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Brisketexan

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  1. Thus the white nationalist quest (successful, so far) to ban "CRT" (which they define as "teaching that our society had any race-based problems, ever"). Because the issues arise largely from systemic, generations-long pressures. We kept minorities down, so their kids and grandkids remain disadvantaged. We favored white men, so their kids and grandkids have an advantage. IF we don't talk about that, or even acknowledge that it exists, then yeah...anything that even hints at acknowledging that reality is gonna piss off white people. Because of these generations-long biases, generic white guy was more likely to be born into a middle class or better family -- which, statistically, sets him up for future success -- than generic black or brown guy. So, now that white guy has a 100 yard head start, we want to declare "everyone has an equal chance to win the race that starts right now!"
  2. I don't care about them getting fucked because they've chosen to sign up for the white grievance wars and enlist in the "punch down at minorities and women" squad. So, yeah...based on that, fuck em. And as for your first-hand accounts, groovy. There are still a shitload of fields where being a white male carries an inherent advantage, and I'd suggest that society-wide, it all comes out in the wash, and white men actually STILL have an outsized advantage in comparison to their overall percentage of society. That is, I'm going to bet that among 20-30 year olds, "well-paying jobs" still go to white males at a percentage higher than their actual percentage of the population. Here's my quick find from 2016 - yes, nearly a decade out of date, but I'm betting that the numbers remain pretty close, percentage-wise:
  3. Yeah....it's not exactly news that the GQP is just a white christian nationalist party now.
  4. Very much on our list. Norway is the prettiest place we've ever been, and the locals tell us Lofoten is the best of Norway.
  5. The battle has already been decided. This viewpoint has won, handily. Like "Ole Miss over Tulane" handily. The entire national power structure in our government is dedicated to fostering, stoking, and fighting for that exact worldview: That's it. That's our full national approach now: governmentally, socially, educationally. Full-on white grievance, take every bit of advantage back, and hate/blame/undermine everyone else. Maybe what I don't get is why we're even having this pointless fucking conversation. The whiny bitch-ass author has fucking WON. It's his world now. Complete domination, anything that deviates from that will be crushed by the regime. Don't believe me? So, this whole thread is just mental masturbation. The battle is over. White men won. Completely, totally, and without any exception or reservation.
  6. Tell me more. Are there really? By that kind of job, I meant manufacturing (that doesn't require a degree/advanced training) and agriculture (75+ years ago, a shitload of dudes worked out on the farm). See this: in 1980, 20% of American workers were in manufacturing (and in 1980, most of those were men). Today, it's 8.31% In 1950, there were nearly 50 million farm jobs. Today, there's around 2 million farm jobs. Granted, that hit was more across the board racially (lots of minority farm workers at all relevant periods), but for men in general, it is a blow across the board. Yes, there are good jobs in the trades like plumbers and electricians. And those trades have grown some, but not NEARLY enough to capture all of the jobs lost in manufacturing and ag:
  7. I mean.....SIGH. It's okay to have some retrograde fantasies, fellas....right? Help me out here. And this, I would agree with. "We thought we'd get to start every inning on 3rd base, or at least second, and now, we actually have to step up to the plate and bat - THAT'S NOT FAIR" is closer to the dynamic we're dealing with. And I get why you don't like being without the inherent, unearned advantages you thought you were entitled to, but here's the thing.....you weren't actually entitled to them. Getting white males to swallow the truth pill of "you shouldn't have been, and aren't, entitled to anything other than the same opportunities as everyone else" is one of the challenges of our times. It's not going well for us.
  8. But YOU are missing the point. Today's white males do not "have it worse than everyone else." Instead....they have just as average/shitty a lot in life as everyone else (even that's not true. Come on, it's still better to be a white dude than a black dude, we all know it). What they have lost is SOME of the unfair advantage their predecessors had. They do not want a "fair shake." They want to get back the unfair advantage their predecessors had. Now, if your point is instead "now that we see that in a more egalitarian society, white males also get fucked, because everyone is getting fucked, and we should do something about everyone getting fucked," I'd agree with that. But I'll also observe that a material chunk of young white men is not interested in the "do something about everyone getting fucked" path. Instead, they choose the lazy, convenient path of punching down and blaming women and minorities for taking....some of the unfair advantage away.
