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G650

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  1. GE7 all the way
  2. The United States is racist brosef
  3. 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.
  4. Great googly moogly Gary Indiana is like Mad Max came to life. Some real post apocalyptic shit.
  5. I think we've beat this one to death boys
  6. I am not sure how many times I can say we aren't disagreeing. I really didn't need another analogy.
  7. It's funny you bring him up as I was just thinking about how his shit is basically blue collar porn for suburbanites.
  8. I don't think anyone has denied that, I think we are debating what it means.
  9. 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.
  10. That is true, but the bigger challenge almost all humans face is getting over the fact that life, itself, is not fair.
  11. I feel like Peterson is starting to age out. But that's just my gut sense, not off any data.
  12. 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.
  13. Seeing that clown get his ass beat did my soul good
  14. Yeah, all I have to say is thank god I was intelligent, or at least good at testing.
  15. 100%. As a past and current dumb male, it's pretty clear women mature faster than we do, and timelines we give them both for educational attainment, family and career building, puts boys at a disadvantage.
  16. I guess if we are dropping college admission anecdotes, my senior year of high school, the admissions director at Virginia Tech changed, and the new girl categorically wanted to reduce the number of private school admits vis a vis public school. So out of my graduating class at our regions top private school, a grand total of one student was admitted. One! For comparison, we placed 30+ kids at UVA, a school with an objectively more rigorous admission policy and demand. This just happened one day, and any kid who was preparing to go to Tech was shafted. But that is just the vagaries of life, and I can't think of anyone who lashed out over it. Point being, shit happens.
  17. I mean, we are losing sight of the actual problem, that if one doesn't go to college one shouldn't be consigned to a miserable life as a social pariah. No going to college isn't a "shitty" outcome. To be honest, these discussion always remind me how oblivious a lot of people are to how half this country lives (not aimed at you).
  18. So anecdotally, I know several Gen Z males who didn't want to go to college because it's for woke libs. Two of them have very MAGAt fathers.
  19. I think its public these days anyway?
  20. I honestly don't see it as that hard of a pivot for young people. It however is an extremely hard pivot for their parents.
  21. You both misunderstand me. I'm talking about not putting a cultural lens on people we are supposedly trying to help. And the 'we' in this circumstance is not you and me, but politicians and their messaging.
  22. So while I'm rambling, I also think we really have to separate culture from politics to be effective. I was actually thinking about this recently in the context of something else, but this is just another example. Republicans have banked on culture shit, but I can promise you if you feed and house a man the odds are in your favor he will vote for you.
  23. Well why didn't you just say that
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