hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
59m ago
The defining feature of woke is the Omnicause, so third wave feminism is the obvious thing to point to.
Right, there’s black supremacists who believe in woke narratives about race, not woke because of their views of women/palestine/the concept of gender. Theres TERFs, actual feminists, not woke because of their beliefs about sex/gender and because they don’t care about Palestine or race. Etc, etc.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Right wing small liberal arts colleges are not in great financial shape right now either.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Is AOC actually walking back woke 1 ideas she wholeheartedly embraced?
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
I mean, turn on the classic rock station in the morning- it’s definitely going to be a show aimed at men. Go to original Star Wars trilogy showings and compare the audience to a recent release. Tom Clancy and Larry Correia are still selling very well.
And thats leaving out the core male popular entertainment interest, which is sports.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Considering the average American doesn’t know how to drive a manual, thats probably true.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
There is a huge shortage of people qualified to be commercial pilots, for the simple reason that the qualification is very very expensive, and if he’d acquired it he was almost guaranteed to be able to climb the ranks assuming he doesn’t screw up. It’s plausible that if he was a black woman with an identical resume he’d climb the ranks much faster, but still. If he’d gone to flight school and somehow acquired the minimum flying hours he’d be working as a pilot- possibly for fedex rather than American at first, but that’s normal career progression.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Indeed, if you have a burning desire to fly a plane, you can book a private lesson with the limitation being ‘can pay $100/hr’- like, right now, if you want.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
You’ll notice what racial groups aren't on that list.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Woke is still pretty close to generic liberal Democrat stuff- they’ve certainly backed down a bit on race, but not on sex and gender, and Palestine is a woke issue thats eaten thé others.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Do you really not see the difference between mid-late 20th century pop culture on the one hand and the SCA and classical literature on the other?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I’ve noticed a vast difference in interest in classic rock and 80’s music- women who’re into that stuff are mostly that age.
Men seem to like not-new movies at much higher rates. Men also seem pretty happy reading mostly not-new releases. Note that I'm not talking classic novels here- men just generally seem to read novels that sold well when released in the late twentieth century or early 2000’s.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ok, but I think a big part of it that we see over and over again is that men are just more willing to enjoy last year's release while women want something new and trendy.
I'm not talking about old school high culture, here. Men listen to classic rock. Men read 70's and 80's sci fi, or Tom Clancy novels from before 9/11. Men watch older movies. Women seem to want new releases in all sorts of popular culture stuff. Over time, that makes the entertainment industry skew more and more towards chasing a female audience, because men will decide it's dumb and go watch the original star wars trilogy and listen to the rolling stones much faster.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Nobody said she was making good decisions in her long term direction(see: this woman's entire story), just better ones in specific details. That's why he was in a relationship with her.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, they want that distributed to The Good People(themselves) and not to whoever can pay for it and wants to live there.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well first, we need to ask who the DSA are.
The core of the DSA, which solidly outvotes basically everyone else in their membership, is basically people in first tier cities, with graduate degrees, earning under about $65k/yr. For non Americans, the sort of person who is capable of earning a masters degree normally obtains $65k/yr in compensation through normal advancement in conventional employment by the time they would have earned a masters degree, even for non-college workers, in first or second tier cities- and college degree holders tend to make more. So we’re basically talking about people who are paid significantly less than the market rate for their qualifications. There’s a stereotype of them working in the educational system, but that would be a raise for most of them(teachers make more for having masters)- they’re mostly underemployed. Add to that that they’re living in first tier cities, which are more expensive, and often have substantial student debt(yes, lots of grad school is funded, but many of these people either get the unfunded version or exceed the limits of their funding). So we’re talking about people who are embarrassed by their class position- their purchasing power is very low, and the expectations in their social circles are very high.
Fundamentally, what they want is for the government to come in and fix that. They want welfare to expand to cover people like them(the American welfare state is substantial but mostly need based, and ‘I don’t want a real job’ isn’t a need- if they were parents earning that amount they would have free healthcare, be eligible for subsidized apartments, get food stamps, etc. But underemployed single adults are not covered). They want their student loans forgiven to put hundreds of extra dollars in their pocket every month. They want, as a stretch goal, status markers distributed based on their idea of virtue, not on ability to pay(or virtue as perceived by private clubs). They want to apply to live in cool apartments in hip neighborhoods and receive heavily discounted rent because they’re awesome. They want to be able to go on international vacations every year because they deserve it, not because they can afford it. They somewhat notoriously want to be able to DoorDash without thinking about it, because their class peers mostly can, and dammit they’re entitled to the normal petty luxuries of their cadre.
Now here’s the kicker- entitlement of a certain class of people to a comfortable lifestyle at societal expense- without them needing to personally do anything useful- isn’t exactly new. Historically we called them nobles and defined them by birth. But the DSA doesn’t want to conceptualize themselves that way. They want to restructure the economy around making them, personally, more comfortable, without really needing to think about what that actually means. They have fellow travelers who are simply misinformed about the state of America- they believe that there are millions of children without healthcare because their parents can’t afford it, for example- in reality, most children in the USA already have their health insurance paid for by the government, and the reminder come from parents wealthy enough to pay the premiums. But upper class people often don’t have the specific knowledge to realize these DSA narratives are propaganda to justify their entitlement campaign.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, yes it does. But a pre-paid card seems like how you’d handle giving money to someone who can’t control spending.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Ok, but what do people who can't afford a down payment but want to live in a house do? Someone has to own a house in order to rent it out.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Bubbles:
Fellow tradesmen, coworkers and the like- above replacement. Hard to say what 'generation' means here though.
Extended family scattered across half of Texas and part of Louisiana- fertility definitely declined since the seventies but not seemingly since the nineties. Above replacment.
Actual IRL tradcaths- fertility is slightly rising over the generations. It remains to be seen if the next generation will achieve Sahel-level TFR, but it's already above Israel.
Neighbors- Gringos maintain above replacement fertility over the generations. Hispanics seem to decline generationally.
A few of these people are farmers, but none of them engage in unmechanized subsistence farming, and most of them have normal waged labor jobs.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A lawyer almost certainly has someone on hand who can help a client access financial records, no?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Agree that becky was very stupid and chad was reprehensible. But what bias would you expect a woman who got the exact deal becky thought she was offered to have?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, Chad needed to get a bill. It does sound like the $22k she helped herself to ought to be deducted and the karens on the jury weren't willing to consider that?
More to the point, this is a real ESH. Chad is an irresponsible manchild degenerate. Becky, uh, should've known this going in- it doesn't sound like he's hiding anything.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The Spanish royal family, like other European royal families, is not ethnically Spanish.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Last year I got called for jury duty. I showed up to Frank Crowley courtbuilding, went to the assigned courtroom and checked in. The defense began its voir dire by explaining the definition of statutory rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child, and then asked if I would consider mitigating circumstances.
My answer was something along the lines of 'either this guy did it, and needs to go to jail for a long time, or he didn't, and needs to go free, I don't have the evidence to say. But I'm not sure what the mitigating factors are for sexual abuse.' When the jury was finally selected it was made up of all men, and one black woman who didn't use the words 'white women be lyin', but it was pretty clear she did not consider the sisterhood to encompass white girls. I don't know how the case turned out, I got dismissed for saying there wasn't a mitigating circumstance for having sex with a thirteen year old.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You put stuff in someone else's name and then rent it out anyways.
Is support for communism not stigmatized in Poland, Ukraine, Croatia, etc?
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