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Empathy is fucking dead. We don’t kill it, but we damn well know what the stench of “death of anything good” smells like. I can’t do it. I just can’t. I cannot make myself feel any empathy or sympathy for a group that has, for all living memory, been the most privileged group in the history of humanity, who are now pissed because they may have lost .000001% of that privilege. Yeah, I’m aware of the strategic point in courting them. That’s why I have long been a proponent of lying to them, telling them the sweet lies they want to hear to get their votes. But I can’t care about them. They and their predecessors have never given 1 billionth of a fuck about anyone else.
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Brisketexan started following The Lost Generation essay , 2025 CFP First Round - The "U" @ aggy , Compensation & WFH debate ($120K vs 240K) and 1 other
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Was running errands most of the day. Got home, turned the game on, 3rd down, 28 seconds left. Wife and daughter both comment “god I hope we get to see their heart ripped out.” 20 seconds later, INT. We all three instantly laughed so hard the neighbors heard. God that was the best timing ever. We saw one play. The one that was the dagger to all aggy hearts at Pyle. Merry Christmas everyone!
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I mean…they might make some real cash setting up a Charlie shooting gallery. There is no bottom, so don’t rule it out.
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[Gets a car to drive him to within a couple of miles of the marathon finish line before the race even starts. Gets out of car and into a runner’s stance.] “Ok! This needs to be a fair race! Everyone just run as fast as you can to the finish line, same as everyone else!” Fucking hell. That this country not only still doesn’t understand the multi-generational holdback caused by institutionalized racism, but now actually bans even talking about it in any educational context? Yeah, we’re going to turn into a shit-flinging civil war, and we fucking deserve all the pain that’s coming our way. Openly discriminate against minorities for 300 years, and still do = “oh well, too bad, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” Implement programs and efforts to maybe just interview minority candidates/recruit at HBCUs and such = “ZOMG DEI DISCRIMINATION WHITE MEN ARE THE WORST VICTIMS OF DISCRIMINATION EVER!”
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
There is no “alternative” in the GQP. Your choices are “racist” or “RINO, GTFO!” Nobody who doesn’t cater to pure white nationalism has any place in the party or among its voters. -
Oh. You think millennials got fucked. Gen Z would like a word. They’re going to get to grow up in a fascist authoritarian oligarchy with little in the way of meaningful jobs or future as late stage capitalism leads to the largest inequality gap in human history as it simultaneously consumes and irrevocably destroys the environment. Boomers destroyed everything. Literally the whole fucking thing. And it pains me that a chunk of Gen X were happy accessories to their crimes. But I’m fucking pissed about this essay. My whole life, white men have lectured all of us about “stop being victims, no more grievance culture, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, discrimination doesn’t happen, if you didn’t get the job/promotion, you just didn’t have the merit, you’re not entitled to anything”…..and now those same white men are playing the other side of that tune as loudly as they can. I repeat, fuck em. Dishing that shit out to everyone else for 300 years was just fine for you, but upon being served a mere demitasse of what they’ve been handing out for centuries, white men crumple to the ground and cry like bitches.
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No, see, “don’t complain, be exceptional” is advice that only applies to minorities when being lectured by white people. “Work harder, bootstraps, quit whining, be exceptional!” Totally cool when society spends generations telling minorities that, totally awful, no good, very bad when anyone tells that to white men.
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What percentage of black men have a dad who is/was a doctor, lawyer, etc? What percentage of white men have a dad who is/was a doctor, lawyer, etc? That’s the systemic advantage. And the gap there remains huge. That factor alone is hugely determinative of a person’s success. Kid of a ditch digger is much less likely to achieve great success than the kid of a professional (and the grandkid, and great grandkid). And generations of history and practice made that gap, it hasn’t come even close to going away. White men continue to ride the wave of the generational advantages of 300 fucking years. Now, that wave is 6 feet instead of 10. Waaaah. Yeah, I know that a bazillion angry white men is bad for society. But…and this is important…fuck em. Fuck their entitled whiny asses. Want something? Fucking earn it. Work HARDER. You know, all the things they tell minorities even today.
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Again, if someone says that about Charlie Kirk, the Trump DOJ would be bringing charges.
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Indeed. Being poor is another layer -- and a big, fat layer -- in the shit sandwich of American life. It's why I'm a huge fan of community colleges, getting first-gen kids through college and such, etc. Yeah, college isn't for everyone, but damn....it opens the door to the professional classes, and not just for the first generation. For FUTURE generations. An influential teacher who got my dad to think of, and then go to college, is a large part of the reason I'm successful. I had a leg-up because I was born to a college-educated father, with a professional degree and license (nothing fancy, petroleum engineer working for the government, but it was stability, and gave me examples and expectations). But back to whiny white guys, by far the biggest factors crushing them are (1) women have entered the work force, and not just in "women's jobs" like teaching and nursing, but in all manner of professional fields, and (2) women are smart and have an aptitude for the very things that make one successful academically and professionally. E.g., women are much less likely to spend formative educational years in their parents' basement playing COD 12 hours a day. Once we allowed women to compete....they started kicking our asses, and it ain't getting any better for those of us equipped with a dingus. As much as there are strong retrograde impulses in society and government right now, that genie is never going back in the bottle. Get used to it, white guys. Want to do better? Then BE better. You know, the meritocracy you love to shout about, the key first step is "have some fucking merit."
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The growth in percentage of "more disadvantaged" among the professional ranks has been slower going, but it IS happening. See my comment about the increasing percentage of minority candidates, and a fair number are not from families that already had "professionals" in them. Not nearly enough, mind you. Overcoming structural income and social inequality issues takes time measured in generations. But also consider that PART of that is hiring more minorities from the get-go, simply because THOSE minorities (the more educated, more privileged ones) often have much stronger connections to a network of more disadvantaged people. STATISTICALLY, a given young black or hispanic lawyer is more likely to know people, know schools, etc. that have a larger population of disadvantaged folks. Both things are true: some things can be done in the short-term, but seeing genuine positive results of not just improvements in race or gender ratios, but seeing improvements that also include lifting up more disadvantaged folks, takes time. BUT, counter....for the longest time, it didn't matter whether you were a poor mexican, or a well-to-do mexican, the firm of Whitey and Whitness in Dallas wasn't gonna hire you. It wasn't the "poor" that shut you out (although that sure as shit didn't help). It was the brown. Or black.
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An I respect your perspective. As you know, I don't and have never hired in that world. I've hired lawyers, pastoral staff, church-related operations executive staff, and such (that is....trained members of "professions"). And with respect to those....I've seen white men getting their butts kicked, and objectively so. Shit, I remember when my wife commented, when she was in seminary and working with her peer group, "I'm gonna tell you, if you need to hire a decent pastor anytime soon, you're gonna hire a woman." Sure enough, of the 8 awards handed out at graduation, 7 went to women (including my wife, cuz she's awesome). I know anecdotes aren't evidence, but from my perspective of hiring professionals, women typically have the strong edge in numbers, and among all genders, the percentage of quality minority candidates continues to climb.
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Except....we both noted that they are NOT mainly the same. While white men are still disproportionately represented in the younger ranks, women are beginning to stomp them in both quantity and quality. Again, give me a pool of 10 randomly selected high-quality candidates with less than 4 years of practice, probably 7 outta 10 are going to be female. Minorities are still trailing in representation, but they are making gains. Bottom line, 30 years ago, 80% of the incoming class of high-quality attorneys would be white males. Today? Maybe 40%. That's a precipitous decline.....but white males are STILL slightly overrepresented compared to population.
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