Kamala. Exit the echo chamber. Read the room. We need change, not a return to the status quo that gave us Trump 2.0. Don’t be an opportunist.

“She’s a movie star” yeah, we know. Lesbian stuff, right? How do you think Jeffrey found her for his boy Donny?

Well, that was an entirely unnecessary and lengthy correction to a mistake that was A) a typo I didn’t notice from using swipe on my phone keyboard, not a misunderstanding on grammar, and B) not an error that rendered my comment confusing or indecipherable requiring your clarification. But thank you for your (air quotes) help. I really hope that you’re a bot, not a person this annoying or one who writes that way.

“Wrong username. Correct password.”

“Uh… who’s password?”

I certainly wasn’t saying that it isn’t a good option for some/most. It definitely can be. I’m saying that “just move” misses a lot of nuance, hurdles, pitfalls, and priorities. Like you said, you nearly ended up homeless. Even though you made it in the end, you were lucky you didn’t get stuck in that situation too.

And that advice ignores the runaway problems that causes the affordability crisis in the first place, the same problems that are going to happen in places that are currently more affordable too. It is a short term solution for yourself to move. But when those problems catch up to you or your kids later, where are they going to go then? How long can the goal post keep moving before we stop it?

In what world do you think the general American public is in support of assassinating/couping the fucking Pope?

The fucking pudding brain in chief has surged 100s/1000s of the most villainous people in the country into positions of power faster that can even be coped with, and are doing everything in their power to end every semblance of decency, sensibility, and justice from our government. I was already mystified that Trump could possibly win again and terrified by what he would do with a second go at it. But even his first term didn’t prepare anyone for this shit. The evil bastard has accelerated the destruction of this country far faster than I could have even thought possible, and attempting to spread this destruction across the entire world. We’re drowning over here.

But glad you get to sit elsewhere and be a judgy bitch about my apparent complicity in this bullshit for not, I guess, protesting hard enough or getting myself killed?

It’s never for Ben himself, even if he did happen to somehow find this thread. He’s either a complete grifter that knows better or high on his own supply and has deluded himself about these things. Or both. Who it is for is the people that may see this as a “common sense” nugget of wisdom that may never examine it critically or those who are fed up with these over simplified “solutions” to their problems and just need to see that others aren’t taking this reversal of blame from systems and authority onto the individuals stuck under them without push back.

It doesn’t feel wrong to come to the conclusion that “if things are too hard to get by here and they are easier over there, then you should go over there.” That sounds entirely reasonable, because if the problem were that simple, it would be. But the problem just isn’t that simple and pretending it is is the grift. That’s why folksy wisdom like this is so rarely related to reality. Life is layered and messy and complicated and FUCKING EXPENSIVE. No solution in the real world is simple, and even less so when you are broke.

Yeah there is also the consideration that many that live in metro areas get by without a car, and are less likely to own a car or even have a driver’s license. Without reliable or even existent public transport in their new home, where a car is a basic necessity, that is another massive financial hurdle and even a skill/paperwork hurdle to make living there viable.

For context, he was speaking about living in expensive metropolitan cities, suggesting people move into less expensive places within the US, like the interior states. Ben says enough stupid shit to mock without isolating a quote from context to make it seem like he said/meant something else entirely.

Hell, there’s plenty to push back on with this quote and argument even understanding what he actually meant. “Just move somewhere cheaper”. Like that’s a much easier thing to say than do.

1. If you’re unable to afford living where you are, then you’re probably going to struggle to afford the costs of moving. Then there’s the logistics of finding work and housing wherever you move to from another state. If you don’t have money to coast on for temporary housing, gas and food, you either need a company willing to hire you and provide you assistance to move or a personal connection in the area that’ll let you crash on their couch.

2. Your field of work may just not exist in Guthrie, Oklahoma, or wherever. Leaving metro areas may mean changing careers. And those careers may not pay anywhere near as much either. Your costs may go down, but your wages might go with it.

