the craziest thing is how you’ll be prowling around wikipedia and find some entry about an unknown 14th century ruler who was physically deformed and couldn’t string a coherent sentence together.

and you laugh: look at those uneducated, slobby 14th century citizens who went with the flow of things.

then you see an interview with RFK jr. and you wave it away, because even if you notice how much he fits the profile, you think to yourself: “there’s someone in charge who would prevent this in 2026,” and get back to your tiktok feed of blonde influencers in nondescript luxury apartments showing off their morning routine.

"things are normal’, you keep telling yourself. there’s someone in charge who knows what they’re doing–some higher power to guide us.

nah, it’s only _______. but we’re not allowed to say that word.

pizza is one of the things that’s actually beat inflation. look up how much a pizza hut pizza cost in 1995 considering the prevailing wage at the time.

spoiler: a large cheese would cost $30 at menu prices adjusted for inflation.

you just get lower quality these days; it’s the same with so many other items. a pair of gap jeans was the same price in the late 90s as it is now even with a doubled minimum wage in NY.

but dipshits will gaslight you online being like, ‘actually, you’re just being nostalgic and nothing was ever better than it is now.’

welcome to the real world where those in power make up their own rules and tell us to abide by whatever rules they make up on the fly to keep us powerless.

"opens up about childhood trauma that came an inch short of being locked in a closet for 20 years or sold into sexual slavery.’

‘i’m sure your parents tried their best.’

has less to do with schools and more to do with a society that glorifies credentials and extracurriculars within a rigid framework of acceptability.

if these positions were gained by aptitude tests you’d see a completely different makeup of society-- way less nepo-babies and more working class.

the intent is to exclude. why do you need a college degree to push paper in your local state office?

the middle class are the people who lived in all those american suburbs built in the 50s and 60s; those small, 2 or 3 bedroom houses with drab siding or brick facades that are an overrepresentation of the american landscape and lifestyle, despite the fact you’ve rarely ever seen one in a TV show or film. these homes were affordable to the average worker but now aren’t; those are the homes of the 90%, the actual hard-working american population–the ‘middle class.’

this isn’t that difficult of a concept.

the reddit forum design seems to inherently encourage nerd bullshit. tell me more about the dictionary definition of this or that.

what’s the difference?

people need to stop holding individuals on a pedestal because of wealth/status.

if i came up with the idea for the first internet payment processor, it doesn’t mean i know jack fucking shit about anything else in life–it just means i had a good idea; it means i was in the right place at the right time; i was there with the right amount of cash to take advantage of the situation.

i don’t care about your opinions on the environment or history or the future of mankind any more than i do the ones coming from the fingers of every know-nothing on social media.

the biggest question is: who the fuck made these people god, or at least the architects of the future, of humanity? did we have a vote on it?

doubt many ‘of the most valuable’ books haven’t been digitized or aren’t available on amazon or ebay for a pittance. when i need to find something on anna’s archive, it’s usually because it’s some bullshit, tween pulp romance novel from the late 70’s.

yeah, ok.

“atlantic writer” should be renamed to 'i’m a dumb, overeducated nepo-baby liberal that spends $15 on a coffee every morning and takes an entire month to write a horseshit essay that an indian could churn out on fiver for less than $5 if you asked nicely.

joey lawrence here. i play the dimwitted heartthrob on blossom but there’s no heart in the american medical system–last week i paid 5000000 to remove an entire package of sweet tarts from my urethra.

whoa!

i notice this issue whenever i watch new films–everything looks so sterile and uninviting. culture has taken on this showroom/instagram aesthetic that gestures to class but has no character, taste and doesn’t look like anywhere where anyone would actually live; it’s nowhere where anyone sensible would want to live, at least.

calling it minimalistic is disrespectful because that word and style aren’t mutually exclusive.

is she though?

she’s a third or fourth tier suburban women who’s not fat and has a stylist and makeup artist to tweak her into star status. she only looks hot because most people in the states look sloppy.

imagine doing all that lol. that indicates he takes a personal issue with abortion.

maybe we should start shaming men for this. ‘why you trying to pay child support, bro?’

how is a pimp different than any other capitalist?

how come when it comes to the issue of sex everyone all of a sudden takes offense to someone taking a cut off the top?

aren’t car dealers pimps? aren’t they just car traffickers? isn’t mcdonalds a meat trafficker?

another question: why are women so feeble that a dude can show up at their door in a fur coat and a fedora and be like ‘you’re gonna fuck random dudes and i’m gonna take all the money’ and they’re like ‘ok.’

nowhere in culture do we consider this OK behavior so there’s no excuse for it. when men are down and out they suck down steel reserves and live in the park like normal people.

we need to talk about this.

why do asian american women always date the worst white men?

has there been an atlantic article about this?

has nothing to do with being lazy or entitled.

despite all the rugged individualist propaganda, the anti-intellectualism of our culture hinders anyone from attempting anything new and we act like anyone who does is some kind of wizard or supergenius; like with everything else, we act like cooking a decent meal with flavor is best left to the experts.

you can go on youtube–a platform where thousands of expert chefs are spilling their secrets in an easy to follow, step-by-step manner–and easily learn to cook decent food.

but people don’t. just like they don’t learn how to do basic tech shit, like install an OS.

leftists always take the wrong stance on shit like this.

don’t get me wrong, i think everyone should have access to clean water.

but, it’s a trope of american culture to call people whiny, entitled pieces of shit–usually the most vulnerable members of society.

throw it back at them.

my take on his situation is this: “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”

he’s some alpha male, huh. i drank dirty water for years growing up in detroit. grow a pair, bro.

most of the negatives we associate with every negative adjective to label a person is just a construct, my dude. if you grew up in a reality without investment bankers and malibu beach houses and harvard college you wouldn’t think of that. someone with a heavy ego would just aspire to lead their tribe and probably be way nicer in doing it, and if they weren’t, they’d get dealt with.

i’d imagine 3/4 of all of human suffering and insanity would be lessened without the albatross of money and class.

why should anyone care about that?

big guys should stop trying to wear slim fit jeans. like, it doesn’t look good. try a relaxed fit, and don’t wear a tight shirt when you have a gut.