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Stop the cap. I just got home from a 48 hour shift and you didn't make me dinner, you [ __ ]
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[ __ ] You better start making you [ __ ] dinner. When I get home, son, you don't get a [ __ ] pass just
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because you're four years old. Don't know how to cook. You better [ __ ] start crying. Never mind your next time.
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Got to someday, kid. Welcome to the real [ __ ] world. I'm sick and [ __ ] tired of you, [ __ ] I'm tired of you.
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I'm tired of this goddamn kid. I'm tired of your goddamn show I watch. All you [ __ ] do is spend my money. You
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[ __ ] go and do whatever the [ __ ] you want with my hardearned money. I [ __ ]
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bleed. I piss. I come. I'm [ __ ] working. And I [ __ ] You [ __ ] spend all my [ __ ] money. The [ __ ] are you
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looking at, Timmy? My [ __ ] back hurts. Give me a [ __ ] massage, you
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[ __ ] [ __ ] I [ __ ] hate my life. Every day on this earth feels like I'm a goddamn fly trained in some damn
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molasses. I feel [ __ ] stuck and I got [ __ ] work in the morning. I can't even [ __ ] afford gas to get there,
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[ __ ] And I work so hard for you too cuz I [ __ ] love you too. I [ __ ] love you too. But apparently you
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two can't [ __ ] say that. Let me [ __ ] remind you that these [ __ ] liberals, they don't want to [ __ ]
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work. Why? Why don't you want to [ __ ] work? I [ __ ] work. Why don't you want to [ __ ] work? I'm 20 [ __ ] years
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old and I know how to [ __ ] work. And some of these [ __ ] adults don't know how to [ __ ] work these [ __ ]
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Democrats. I'm [ __ ] tired. I'm [ __ ] tired. I've been thinking this for quite some
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time, you know, with all the uh racist rhetoric
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ever since like uh Charlie Kirk's uh assassination,
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right? And and I've been I've been thinking this [ __ ] for a while. I've I've had these thoughts for a while about
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workingclass white men and particularly the lower workingclass white men. I was just listening to Legion of Men. I don't
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even know why I still listen to them. Probably because again, I want to keep my ears to the streets of what the white
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boys are saying. So, I already know there's going to be dog whistles and a bunch of [ __ ] and
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[ __ ] and, you know, classically misdiagnosing the problem. You know, in
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some regards, there's certain things that are a little bit better. Um,
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but but they're still kind of off. And some of it has to do with like trying to
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preserve the idea of whiteness or the idea of what it is to be a white male.
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like black people like black people are so past that delusion it's not even funny you know I mean when you're at the
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bottom right because America is a is a white supremacist country but when you're at the bottom you kind of like
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you can see the whole mountain from the bottom of the mountain people who are higher up on the mountain they don't
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really see the the the the like like how big the mountain actually is they don't
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see it you know like the people especially when you get into the white people that are the upper classes is
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they're so far removed from the problems and the day-to-day things, you know what I mean? Like they they really have no
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grasp of what's really going on, right? This goes back to the whole how much does it cost to be you? You know what I
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mean? Like how much does it cost to be you? How much does it cost, you know, to to like if your parents bought you your
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first vehicle, right? those people who live in the I'd say upper middle class and above,
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you know, people that I went to school with, you know, people who uh uh uh, you
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know, were were privileged. Like I was, you know, my parents were working professionals, but you had people whose
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parents they had businesses. I remember there was one guy, you know, his dad owned several of the the the like the
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big uh shipping container ships and whatnot, you know what I mean? So he was
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transporting goods around the globe, you know, from like China to Dubai and stuff
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like that and he would be gone like 6 months out of the year balling out of control. Like I like I think his dad
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made like $20 million a year. It was something stupid. Just I mean just crazy privileged, right? you know, and so a
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lot of people um you know, um like you could be at the
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bottom rung of the so-called upper class, but you get to you get to see, you know, like what's going on uh just
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with the upper classes. But if you have proximity to the lower classes, then you get to see, you know, the the reality,
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you know, you're you're touching grass, you know, so to speak. It's a very interesting
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uh it's a very interesting position to grow up in, you know, when you have working professional parents. Um, but
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I've always felt that cuz it's always it's always kind of [ __ ] people up. It's like like like growing up and you
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know you live in this white supremist society and you know my parents right they they
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they got through the cracks right got their education you know when when the
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civil rights movement you know um I want to say the end of the civil rights movement but there were doors that were
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opened up and my my parents scrambled to get through those doors you know before they were closed once again, which is
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why, you know, I ended up growing up the way that I did, which kind of, you know, it it it [ __ ] with a lot of white
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people that I grew up around, you know, because it was just kind of like I was I was the one black kid. There was maybe
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like two or three of us, you know, whose parents were that first wave of people
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who got, you know, who got the scholarship, who got to go to college, who, you know, the whole, you know, you
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have to open up the doors, you know, for black people during the the civil rights
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movement because, again, that goes back to the Kerner Commission and the whole, you know, there's two Americas and, you
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know, when you have, you know, just black people just disproportionately locked out of the system. They don't give a [ __ ] about the system. They'll
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burn the [ __ ] down. Cities were burning down all across America, you know, until, you know, the white people that
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were in positions of power had to make some concessions and that's what was done. And my parents benefited from
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those concessions that were made and then you know over time they have slowly you know uh closed the door on those
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concessions as I just you know previously said and you know as you see like with all the you know the stuff
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that Trump is doing oh we're going to peel back this we're going to we're going to take away the the voting rights act and all this you know all that
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stuff. So they're so they're peeling it away which is only going to lead to more
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uh uh uh you know civil you know upheaval, right? But the thing is is
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white people got a lot of delusion going about themselves because the workingclass white people like they've
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really been ignored, right? Like so black people didn't have anything at all. Black people crashed out in the
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60s, right? White people made, you know, concessions, right? And then and then
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you know uh uh black people you know some black people were able to do a little bit better and there be some sort
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of you know parody between white folks and black folks you know even though in large part it was mostly tokenism.
