By FortuneFaded Go To PostFlag is upside down
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By Nelo Ice Go To PostFucking libertarians. I know one and he's of course a straight white guy in tech. He's hardcore and Rand/Ron are his heroes. He got offended when I dared say Republicans are racist. Dude went out of his way to defend Milo at Berkeley because free speech. And he had the hottest of takes in Jan or Feb on FB. I shared it with a friend so just checked messages and here it is. The best part was besides one white chick who was clearly Dem/liberal all his friends agreed and didn't find his take absolutely insane like we did.
The only one of those things I could see being true would be the return to the moon. Not because it makes any economic sense or because he cares about science, but because it's grandiose enough to be a Trumpian move.
By Fenderputty Go To PostBecause she's not her own person as she will channel her shill mother and has the last name of Clinton. DuhThis is exactly the reason she shouldn't run.
Chelsea is not running for office. After the way she was treated as the child of a president? After the way her mother has been treated? She'd have to be a sadist. This country does not love her, even the Democrats and lefties are suspicious of her. And she's done nothing wrong.
Won’t somebody think of the multimillionaire daughter of a former President and Secretary of State? 🎻
She should be treated with the same extreme skepticism that any wealthy or privileged person should be.
She should be treated with the same extreme skepticism that any wealthy or privileged person should be.
By KingGondo Go To PostWon’t somebody think of the multimillionaire daughter of a former President and Secretary of State? 🎻this is america. its exactly the opposite lmao
She should be treated with the same extreme skepticism that any wealthy or privileged person should be.
We're born and bred from cultures awash in Monarchy, we had to fill the void somehow with celeb culture.
wasn't it the Ford's who decided that factory workers should be sold the American Dream of "if you work harder than your peers despite all of your circumstances, you could one day be rich and have no more worries"?
I know there's a term for it too
I know there's a term for it too
They also vetted people by their home life and hired them (or not) based on it. Folks think facebook intrusion is insane. It's par for the course. People really need to read up on shit.
For instance, Ford’s " ‘sociological department’ had to inspect a worker’s home to make sure they ‘deserved’ the $5 first," said Ileen A. DeVault, a professor of labor relations, law and history at Cornell University.
By DY_nasty Go To Postwasn't it the Ford's who decided that factory workers should be sold the American Dream of "if you work harder than your peers despite all of your circumstances, you could one day be rich and have no more worries"?
I know there's a term for it too
That's the protestant work ethic, and it goes back to John Calvin.
By DY_nasty Go To Postwasn't it the Ford's who decided that factory workers should be sold the American Dream of "if you work harder than your peers despite all of your circumstances, you could one day be rich and have no more worries"?Keeping Up With the Joneses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses
I know there's a term for it too
Between that and the consistent you're only as productive as your labor or having a job, which hilariously wealthy enough people don't even have to do, our country is going to have a real shit time once automation is in full swing.
By livefromkyoto Go To PostThat's the protestant work ethic, and it goes back to John Calvin.I know there was more to it. I even saw it in some of my film classes. There was a made up kid pushed on posters and everything lol
I was too focused on lighting and the Spiderman broadway show to pay attention though
By Random Ass Username Go To PostFelons and the currently incarcerated are still being represented. Many are basically slave labor for companies right now. They also endure whatever backlash of awful funding. And they still have families including children who go to schools. Not to mention a bunch of places use that population to boost their numbers in spite of the fact they can't vote, which is bullshit too. This coupled with the fact that throwing minorities in prison and upping their charges to felonies has been a systemic form of voter suppression, it's bullshit. Complete disenfranchisement. Not coincidental, planned and executed against the non-white poorer persons of this nation.As a felon you can get your right to vote again in most states, just the system is geared towards making sure the poor can't recover that right.. but it is possible.
Guys, help me understand myself.
Do you think that by growing up in, and living in, a blue state, that I have become entitled to having higher expectations of politics?
