neoliberal-ish type. JD Vance's strongest hater. Believer in America πΊπΈ π³οΈββ§οΈ HRT 5/13/2026
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I thank you for not becoming a sadistic person as that would be a reasonable response to that kind of behavior
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I do not think it can be overstated the degree to which this is -the- defining problem of the era and quite possibly the next century
A lot of countries basically are caught in a trap from which there is no escape.
1) They have a lot of old people. They need healthcare, pensions, etc. This is *incredibly* expensive.
2) More old people means less tax money, more tax burden on the increasingly few working people and families.
3) You either a) sacrifice all other public services to keep the old person money pipe flowing, b) cut benefits to old people, or c) increase immigration.
4) You get voted out because all of these are immensely unpopular.
You can try to increase productivity or growth... by this is hard, and many of the ways it can be done (like deregulation, building liberalization, and capital investment) are also expensive and politically unpopular.
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While I obviously disagree with this guy, itβd probably be worth looking at policy solutions to change this ratio. Itβs psychologically bad for the application process to be this way. I would go so far as to say it might actually play a role in negative economic sentiment.
This is a universal experience for people my age and we should have exactly 0 immigrataion until it ends.
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Itβs very difficult to start a social life if you lose a social life. It kind of has to be continuously maintained, and when the pandemic broke that chain of continuous in person gatherings, a lot of people just couldnβt come back.
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Women are very sensitive to social dysfunction in a way men arenβt. This makes it much harder to be an autistic man in the dating environment compared to an autistic woman.
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Modern online vulgar rightism is at its core entirely about a deep insecurity about oneβs place in a world where there are always options
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Very much so yes, because a 401k is visibly funded through employee contributions and doesnβt feel secure in the way a pension is.
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Just stop. You know it wasn't rigged, I know it wasn't rigged, we all know it wasn't rigged.
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Fair enough, but most of those felt like reading an essay from a third-grader so it was hard to differentiate exactly.
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You could find a perfectly serviceable 1.5 million dollar home in the Bay Area. These people are so bad with money, if they exist, that itβs laughable.
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it is an elderly white woman from Alabama calling for mass deportation now. How this is anything other that republican-coded I don't know.
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I think their movement is almost entirely 100% online, which is pretty unique, and as a result of this, they continuously think they wield way more power than they actually do
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They expected that they would tease and trigger the liberals and then the liberals would learn the error of their ways and everyone would agree with them
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The Reagan film was done about 15 years too late to maximize revenue potential. Conservatives donβt care much about him anymore.
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It is remarkable how with so many different things they could say they choose the very one specific thing that will result in federal intervention
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I think having a cultural consensus on an OK stereotype was probably better than we thought, if only because it kept more racist types in check
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Not a progressive, but at the very least in my case, the reason I canβt stand these trucks is just because theyβre terrible drivers. They have over inflated views of themselves generally and are the most aggressive and unpleasant drivers you will find on the road.
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He is a very good example of the kind of person who justifies caring about appearances before you hire someone, though. His appearance means that he will haunt the political left for at least a decade.
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I think it is truly remarkable the degree to which the crunchy hippie vote has completely moved to Donald Trump.
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Or it could be that they are financially dependent on praising him as a result of a political movement that has deified him. The minute they start being critical the money dries up.
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Because they see weight as a moral issue, which is the way that we have viewed this for thousands of years. We still treat it as one of the Seven Deadly Sins and thus a medical solution feels deeply wrong
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This is an important thing to take into consideration. If someone thinks youβre beautiful, no matter what they arenβt going to select for a specific kind of photo because every photo is going to pass the βare you beautifulβ check.
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Linear algebra? They should be all done with algebra before high school. Anything else is remedial.
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People see car ownership as non-negotiable; to them an apartment with no parking is like a house with no doors. This is why theyβre like that about parking.
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Radicalization against immigrants. The migration push happened way too fast and without a proper assimilation tradition being built up.
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We can make arguments all day about the benefits of having people apply to a wider net of jobs but Iβd argue the way this demoralizing process probably does engender opposition to modern business is probably worse for us all.
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It's like they heard a caricature of what socialists want described to them by conservative talk show hosts in 2010 and went "yes, that sounds fantastic!"
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I am excited to see what delightfully nonsensical theories Indian internet racists make about how everyone who does things well is secretly Indian
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Until the electorate gets lower immigration, they will keep voting for different parties that promise to lower immigration. Thereβs not a way to work around this. Conservatives were elected because there was an understanding that they would lower immigration through Brexit.
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How are you to get anyone to take the need for immigration and the existence of a labor shortage seriously if 90% of their applications still get declined? How are people going to stand up for the system if it rejects you this many times? It just doesnβt work.
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If you want those property taxes to drop you should support policies that result in more homes being built so property values go back to earth
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For some reason everyone has memory holed the pandemic except for the bits where progressives went a bit overboard. The kidnapping stuff? Nah. The disaster zone of Trump in 2020? Meh.
