Strange American Things.

[line b]

wasnt jay z rapping about tom ford at one point

 

[luka]

rappers like polo

its not quite a luxury brand though is it its just got loads of fun primary colours

 

[Mr. Tea]

rappers like polo

Ahh, that would explain the gold teeth!

 

[sus]

 

[sus]

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

www.nber.org

 

[sus]

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🇺🇲🇺🇲 All PATRIOTS Welcome 🇺🇲🇺🇲

If yr not a patriot ☠️ don't even bother responding 👇​

 

[Leo]

Do you know the dude in Waukesha who ran down people in his SUV today?

 

[Murphy]

🇺🇲🇺🇲 This is Now A US PATRIOT THREAD 🇺🇲🇺🇲

🇺🇲🇺🇲 All PATRIOTS Welcome 🇺🇲🇺🇲

If yr not a patriot ☠️ don't even bother responding 👇​

death to America!

 

[Mr. Tea]

Interesting that the UK comes second by this metric.

Of course, it's also going to be a function of how poor the bottom 50% is compared to the top 50% (or indeed the top 10%, 1% or 0.1%).

 

[sus]

Do you know the dude in Waukesha who ran down people in his SUV today?

🇺🇲🇺🇲 All PATRIOTS Welcome 🇺🇲🇺🇲

If yr not a patriot ☠️ don't even bother responding 👇​

 

[Leo]

You mean, like, Mac Jones?

 

[sus]

We all have unique ways of showing our patriotism, there is no one right way.

 

[sus]

Do you know the dude in Waukesha who ran down people in his SUV today?

8,000 people died of alcoholism today. Another 8,000 of obesity. Another 8,000 from starvation.

Giving a shit about some 5 people who made a news headline is laughable. Paying attention to the news is the most brain-damaging thing I can think of.

 

[sus]

Those 5 people literally don't matter. You don't give a shit about them, don't pretend like you do. Any time you spend thinking about them is pure neurosis, not empathy or concern. Brain-addled behavior.

 

[sus]

The world is full of cruelty, tragedy, mass suffering. 5 people killed in a car accident can only matter if you live in some bizarro newsworld on the Upper West Side, where the only things that exist are froyo, your neighbor's poodle, and your MSNBC updates.

Brain addling.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Don't cut yourself on that edge, bro.

 

[Leo]

Not your best attempt at humor, @suspended. and if it's not a joke, you're an asshole.

 

[Murphy]

This fucking guy

 

[Clinamenic]

I've been blue-pilled and red-pilled, in that order, and if its any consolation, its certainly possible to unpill yourself, just involves disavowing the more relatively radical aspects of your reality.

Still feel the sways in both directions here and there, but to far less totalizing extents.

 

[Clinamenic]

The high rate of pilling/polarization, in the US, seems attributable to the combo of academic progressivism and Trump. The former helps bring ugly and critical truths to upper-middle class white culture at the cost of mystifying some of these social issues (thanks to continental philosophy jargon), while the latter seems to have been chiefly concerned with exacerbating the tension occasioned by such critical discourse.