  9. You can do one of three things with that group of humans: 1) Realize they are part of society, and help build a system for all (which is why I've asked the question repeatedly over the years) 2) Exterminate them (the Nazis liked this one) 3) Weaponize them as foot soldiers to serve the oligarch class (that's the path we've chosen here....but if they're brown and such, we've chosen a bit of option 2 as well)
  10. On this you and I agree. Parenting boys these days means helping them OVERCOME the structural failures of society that disfavor them. It's not the solution, it's the thing that can help some boys overcome those social failings. I don't put it all on "we let women compete, and it turns out, they kick our asses" - it's more than that. But the bottom line is that society has changed in myriad ways the last 50 years that are NOT good for men: (1) our educational systems are even more poorly designed for them, (2) physical/manual/factory labor opportunities have plummeted (3) better-educated women have better options than "I gotta marry a guy, even a loser, if I want to have a home and food on the table," and a dozen more social changes that hurt mediocre white guys. I've often asked the callous question of "what are we gonna do with all our morons?", but it's a genuine question asked in hyperbolic terms. It used to be that a mediocre dude could get a good job at the auto plant, marry a gal who was happy to be a part of that life, and have a good and fulfilling life. Those opportunities are dwindling, and fast. Everyone should have a life of basic security and dignity (or at least a really good opportunity for that), if we are to have a functioning society. They do not. And instead of spending an ounce of energy at addressing these massive structural challenges.....we allow the oligarchs to pit everyone against each other. And the author of this piece is a happy and willing accessory to that counter-productive bullshit.
  11. Yeah....definitely drawing on my own experience of realizing that the girls were studious and could actually pay attention to and advance their studies, whereas Brisket (who was actually a pretty smart guy) was busy laughing at farts with his buddies and thinking about the boobs of every one of those girls in class. "Academic focus" wasn't something my dumb ass brought to the table in spades. And my dumbass buddies seemed to be in the same boat. We need systems that account for young male development timelines and are aimed to help men grow and achieve -- socially, professionally, etc. -- along those timelines.
  12. More than anything else, it's this. It's cowardice ingrained as a result of a sheltered existence. We don't know how to fail/suffer rejection anymore. You only succeed....after you've failed. Often after you've failed a LOT. I distinctly remember the mental epiphany of "wait....right now, she's not going out with me. If I go up to her and flirt and ask her out and she says no....she's still not going out with me. I've lost absolutely nothing." Which led me to swing the bat, plenty. And the cool thing is, you only care about the hits. Nobody is counting the strikeouts, they don't fucking matter. Their are 3.5 billion women in the world. All but a dozen or so have never hooked up with me, and never will. Yet I'm still winning. Pretty awesome when you realize that's how shit works. And this. Truly, it's interesting listening to my son talk about his peer group, and how the dynamics break down. He has nothing but disdain for the socially stunted losers who just retreated into video games and porn and don't understand why women don't want to get with their socially stunted slightly smelly selves. As he puts it, "it takes so little damned effort. Take a little bit of care of yourself, put yourself out there, and talk with women like they are human beings." That's it. And I remember figuring various elements of that out at his age as well, as I assume most of us did. Is this sort of convention helpful? The sad thing is, it may be. Truly, an experience with an escort, who can actually guide a naive man a little bit into knowing what women respond to positively, really might help some of these guys. I dunno. At this point, a dude in his 30s who's never touched a boob needs some pretty serious measures to get him on track.
  13. This. This is the takeaway. It is the accurate and correct takeaway. The best way that you can tell that white men are being discriminated against is that they are no longer disproportionately dominating various fields and professions. Not "they are not getting opportunities that match their percentage of the population," but rather "they don't have a 10-30 percentage point leg up like they used to." And absolutely this. Do you want to hear me say "white men in our society are fucked and are being fucked?" Because here I am, saying just that. I've been concerned about our young men, definitely including our young white men, for some time. Shit, old-timers here will recall our family alarm bells going off 15+ years ago when my son was in first grade, and we realized that the current educational structures are just poorly suited for how boys are and how they think. We corrected previous biases, and have set up an educational system that's closer to a level playing field for males and females. And, it turns out, on a level playing field....females regularly outcompete males. Girls are better at school (as currently designed), to put it succinctly. They start pulling ahead at a young age, and by the time dumb boy lizard brains catch up, they're already past the college/learn a profession/trade years, and women have put some real distance between them. Then, layer on the fact that our society is doing a great job of poisoning their minds (Andrew Tates and Tucker Carlsons and Charlie Kirks telling them that bitches and minorities are the problem, they need to get back in the kitchen/to the plantation/back to one of those mexican countries) that young men (1) become a toxic presence in society and (2) do nothing to actually improve their lot because hey, it's not their fault. The American Dream was stolen from them by woke trans black mexican amputee women. All of us should be able to be the next Elon Musk (that's right -- they don't HATE billionaires, they IDOLIZE them. How you gonna fix that? When they worship the very thing that fucks them the hardest?) And yeah, I've seen this in real-time and -- importantly -- so has my son. He figured out some time ago that having his shit together, having some social skills, and not descending into a life of just video games and Andrew Tate shit would actually give him a leg up in life. He's not naive. He's a tall, good-looking, white/hispanic man with a broad education and perspective and a charismatic presence. Regardless of what the whiny tittybaby in Bozo's piece wrote, that DOES give you an advantage in the world we live in. And he has much less competition in that respect that he would have 25 years ago, because his peers are falling behind. (Also...him taking a "gap year" to grow up, and figure out how to be a man, was maybe the best thing to ever happen to him. We are HUGE proponents of the gap year for boys, as it lets them "catch up" and mature a bit before they take on whatever is next (college, trade school, doesn't really matter)). TLDR; I actually worry a great deal about our young men. One of the main reasons I worry is that too many of them are becoming whiny-ass pussies who take no responsibility for their lives and outcomes, instead taking a lazy blame approach that ends up pointing a finger at the weakest among us instead of the larger systemic issues that are the real problem. Of course, that's because they have no interest in reining in oppressive billionaires because they want to BE the oppressive billionaires. Weak white men are mad that they no longer have as many avenues to be shitty white men. Waah.
