Stolen from a Youtube comment on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPekVVXu3oA&t=664s :
I’m 65, a metallurgist by trade, and I work in industrial sales. I live in Kansas (far from being a progressive state) after fleeing liberal “Moscow on the River” (Minneapolis, MN) years ago. Many of my customers frequently complain to me that “nobody wants to work”, “they can’t find workers”, and that “young men aren’t stepping up to the plate”, especially with blue collar trades and as blue collar workers. Two issues come to mind here.
- Most of my customers (and for that matter most of my employers I’ve had, including my current employer of 10 years tenure) act like street hoodlums, manage like frat houses, and disqualify most prospective job candidates (both young and old) for the most nonsensical and asinine reasons.
- One of the blue collar jobs in demand that I keep hearing about endlessly from my customers is “we need welders”. About a year ago I was invited to serve on an advisory committee at a local high school that still offers classes in welding. I went to the first meeting, and was astonished at what I encountered. Besides being the only male from industry present, the male welding teacher spent the entire meeting extolling the supposed virtues of the teachers union (The National Education Association). The other attendees clearly comprised woke women in their 40s from construction companies and nonprofits. The entire meeting was about “women in STEM”, “women in trades”, and “women breaking the glass ceiling”. When it came my time to talk I simply stated “we need to encourage and train young men who aren’t college bound to pursue the welding trade so as to be employable, and to be better men”. You could’ve heard a pin drop, and the scowls and dirty looks I got cut like a razor. I shook the dust off my feet, left the meeting early, and ghosted future invitations. 🤡 world.
Yup, saw this on conservative groups claiming only liberal men "are agressive towards women." The tranny fight pushed the normie right even further left and down the feminist rabbit hole. Gone are the arguments for father's rights, young men, etc.
Trades is iffy. I am sure that there are great trades, depending on area, company, people involved, etc.. However, I worked for a plumbing company in Seattle that scammed customers, had equipment older than I was that was never cleaned and constantly breaking down and was all kinds of sketchy. Also, all the 24 hour plumbing companies in the greater Seattle metropolitan area are owned by the same 2 brothers, and if they are all of similar quality I would recommend not using any of them.
Likewise, at my current warehouse company I did a stint in transportation and discovered companies have been giving CDLs out like candy. Mexicans, Ukrainians, even some Indians and Africans who can't speak or read English very well driving 20 ton vehicles and ignoring safety rules... if they are even aware of said rules or mentally capable of following them. Sketchy as shit.
Trades had a reputation for being dirty with workers of less than ideal quality and character, which, alongside the progressive belief that each generation will be better off than the previous, is why so many families don't support members going off and joining the trades... well, that and the non stop social striver propaganda to go off and go to university to get a good job.
Throwing a theory out there: All the ads for the film have the actors seeming really unhappy. Margot Robbie in particular looks really nervous/ neurotic in what little commercials I have seen of the film. Anybody bite the bullet and see it?
It is hard to tell what is fake and what isn't nowadays. The internet and media amplify problems to be much bigger than they actually are. I know people with actually healthy marriages. I also know people who don't have healthy marriages, people who are perpetually single, and people who have disappeared off the face of the earth.
Oh good, the last sport I was interesting in watching. All forms of entertainment are getting pozzed so that leaves me with...... joining a group of nomadic warriors in conquering the deviant and dying empire? If America is falling Rome style, who are the Huns?
Yes. Yes it has. Progressive commercials where they mock their viewers, progressive half time shows, pink jerseys for breast cancer, a couple minutes of plays for several minutes of commercials, dumbed down plays, and the aforementioned lgbt/ black lives matter. Even some of the normies have noticed, friends of mine call it the "National Felon League" and have switched to college ball. Still a lot of normies watch it though, but there has been enough of a drop in viewers that even South Park had mocked the NFL.
As opposed to... what? The NFL having LGBT patches and kneeling for black lives matter? Only hockey and MMA fighters seem to have the balls to resist cultural degradation. MLB players did too, for a time, but I have been told they have been giving in.
Yes and no. The classic jock has been replaced by the preppy type in 6 different social clubs so he can get a good playing job that his tiger mom approves of. There was even a book about that phenomenon and the changes in education from the 80s onwards. That said, lots of former jocks fit the stereotype of getting fat and following the rules blindly. Normies gotta normie. So, yes and no. The old school dudes who played for fun and then went on with their lives don't really exist, at least not in large numbers.
Brian Neimeier has one of the best arguments for debt forgiveness, and one of the best arguments that normie right wingers really worship Mammon. It took me 7 years to pay off my loans and I never wound up in the field for my degree. I have no debt now, but no house or family of my own either. I understand the idea of the debt jubilee, and the right has got to come to grips with universities being a waste of time for the majority of people.
When I was in college a decade ago it was already being debated on whether or not college was worth a damn. Most college graduates wound up in jobs that didn't require a degree, degrees had been watered down to the point they weren't worth the paper they were printed on, etc. I remember media outlets talking about these very points, with discussions on the increasing debt everyone held.
Now, everyone seems to have forgotten these discussions from just a decade ago. It is so bizarre. Everyone is still sending their kids off to college. I brought up the topic in a normie bar and I got shut down hard by "right wingers" when everyone was discussing it just a decade ago. It is so bizarre how much America has changed.
For the record, I am still not sure about debt forgiveness. I have seen arguments for and against from dissidents. Obviously, this is the left buying the votes of the young. But the old right is playing into their hands like the fools they are... maybe that is why the discussion got shut down. Turned into yet another dividing point between the left NPCS and the "right" grillers/ normies.
That is a good point. I remember reading on America during the late 1800 and early 1900s, and how there were feuds and political fights. Politicians would win elections and move into areas of power while bringing their minions and allies in to take over control over key positions in cabinets and industries. Methinks America was always a bit shady.
Same. I used to wonder about the stricter rules of the Bibke and why a just God would hunt evil down with some impunity. Now I understand fully.