James is a f--king radical centrist.
There's another X account, eigenrobot, pretty amusing, but one day posted that the triumphalism on the Right is now disturbing him just as the Left's triumphalism did. He's the same.
Whereas I, an old-time classical Liberal, realized that society only moves by lurches to the Left and Right, accompanied by howls of both triumph and despair, and that the GOP leadership will screw us in the end.
So James flipped out that the "woke right" (I howl) was posting images of Archangel Michael, and I tried to tell him that when you import 30m Catholics, they will shit up your feed with Michael icons, regardless of how "national socialist" Trump is going to be.
And btw, I love Trump 2.0, I wish him victory over the GOPe, and YES! I voted for exactly this.
I've seen the misandry before. I never had a problem with disciplining my daughter, but I only managed to have one kid, so who knows how it would have gone down or what other factors apply (Mom is a pretty tough cookie).
I say this as a man who was moving out of my friend's house (been paying rent, helping fix the joint), when his kid half sister showed up (driven by her friends), said, "My parents kicked me out, and I..." and started crying. I panicked, broke into the house (I had already locked it up), handed her the key, then phoned my friend and left a voice mail telling him he had a new tenant. :-D
(I inquired later, and got the eye-rolling response, "Oh, yeah, they kicked her out for being a teenager." lol)
But many years have taught me that men are acceptable to women only for the resources they bring (outside of attraction). Any society that interferes with that basic drive is committing auto-genocide. Look at the numbers: black Americans have it even worse than whites.
First there was the GI Bill: a classist gib to veterans to attend "higher education." Did you need money to start a business? Tough! Go get a degree, and take out a loan.
Then they created student loans, because all the 4-Fs needed a degree, too. (And the cost somehow kept mysteriously rising...)
Now, student loans disrupt the then-current system of taking, say, an electrician who spends his time correcting the electrical engineers' schematics, and sending him to EE school (or sending a similarly excessively talented machinist to mechanical engineering classes). You've already selected that electrician for, aptitude, talent, and enthusiasm.
Now you have 18-year-olds taking IT classes because they never had a job, but they programmed in BASIC a few times. No on-the-job leaning about which part of the system you find really fascinating. No wonder we're losing.
No kidding: I knew an electrical engineer who was told by his boss to go get a EE degree. Your high school guidance counselor can't compete with that.
Good point, some reasons:
- The manager is (probably) making too much for working too hard, and
- Fast food outlets aren't hiring enough workers.
I have no idea how much a $FAST_FOOD_JOINT manager should be making in a not-totally-screwed-up economy, but this used to work like this:
- The manager shouldn't be making the damn food, unless a third of his workforce called in with the flu, or an employee needs to run home for emergency family time (e.g., kid sister just popped a 104° fever in school and mom and dad are both working).
- The employees should be teenagers, well motivated by their first paychecks (and time away from the 'rents in an adult-like capacity), read "money to blow on stupid teenager shit, and/or dropped in a school fund."
How it works now:
- The employees are adults, with indissoluble responsibilities. The kid sister above, is now a kid (below replacement, a problem) or three kids (above replacement, but a lot more school emergencies.) No, FFJ employees were never 100% teens, but it was a lot easier with that labor pool, and almost all the adults at better jobs.
- Neither the teens, nor the adults they turn into, learn to value hard work and responsibility in school (heavily unionized). The white kids learn they (and the society their ancestors built) are inherently evil and exploitive, while the colored kids learn that The Man is out to get them, and society owes them. Most of those kids will not want to come in at 3am to make biscuits for a special order.
Here is our first vicious circle: not enough kids means more adults at these jobs, making it harder to have more kids, and making having kids more expensive, since teens cannot get a part-time job.
Now for the big vicious circle, a self-feeding loop of hate. Why not just hire more employees to fill those jobs? The taxes and forced payments imposed on businesses by the government:
- SocialSecurity/FICA (1936): Ponzi scheme; impoverishes people; and sucks the money out of the banks that should be financing economic growth and sharing the wealth to the working class.
- Employer-sponsored health insurance tax break (ESI) (1942/51): neo-Feudalistic; impoverishes people; sucks even more money out of banks; discriminates against the elderly, the disabled, children, small business, self-employed (like, writers). Also creates a need to squeeze out older employees.
- Medicare (1965): pure Socialism; fills need created by ESI; impoverishes your grandchildren; no salary cap unlike FICA, so all Medicare recipients are welfare queens.
- COBRA (1985): "allows" private individuals to purchase HC at the massively inflated costs of ESI. Basically insanity made law.
- Senate health reform of 1987: cooked up in the Democratic Senate, not Reagan's White House, it took the caps off insurance costs, leading to:
- Obamacare/ACA (2009): Cements into place all the above terrible decisions about health care costs and drastically raised the rates, taxing workers to pay for the unemployeds' "free" HC.
So Social Security and Medicare are Socialist, while ESI is neo-feudalism. Neither are capitalist. Also, 85% of K-12 children are in government schools, including colleges, while almost all the private universities take federally-guaranteed loans, so they are beholden to the government.
So don't tell me about the failures of capitalism.
What would a capitalist, rip-it-all-out capitalist health care system look like? Something like a Health and Retirement Savings Account (HRSA) bank, which do not exist... yet:
https://somercet.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-health-care-mess-and-how-we-got-here.html
Oh, no, he put off his "send Jews all our money" (actually, all the free weapons we can give them) for months.
And then he finally released it.
I say this as someone who thinks all the Hamas fighters who participated in Oct 7th should be gassed.
"Only a minority of white Southerners owned slaves, and most didn't." Known fact.
I would love to read a study on who did the slave trading and owning to/from/in North America, but I am aware that any such study would have an 80% chance of being tainted by bias, whether from Jews/Dems or neo-nazis.
Gustavson told media that he executed the procedures using a Burdizzo, an instrument for removing the testicles of livestock. He admitted that he kept the amputated appendages in his freezer and preserved them in alcohol in his basement apartment.
A burdizzo is famous for crushing the blood vessels to the testes without opening the scrotum.
Try again, MSM.
Cry harder.