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17 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

In the end, this is the bulk of it.  And the hell of it is, while it's immoral and shitty, it's not entirely irrational.  Why?  Competition.

In 1950, there was a pool of jobs for people of moderate skill and middling to decent intellect.  Who was the pool of people who could be hired for those jobs?  White males, almost exclusively.  Truly, like 95% of those jobs went to white males, easy peasy.

Then...the civil rights movement (both culturally and legally). Now, black people, hispanics, etc. are the competition.  Think of autoworker jobs.  Surely at the end of WWII, those were 95% or more white males.  By the 1970s, a shitload of those jobs were going to minorities.  But wait, there's more: WOMEN.

Starting in the 1970s, women began entering the workforce - and colleges and universities -- en masse.  So, for even the more "skilled" jobs....white males have to compete with women as well.  Hell, I see this in my profession (legal) and my wife's (ordained, seminary-trained minister).  College enrollment is 60-40 female to male.  When looking at candidates to hire for legal jobs, or a seminary-trained job....the majority of the better candidates are female.

White males didn't get dumber, or less qualified, in general.  It's just that EVERYONE ELSE was, over time, freed from social and legal encumbrances that kept them from openly competing for the work white men had reserved exclusively for them.  There used to be 10 million sweet-spot jobs open every year, and white males - being the only legit pool of candidates - got 95% of them.  Today, those same 10 million jobs are sought by white males, minorities (male and female) and women.  Used to be that white males got 9.5 million of those jobs.  Today, they only get 6 million of those jobs.  From the white male perspective, they just LOST 3.5 million jobs.  And, mathematically, they're not wrong.  

The TLDR version: When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

To take it to the question, asked in callous and insulting manner as is the Surly way, what are we going to do with our mediocre white males?  Because....relative to where they were 75 years ago, even 40-50 years ago....they're taking it in the shorts.  And they are, in an understandably human way, pissed about it.

 

 

I wish.  The supply of Dunning Kruger "Conservatives" is near limitless.  It is America's greatest natural resource.

Couple the increased competition you describe with the stagnant wage growth that more or less started at the same time and continues, and even the white men with the decent jobs feel more oppressed by the relative lack of wealth.  That’s your late stage capitalism taking over and company profits/stock prices being the only thing that matters. 

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23 hours ago, royiv said:

I doubt they could even tell you what Marx’s first name was.

It's Marky, and to be honest I'm not sure why the Funky Bunch are getting a pass here. 

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8 minutes ago, GenXer said:

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that's incredible. the most hilarious part to me is if that album cover were released today most would assume it's an ad for grindr or onlyfans

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1 hour ago, tigol said:

Saw a bumper sticker on Lamar the other day that said, "Bitches be shopping.  -Karl Marx"

Saw a similar one that said "Bitches be lovin' oversize chest of drawers. -Karl Farbman" 

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On 5/14/2025 at 2:55 PM, speed817 said:

Do they grab the same 25 people every time???

Why would people even agree to do this?  Makes me question the validity of it.

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Have felt a lot of those “gotcha” videos are scripted, not all, but the ones with video titles such as, “ Watch so and so end what’s his name’s career” and bullshit like that. 

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3 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

lol…ice fucking cold. 
 

i’d run the fuck outta that clip at the top and bottom of every hour on every TV station in Iowa for the next 5.5 years.  

yeah, they say stupid shit all day long, but that one is impressively stupid, even by GQP standards. They dont even fucking try to hide it anymore.... just full on "fuck you, pay me" mentality. its what jesus would have wanted.  

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9 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

lol…ice fucking cold. 
 

i’d run the fuck outta that clip at the top and bottom of every hour on every TV station in Iowa for the next 5.5 years.  

She's up in 2026 and there's a pretty likeable guy running against her. I'm sure there will be other Ds that want to jump in the race, but this guy has a 2 pt lead against her in recent poling.

 Nathan Sage

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11 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

lol…ice fucking cold. 
 

i’d run the fuck outta that clip at the top and bottom of every hour on every TV station in Iowa for the next 5.5 years.  

and what gives you the impression that would move the needle after what we have experienced the last 10 years or so. Yeah, we could continue to say, oh but it may sway the independent voters, but is that is even a large enough block anymore.

 

it's a cult.

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3 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

She's up in 2026 and there's a pretty likeable guy running against her. I'm sure there will be other Ds that want to jump in the race, but this guy has a 2 pt lead against her in recent poling.

 Nathan Sage

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25 minutes ago, yoladu said:

and what gives you the impression that would move the needle after what we have experienced the last 10 years or so. Yeah, we could continue to say, oh but it may sway the independent voters, but is that is even a large enough block anymore.

 

it's a cult.

She’ll run anti-trans commercials non stop for 3 months leading up to the election and win.  

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1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

She’ll run anti-trans commercials non stop for 3 months leading up to the election and win.  

This.

She could run on a platform of "I am personally going to murder 1 in 4 of my constituents.....and also, I am going to ban trans people from ever using a public bathroom," and she wins by 5 points easily.

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3 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm sure there will be other Ds that want to jump in the race, but this guy has a 2 pt lead against her in recent poling.

please don't be Ann Selzer from the Des Moines Register.

please don't be Ann Selzer from the Des Moines Register.

please don't be Ann Selzer from the Des Moines Register.

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4 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

She's up in 2026 and there's a pretty likeable guy running against her. I'm sure there will be other Ds that want to jump in the race, but this guy has a 2 pt lead against her in recent poling.

 Nathan Sage


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Woke. Woke. Woke.

Pronouns. Pronouns. Pronouns.

And the stupids will eat it up.

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I did that?  My bad, I don't neg rep here except on very rare occasions.  Not sure what I was trying to hit, but it wasn't the middle finger.

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This is probably the best place for this thread. 
Bono went on Rogan, claimed 300k people had died from the cutoff of USAID food programs. Trumpers demand Grok debunk the claim. Hilarity ensues.

 

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11 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

This is probably the best place for this thread. 
Bono went on Rogan, claimed 300k people had died from the cutoff of USAID food programs. Trumpers demand Grok debunk the claim. Hilarity ensues.

 

But but but Elon said!  God, he is such a fucking mouth breather. 

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Democrats: “I’m striking a powerful and important blow against autocracy and cleptarchy by deleting my Twitter account and others should do the same.”
 

Also Democrats:

3 hours ago, mchookem said:

so what was grok's reply?

 

2 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

This. Someone screen shot please. 

 

 

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not a democrat and have never had Twitter. without an account you get this

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if you don't want people to engage you could stop posting from there? i dunno man, seemed like you were trying to share. whatever. 🙄

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2 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Why is Bono going on Rogan? 

Because Rogan has a huge audience, Bono is a human rights activist, and the stakes are too high for him to be that goddamn precious. It’s not complicated.

The ultimate form of political privilege is being able to lose without personal consequences.
Maybe you should ask the children starving to death in the Sudan and Gaza while food rots in warehouses if they want Bono to stay off Rogan. While you’re at it y’all can scold the NGOs they depend on for using Twitter. 

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Bono was on Kimmel the other night.  He was pretty specifically critical of this administration, although he made it clear that he and his band don't take sides when it comes to fundraising or charity.  I think that's smart.

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Well, I'm not really a Democrat, despite voting straight ticket D in two consecutive elections, but I've never had a Twatter and not about to get one because a) most of the content is facile and inaccurate b) a good deal of that is flat-out false and c) Elon Musk is a dickhead and I don't want to support him, even a little bit.

I'm not a media director or strategist, either.  I also have great gobs of white male privilege.

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