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2019-12-04 08:07:26

#451

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3933

uziq wrote:
SuperJail Warden wrote:
This might not be related to the Scots but I have noticed that in America poor white people are unique among the poor in their desire to dismantle the social safety net they rely on. Poor black people complain about the police and CIA cocaine but they don't go around campaigning to the welfare state or convince themselves their government transfers are coming from somewhere else.

This is probably why liberals care cup is empty for poor white people. You try to help them and they hate you for it. They are like dogs at a veterinarian office. Too dumb to realize you are trying to help them.
this is nietzsche's concept of ressentiment in one, and his main elaboration of the master-slave hegelian dynamic.

not coincidentally it's, in his view, the basis of the christian worldview, the compensatory logic of 'being rewarded in heaven' and envying the rich and powerful as 'sinners' in life. it's also why charity and handouts are received vituperatively, because by giving charity you are becoming someone's master (witness beneficent philanthropists 'doing good works' and massaging their own ego/soul), and by accepting charity you are becoming someone's slave (in hegelian terms, obviously, not literally).

the american dream myth of 'making it big' is a neat ideological blindfold for the underclass. what's that quote, variously attributed, about nobody in america being poor - everyone is just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire? etc etc

I used to be into N. back in college but only vaguely remember it now. I do remember his criticism of the Christianity as an ideology of resentment against the Romans and their values. That's a harsher criticism of Christianity than what I hear a lot of internet atheist go on about. The best criticism I ever heard of Islam was by a Victorian era British orientalist who argued that Muhammad just threw together all of the ideas going around the Arabian Peninsula into a single religion because he wanted to be a leader. I respect that argument a lot more than people complaining about 7th century marriage practices.

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2019-12-04 08:08:00)

2019-12-04 08:28:17

#452

uziq: Member; +492|3665

the basic accession to power, or as an escape valve to let off the pressure of subjugation, is pretty much universal to all religions.

it's there in primitive beliefs and rituals, also. q.v. witchcraft and shamanism. witchcraft was a superstitious means for subjugated women to gain power and influence in a society that was heavily patriarchal. shamans are often men from outside the ruling warrior or noble caste of a society, normally from disreputable or outsider families, who would otherwise be bums and never have any prospects of prestige or women in the group.

even in islamic societies today, which still entertain some primitive autochthonous beliefs from areas where islam spread, you get this relation. often times the male elders of the group or clerics will have to respect and fear the opinions of a 'possessed' woman who claims to be voicing the angry spirits of the djinn, etc. often times this elaborate show is only down to some domestic grievance of the wife of an elder, etc. but they all play along in a highly ritualised way.

mohammad was quite obviously a warrior prophet, in a warlike society. jesus just gained power and influence over the romans using the best access possible, which was obviously not military.

Last edited by uziq (2019-12-04 08:29:34)

2019-12-04 17:06:41

#453

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5571|London, England

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Would anyone be surprised? Of course there will be people who are dumb spenders. But making things more accessible will at least give a wider array of people a better chance at clawing their way out of dire straits. "A family trying to decide between food and medicine? Forget those guys, other poor people might use tax returns to buy a Steelers shirt or something." I dunno, man.

All a UBI will do is raise inflation. You'll get an initial pop of spending but then rent, food etc. prices will rise and whatever UBI is set to will become the new $0. If you tie it to inflation you will end up with hyperinflation.

We're seeing the same thing happening with the minimum wage increases. Prices are rising, people are losing jobs or having their hours cut, and spending power is diminishing back to where it was. If you try to enact price controls you will just curb supply.

No, I don't have a different solution, I just know that mathematically this isn't the correct one.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2019-12-04 17:24:04

#454

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5571|London, England

SuperJail Warden wrote:
This might not be related to the Scots but I have noticed that in America poor white people are unique among the poor in their desire to dismantle the social safety net they rely on. Poor black people complain about the police and CIA cocaine but they don't go around campaigning to the welfare state or convince themselves their government transfers are coming from somewhere else.

This is probably why liberals care cup is empty for poor white people. You try to help them and they hate you for it. They are like dogs at a veterinarian office. Too dumb to realize you are trying to help them.

