My brother and I noted the propensity for some people born into wealth to be attractive as well. Braces when you’re 10 and a dermatologist when you’re 13 can have massive, lasting impacts decades later. Just a bit more invisible privilege those born to money get.
You’ll need to elaborate if you want to actually contribute.
Who’s going to sit in 15 hours worth of meetings each week if not the middle managers?
I’m not sure it is, we may well be walking into Civil War 2.0 though.
I feel like a true reckoning after the first Civil War never happened. A whole bunch of traitors were allowed to go home, heads held high, and assume the reigns of power. The proceeded to rewrite the memory of what happened. Making it a story of honor and tradition instead of hate and exploitation. Every one of them should’ve had their lands confiscated and their leaders hanged. The land should’ve been given to freed peoples as reparations, 40 acres and a mule and all that.
The fucking Heritage Foundation, our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. It’s long but worth checking out Robert Evans BTB episode: “How Conservatism Won” in which “Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).”
The tl;dr is basically the rich hated FDRs New Deal and immediately set to work to undo everything he did.
They do not share our American values (life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness). They do not value freedoms (speech, press, religion, etc) the same way that many of us do. They want a return to the gilded age with them as the robber barons and gentry and everyone else as a permanently toiling underclass.
It’s worth remembering that one of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate just how fuckin’ bad these people are and they’re winning.
I hate the word so much because Bill O’Reilly used to constantly use it back in his hayday (early 2ks) so I associate it with him.
Anyone is free to spin up an instance, go nuts.
I agree he never had a shot but he definitely had some influence.
But that influence was just money, and there are other influential people out there who don’t want to be in front of the camera 24/7, so he has to go. Rest assured he’ll be toiling behind the scenes for the same ruling class goals as all the others though.
We had a coach in middle school who made it very clear to us on the first day that’d we’d be “dressing out” every day and we’d be expected to shower because you stink after you play sports. For the first month or so he stood outside the locker room and made sure your hair was wet, he didn’t inspect any penises, or even come into the locker room that I’m aware of, but he made sure a gym full of 11yr old boys knew they were supposed to wash themselves after physical activity.
It was a few decades ago, and he was the same gym coach that taught “health/sex education” so I get it. It was pretty uncomfortable and awkward but some people need to be told to wash themselves. I still smell grown people out in public who clearly never had a coach explain stank to them.
RIP. Coach J you were alright even to the nerds
Not sure if it was intentional but you just summarized the show Severance.
He could direct his company to stop targeting kids with addictive gambling mechanics and looking the other way regarding grey-market resellers.
Texts are sent in plain-text and I wouldn’t recommend discussing anything you’d like to keep private via text.
That’s what his riches are all about, it’s all just trying to make people like him. He’s the unlikable rich kid who tries to buy friends.
But it’s not gonna work, all the money in the world won’t make people genuinely like you. Only humility and therapy would do that and those aren’t going to happen.
Night Court was good for its time but that’s been decades ago, I’m not sure how it’s held up.
I feel like he peaked too early and shot himself in the foot. The true successor is a (relatively) unknown.
But I’m no Nostradamus and it wouldn’t even be the first time I was wrong today.
* Unless “They” can groom a suitable successor in time. I hear Baron is lurking in the shadows with an interest in politics.
Wetness is a perception not an objective state. What “wet” even is, is up for debate.
Oh man you could hook your feet in the legs and get a stretch going that was like a chiropractor visit! Not sure what the other commenter is on about those desks were indestructible and served their purpose well. I do remember being excited when we got to start using free-standing chairs we could adjust where ever we wanted.
They were against the Beast because they didn’t know they’d agree with his policies.