3. Leaving your home city means leaving all of your support structures. Your parents, siblings, friends, peers, etc. Some people may really depend on those. Or maybe sometime depends on you specifically. Maybe your mom isn’t healthy? Maybe you have a sister dealing with addiction? Maybe they need your presence to ensure their care.

4. There are political, legal, and health considerations in changing states. Do you have an active sex life and don’t want to be afraid that you’ll die from an unaborted ectopic pregnancy? Have a trans child? Are you not white? Then you may be more limited in suitable places to live outside of metropolitan city.

5. This sidesteps the actual problem here, the why of it all. Why they can’t afford to live in the city they grew up in. Why is pay so bad? Why is housing so expensive? Why are groceries so expensive? But no, no. We can’t question or address those things. That’s just business baby. Free market capitalism at work. Let it ride, unregulated. Just move your ass out of the way to Hastings, Nebraska or some shit.

There’s a very important distinction between a pedophile and a child abuser. The former is an affliction, the latter is a choice.

That goes for pedophilia too. They don’t choose it. Doesn’t mean it should be acted upon when you’re attraction is inherently dangerous or immoral. They should seek counseling to try to prevent acting out their urges. Wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Of course you do. Someone can be attracted to unhealthy things and have to deal with that too. Like scat for example. They can can even be attracted to blatantly dangerous or immoral things, like necrophilia or pedophila. They should seek counseling to make sure they can control those urges.

“Everyone in town knows crazy Craig. He sends ChatGPT dick pics.”

There’s a reason the whole “I hope this doesn’t awaken something in me,” joke exists. You don’t decide what you find attractive. You discover it. There’s no choice in the matter.

So the valid observation is this: Countries started using green energy as a supplement and replacement to fossil fuels, and as fossil fuels are being phased out for any number of good reasons, those counties also started moving away from fossil fuel collection and stockpiling. But because they weren’t yet entirely free of the need for fossil fuels yet, cutting off those fuels left them with an energy deficit.

The bad take: The move towards green energy made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should go back to funding the fossil fuels industry as soon as possible.

The correct take: The continued reliance on fossil fuels made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should rid ourselves of that reliance as soon as possible.

A county that runs entirely on non-fossil fuel energy, on solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, even nuclear, doesn’t have to worry if the flow of oil is open or not. Ever. Your infrastructure would have to be attacked directly (like the war crime Trump threatened) to cut you off at that point. That’s about as invulnerable as you could hope for.

If you are in a comparative religions class or an ancient literature/mythology class and also reading passages from the Torah, Quran, Toa Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, the teachings of Buddha, etc. for comparison, by all means, read the Bible. If you are just reading the Bible under a pretense to push Christianity onto students, push the law to its bounds and normalize indoctrination (and we know you are), then fuck all the way off.

This is what some people don’t get. Being privileged isn’t inherently bad. It’s not a choice you made, it’s the circumstances of your birth and upbringing. The problems start when you deny your privilege and how it has effected your life, when you argue that your privilege is actually proof that you’re better, when you think you should be given more privilege as a result, when you expect others to compete against what is a given for you, etc.

You know what isn’t a problem with privilege? Using that privilege to project the voices of the un-privileged. Speaking truth to power. Using your famous name to boost a worthy cause. Putting your self in harms way so that the same abuse that would have happened to someone else without media focus can’t be ignored. Standing up against villains, setting an example, and calling those in authority to action.

Anyone trying to reduce what this girl has done to rich white girl privilege needs to go brush your teeth. Your breath smells like bullshit.

You’re not the first, and you we’re the last.

Huh. Weird. Turns out when you show a demented willingness to cause mass genocide, people might get the impression that negotiations aren’t really an option anymore.

The Daily Wire is a right wing propaganda media company attempting to push back on the “liberal bias” in Hollywood by producing terrible films that align with their politics. Jonathon Major’s was blacklisted in Hollywood, which of course means he is a political refugee unjustifiably targetted by the left. Nevermind he was blacklisted for being accused of (and then convicted in court of) beating his girlfriend which one might think was an apolitical decision. But apparently that’s A-OK to right wing propagandizers.