You keep coming back to this, as if allegiance is owed by "poor whites" to their intellectual superiors. I'm sorry to disabuse you, but the resentment is due both to anti-elitism and the fact that yuppie liberals have gone completely batshit. They're hippies with money and a mishmashed belief set that incorporates the anti-scientific with fad chasing and mass groupthink. A white person on the beach with marks from cupping? Guess which way he votes. A chick with green hair in Brooklyn living off her parents while working part time as a dog groomer? Guess.

Men in the rest of the country still try to emulate The Man With No Name from the Eastwood movies. You think they want to have anything in common with Pajama Boy? Liberals are soft, weak, sniveling and full of retard. That's why poor whites hate them and don't want to vote for their champions.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2019-12-04 17:36:15

#455

DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +796|6898|United States of America

Certainly has nothing to do with the fact that poor whites tend to be rural and lower-educated.

2019-12-04 17:36:58

#456

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

Jay wrote:
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Would anyone be surprised? Of course there will be people who are dumb spenders. But making things more accessible will at least give a wider array of people a better chance at clawing their way out of dire straits. "A family trying to decide between food and medicine? Forget those guys, other poor people might use tax returns to buy a Steelers shirt or something." I dunno, man.
All a UBI will do is raise inflation. You'll get an initial pop of spending but then rent, food etc. prices will rise and whatever UBI is set to will become the new $0. If you tie it to inflation you will end up with hyperinflation.

We're seeing the same thing happening with the minimum wage increases. Prices are rising, people are losing jobs or having their hours cut, and spending power is diminishing back to where it was. If you try to enact price controls you will just curb supply.

No, I don't have a different solution, I just know that mathematically this isn't the correct one.

The same arguments all work against trickle-down theory though - if people earn more money won't inflation just eat it all away?
I don't think a UBI would actually be bad, there has to be some return from sending all our jobs to China to be done by robots.
And once again most other countries have higher min wages and the economies work perfectly well.

My solution is to prevent companies offshoring their profits and then tax them on it.
A few strokes of the legislative pen.

Fuck Israel

2019-12-04 17:42:21

#457

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3933

Jay wrote:
SuperJail Warden wrote:
This might not be related to the Scots but I have noticed that in America poor white people are unique among the poor in their desire to dismantle the social safety net they rely on. Poor black people complain about the police and CIA cocaine but they don't go around campaigning to the welfare state or convince themselves their government transfers are coming from somewhere else.

This is probably why liberals care cup is empty for poor white people. You try to help them and they hate you for it. They are like dogs at a veterinarian office. Too dumb to realize you are trying to help them.
You keep coming back to this, as if allegiance is owed by "poor whites" to their intellectual superiors. I'm sorry to disabuse you, but the resentment is due both to anti-elitism and the fact that yuppie liberals have gone completely batshit. They're hippies with money and a mishmashed belief set that incorporates the anti-scientific with fad chasing and mass groupthink. A white person on the beach with marks from cupping? Guess which way he votes. A chick with green hair in Brooklyn living off her parents while working part time as a dog groomer? Guess.

Men in the rest of the country still try to emulate The Man With No Name from the Eastwood movies. You think they want to have anything in common with Pajama Boy? Liberals are soft, weak, sniveling and full of retard. That's why poor whites hate them and don't want to vote for their champions.

Poor old white republicans, the very definition of strength and vitality.

"Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair: Even as longevity increases across the rich world, uneducated white Americans are living sicker and dying earlier."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch … as/413971/
"Study Reveals Declining Life Expectancy Among White Americans That Defies Easy Answers"
https://www.ajmc.com/focus-of-the-week/ … sy-answers
Low education White Americans men, the republican base, are single handily driving down our life expectancy numbers.

Maybe low education white people need to take the guns out of their mouths, flush the heroin down the toilet, and listen to the green hair dog walker so that they stop aging in dog years.

2019-12-04 17:46:11

#458

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3933

I bet if Trump loses the next election there is going to be an uptick in the middle aged suicide rate. You know a lot of this MAGA stuff is the result of not having hobbies.

