IDK. I just don't find the joke funny.

wearing the disguise of some shitkicker town aesthetic

People don't even look like that in those places. They look like the people on King of the Hill, or Trailer Park Boys.

True, I am the product of small-town living.

Place I was born & grew up in has ~10k people in it altogether, and it's still the biggest town for about an hour's drive in any direction.

I really like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18B9F132DFD967A3

Damn, congratulations. 👏

What the hell is a "One Day Chip"?

Honestly that byline (or whatever it's called) is kinda just sad.

Mainly cause of the reality of how ineffectual US left is.

For the record I support drug legalisation, but I don’t support the kind of economic apartheid of one rule for the rich and another for everyone else.

No, see, Hunter Biden is based because he's rich & can do whatever he wants, and makes chuds mad when doing so. If you're broke & never get to have any fun, you just need to learn that that's your lot in life & deal with it, or kill yourself.

Intervene!

If you can't run a courier service and make a profit without slave conditions, then maybe courier services should just be a public good unconcerned with profit

The issue is that they can do that, but they won't make the most profit doing that; which means that investors will seek to abandon the company. The issue is of course systemic, and intrinsic to Capitalism as a mode of production.

That was a real guy though, wasn't it?

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I never understood this aggressive masculinity thing. Is it a modern, consumerist invention?

IMO; it's a consequence of the development of class society out of primitive agrarianism, and specifically, pre-gunpowder methods of conflict. When the most reliable way to stay alive in a given conflict is to be the last to back down from it (most casualties in warfare prior to gunpowder were almost always inflicted during a rout), then that's inherently going to select for people who are unusually aggressive.

Coming from an East Asian culture, many of the Casanovas in East Asian literature (Dream of the Red Chamber, The Tale of Genji etc.) are feminine, soft-spoken men that get laid all the time. They’re not depicted as weak or coward at all, but actually quite bold and know how to take charge when needed.

That falls within the context & confines of aggressive masculinity, or at the very least "Masculine Hyper-aggression". Yeah, a lot of classical heroes, be they Eastern or Western had what we today would consider "feminine presentation", but those weren't understood as being feminine back then, and nearly all of them were some combination of psychotically violent & relentlessly self-interested.

Same

I beat the male allegations by becoming a weeaboo instead.

That one can go either way tbh; but I am glad that you fell on the side of the divide that you wanted to.

I couldn't sleep on that, I would boil.

TBH, this is true of me as well (maybe not to the same degree as the person you were talking about, but I can relate to it is my point). I was living with my mom until last December, and from the time that I graduated high school until I was about 28-29, I had always been either long-term unemployed, underemployed, & working for minimum wage.

My apartment looked pretty similar to this (and tbh is still pretty sparse, although now I have an actual bed), when I first moved into it.

Should add the word "slur" to the slur filter.

Some kinda green-bean casserole.