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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Maybe I’m getting old but these things used to be something the middle class could afford. Sending your kid to a 12k a year school was something a middle class family could do 30 years ago. Not even upper middle, upper middle would be going to the 40k a year school or whatever. Middle class used to mean going to another state for a week during summer vacation, staying in a hotel and visiting a theme park, or road trips to a national park in your (own!) RV. Being able to put a new bathroom in on your 3 bed house in suburbia, or sending the kids to summer camp. If that sounds rich to you then where do you think that wealth went? Billionaires have been bleeding people so dry that a nice little treat or maybe a splurge for most college educated folks from 30 years ago sounds like some impossible luxury today apparently.



  • So was this restaurant a national chain? His mom owned a business in an industry with famously slim margins and that’s supposed to fail him in some purity test? His parents aren’t venture capitalists, bankers, politicians, technocrats, or corporate billionaires. Anyone who has to work to live is working class. This idea that he has to be “poor enough” and “low class enough” is such bullshit. If his parents were homeless junkies you can bet it would be spun just as negatively. You got anything to say about the actual shit he’s running on?



  • He doesn’t have any policies.

    Oh I see you haven’t checked out his website. Here you go

    https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

    Take on waste and corruption at the Pentagon… Massive, massive waste in procurement. A revolving door between the Pentagon and massive “defense” contractors. Widespread consolidation, encouraged by deliberate government policy, to the point where competition has virtually disappeared in many vital areas. This is the legacy of several decades of disastrous mismanagement and profiteering at the highest level of the American military.

    No more pointless wars I will never, ever vote to send Americans into a pointless war. Everything we went through in Iraq can be laid at the feet of those in Washington, like Senator Collins, who knew better but voted “Yes” on a disastrous, deadly war.


  • So if the argument is that he is, still, currently a Nazi, just running on progressive ideology to pull one over on all of us dumb rubes, why bother hiding it? Why be a cryptofascist when obvious-as-fuck fascists are running on fascist platforms and getting elected because they’re fascists? He has said literally nothing even in his online posts as a private citizen anywhere near as far-reich or as blatant as the current admin says in plain sight on Twitter.



  • Not just aging, I would say intelligence is highly variable just on an individual level due to all sorts of factors. How much rest you get, the quality of said rest, current physical comfort level, distractions, stress, whether you’re hungry or have eaten recently, time of day, whether there’s a time constraint, etc etc etc. I wonder how many “stupid” people are genuinely that way even in the best conditions, or if the majority are just suffering from any of multiple detractors on them. Because of this I try not to judge, because I don’t know their lives.