The whole culinary fancy pantsy trend really drives me up the wall
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Paul Volcker. When it comes to the architects of the neoliberal era, everyone talks about Hayek and Greenspan and Thatcher and Reagan. But no one mentions Volcker despite the man literally having the weaponizing of interest rates to break unions and the spending power of the working class named after him, the eponymous Volcker Shock.
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oh boy another struggle session
Everyone is being nice
if we’re gonna do generational warfare
what if we don't
People are very intent on it
Just do what I do and point out that generationalism is almost entirely made the fuck up and almost entirely serves to pit the working class against itself
We’ve all noticed the r-word making a comeback but even terms like “lame,” "dumb," and "stupid" are ableist and should not be used. Colonial terms like “looting” and “thugs” and “savage” always piss me off. Using the word "dark" to refer to anything negative is obviously not okay.
I can’t stand when people use “child” or “childish” as an insult. No one is easier to radicalize than kids. And it’s not because they’re ignorant or underdeveloped, it’s because they haven’t been propagandized into loving capitalism. Even relatively wealthy kids get very little out of capitalism. Kids are addicted to video games because they have no other control over their lives and are desperate for any kind of escape from this hellhole. Video games provide a world where work actually results in obvious achievements, while the vast majority of humanity is trapped in a world of endless toil with all the results and benefits going to a tiny minority.
It drives me crazy when people say your brain isn’t fully developed until you’re 25. Bruh our brains never stop changing.
Body-shaming when we all know that beauty is a social construct.
The r-word never left. The 2000s and early 2010s was famed for the slur-comedy/south park/jeffrey star humor. Its like 5-6 years max and not even that because 2014 was the start of the SWJ cringe compilation era.
Animal exploitation
Someone mentioned Belgium earlier in this thread, so I'm going to go a step farther and say the Netherlands. Yes, the cycling infrastructure is the best in the world and a decade ahead of every other country. Yes, the train system is pretty damn great with most lines getting at least 2 trains an hour. However, the Dutch seem to be remarkably proud of their colonial history, almost as much as the Brits according to this article. It's still a neoliberal country and is the home of Shell Oil. The country also has a sprawl problem-I would call it bike sprawl-where much of the country is rowhouses and the transport seems designed around bikes and cars. This is still steps ahead of most other countries but the Dutch seem to be somewhat allergic to building more dense neighborhoods. The local bus service is also somewhat lacking, with less frequent service than in comparable countries depending on where you are. Oh also the dutch "language" is a joke.
The only reason why the Dutch like bikes is because it allows them to be rude with less separation between them and their target.
The Dutch character is a horrible combination of arrogance and smol bean syndrome.
smol bean? Not really. More like thinking they reason incarnate and would force their own 12 year old to pay for the meal they ate during a family gathering in a restaurant.
Seconding this as a Dutch person, especially on the "allergic to dense development" part
If America is a country built for cars at the expense of all else, the Netherlands is the same but built at bike scale. Like these are just suburbs dawg, yeah the bikes are great and wayyy ahead of the rest of the world, but many other countries just build more dense so you can just walk everywhere and take the train rather than have massive bike parking lots at every station. Again, the biking and trains are great but it's just a different kind of suburb. I think the Dutch refuse to build taller because they would rather make another polder instead.
You haven't seen Emmen. Has poor transit to boot.
One thing I should point out is that while we do cycle a lot, car ownership is still super high, so even in a model city like Houten the streets get cluttered by households having 2 cars each.
My explanation for the aversion is that we refuse to shake off an antiquated view of the Dutch landscape where our cities are small and low-rise with a lot of rural areas. So we may not be on Belgian levels of sprawl (we did get some measures against that in the seventies) but medium-sized cities are everywhere and as a result motorway traffic is high. The motorway between Amsterdam and Utrecht is 5 lanes in each direction.
I know Switzerland sprawls a lot too but they also have more railroads connecting them all, at least.
Oh, and Dutch people are the epitome of the neoliberal subject.
Alcohol.
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