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The SUVs arenβt even as bad as the trucks. With SUVs theyβre at least used by families usually, who have some justification (if a bad one) for a vehicle of that size. Those trucks are never used in any meaningful way.
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I think itβs probably FDR. The fact that he was constantly trying some new scheme gave people the impression the government was really working to try and solve the problem at hand, and thus there was much less interest in a more radical solution.
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Individual senior citizens are great. When working as a political block, they are horrendous.
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Austin has built so much landlords have to cut rents to keep renters from moving! Theyβve predicted if they donβt cut rent, you are likely to leave for cheaper rent elsewhere.
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The belief is not that they couldnβt be used against them, but rather that they will always be on the side of institutions because the institutions will always pick the things that they agree with to support
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Heβs an expert at convincing people he wonβt do the terrible things he will do unless they want those things
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it was! A ton of it was mind-bendingly stupid and the real appeal was in chud-owning, which is still a fun activity.
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How can hard-working American families afford their aquarium of lobster now? Joe Biden is impoverishing this country.
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the difference is that Elon wants to be perceived as cool more than anything else, and is also a dysfunctional person. Zuckerberg wants to do things that he sees as cool first, and if that improves his image he's fine with that
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Annoying orange did not harm language development, it just made people behave in a stupid way for a short time.
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to be fair the new MN flag looks soulless and terrible. Most guides to flag "design" are actually bad
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I donβt think he permanently broke it, but he mightβve seriously weakened it so long as he is in charge
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The authoritarian parenting is infantilizing. Thatβs the root of the problem. There is not a social consensus that it is OK to let children and increasingly teenagers act independently.
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I think that this is the single biggest negative impact of the pandemic lockdowns. A lot of people who wouldnβt be able to re-create their own social life ended up losing it altogether because thereβs no good way to rebuild it if you lose it.
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Look if people canβt pass the drivers test then they shouldnβt get their license. I donβt care who it is who isnβt passing. We have to have standards about who can drive a car.
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No, because historically we didn't have enough old people to be a substantial burden. You just weren't likely to live that long. By the time that started to change (19th-20th century) we were much richer and people still had plenty of children. Only recently has this happened.
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a ton of these people just don't like transgender people and want an excuse to go the TERF island route
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If he was lying, the lucky 38 would not have survived. Hoover dam most certainly would not have. The degree to which infrastructure exists at all is entirely a result of his efforts.
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I think itβs probably more about how A/C is newer and seen as artificial in a way heating isnβt.
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Yes. Thereβs something in Revelation about the mark of the beast being needed to do anything anywhere and thatβs vague enough that these clowns have latched onto RFID as the sign of the end times. Never mind that βno one may know the hourβ they seem to think they can.
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Iβve been trying to rebuild it and itβs incredibly difficult! Relationships are the easy part. Friends, particularly a friend group you engage with regularly, are basically impossible to build from scratch as an adult. This leaves a hole in your life if you donβt have it.
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Theyβve decided the left is GAY and therefore women with large publicly visible breasts are the True Saviors of American Society
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Low-info voters will be dissuaded from voting for Trump if heβs a convicted felon 34x over
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Yeah I donβt care if this is a βspecial needsβ child this behavior is unacceptable
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To be perfectly honest, I think a big part of it is that TikTok does not require you to be very literate and that enables a certain kind of person who is maybe not the brightest to get roped into things and be online in a way they couldnβt somewhere like Twitter
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It entirely is. Itβs much easier to be a woman than it is a man. You naturally find most things will come easier to you. In the relationship field everything is in your favor; your problem is not a lack of choice or intention, but rather how to filter through the sea you get.
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This has just been the most insane campaign and if it was anyone else they would be losing by so much right now
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This happens regularly because many leftists, like many conservatives, are defined more by a dislike for liberalism than anything else.
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I think they proactively chose not to do that b/c it would add an angle they don't want to the story. This is supposed to be some eccentric but otherwise normal person, not a rich eccentric, who are a dime a dozen among wealthy heirs
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some people genuinely want to contribute nothing at all and believe this will actually work as a system. The idea that "voluntaryism" might allow them to avoid any contributions beyond the absolute minimum interests them
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Because Trump lies so much people assume heβs lying when he says he will do things they hate and only truthful when he says he will do things they like.
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There is a history between gay and lesbian people and the far right! Itβs a strange one but there is one!
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I think a lot of communist types genuinely are offended by the idea that their boss doesnβt love them
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The degree which people prioritize children has dropped substantially, and because people would much rather keep their current standard of living than have children, we are seeing a drop off in the number of children.
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Tech in particular is really bad right now. Part of the issue here is the opaque nature of hiring, too. Is your resume made wrong? Youβll miss out on attainable opportunities. The whole system is just ridiculous.
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Just imagine how many people lived in that Burger King before they were displaced by evil gentrifiers π’ #gentrification #ProtectOurBurgerKings
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