BradInATX

I don't know what Jezebel is. Sounds like something you're sensitive about, much like the fact that you're constantly getting called a racist.

Sounds like you get accused of a lot of racism.

Number one exporter of Potassium. All other countries have inferior Potassium.

It's a rigged game. Corporations can't fail, and when they do, it's not the rich whose taxes prop them back up. A single-member S-Corp (doctors, lawyers, consultants) got more in a single PPP loan than a service industry worker got in both bailouts/stimmies combined. That's fucked up. "Too big to fail" means the rich get to eat up market share within their industries with subpar companies, while people out there who could probably do it better can't get their small businesses a foothold in the same industry, because the barely solvent companies owned by the uber-elite aren't allowed to fail and create market share for better companies. I'm a capitalist. That's not fucking capitalism.

This would be a hell of a lot easier for more people if the top few percent of uber-elite rich families weren't hoarding a large majority of our country's wealth and resources. And let's be real, while lower middle class white Oklahoma is a tougher starting point than most of Surly's kids will have, it's not really that big of a setback. I came from a similar social strata and becoming upper middle class was not difficult at all. Being white helps. Being male helps. Having access to technology and decent public schools helped. Let's not compare those experiences to the starts a black kid in the poor areas of Michigan or even a poor white kid from rural Mississippi have. They're worlds apart. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwards-decline-usa-us-america-economics/ The whole social mobility thing is great, and we should all embrace it. But the deck is stacked and it's becoming worse. In prior generations working class man could buy a little house in the burbs and support an entire family, have two decent cars, and live relatively well. Working class. The professional class struggles for that in 2021. If you are an advocate of social mobility then you should also be an advocate for un-rigging the game.

Good thing the DT is the non-politics board!

You just asked a Republican if they want a country that has a singular goal of wealth creation for the oligarchs, without bothersome things like science, art, or diversity of thought. That's utopia.

All cable news is shitty 24/7. It's all brain rot.

Has anyone noticed that (with a couple of exceptions) the FitLump Daily Texan thread is now completely devoid of our MAGA/Qanon friends? She's an incompetent grifter who lives on catch phrases and lowest common denominator talking points. They know she's one of them now.

Well, some of us do.

Dolt McCoy

Have you met you?

Man that's crazy that some people get all those symptoms. Wife and I had almost no reaction to either Pfizer shot. Just a sore shoulder the next day that went away never to be seen again after lifting. My shit better work, Pfizer!

Yeah, agreed, but I also appreciate the "fuck it, let's just dive right in" yolo approach.

RIP in peace

TIL that an event that's TBD is actually not going to happen. I guess we canceled Texas Football past 2021 as well since those dates are all TBD.

Hugo was actually who I had in mind, but you sorta jumped yourself onto the hook didn't you?

New to the Daily Texan board? Every thread on here is political.

Not to mention feeling bad for them because they have to go into work every day and report to a guy who gets his worldview from Facebook and Alex Jones. Oof.

Not so much politicians as message board posters who throw hissy fits when Biden hasn't implemented the entire progressive agenda in his first 30 days as president.

Is that real? I'm aware that lots of stupid people end up running companies due to family or just dumb luck, but damn. I can't imagine going into work every day knowing that my boss is someone this stupid.

I'm pretty pleasantly surprised. He's not going to knock out every item on the far left's "do all of this or it's tantrum time" list, but he's going to end up having done a lot of things that I think most realistic people would not have expected. Seeing him actually advocate things like removing cap gains tax loopholes for the rich is almost shocking for me. He's a corporatist for sure, but he seems to actually be at least aware of modern issues like income inequality, clean energy, etc. He's governing to the left of what I expected. And he's doing it in a way that's making him hard to attack from the right, because he's doing stuff that everybody wants.

What a sausage fest.

It's picking nits. but I'd find it offensive if I were Chinese just like I'd find it offensive if some European came up to me and said "America sucks!".

I'll explain, no need to be mysterious. I agree with everything you said. I'm just saying that I agree with the general concept that the statement "China sucks" is a xenophobic statement, even if that isn't the intent of it. "The Chinese government and general business environment sucks" is more than fair.