A black guy got hired to my team this week. He rode with me to the job-site. Immediately a 25 minute speakerphone/Facetime conversation. Followed by Tik Tok scrolling with no headphones for the remaining 20 minutes.
Sounds good, lil nigga. I’m not training you.
One of the more baffling parts of right wing politics in the USA is that Republican state officials have direct authority over their state universities, yet have consistently chosen not to reform their politics & hiring policies despite complaining about them for 50+ years.
There is not nearly enough introspection about the fact that me and everybody like me knew exactly how this would all play out ahead of time. Like, you could have just asked me. Like, really. You could have just asked me on Twitter and I would’ve told you. The people in charge are not bothered enough about the fact that random laymen know more than they do about their own job jobs.
Increasingly it looks like being a fulltime parent requires being autistic while being a corporate employee requires acting like a a woman all day
Maybe it is time for stay at home dads
Fun fact: If the United States paid all 43 million black American citizens $100,000 to return to Africa permanently, if would cost four trillion three hundred billion dollars upfront. But at an average cost of $30k per year in unearned social benefits, this program would pay for itself in less than 4 years, then add one trillion two hundred ninety billion to the surplus annually.
I laugh at feminists who actually think the handmaids tale is some living dystopia.
It is the complete opposite.
Let's imagine an alternate dystopia: women are fed hormone altering pills from teenage years to make them infertile through their prime fertility years, whilst they work to deliver profits for mostly male elite bosses. And if they accidentally get pregnant, the baby is killed so they can continue to generate profit.
It's a good plot. It is just real life. Not a work of fiction
Women apply compassion to criminals.
They call their rapist “my rapist.”
They call their nation’s invaders “refugees.”
Women are trauma-bonders. They have suicidal empathy. They must never rule.
Re: Karmelo Anthony and his defenders:
Obviously there is some blind black tribal loyalty involved, but I think there’s something else and arguably worse.
The facts seem to be this: Karmelo invaded another track team’s tent. He did this to assert dominance. When asked to leave, he issued threats: “touch me and see what happens.” After repeatedly telling him that he was not welcome, and in response to provocation, Austin Metcalf pushed him, trying to get him to comply with basic social norms. Karmelo, no doubt delighted that he had now received permission for escalation under his own code, stabbed Austin to death.
The black defenders of Karmelo believe this is how society should operate: an endless war of all against all to assert dominance, escalating when one’s assertions are rebuffed. They’re mad that the justice system got involved, because in their minds this is the proper way to conduct business: omnipresent dominance signaling, inevitably leading to violence.
They genuinely don’t understand that other people don’t operate according to those rules. And they certainly don’t understand that our rules, by drastically reducing friction and needless cost, are the very reason for the disparities in group power they complain about. We are polite internally and can thus exert greater collective power externally. A few Karmelos in the mix destroys this system.
But they don’t care that running things their way would be the end of civilization, the end of their cell phones and EBT and air conditioning, because they don’t understand it. They don’t understand anything about the modern world. They are lost here, confused. This state of affairs is not sustainable.
Manhattan and Brooklyn are rich, they're surrounded by a ring of much lower income households (people who serve in the city but don't earn city money), and then an outer, wealthy suburban ring.
This map (from ULI) really puts the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex in perspective in a unique way
Population over 8 million now
Here are all of the well known cities (population wise) that would make it up