Like, for example, do you guys that think that if I had grown up in and were living in Michigan instead, for example, where life is mostly bullshit (shout out to Eminem), that I would just be more nonchalant and unperturbed by the festering political climate of this godforsaken country?
Like, would I be used to getting shit on, whereas right now I'm just not as used to it?
In conclusion, does growing up in and living in a red state have the effect of making you more grounded in reality?
Do you think that by growing up in, and living in, a blue state, that I have become entitled to having higher expectations of politics?
Like, for example, do you guys that think that if I had grown up in and were living in Michigan instead, for example, where life is mostly bullshit (shout out to Eminem), that I would just be more nonchalant and unperturbed by the festering political climate of this godforsaken country?
Like, would I be used to getting shit on, whereas right now I'm just not as used to it?
In conclusion, does growing up in and living in a red state have the effect of making you more grounded in reality?
Where life is mostly bullshit...
What does that even mean?
And why of all states do you pick out Michigan? Why not Montana, the Dakota's, Ohio, or, oh, I don't know, any of the southern states, like Alabama?
What does that even mean?
And why of all states do you pick out Michigan? Why not Montana, the Dakota's, Ohio, or, oh, I don't know, any of the southern states, like Alabama?
Why Michigan?
Well...
Flint.
Even with Flint's water supply being some type of Mars colony levels of shite, they still voted for Trump.
So, like, I think Michigan basically forces people to be really, really super fucking duper levels of greatness and grit if they want to escape the modern day benchmark of hellscapes. Some points of example: Eminem, Draymond Green, Kyle Kuzma.
What does "mostly bullshit" mean?
Well, on top of being a state that has to deal with being in America, it's also a state that has/had a decaying metropolis in Detroit, and its lack of ability to respond to Flint is an overriding metaphor for the country of USA as a whole being unable to respond to a lack of quality of life.
I don't know, I guess that's a very brief and possibly dismissive and insulting assessment of Michigan though. I just don't know how to give it any more credit than it deserves though.
Like, what credit would you give Michigan?
Well...
Flint.
Even with Flint's water supply being some type of Mars colony levels of shite, they still voted for Trump.
So, like, I think Michigan basically forces people to be really, really super fucking duper levels of greatness and grit if they want to escape the modern day benchmark of hellscapes. Some points of example: Eminem, Draymond Green, Kyle Kuzma.
What does "mostly bullshit" mean?
Well, on top of being a state that has to deal with being in America, it's also a state that has/had a decaying metropolis in Detroit, and its lack of ability to respond to Flint is an overriding metaphor for the country of USA as a whole being unable to respond to a lack of quality of life.
I don't know, I guess that's a very brief and possibly dismissive and insulting assessment of Michigan though. I just don't know how to give it any more credit than it deserves though.
Like, what credit would you give Michigan?
By Smoke Dogg Go To PostWhy Michigan?Would have voting for Clinton made the situation any different? After all, it all started in 2014 under Obama. Imagine the shit Trump would get if it had started this year and yet Obama gets a free pass.
Well…
Flint.
Even with Flint's water supply being some type of Mars colony levels of shite, they still voted for Trump.
By FortuneFaded Go To PostWould have voting for Clinton made the situation any different? After all, it all started in 2014 under Obama. Imagine the shit Trump would get if it had started this year and yet Obama gets a free pass.Yo, thank YOU so MUCH for pointing that out. I really appreciate you for that.
Fucking Obama, man. WTF, Obama.
By GQman2121 Go To PostWhere life is mostly bullshit…
What does that even mean?
And why of all states do you pick out Michigan? Why not Montana, the Dakota's, Ohio, or, oh, I don't know, any of the southern states, like Alabama?
All of those states work too under my definition of "mostly bullshit" lol
By Smoke Dogg Go To PostWhy Michigan?You sound like you huff glue and then read the Huffington Post. Good luck to you.
Well…
Flint.
Even with Flint's water supply being some type of Mars colony levels of shite, they still voted for Trump.
So, like, I think Michigan basically forces people to be really, really super fucking duper levels of greatness and grit if they want to escape the modern day benchmark of hellscapes. Some points of example: Eminem, Draymond Green, Kyle Kuzma.
