribing is identifying Democrats as their enemy. ETA: This is JD Vance, literally today: You're saying that we need to tell young white men that he's correct.
  18. Does being open to them require playing along with imagined grievances?
  19. Stop acting like Ana and be specific. What do you think the progressive movement should do to appeal to them?
  20. You're not as stupid as you're pretending to be.
  21. Because lots of people in media and likely in their own lives around them talk about how reverse discrimination happens all the time. This isn't fucking rocket science, man. Enough people repeat a lie often enough and a lot of people will start to believe it. Whether the 35 year old who didn't get promoted watches Hannity is irrelevant, this is a false idea that's been floating around since I was born and has been given a megaphone for the past 10 years.
  22. There's strong ana vibes from Bozo here. It's disappointing.
  23. Men under 50 is a big group and includes a lot of people who are not millennials. There's a whole generation after millennials that is old enough to vote and the generation after that one is now entering voting age. And racial resentment is much more pronounced among white males in those generations than millennials. That's not because they've experienced discrimination. You're pretending you want to discuss this, but in repeatedly ignoring these facts it seems pretty clear you just want to lecture people for not catering to the feelings of anti-woke white boys enough. No shit. Alleviating that is the entire point of liberal and progressive politics. There's no denial that a lot of white men are also shafted by the current system. There's just less sympathy for them than everyone else who is shafted by it even worse. I would still like the government to implement programs that would help them. That's the opposite of saying "fuck 'em."
  24. I actually usually chalk it up to shit luck. But if they write an article in Compact about how they just know they were secretly discriminated against for being white, then I'm going to start thinking it might be something else.
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