2019-12-04 17:49:55

#459

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5571|London, England

Dilbert_X wrote:
Jay wrote:
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Would anyone be surprised? Of course there will be people who are dumb spenders. But making things more accessible will at least give a wider array of people a better chance at clawing their way out of dire straits. "A family trying to decide between food and medicine? Forget those guys, other poor people might use tax returns to buy a Steelers shirt or something." I dunno, man.
All a UBI will do is raise inflation. You'll get an initial pop of spending but then rent, food etc. prices will rise and whatever UBI is set to will become the new $0. If you tie it to inflation you will end up with hyperinflation.

We're seeing the same thing happening with the minimum wage increases. Prices are rising, people are losing jobs or having their hours cut, and spending power is diminishing back to where it was. If you try to enact price controls you will just curb supply.

No, I don't have a different solution, I just know that mathematically this isn't the correct one.
The same arguments all work against trickle-down theory though - if people earn more money won't inflation just eat it all away?
I don't think a UBI would actually be bad, there has to be some return from sending all our jobs to China to be done by robots.
And once again most other countries have higher min wages and the economies work perfectly well.

My solution is to prevent companies offshoring their profits and then tax them on it.
A few strokes of the legislative pen.

American companies only offshore because we are the only country in the world that taxes overseas income when it returns here.

And does it though? Countries with high minimum wages also generally have high unemployment rates and serious issues with non-working underclass. UBI is meant to replace the dole with a non-means tested handout. These same people would still be right there. All it would do is gut the role of social workers who currently play gatekeeper for benefits programs. Same benefits, less paperwork. No movement in social mobility.

Last edited by Jay (2019-12-04 17:51:13)

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2019-12-04 18:07:09

#460

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5571|London, England

SuperJail Warden wrote:
Jay wrote:
SuperJail Warden wrote:
This might not be related to the Scots but I have noticed that in America poor white people are unique among the poor in their desire to dismantle the social safety net they rely on. Poor black people complain about the police and CIA cocaine but they don't go around campaigning to the welfare state or convince themselves their government transfers are coming from somewhere else.

This is probably why liberals care cup is empty for poor white people. You try to help them and they hate you for it. They are like dogs at a veterinarian office. Too dumb to realize you are trying to help them.
You keep coming back to this, as if allegiance is owed by "poor whites" to their intellectual superiors. I'm sorry to disabuse you, but the resentment is due both to anti-elitism and the fact that yuppie liberals have gone completely batshit. They're hippies with money and a mishmashed belief set that incorporates the anti-scientific with fad chasing and mass groupthink. A white person on the beach with marks from cupping? Guess which way he votes. A chick with green hair in Brooklyn living off her parents while working part time as a dog groomer? Guess.

Men in the rest of the country still try to emulate The Man With No Name from the Eastwood movies. You think they want to have anything in common with Pajama Boy? Liberals are soft, weak, sniveling and full of retard. That's why poor whites hate them and don't want to vote for their champions.
Poor old white republicans, the very definition of strength and vitality.

"Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair: Even as longevity increases across the rich world, uneducated white Americans are living sicker and dying earlier."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch … as/413971/
"Study Reveals Declining Life Expectancy Among White Americans That Defies Easy Answers"
https://www.ajmc.com/focus-of-the-week/ … sy-answers
Low education White Americans men, the republican base, are single handily driving down our life expectancy numbers.

Maybe low education white people need to take the guns out of their mouths, flush the heroin down the toilet, and listen to the green hair dog walker so that they stop aging in dog years.

Walk any construction site in NYC and you'll see Trump graffiti everywhere. Democrats lost working class people across the board. They're the special interests party only. If you want to blame anyone, blame Schumer and Pelosi. They run the Democrat party with finance and tech money respectively, and prioritized their needs for donation money. The batty socialists don't seem to understand that their message only resonates with upper and upper-middle class white people. Maybe there is a reason? It's not education, it's class guilt they were taught in college or slumming with the other BoBo's in $4k/month apartments. It's edgy.

