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@carter6f Casting requirements for the next James Bond be like:

Aaron Rose Philip arriving at the Met Gala ✨ First Black transgender woman with quadriplegic cerebral palsy signed to a major agency… breaking barriers with every step This is what real representation looks like 💫 #Metgala

@southernstonerd @martianwyrdlord Says this while puffing on a Yoda bong...

@martianwyrdlord @districtaffairs Not when Gen Z exists

He's right that people don't dance anymore. This isn't that recent. Like fifteen years ago I started noticing that millennials were especially stiff and awkward when they danced. They danced like someone was watching, because of course someone was. My gf at the time scoffed when I observed that her generation had internalized the police state, considering this an aspersion upon her cursed generation, but I think I've been vindicated. The fix is simple: prohibit phones in bars and nightclubs. Bouncers should confiscate them at the door, and anyone caught smuggling one in should be kicked out. Not only would this turn the club into an unsurveilled blank space, it would also force people to talk to one another. Clubs that do this will be very popular.

@plzbepatient Not to mention it's a joke that more than like 10% of the popualiton needs to be or even has the capacity to have a "rich ethical and intellectual life"

Every millennial was sold college as a vocational school. I think I would agree that is not the real intention of college, but that’s what it’s become, that’s what all the trillions of dollars in subsidized student loans were built around, and that has to end if we admit to this

@BernieGoetz4 @Devon_Eriksen_ Would rather hang out w those types than larpers like you that want to think they're elite and smarter than they really are

@districtaffairs @Devon_Eriksen_ Can't be as bad as spending your early-20's surrounded by lower class blue collar and military types.

People romanticize college because for four years of their lives they: 1. Had all the rights of adults but none of the responsibilities. 2. Lived in a closed community with sealed borders that kept out low IQs and anti-socials. 3. Were young, energetic, healthy, and attractive. 4. Were thrown together with a bunch of similar people who had no predefined power- or need-based relationship with them, which is how friendships form. This last is the important one, especially as fertility rates decline. People with children transition to making friends with other parents of children in the same age group, because events and networks centered around those children throw them together with other parents in the same way. But childless people have few or no opportunities to make friends after college. So they are left with a slow dwindling circle of college based relationships, remembering the days when it was all easy, and they weren't so isolated, and they didn't have to work so hard. Couple that with having to complete with infinity immigrants in the job market, so they can pay taxes to support infinity boomers and government bureaucrats, while being passed over for the best jobs and careers in favor of infinity DEI incompetents, who they also have to support... Well, for a lot of people born into what was once the American middle class, college was their first and last experience of an adult life wherein they weren't being systematically and deliberately routed into the formation of a new underclass. A special form of underclass who are still expected to be productive enough to materially support all the non-producing people who were positioned as their social superiors despite being their intellectual inferiors. So, yeah, they wish they could go back to college. Is anyone surprised by this?

@Abuser_Eater @Devon_Eriksen_ Yes. Legacies, athletes, DEI etc. The fact you glaze Harvard so hard is cringe. This isn't the 19th c. Most the people there aren't aristocrats.

@districtaffairs @Devon_Eriksen_ That's about 1/6 of the entire population. Do you really think Harvard is choosing anyone below the top 1/6?

@Abuser_Eater @Devon_Eriksen_ It's hilarious you think it's all 115+ IQs even at "top" schools

@districtaffairs @Devon_Eriksen_ Assuming your school has 1200+ SAT, you aren't interacting with anyone below 115IQ. That's far different than high school where the vast majority are below this.

@Devon_Eriksen_ It's not exactly that selective or exclusive anymore. Most the people there are midwits or worse. Half of them are deranged leftists that are peak anti-social

@districtaffairs Yes. Not recently. I have little doubt that it's gotten worse.

@JohnSexton8676 @wil_da_beast630 They are that scarce. Like it or not, nerd, there are other qualities other than raw test scores that are indicative of brilliance and earn slots.

@districtaffairs @wil_da_beast630 Oh I got your point. My point, which you missed, is in fact they’re not “that” scarce. And test scores pretty much are the only objective criterion.

I mean, some of this does get wildly whiny. "I had to settle for Duke."

@JohnSexton8676 @wil_da_beast630 Test scores aren't the only legitimate criteria, aside from the DEI shit. But you missed my point, which is that the "elite" uni cartel uses artificial scarcity to prop up their brand.

@districtaffairs @wil_da_beast630 Approx. 15 to 20,000 people score a 1560 or higher on the SAT a year. There are roughly 30 to 35,000 freshmen spots at Ivy Plus colleges a year. All the people like him would get in if they only used test scores, with plenty of spots left over.

There's an unfortunate game theory to a large civilization in that it requires hard work, ethical behavior, and deferral of gratification to build. But then eventually people start to forget that and think "why would I work hard when theres all this stuff here already? I should just be hedonistic". Slowly, the civilization starts to decay causing it to take care of people less, which causes more people to defect ("why should I take care of a system that doesn't care for me? Especially when there's so much fun to be had by neglecting it"), until eventually it collapses because everyone has defected.

@ZubyMusic Basically all of conservatism is like this

The answers to many modern problems are simple but politically incorrect. So instead of solving anything, everybody pretends they don't know what's going on, and spend years misdiagnosing the issue, talking in circles, and wasting time.

@Brooklydamus @skumWgmi And in response they support unlimited deluge from the 3rd world further destroying their financial and economic postion. Makes sense.

@districtaffairs @skumWgmi Almost like events in 2001 and 2008 changed the trajectory of our lives and expectations

Something that breaks my heart as a Millennial is how fucking optimistic and fun our teenage years and 20s were. Like we envisioned a TOTALLY different world from the one that we've got and insanely divorced from what Gen-Z are experiencing. Its hard to put in words how fantastic we thought life was gonna be and how it seemed like we were making tangible social progress. We've had all of that ripped away from us.

@JC1010679150091 @skumWgmi He literally didn't. Lying dumbass

@districtaffairs @skumWgmi Well unfortunately he specifically mentioned childhood in his post.

Time to TRY, then CONVICT, and FRY James Comey for treason. No quarter!

Divorce lawyer James Sexton made a brutal point about modern marriage that still hits a year later. On Flagrant he said: the state will enforce everything a man is expected to bring — money, child support, protection — with court orders and jail if needed. But affection, intimacy, emotional warmth, and consistent co-parenting? Completely unenforceable. No judge can order it. One side of the marriage contract has the full power of the state behind it. The other side doesn’t. He argues we should be more honest about that imbalance instead of pretending it’s equal. Courts can even impute income based on what you used to earn, but they can’t force the human parts that actually make a relationship work. This matters because pretending the deal is symmetric creates unnecessary pain for everyone involved. Personally, I think facing these realities head-on is healthier than romanticizing the system. Clarity beats quiet resentment. What surprised you most about how marriage actually works under the law once kids and divorce enter the picture?

@HomericFuturist Idk they hand out "status" pretty freely if you're willing to debase yourself and jump through the right hoops. But I wouldn't say its worth much in that case.

Giving them status won’t solve anything because it’s fake They have to TAKE the status for it to be real