HowRYouBud

Yes.

@g_lamarche @aakashgupta I asked if your mother and grandmother would see marriage as slavery. You provided your accounts of their marriages. Would they agree? Your accounts paint your grandfather and father as bad people. Is that accurate?

My mom raised 7 kids and had a half acre of gardens from which she processed most of our foods. She also made most of our clothes. My dad made well above the median income - but when she wanted to replace her threadbare decades old winter jacket - he made her get a job cleaning other peoples houses to pay for it.

This study is real. It started in 1938. 87 years later, it's still running. And the actual findings are wilder than the tweet makes them sound. The Harvard Study of Adult Development tracked 724 men from two completely different worlds. 268 Harvard sophomores from the classes of 1939-1944, including a young John F. Kennedy. And 456 boys from the poorest neighborhoods in Boston. Researchers followed both groups for their entire lives. Questionnaires every two years. Physician reports. Brain scans. Blood draws. Personal interviews. Most of them are dead now. Only 19 of the original Harvard cohort are still alive, all in their mid-90s. The finding that went viral was "good relationships predict happiness." True, but that's the sanitized version. The unsanitized version: men who scored highest on "warm relationships" earned $141,000 more per year at peak salary than men who scored lowest. IQ made almost no difference. Men with IQs between 110 and 115 earned statistically the same as men with IQs above 150. Relationships didn't just predict happiness. They predicted the money too. The study also found that the single greatest destroyer of health, marriage, and career was alcoholism. And that the warmth of your relationship with your mother predicted your work effectiveness decades later, but had zero correlation with life satisfaction at age 75. Your relationship with your father predicted your adult anxiety levels. The current director, Robert Waldinger, put it simply: loneliness is as powerful a killer as smoking. 87 years of data on what makes a life work. Wealth, IQ, and social class barely moved the needle. Whether anyone actually knew you moved everything.

@Amberlitz1 @aakashgupta I think it was assumed that adult men and women had similar aspirations and measures of happiness, because when each reached adulthood they were likely paired with the other. That they shared happiness. There are definitely plenty of measurements of women’s happiness now.

@HowRYouBud @aakashgupta It’s sad that it didn’t matter to them to find out whether women were happy and why. At least I think that’s changing now.

@g_lamarche @aakashgupta Ok. Now compare that to the experience of your mother, you and women in general. Do you see how that example undermines any claim that marriage = slavery?

@HowRYouBud @aakashgupta My grandmother was married off at age 12 to a 38 year old drunken brute. She bore him 14 children and managed his farm for 40+ years while he worked the railroad. When he died - he left 100% of his estate to the CHURCH. = 100% SLAVERY.

@IsMusk48074 @avidseries First, she didn’t address what he wrote. Work from there to the other substantive differences.

@avidseries Aren’t you the one arguing in bad faith here? AOC is responding to Elon Musk—and it’s widely known that he violated the terms of his student visa in the 1990s.

The rhetorical tactic of attributing criticism of illegals to the entire class of all immigrants is in such despicable bad faith — almost as bad as not being able to discern a moral difference between people who submit to a legal process and those who have contempt for it.

@BobHaase9988 @avidseries Can you really not see you’re making the opposite point you think you’re making?

So Musk came to the US on a student visa, didn't enroll in school and started a company instead. Investors in his company were worried he would be deported. Apparently the contemptible jackass who rails on illegals was one himself, and didn't give an f about the legal process.

Celebrating a song that was released only 26 years after the U.S. nuked their country. They started making movies about radiation-caused monsters 20 years after Hiroshima and the U.S. wrote their new constitution. By the 80s, they threatened US dominance. Amazing.

Actually, if you look at their low birth rates, they have the *lowest* penetration— never mind.

@Amberlitz1 @aakashgupta Yes. I don’t think they anticipated the Sex Wars in the 1930s.

@aakashgupta Are you telling me they left out women from this study? This is just the men’s results?

@LexSamDaniel @aakashgupta Is there evidence of that?

@aakashgupta Are we sure the direction of causality isn't reversed in that making money makes it to where men can get a spouse?

@g_lamarche @aakashgupta Did your mother and grandmother see marriage that way? Sincere question, since your comment is in response to men’s views over generations.

@aakashgupta having a personal slave makes men happy, what a shock (not!)

BREAKING: 2022 raid on Trump’s home revealed he thought he “should” be able to keep the documents he had and that he thought they were “cool.” Developing….

@Steve_Sailer Subscribe to see an homage to Dash Crofts become a longer homage to Documentary Now: “Soldier of Illusion,” in which Werner Herzog agrees to direct simultaneously both an ethnographic documentary about the Ular tribe of Siberia and a 1970s ABC sitcom pilot called Bachelor Nanny.

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@Philsbirdsthrow As a Flyers fan I was rooting for Domi here. Pro sports is not an interactive experience for spectators. Just spectate.