Last edited by Jay (2019-12-04 18:08:42)

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2019-12-04 18:18:10

#461

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3933

The fact that Schumer and Pelosi are off putting doesn't justify voting for policies that are going to shorten your life like poor republican voters do.

2019-12-04 18:21:56

#462

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

Jay wrote:
Walk any construction site in NYC and you'll see Trump graffiti everywhere. Democrats lost working class people across the board. They're the special interests party only.

Democrats won the popular vote, dur. Hardly special interests only.

Fuck Israel

2019-12-04 18:24:24

#463

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5571|London, England

SuperJail Warden wrote:
The fact that Schumer and Pelosi are off putting doesn't justify voting for policies that are going to shorten your life like poor republican voters do.

Do they? The lives of the people you are focusing on are shortened because their jobs have gone overseas and they're trapped in Nowheresville with nothing to do but drinking and drugs to pass the time. They're not every anti-liberal voter. They're a parody used to make coastal elites feel better about themselves.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2019-12-04 21:45:42

#464

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

Jay wrote:
American companies only offshore because we are the only country in the world that taxes overseas income when it returns here.

Bullshit, America has one of the slackest tax regimes in respect of foreign earnings, and still US corporations decline to pay it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internati … rporations

Or do you have any evidence to back up this factoid?

Seems to me you've made three assertions in one day which are completely at odds with reality. Is everything OK?

Fuck Israel

2019-12-04 22:44:23

#465

uziq: Member; +492|3665

lol building sites full of trump graffiti. the people’s revolution! the cry of the man in the street! they’re not gonna take it anymore! no more green-haired socialism!

dilbert, i think you’re forgetting that jay now reads the national review. his entire thinking is a series of bad tropes linked together by invective.

i can’t believe he’s so persistently mad about a bunch of impressionable, young yuppies in brooklyn or whatever. like they really run the world and as if their faddish interest in horoscopes or ASMR or whatever is driving the world in a bad direction.

2019-12-04 22:59:28

#466

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

What about purple-haired progressivism?

Fuck Israel

2019-12-04 23:18:25

#467

uziq: Member; +492|3665

she’s a 6 at best, give it a rest you creep.

2019-12-05 00:17:21

#468

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

Rating women out of 10 is so 90s

Fuck Israel

2019-12-05 00:25:01

#469

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

uziq wrote:
dilbert, i think you’re forgetting that jay now reads the national review. his entire thinking is a series of bad tropes linked together by invective.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowit … verso=true

Fuck Israel

2019-12-05 00:41:39

#470

uziq: Member; +492|3665

Dilbert_X wrote:
Rating women out of 10 is so 90s

and objectifying women with political aspirations/talents because they satisfy some creepy, single-bachelor-who-pays-for-sex vibe is ... timeless?

Last edited by uziq (2019-12-05 00:41:53)

2019-12-05 05:20:12

#471

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3933

uziq wrote:
lol building sites full of trump graffiti. the people’s revolution! the cry of the man in the street! they’re not gonna take it anymore! no more green-haired socialism!

Construction jobs in NYC are unionized and overwhelmingly white. Republicans are famously anti-union and Trump himself always screwed up contractors whenever he could.

It's another case of the working class voting against their own interest in order trigger the libs and green haired NYU students.

2019-12-05 05:20:57

#472

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3933

Dilbert_X wrote:
What about purple-haired progressivism?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlswithNeonHair/

(NSFW)

2019-12-05 14:20:20

#473

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

uziq wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Rating women out of 10 is so 90s
and objectifying women with political aspirations/talents because they satisfy some creepy, single-bachelor-who-pays-for-sex vibe is ... timeless?

A bit redundant calling someone a single bachelor no?
Are there many married bachelors?

Fuck Israel

2019-12-05 14:23:24

#474

uziq: Member; +492|3665

it specifically genders you as male, doing what creepy middle-aged bachelors do.

thanks for the language advice though, derp. give me a call the next time you want a lugnut machined.

2019-12-05 14:44:02

#475

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6319|eXtreme to the maX

Just 'bachelor' would identify someone as single though.

I don't work on lugnuts.

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