Memeday: “You got your racism on my Men’s Rights Activism…”

@ paradoxy

spend upwards of ten times that much on a purse

I was actually chatting last week to the tanner who provides the leather for LV handbags. It is the finest leather in the world, but you might be amazed at how much it actually costs per bag.

(Or maybe not, I’m sure you know how Veblen goods works)

The comments were still full of people whining about how totally unfair it is that homeless people might get free housing when the rest of us have to pay for ours.

Well, I could just become destitute, and then get free housing! I don’t see any downsides. Other than losing basically all of the conveniences and comforts that my current income provides. And becoming the target of the ire of middle-to-upper class shitheads who will wish suffering on me. Sounds like a dream life.

There’s also the fact that toys, clothes, and electronic goods are relatively cheap thanks to globalization, while the things that can help people climb out of poverty, like education, childcare, and health care, have skyrocketed in cost. This graph illustrates just how much costs have diverged over the past decade:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/Screen%20Shot%202014-05-01%20at%202.38.45%20PM.png

Sure, poor people can afford a microwave, but they can’t afford to send their kids to college, or find quality child care, or get needed medical attention for a sick child. Upward mobility is more about access to institutions than it is about material possessions. There are blue-collar workers who spend thousands of dollars on top-of-the-line snowmobiles and boats, and there are millionaires who drive beater cars and wear threadbare clothes.

I also don’t understand why people focus so much on steak as a symbol of welfare fraud. Steak isn’t necessarily expensive depending on the cut you get. Flank steak can feed a family pretty cheaply. I really dislike the way finger-wagging right wing moralists think poor people don’t deserve decent food and that living exclusively on lentils and rice is a sign of financial discipline. (Their daily $5 Starbucks coffees, of course, are beyond reproach.)

On a side note, I’m amused that the kid who went to college and learned to hate his race, faith, and heritage is wearing a UNH sweatshirt.*

*For non-USians, University of New Hampshire is a state school in one of the most conservative states in the northeastern US. State motto: “Live Free or Die”

Malcolm Gladwell did a study that found in certain cases it’s cheaper for taxpayers to subsidize housing than to let that person be homeless.
It was called Million Dollar Murray, if anyone wants to look into it.

@Buttercup Q. Skullpants:

There’s also the fact that toys, clothes, and electronic goods are relatively cheap thanks to globalization, while the things that can help people climb out of poverty, like education, childcare, and health care, have skyrocketed in cost.

Wow. That’s… incredibly depressing. How could people insist that capitalism is the solution to poverty in light of something like that?

weirwoodtreehugger | January 29, 2016 at 7:09 pm
I just hate the mentality that poor people are poor because they’re immoral and lazy, and that the only thing stopping them from bootstrapping is that they like to rely on handouts.

The research on how poverty effects people says just the opposite. That scarcity makes people have to expend all their mental energy on scraping by. You want people to put in lots of time and energy on job hunting and education? Give them enough aid so they don’t have spend all their energy figuring out how to jump through the bureaucratic hoops in order to get amounts of aid that are so small that obsessive penny pinching is still required.

This is a pretty good summary of the current psychological research on the matter http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2015/september-15/how-poverty-affects-the-brain-and-behavior.html

I have to say, this entire post is spot on. Very well said.

And thanks for linking that study. I am well aware of the mental effects that being poor has on people (first-hand experience), and the idea that “Well, just focus on your job search and quit whining about bills, lazy scum” from people who have most likely never worked that hard a day in their life is just a slap in the face.

At least when that comes up in the future, I have a link.

Not that this will get through to the bootstrapping brigade. I read a story on how giving homeless people homes actually costs the government less money than all the various costs associated with homelessness does. The comments were still full of people whining about how totally unfair it is that homeless people might get free housing when the rest of us have to pay for ours. The money spent on social safety nets is no more the point than opposing welfare programs than journalistic ethics is the point of gamergate.

I think there’s this misconception they have that all the houses that the homeless people are going to get are going to be just as good, if not better, than theirs, and that gets their dander up.

What they don’t understand is that those houses are more than likely going to be bare minimum, most likely unfurnished, tiny apartments, not super fancy Cribs-style mansions.

Buttercup Q. Skullpants | January 29, 2016 at 8:00 pm
There’s also the fact that toys, clothes, and electronic goods are relatively cheap thanks to globalization, while the things that can help people climb out of poverty, like education, childcare, and health care, have skyrocketed in cost. ” rel=”nofollow”>This graph illustrates just how much costs have diverged over the past decade.

I’ve seen that graph:

http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2014/05/poorcosts.png

Here’s where I’ve found it if anyone wants to take a look at the article.

From what I understand the amount a vagina stretches during and after childbirth is genetic, women who have wider hips have an easier time “snapping back” so to speak, while women with a narrower pelvic floor(or whatever it’s called) may not. It’s actually an evolution thing, birth became harder for humans when they gained the ability to walk upright.

It seems to me like the people who create these memes have never spent more than five minutes looking after a child. Children are like terrible puppies that can open doors and locks, love how these losers breeze over it like it’s so easy being a single parent. Even with the minute amount of child support they get from these deadbeats.

Dreadnought OR Koreans are planning to brainwash white women with the influx of their adorable, adorable skin care and cosmetics. TONYMOLY FTW

Once upon a time, I, a (dirty) foreigner, “stole” a White American Woman TM. I haven’t received any abuse at all in retaliation for this. Is it because:

a) I’m white?
b) she’s arguably somewhat hispanic?
c) they didn’t come up with a conspiracy theory for this scenario yet?
d) something to do with cuck?

@Username Subject to Change

Exactly! I mean Paul Elam makes thousands off his site, the very least he can do is provide new racist memes for his audience to get enraged over instead of rehashing the same narrative. I mean, it’s 2016 not the 18th century.

people couldn’t go two weeks? damn and my show called for six months

Dreadnought,
I think that it’s because stereotypes of East Asian man don’t threaten their fragile masculinity. Traits like nerdy, small penis, polite, and small in stature, unpopular with women. And of course in the manosphere, all racial stereotypes are unassailable truths.

Stereotypes of black men, and on the hand, are really threatening. Big penis, tall and athletic, tough and thuggish, popular with women.

That’s my take anyway. Everything boils down to sexual conquests and dominance with them. They just don’t see East Asian men as threats in that department.

Of course, I would “cuck” racist, misogynist manospherian asshats with Lee Byung-hun any time. I’m a misanderer like that.