Au contraire, it very much *does *address the claim. Because policy wonk work pays *much *better than being a cabbie. SlackInBrain, by his own words here, seems very invested in how much money his various occupations make. If just any smart cookie could be a policy wonk, why is he not doing that instead of being a cabbie? So :
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[li]He doesn’t really care about money (belied by his own pathetic boasting about earnings); OR[/li][li]He knows policy wonk work isn’t really something just any smarty can do; OR[/li][li]It is, but he *knows *he really isn’t as smart as he thinks he is, despite what his Klever Kids Klub tells him.[/li][/ol]
1 I’ve shown to be untrue already, 3 is contraindicated by his terminal case of D-K, so 2 must be it.
I bet he’s going to say there’s a 4th option, like he’s a “slacker”, but I put it to you, m’luds’nladies, does a “slacker” work 3 jobs?
No, he will say he would be BETTER at being a policy wonk than the current policy wonks, but dumb, near-sighted Democrats won’t hire him because they don’t know what’s in their best interest, as usual. And he pities us for it.
He’s what I’d call hybrid troll. Sometimes serious, sometimes yankin cranks because rather than admit that he’s wrong, he wants to double down in ways that enrage those who call him out. He gets to deflect attention away from his being wrong, thereby protecting his fragile ego, and succeeds in having everyone talking about what a douchebag he is. He’s okay with being a douchebag, but not having his ignorance exposed.
I don’t agree that he’s a troll. I think asahi is closer to the mark:
He strikes me as someone who’s proud of not toeing the line on political correctness, who sees himself as applying his incisive intellect to highlight ethical inconsistency, to voice uncomfortable truths when the facts just don’t conform to the liberal narrative. When in fact…
I think you are missing a critical part of what makes him so awful. He thinks he’s inherently super-special. He seems to especially like things that he didn’t work for, which is bizarre. He wants to pity people less lucky than he, and he chases that feeling like a drug:
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[li]He goes into circumcision threads to brag about his foreskin, and his superior jerking off experiences. He pities the poor cut men.[/li][li]He goes into race threads to brag about his superior Neanderthal genes. He pities the poor Africans, who are “normal” and lack his ubermench genetic advantage.[/li][li]He goes into Healthcare threads to brag about his superior insurance (that I assume he gets through his wife) and pities the poor suckers that don’t have his opportunities. [/li][li]He goes into abortion threads to brag about his gender privilege, basically: women need to just “suck it up” and give up reproductive rights, and he’s so sorry that that’s how it is, that they have to bear the burden, not him, but he can’t help it, he’s just lucky. He pities us.[/li][li]He goes into threads about books, movies, TV, etc., to brag about his superior taste, and how he alone can see what is quality and what is crap. He pities us who do not have his pure aesthetic insights.[/li][li]He goes into political threads to brag about his superior insight into how the world works, and pities the poor Democrats, who can’t see as clearly as he.[/li][/ul]
It’s always the same thing–he “get it” and the rest of us don’t, because we didn’t win the lottery. And he’s self-deprecating about his own smugness, because he thinks the smugness is the problem–but it’s not the smugness, it’s the fact that he’s laughably wrong about each of those things. He’s not living The Best Life while we are stuck with a faded copy. But he’s sure that he is.
Except, just to be clear for anyone who has not followed along, the claim that I am against abortion rights is very misleading. Like most Americans, I support restrictions on later term abortion. But if it were up to me, I would amend the Constitution to guarantee the right to abortion in the first trimester. I also support government funding for abortion for those who can’t afford it, and when the Trump administration recently cut off Planned Parenthood‘s funding, I went and gave them as much cash as I could afford (more than I could afford, really).
I see references like this in movies and stuff too, like a latte is seven bucks or whatever. If that’s really true in some places, those are some painfully high prices you are paying. At my local Starbucks, a tall latte is $2.95, and a venti is just over four bucks. Five bucks is enough for the biggest latte they serve, plus tax and a modest tip.
(Unless you are paying extra to get various sickly-sweet syrups squirted into your coffee, but that’s nasty.)
I pay 65¢ for a delicious tall iced cappuccino. (Once a week it’s on special — two tall cappuccinos for a dollar.)
This cappuccino must have a quadruple dose of caffeine or such. If I drink more than half I get heart palpitations. I’d suspect they’re spiking it with a stimulant except AFAIK caffeine is itself the least expensive stimulant.
I know people (friends and relatives) who have voted Republican their whole lives and consider themselves staunch conservatives, but they hold fewer far-right ideas than SlackerInc. I hope he lets that sink in.
I see references like this in movies and stuff too, like a latte is seven bucks or whatever. If that’s really true in some places, those are some painfully high prices you are paying. At my local Starbucks, a tall latte is $2.95, and a venti is just over four bucks. Five bucks is enough for the biggest latte they serve, plus tax and a modest tip.