The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.
I was ready to tee off on this guy but it turns out he makes a very legitimate argument.
It *is* unnatural for mammals to just not mate. In nature, it’s an empirical sign of distress. And we *have* outsourced a significant percentage of our organic interpersonal fabric to synthetic third parties.
The facts are fairly transparent when you put it that way: we have fundamentally changed how we communicate and interact, and we are observing a clear indicator for distress at the population level. A bit of a dark epiphany moment there.
Guy in my SEAL platoon faked being shot in combat and later was elected to the US Senate, where he assaulted a Marine and broke his arm for speaking up against Israel.
You are an American, you moron. You can do all that stuff. You can join the military of the most powerful empire in the world and fight in Judea and Parthia right now!
i can’t get over seeing a braid in space … the simplicity & humanity of it … i could cry … we started in caves and now we’re all the way up there
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easiest way to explain this is that american drinks are kind of non-linear because every order you pay a little serf tax to their service class, and after about three drinks the bartender recognises you as a more reliable ally than the bar owner and mixes drinks at 2-3x strength