  14. Yeah. Gosh, I may have to stop flying my Clinton flag, and get rid of my Clinton hat, and take my bro-dozer in to get my Clinton wrap-job removed!
  15. It’s worse than that. White male privilege has evolved into white male grievance and surrender of any and all responsibility or agency for your fate. “Everything bad that has ever happened to me is cuz WOKE. I never even had a chance.” They have bought the comforting lie because it relieves them of any agency or responsibility. And hey, if it means that we ultimately have to blame women and minorities, well, we don’t even have to dust off the playbook. It’s been sitting there on the nightstand this whole time.
  16. You’re missing the ultimate point that there’s no “solution” that doesn’t make all of us worse. Hate, rage, and pain are the only currencies. Yeah, I am quite aware of your comparison to evangelism, marketing, etc. And it’s true in all of those milieus.
  17. “It all counts.” Yep. Including my contempt for them, and my belief that they are unreachable and unsalvageable because they don’t want to be. I read the piece. I particularly loved his half-assed use of stats and lack of realization of what they might actually indicate. And I got the overt message blaming older generations of men in power for fucking him over….by offering opportunities to women and minorities, who…come on…you and I KNOW don’t have the merit that the auditor has. He has it. You can tell. Just look at him. “Progressives lost these people.” Seems likely. And all we have to do to win them back is re-define “meritocracy” as “the white guys get the job, even if they are only 35% of the applicant pool. Because…merit. Yeah, that’s it. Merit.” We are in some shit, we are headed for more shit. I’m tired of trying to head it off, and coddling the fucking worst people in a futile effort that only makes us worse human beings. Fuck that. Time to burn. All of it. And all of us. There’s no other way forward.
  18. The regime is truly no different than the Nazis: a criminal gang of minimal competence, yet incredible power. The reacted the names of the abusers, but not the victims. They are simply malevolent, evil lumps of shit. All of them. Every one of them.
  19. Fantastic post. Thanks for stating the decision tree so well.
  20. The author of the piece you cited does. He wants to blame everyone else for his failures. Well, not EVERYONE else. Just…certain people. You know the ones. Those people who got jobs that HE really deserved. Those other people didn’t deserve them. You can tell they don’t. Because they aren’t white men, who are obviously the inherently superior life form. If a white man doesn’t get a job or opportunity, well…we know why.
  21. “Engaging with them and empathizing with their problems.” So, like I said…tell them comforting lies. I can engage with them. But I can’t empathize. I just can’t. But I can lie and act like I do. I’ll engage with them. And I’ll tell them “gosh, that sucks. I’m really sad for you.” And I won’t mean a fucking word of it. Because all I’ll really be doing is boosting and enabling their grievance and contempt for every “other,” who they RRALLY think is beneath them. You fail to grasp that their grievance is NOT that women and minorities are getting more jobs and opportunities. It’s that they’re getting those things…when we all KNOW that really, they are inferior, and white men are the people who REALLY have “merit.” The best way to figure out if someone practices “merit-based” hiring is if all they hire is white males. Anything else? Well, they’re obviously practicing woke DEI and hiring people who don’t deserve to. Stop cutting these whiny fuckers slack. They’re shitty people who are shit who won’t do shit to actually better themselves and yearn to be as shitty as their parents and grandparents instead of bettering themselves or society. Fuck. Them.
  22. Kiddos are home. They want all kinds of stuff they can’t get overseas. Shrimp and catfish and grits.
  23. Each kid flew home separately the past couple days, and they were bitching about to at exact thing, doesn’t matter what airport you’re in. Zero situational awareness.
  24. Do minorities and women have luxury of indulging them? These “aggrieved” people 1) believe it’s a zero sum game, 2) WANT it to be a zero sum game, and 3) will only accept everyone else losing as sufficient evidence that they are winning again. Yeah, I’m SUPER interested in partnering up with people who will not think they’re getting a fair shake until they see my daughter getting fucked over. To this demographic, “discrimination” is just like everything else: every accusation is a confession. Sure, they’re voters and humans, so engage with them…but do it at arms length. Because right now, the main thing they want to see is discrimination…in their favor.
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