@Typo-MAGAshiv I saw that at the theater when it first came out. My parents didn't really pay attention to the ratings system and just took us to whatever they wanted to see. Hilarious movie.
@MidgetSpinner I bet you are carrying yourself differently now than you were during the 3-year isolation mode. It's the kind of thing you might not recognize yourself but others will.
@First-light I'm betting life experience. I've seen a number of men who didn't do well with women when younger who eventually rise to fairly prominent positions in their fields, and it isn't uncommon for them to be screwing around with secretaries or other lower level employees and thereby harm their careers. Hormones preumably aren't driving that behavior; rather, the lack of adequate sexual experiences when younger appears to be the culprit.
@adam-l I read this the other day. What I found interesting is the observation that, as institutions become feminized, they lose their prestige (deservedly).
@Typo-MAGAshiv "In the US's case, that's just powerful people pulling the ladder up from behind them because they suck. That's not because of capitalism, but rather because people are awful."
Yep. A good example is the crazed focus on racial issues in recent years. The stirring of racial tensions is done by elite whites who fear "lesser" whites climbing the ladder and displacing them.
@MentORPHEUS We are seeing a lot of the same things but drawing different conclusions. The aversion to economic class issues isn't limited to the right. The hyper-focus on things like racial and transgender issues is designed to divert attention from economic class issues. Better to have people arguing over George Floyd than wondering why a historically greater share of national income goes to capital than to labor.
I think you are missing that the left was absorbed into the uniparty long ago. WEF is a good example. In any event, no one prominent on the left would dare do anything that would result in more income going to labor than to capital. The situation thus is perhaps more bleak than you think.
Trump is an outsider and reviled by the uniparty, and is comfortable around working people, so it isn't surprising that they like him. People like Musk because he allowed free speech on Twitter and evicted all of the FBI/intelligence community people on the payroll. They see what is happening in Britain, with people being jailed for daring to question the wisdom of mass muslim immigration, and appreciate someone like Musk.
And I don't doubt that environmental groups that take money from the likes of Soros don't consider him one of them, but at the same time, he and his ilk control the ultimate policy decisions of those groups. Cleaning up chemically infested rivers in New Jersey, and preventing it from happening again, is a worthwhile endeavor for environmental groups. Shilling for policies that send money to politically-connected people and China to fight "climate change" is not.
Read More@SeasonedRP I appreciate the effort of the response, but still find the underlying assumptions fatally flawed.
Part of the problem, lies in the American Right's cultural aversion to consider culture and economics through a CLASS lens, as if doing so is tantamount to willfully stepping onto a nearly vertical slippery slope into full-on acceptance and practice of Marxism/socialism/communism-->bad and anti-American.
Even those individuals you name, who may give public lip service and financial donations to Left leaning social causes, often have economic ulterior motives mixed in. This notwithstanding, their position at the apex of power and control over the large numbers of workers in their businesses and organizations, places them squarely in the Bourgeois class, completely apart from the working stiff proles who actually perform the work.
Working and middle class people support the right.
Because they are most blind to the above structural reality. I find it breathtakingly absurd hearing working class folks, particularly blue collar, enthusiastically supporting the likes of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, with a sense of personal kinship which in reality holds 0% reciprocity from his end.
FWIW, even people working at the ground and lower levels within organizations like Environmental groups that take large grants from the likes of Soros, will take the money, but harbor no illusions that these apex benefactors exist in any way as "One of us." Wealthy people, whether donors or board/upper management class, don't bother to pitch through left coded channels to left leaning audiences, any "Greetings, fellow working class stiffs!" bullshit, as they're much quicker to see right through such a farce.
Read More@Bozza I bet you hear from her. She'll blame everything on being drunk. Women can be super annoying when drunk.
Capitalism belongs to the greater group class systems.
Class systems are first and foremost about control, not profit.
True, Lenin said that the capitalists will sell you the rope with which you will hang them, but they got much smarter from then on.
In that regard, boosting "secondary" leftist goals, such as gender issues, has been instrumental in wiping out a class-focused, threatening Left.