3-29-2001- 25 years ago today , the Tie Domi incident occurred

@WollastonWntr63 @Scaramucci FOX has probably gotten more cartoonish in its bias. I haven’t watched TV news in a long time. My whole life it was pretty obvious media had a left-leaning bias, so all GOP were more likely to be treated as the “other.” If only because the left more often entered that field.

@HowRYouBud @Scaramucci It did turn out to be a big market opportunity, and I thought FOX was reasonable at first. I think also Ailes remembered the media dislike for Richard Nixon decades before and didn't want what he saw as piling on without any counter argument to ever happen again.,

Let me tell you exactly what Fox figured out in 1993. Roger Ailes looked around and asked — who’s the threat? Not Bill Clinton, the threat is Hillary Clinton. They spent billions of dollars over decades destroying her narrative. By the time she ran for president 51% of the country had a negative opinion of her before she said a word on the campaign trail. That’s the playbook. Now ask yourself — where’s the threat today? California. The fourth largest economy in the world. Agriculture, Defense, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, AI. — which is literally the exportation of American culture globally. A politician coming out of California from the left could beat the right decisively. So what do you do? Spend billions destroying the narrative around California. Make it synonymous with crime and homelessness and radical politics. Do it for two or three decades until the brand is toxic. Newsom has an image problem today the exact same way Hillary had an image problem. It was manufactured. Deliberately. Systematically.

@BCNY212 @ColumbiaBugle @KatyinIndy Nearly 90% is close enough to homogeneous that you should rethink your comment. You can still defend the changes, but being pedantic undermines your argument.

@ColumbiaBugle @KatyinIndy The “USA” was never homogenous. Not EVER. There was a land of brown people. THEN Europeans arrived. From that moment on, it was not homogenous. And I really doubt you mean that anyone who is not from the indigenous people should take a hike. Bigots and racists are like that.

A major part of what makes Japan wonderful is that it is very homogenous. It’s a nation of Japanese people, doing things that Japanese like, with a unique Japanese culture. America was homogenous before 1965. Then we opened our borders. But we can become more homogenous again.

@WollastonWntr63 @Scaramucci Don’t overthink it. Roger Ailes saw a huge market opportunity: News consumers who aren’t progressive. (Most consumers.) The network’s “messaging” was no more conservative than mainstream outlets’ messaging were progressive. They were mirror images of each other.

This is damn good stuff, Mooch. The evidence of all of this would be pretty hard to deny. Republicans know who they have to message to, how best to sit down with the folks in their living rooms over tea, or a six-pack, talk their language, and talk to them about those Democrats and such alienating and exotic things that seem countercultural that scare the living fuck right out of them. And you know, it kinda works. At least with enough of "the Folks." This is one of the reasons I left the Republican party because I don't like being messaged to like I'm some common hateful idiot. I know what I think on policy and why I think it and hatred of my fellow Americans is never going to be part of it. And then when Democrats message, I think it's with the assumption that the average American voter can understand nuanced points and the very real complexities of public policy, so they talk to voters like they're talking to reasonably intelligent human beings who have an interest in the common welfare of the greater nation. But strangely enough, and as depressing as it is, talking about Haitian immigrants sneaking into your communities to feast on your beloved dogs and cats seems to work better than talking about the very real steps needed to move the country forward in such a way from which all Americans can live in a more just and prosperous nation. So yeah, kinda sucks, and I say that as a reasonable and pragmatic moderate conservative, but the FOX model of talking to people like they're closer to being a hateful dope than an intelligent concerned citizen has proven to be a real winner.

I used to laugh when I saw this sort of thing in university. But university students grow up and become teachers, bureaucrats, lawyers and judges. This is your ruling class now.

If it seems as if open borders people seem to get off on disharmony and anarchy, it’s because some do:

@jofjltn4 @giles_will3785 @ianmiles I don’t think the British have a right to speech like Americans.

@giles_will3785 @ianmiles If your rights are entirely dependent on their timing and if they might offend… …then those aren’t truly rights.

You’re allowed to wave Hamas flags. Hezbollah flags. Flags of the USSR. IRGC flags. ISIS flags. Gay pride flags. But don’t you dare wave the British flag or a police officer will confiscate it and arrest you for incitement and racism. Welcome to the UK.

@thestustustudio “What does this have to do with teaching?” “What?” “Teaching. What does any of this have to do with teaching?” “Teaching? What the hell are you talking about?”

🚨 Randi Weingarten at the No Kings rally in Minneapolis claims Melania is “trying to replace teachers with robots,” then turns to something more concrete: strongarming Target. Weingarten says “America’s educators will shop elsewhere” for back-to-school season because Target “refuses to stand up to ICE.” The robot line sounds alarmist, but the Target pressure campaign is very real. AFT has already threatened to steer members away from Target over ICE. If you’ve followed my reporting, you saw this coming months ago.