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But when it comes to the white people, like if you look at the timeline in the white people, right? Like white people
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like peaked in the 50s is why they always like, "Oh, make America great again." PostWorld War II economy. Then
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came de-industrialization, right? Jobs going overseas, going to China, building up China, right? Because
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the capitalists, they wanted more of a return on their investment. They're like, "Why am I paying you these pensions? Why am I paying you these
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benefits? Why am I paying you all this shyt?" Right? And so the white people, they didn't pay attention to that. So
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now, you know, the reason why there's all this attack on ideas of equity and inclusion and DEI and everything else is
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because the white men in particular, they're hurting economically. They're
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hurting. They're still better off collectively, but the but the the problem is you have a a a growing mass
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in particularly of young men that they got nothing going on. They got no
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motion, you know, so they're pissed. But this is what I see with the with the poor and working-class white men and
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again listening to Legion of Men talking about how he grew up in this lower economic socioeconomic neighborhood. It
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was a lower working class neighborhood as he described it. And now he says, "Oh, it's just total [ __ ] now." And
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there were somebody who bought the houses for they bought a house for $20,000. So $20,000 for a house, you
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know, those sound like Detroit numbers. You know, I can't tell you what exact year Detroit Helms were about $20,000,
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but they they sound like Detroit numbers. I'm like, $20,000? Asian dude comes through and buys the property for
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$20,000 cuz he's got the capital to do it. So, I'm like, okay, so this is a lower workingass family. And again, the
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guy that I talk about, the white guy that I always talk about, he came from such a family, you know, and there's a
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really [ __ ] up thing about coming from a lower white workingclass family. First off, your parents have no education.
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They don't really know [ __ ] from piss. They don't know how the world works, you know what I mean? They kind they have
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that that bluecollar worker mentality, you know, and then
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they they get a sense of pride because they're better than the [ __ ] you know, type of [ __ ] right? you know,
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these are like uh uh um you know, you're you're just you're just you know, the guys that you know, bad I'd say I don't
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want to say like garbage men or anything like that because actually a lot of them make good money now. But I'm saying
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before some of the significant changes were made where they were making good money, you know, I mean guys who just
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kind of, you know, maybe they worked for the city or something like that, sanitation, something like back in the
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day when they they just, you know, they had a job, it was kind of hands-on, you know, those guys, you know, you know,
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the type of I don't want to say Archie Bunker, but they're just they just their
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whole worldview is just it's so basic and They spill a lot of that onto their
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kids, which is why you get a Legion of Men type of
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thinking person, right? Where they got to they got they like they look at it like everything is everything is just
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kind of like they look at it from like this moment in time right now. They don't put anything in context. They
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don't look at any sort of historical context. Nothing. They look at it like, you know, oh, I'm an Irish. my parent,
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my grandfather came here as an immigrant and we worked hard and we go to church and we go to the Catholic church and you
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know like all that [ __ ] like has nothing like they're they don't get that they're that they're at the bottom rung
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of of white society. They don't get that, right? And then and then they buy
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into all of the the things that allow these poor workingass immigrant type of,
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you know, first generation, you know, type of people. My grandfather came here from Ireland, you know, those [ __ ]
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white people, right? And they freaking they they buy into all this [ __ ] of
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okay now now they're made Americans and then they believe like we have the morals we we we go to church we go to we
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we we go to confession you know they they have this sort of idea and they they literally think that everything is
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about being a [ __ ] Christian or being a Catholic and and then they'll they'll like point like oh the reason why the
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world is collapsing is because the rapture is coming and oh the reason why the world is collapsing is because of
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degeneracy and [ __ ] like that. And then you sprinkle the white privilege on top of that, right? They don't really get to
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exist in white privilege. It's really like it's really, you know, they want
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they they they want the status, you know, of it. They always have to see themselves as being better. Like the
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black people are [ __ ] on. The society was set up to [ __ ] up on black people. So, as long as they're ahead of black
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people, they think that they're doing well, right? And then if black people exceed them, right, in any capacity,
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however it may be, again, black people been here longer than they've been here. The Irish people, the vast majority of
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them didn't come to America, you know, they came here between the 1880s.
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No, excuse me, the I think the 1860s, 1840s, maybe at the earliest, and and
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till the 1920s. Black people been here since the 1600s. You know what I'm saying? So, so they come here, they they
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