What does "mostly bullshit" mean?
Well, on top of being a state that has to deal with being in America, it's also a state that has/had a decaying metropolis in Detroit, and its lack of ability to respond to Flint is an overriding metaphor for the country of USA as a whole being unable to respond to a lack of quality of life.
I don't know, I guess that's a very brief and possibly dismissive and insulting assessment of Michigan though. I just don't know how to give it any more credit than it deserves though.
Like, what credit would you give Michigan?
By Fenderputty Go To PostAll of those states work too under my definition of "mostly bullshit" lolI mean, as a North Eastern elitist 80% of the entire country ain't shit to me. But MI would be near the bottom of the list.
By GQman2121 Go To PostYou sound like you huff glue and then read the Huffington Post. Good luck to you.
Top 10 post of the year
By GQman2121 Go To PostI mean, as a North Eastern elitist 80% of the entire country ain't shit to me. But MI would be near the bottom of the list.
First of all, you're from Baltimore, which is like Detroit. You obviously wouldn't know what's shit and what's not.
By GQman2121 Go To PostYou sound like you huff glue and then read the Huffington Post. Good luck to you.
Thanks for saying that.
Smoke Dogg your post is all types of
By Smoke Dogg Go To PostFirst of all, you're from Baltimore, which is like Detroit. You obviously wouldn't know what's shit and what's not.How would you have any idea what I know based on where I'm from?
What part of Maryland do you live? In high school were there more than two tables full of niggas at lunch?
By Fenderputty Go To PostDoes Michigan even have a signature food like Wisconsin and cheese curds?We are but simple folk.
Ice cream seems popular.
Just saying that out of the Northeast, I wouldn't give Baltimore the benefit of doubt of being in the top 20% of elite. Baltimore is the only reason Maryland would be couched at the same table as Michigan if Maryland had gone red state in the last election too.
Anyway, I live in Takoma Park now but I grew up in Beltsville, PG County so yeah I had plenty of multicultural tables to eat food with. Potlucks with pupusas, samosas, and mashed potatoes and mac and cheese are some of my fondest of memories.
Edit: Oh yeah, and Jollof rice is a nice complement to biryani too. I really dig it.
Anyway, I live in Takoma Park now but I grew up in Beltsville, PG County so yeah I had plenty of multicultural tables to eat food with. Potlucks with pupusas, samosas, and mashed potatoes and mac and cheese are some of my fondest of memories.
Edit: Oh yeah, and Jollof rice is a nice complement to biryani too. I really dig it.
By FortuneFaded Go To PostWe are but simple folk.
Ice cream seems popular.
You do have Jim Harbaugh
By Smoke Dogg Go To PostJust saying that out of the Northeast, I wouldn't give Baltimore the benefit of doubt of being in the top 20% of elite. Baltimore is the only reason Maryland would be couched at the same table as Michigan if Maryland had gone red state in the last election too.I don't even know or really give a fuck what it is you're trying to say about tables, percentages, or elite states.
Anyway, I live in Takoma Park now but I grew up in Beltsville, PG County so yeah I had plenty of multicultural tables to eat food with. Potlucks with pupusas, samosas, and mashed potatoes and mac and cheese are some of my fondest of memories.
Edit: Oh yeah, and Jollof rice is a nice complement to biryani too. I really dig it.
But, yeah, while Prince George's County is quite diverse, you now live in one of the wealthiest counties in the entire fucking country. Just keep blue collar cities like Detroit, Flint and Baltimore out of your vocabulary because you sound insane, or at best, incredibly naive making generalizations while asking broad questions about red states this or blue states that.
I've spent enough time at College Park and within the District to know exactly your type, Smoke Dogg.
Samosas, mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. Lol. You beltway bitch.
Samosas, mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. Lol. You beltway bitch.
By GQman2121 Go To PostI don't even know or really give a fuck what it is you're trying to say about tables, percentages, or elite states.
