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G650

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  1. The problem with this, and several others, is you are looking at normal times elections where the vast majority of the country was fat and happy. You need to go back to the robber barons and Teddy Roosevelt's dismantling of them to really see a parallel with what is possible now. I'm not saying you are gonna make a bunch of whites not racist, but if you give them the chance to take down billionaires they will make common cause with you. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Yes! But the discomfort is our ally right now.
  2. We can literally do that too. In fact, we have an easier job now that we have a bunch of cartoon villains broadcasting every day how insanely shitty they are.
  3. Appeal to the ludicrous unfairness of how it's going right now.
  4. The problem is all of us are finding societies disfavor. Because society is like 10 billionaires right now.
  5. William the Conqueror was a Democrat?
  6. I think it's hard to argue against that at this point.
  7. They are literally turning all of us into progressives.
  8. GE7 all the way
  9. The United States is racist brosef
  10. Indeed. Add in the rusting hulks of abandoned buildings and I'm waiting for Tina Turner to pop out and chase me down to the Thunderdome.
  11. Great googly moogly Gary Indiana is like Mad Max came to life. Some real post apocalyptic shit.
  12. I think we've beat this one to death boys
  13. I am not sure how many times I can say we aren't disagreeing. I really didn't need another analogy.
  14. It's funny you bring him up as I was just thinking about how his shit is basically blue collar porn for suburbanites.
  15. I don't think anyone has denied that, I think we are debating what it means.
  16. I'll state right up front I don't think manufacturing are good jobs. I think it's the most soulless dehumanizing thing on the planet, and if anyone disagrees I am happy to arrange a visit to a low or mid tech factory. Shipping those jobs to China is the best thing this country ever did. But people need to set aside "plumbers" as some north star for blue collar work. There is a whole world out here that is a blank spot in the map on these stats that get thrown around. And it is all chronically under employed. Without hyperbole, I really thought about 10 or 15 years ago, that our industry would almost cease to exist because there were no young people coming in to replace retirees. And I don't mean that hyperbolically, I mean actual zero young people. We went a decade without seeing one. Now this has changed in the past 5 years as kids have realized that maybe it's a better opportunity, and I'm happy about that, but there could be a lot more coming in. Most blue collar type companies are always 10%-20% understaffed, in perpetuity. You can do the math on that country wide. Now a downside to this is that if talented people start to flow in, then less talented get displaced. And we are back to the moron issue. But I am a big UBI proponent anyway.
  17. That is true, but the bigger challenge almost all humans face is getting over the fact that life, itself, is not fair.
  18. I feel like Peterson is starting to age out. But that's just my gut sense, not off any data.
  19. So there are two things here. I agree with most of this, but 2) is incorrect. There are a bazillion of these jobs out there, but we have told masses of people they are too good for them. But the first is something I have said for a long, long time. The 20th in America was welfare for mediocre white dudes. Full fucking stop. You could an abject moron, and not just survive, but actually thrive. This is the truth as much as it offends anyone to hear it. The second part is we absolutely have to provide for our citizenry. I have said it several times here, but straight society just has no clue the amount of people who are just clinging on to survival. Any recognition of them is invariably some form of they make poor choices. Yeah no shit? They are working at their capacity. The answer isn't just let them starve, it's to provide a basic stable life. It should be a boast that the US can feed and house everyone no matter how great or small! It's literally a way to brag how rich we are! But yeah we suck of billionaires who are robbing us blind. It's madness.
  20. Seeing that clown get his ass beat did my soul good
  21. Yeah, all I have to say is thank god I was intelligent, or at least good at testing.
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