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The Lost Generation essay
I think it's you and Derka, so you are in hallowed company.
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See, here is the issue. You have Mole with an anecdotal story that happened to him, which contained mild inconvenience and a generally happy ending. And yet you respond with a YouTube click bait title. There's no real discussion to be had here. People get unfairly denied employment allllll the time. Minorities still get that treatment by a factor of a bazillion to one to white dudes. Nobody is saying it's good or should ever happen, but plenty, myself included don't think this explains Trumpism, because it's just not statistically relevant in the big picture. Especially for millennials, who remember, are still the most liberal group! There's a lot more motherfuckers working at McDonald's or as a framer than ever went looking for a tech or academia career. I mean at the end of that day, I agree with you with a lot of blanket progressive-ism and it's faults. But I see no one in here who would tell someone of any race or creed that got denied a job unfairly to get fucked.
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One thing I have to add, we are still way too fixated on sending everyone to college. In particular, narrow minded suburban whites have never fully broken away from that paradigm. It's still conceptualized in their minds as 'bettering' oneself, and until other career paths are given equal moral and societal value again it's going to be the source of pain and frustrated ambition. I can tell you without any compunction that high level non college graduates in blue collar fields are smarter, more capable, and stronger people than the average mediocre suburbanite who gets a computer science degree and goes into "tech".
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I think that is a common concern, but that is literally the opposite side of the coin of this conversation. It's the input, we are discussing the output. But I do think it's a serious conversation that need to be had to be sure.
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I mean, I'm all for it. I just don't think you are doing that here. Or more accurately I don't think you are persuading anyone to take a different tack in the service of that goal. Most people here are in agreement with your premise, yet you are just condescending them and that seems antithetical to your stated aim. ETA See Briskets post above ^ for great strategy in pursuit of this end imo.
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I don't know what to tell you other than I disagree with that take, and you are being willfully ignorant to take that position. I haven't seen anyone in here go full Jordan fuck them kids regarding millennial white men. This all feels very personal to you.
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Literally all of my politics are for policies that would help them in fact.
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We all agree on that already tho.
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You'll get no argument from me- The Lost Generation essay
He isn't talking about the disadvantaged poor though is the problem.- The Lost Generation essay
I definitely think there is something to this, to be sure. I just think the example you are giving in this essay is not that.- The Lost Generation essay
No disagreement there.- The Lost Generation essay
I dunno man. I come at it from the exact opposite side of the coin, explicitly class based and someone who is around actual working people every day, and most of the points seem pretty fair to me. If we are doing the no offense thing, you are always about working class this and that, and class, yet you are preoccupied for some reason by hiring practices in big tech, which in and of itself is a milquetoast upper middle nonsense, then specifically millennial white dudes of all things, so you and the author are the ones focusing on identity issues in the first place. If you want to get into the nuts and bolts of class identity and a real voting substantial bloc come down here in the mud with actual working stiffs. My biggest gripe with the article is the writer is a fucking pussy who couldn't hack it in my world. I acknowledge the need for the tent and all, and I hope we unite against the oligarch class, but I just don't see much juice to squeeze on this one man, millennials are the most liberal bloc already, so you are talking about fractions here of disaffected millennial men voting R in that cohort. And I will note millennials have had a ludicrously bad time of it for myriad reasons! But this ain't it. Precisely- The Lost Generation essay
I mean, from my perspective you pretty much came to this conclusion before you posted it. People have given you some thoughtful responses.- 2025 CFP First Round - The "U" @ aggy
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Watching that clown in the ring with an actual fighter is pretty jarring.- Shit's Borked
Back on the slow train to Phily- Share Your Music (it probably sucks but that’s not why we do it)
Sadly true. When's a middle age white dude gonna catch a break in this world! My previous one actually had more views and likes, but I think it's crappier. The framing wasn't great, and there's a weird audio skip in the middle. Drums sound good though!- The Lost Generation essay
I also have to add, I can't think of a more pie in the sky career dream than screenwriter.- The Lost Generation essay
Wildcat has hit on my main take on your perspective. You've mentioned this anecdote of "big tech" like 10 times in this thread. That is a very specific thing which you are extrapolating to en masse. As someone who has hired a lot of motherfuckers, white dudes have not gotten undue discrimination in my experience at all, at any point. I do strongly agree with your outlook on every non-Thurston Howell's prospective future, but it isn't because we did a small segment of white millennial dudes wrong.- The Lost Generation essay
Do you even AI bro - The Lost Generation essay
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