But, yeah, while Prince George's County is quite diverse, you now live in one of the wealthiest counties in the entire fucking country. Just keep blue collar cities like Detroit, Flint and Baltimore out of your vocabulary because you sound insane, or at best, incredibly naive making generalizations while asking broad questions about red states this or blue states that.
I have no idea about the specific country being talked about, but from my experience, a county isn't a good predictor of what life is like. LA Country has just about every income level and living condition from absolute destitution to to richest of the richest mother fuckers alive.
The rust belt in general is becoming more and more ain't shit. Gerrymandering and the death of manufacturing has worked it's wonders.
I find the entire argument between you two to be ... odd. Fucking Cleveland has a joke tourism video in it where one of the tag lines is "we're not detroit". Snyder is a POS and most of the Flint crap can stop and end with him. The EPA under Obama maybe takes like 5% of the blame.
Lol whatever my type may be, you've spent more time in College Park than any of us beltway bitches care to spend in Baltimore, so have fun with shitty crabcakes or whatever the fuck Baltimore is trying to lure in unwitting tourists with these days. It's not even worth visiting for Otakon.
Non-Maryland natives get to experience a classic MD discussion, in real time. Lmfao
I'm to tired to even comprehend this shit, atm, but if you've lived in one of the poorer states and moved, this political climate will only enrage you further. Well, that's how I feel right now, visiting fam in the deep deep South. That's no judgement on the residents, but the people that are supposed to help them.
I'm to tired to even comprehend this shit, atm, but if you've lived in one of the poorer states and moved, this political climate will only enrage you further. Well, that's how I feel right now, visiting fam in the deep deep South. That's no judgement on the residents, but the people that are supposed to help them.
You start out by asking if living in a blue state has tainted your ability to fairly assess politics in Michigan where "life is mostly bullshit" and now for some reason Baltimore is involved because Detroit is in decay and Flint has Mars water.
Perhaps Huffing glue is giving you too much credit.
Perhaps Huffing glue is giving you too much credit.
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By GQman2121 Go To PostYou start out by asking if living in a blue state has tainted your ability to fairly assess politics in Michigan where "life is mostly bullshit" and now for some reason Baltimore is involved because Detroit is in decay and Flint has Mars water.Nope, I asked if living in a blue state had fucked up my view of politics in the entirety of USA, not just any one state in particular. But yeah, I used Michigan as an example of a red state, because that's just what the fuck it is now.
Perhaps Huffing glue is giving you too much credit.
Not even someone who lives in Michigan has gotten as nitpicky as you because I didn't cite something else like Texas or Florida instead. It probably wouldn't have mattered if I picked something else anyway, because nobody should say "life is mostly bullshit" about anywhere unless Baltimore gets its due props first.
I just don't understand how education is so lost on some of these people. Do you want to wait for some CEO to make a meaningful change to your wages or offer you the chance to work a shit job that just barely allowed you to live paycheck to paycheck or do you want a fair chance at empowering yourself to do better? There's such an odd dissonance in regards to the mentality of the lower class republican. "I'll die before I take a handout! Bootstraps!" But not even give a shit if the ladder to success is covered in toxic sludge with spikes all over it.
Smoke Dogg just for reference Flint didn't go to Trump. When accusing entire states of being aint shit, you might want to not shit on the urban areas which predominantly vote against GOP/Trumpite shit.
See? Blue as fuck. Far as the rest of it they probably couldn't give a fuck less about a mostly minority and liberal urban population having lead in the water.
See? Blue as fuck. Far as the rest of it they probably couldn't give a fuck less about a mostly minority and liberal urban population having lead in the water.
Random, in no way do I ever intend on victim blaming the people of Flint. That would be beyond the pale... even for my glue huffing, Huffington Post reading ass.
I do lay the blame for Flint's troubles squarely at the hands of all of Michigan's GOP/Trump voting districts. Thank you for making sure.
I do lay the blame for Flint's troubles squarely at the hands of all of Michigan's GOP/Trump voting districts. Thank you for making sure.