Yep. The only people I know that use that term today as a descriptor and not an epithet are conservative Jewish families who are typically rich. To put it in your reddit dot com user name is literally just signaling privilege among what is a essentially just a pool of NYC/Westchester County/Fairfield County Jews that understands it.

Here’s a “gift article” as the NYT calls it:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/13/opinion/focusgroup-young-undecided-voters.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.BAmP.TisBcJ4rM7p5

This article should be the coffin nail for people thinking the kids are gonna save us. I screenshotted this as I read yesterday. Also I swear to god the casting call for this focus group had a question about how much you love Josh Shapiro that NYT filtered everyone out on.

Here are my favorites:

Some of the few good points:

The liberal ad campaign is grating:

“Amazing” zoomer media criticism:

Young undecided voters are just a reddit comment section:

The dumbest white woman you know:

Megyn Kelly style women are the most oppressed people in America:

I’ll add more later when the rate limit on uploads resets. There’s some more amazing garbage in there.

As a Jew whenever you see someone self describe as a JAP prepare to hear the most insane self absorbed privileged idiocy spouted at you until you simply give up.

You’re talking from a relative position of understanding of these concepts. You’re not talking from a blank slate. Even in professional environments that I’ve been in where everyone went to college and theoretically is fully literate, you would have trouble getting people to retain these concepts even if you used friendlier technical language. You’re overestimating the amount of time it takes to actually achieve understanding, there are people on this site that constantly mix up these words and concepts, have a hard time applying them to the real world and misapply them regularly and are self professed Marxists. You’re also mistaking cultural policing of agreeing/using these concepts for understanding of them. Just think about how many people in America agree with capitalism but can’t adequately explain what capitalism is. They agree with freedom but don’t have a working definition or framework of what freedom means. On a societal level this often becomes bromides. My parents and grandparents read Marx in school but couldn’t give you an accurate basic run down of Marxist concepts.

Marxism isn’t some magical thing. There were plenty of people in the USSR that also didn’t understand the system they existed under and it’s concepts but reflexively or sheepishly agreed with it.

The one thing Gaetz is good at is knowing how to break the law and get away with it. He defeated the FBI probe simply by picking targets and collaborators that would be difficult to use for prosecutors. This is because prosecutors now typically rise to their position involved using the weight of the state to roll over people who didnt know how to do crime. It’s all a numbers game to prosecutors so they don’t have enough experience dealing with the politics of criminal court, plus the fact that anyone who understands how the system works can simply set up their crimes in a way that benefits them in open court.

The sad reality is prosecutors look for perfect victims which allows imperfect victims who are often actually more vulnerable people in society to be abused at greater rates.

Remember how Democrats can’t figure out why people think that rich and connected people can get away with breaking the law? They just have to look at the failure of the Biden DOJ.

It’s antisemitic to talk about how Israel developed its nuclear capacity.

BECAUSE CHEETO WORSE

Trump is such a weather vane that this statement literally means nothing until it actually happens. Biden actually did it. Trump just talks shit. Trump talks about a lot of different shit. Remember how he was supposed to build a wall? Remember how Harris gloated about how the Biden admin had to actually build that wall in some areas?

Trumps incompetency is literally the biggest reason that people shouldn’t forgive Democrats from taking on his positions. They actually did these things in a competent way. Trump fumbled the bag. That actually makes him better on these points.

Denis Prager was one of the advocates of the immigration regime in the 60’s (first Soviet aliyah) and late 80’s early 90’s (second Soviet aliyah) that allowed Jews from the Soviet Union to apply for asylum to the United States. The second Soviet aliyah was based on the idea that violent/systemic antisemitism was drastically increasing after the fall of the Soviet Union. Something that didn’t actually happen when revisited by scholars decades later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Struggle_for_Soviet_Jewry

If he dies, I’ll be excited to piss on the grave of the man who was ultimately responsible for my ability to emigrate to the US from Post-Soviet Ukraine.

Audiobooks aren’t really a good solution to be honest. Reading / writing literacy are the basis of scholarship. We have centuries of research and examples that we’ve turned our back on that efficient learning happens only when you can unlock good literacy skills. Specifically the aspect of reading/physical writing/sublingualization is a cornerstone of comprehension of complex ideas. With something like Marxism that’s based on understanding both technical and archaic language and social constructs it becomes really hard. There are tons of self professed Marxists that couldn’t tell you what commodity fetishism actually means in simple terms.

Great example is the Communist Manifesto itself, meant to be a pamphlet for factory workers in the 19th century, but is typically a mildly difficult text to approach for the average person today.

Audiobooks can replace something like pleasure reading where you’re just reading pulp garbage, but they’re not really a good replacement for learning.

The parentposting is the worst with math.

My favorite flavor is the “THIS 5th GRADE HOMEWORK IS TOO HARD” when the adult clearly has never learned basic concepts like order of operations (PEMDAS) and cardinality of logic (e.g. how you solve sudoku where you order working through the solution always taking the smallest number of unknowns, first solve places where only one numbers missing until there are no first rank order problems, then move on to second rank order problems where two numbers are missing).

But there are definitely parents answering ‘she was looking for Romeo when she said “wherefore art thou Romeo?”’.

You can 100% see this degradation with adults in real time if you look at popular reality TV shows that have puzzle/knowledge/trivia components like Survivor and The Challenge and just binge watch the whole back catalog. You’ll see things getting harder until the game hits its stride and identity but then at one point just simpler and simpler and simpler.

Survivor is actually pretty bad now because the entire show started cheaping out and reusing things over and over again. So people just started 3d printing the puzzles and memorizing them. Literally No Reality TV Contestant Left Behind style pipeline. The other thing is that they completely devalued the actual survival aspects of the show, and it’s a game of attrition where it’s who can think straight on the lowest amount of calories. The only reason to know any actual survival skills on that show anymore is just in case of tie breakers where they have to make fire from flint.

Yeah because it’s primary research and this is a huge unaddressed and uncared about problem that’s only growing. The last National Assessment for Adult Literacy took place in 2003.

PIAAC (PROGRAM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF ADULT COMPETENCIES) which this is likely partially based on is typically who provides the survey data to these institutions.

Barbara Bush Foundation is another source that deals specifically with this.

A lot of this data is cobbled together because the government has practically defunded any studies of this issue. Literacy has effectively been taken for granted and hasn’t actually been upheld. Everyone in this space says more data is needed but isn’t optimistic that more data is going to paint a better picture of literacy (both in children and adults) in the US.

It’s not about serving assets it’s about hiding telemetry from adblockers, dns filters, ip lists, etc.

Almost every B2C company I’ve worked at, I’ve written or had my devs write proxies for whatever trackers we use. The reality is that every company to whom this data matters to figure out their business model will proxy their trackers. If they don’t they need to fire their lead engineers.

It’s actually pretty easy to disguise this traffic even to the point where you can use the originating server/cdn to interleave the tracking with the content source.

Most companies are incapable of actually building something this techical.

The community should knife each other in a more productive way, by designating official slurs with severity (e.g. gossip level 1 ) and designing charts and points systems for users that we can rank their posts on to see if they’re scored enough points to be able to use the slurs (e.g. you need 3 pro-women points to use gossip based on how many “yaas kweeens” category bromides your post contains).

At least the resulting outcomes would be funny and farcical on their face rather than fading into the ephemera of constant pointless struggle sessions for the self importance of 18-25 year olds. We’ll get some new emotes too. I’m old enough to have been on the great grand daddy of all knife fights at the height of it’s power, Shit Reddit Says. Beyond just dunking on people these communities always devolve into the same crap, dreaming up of new ways to perfect morality policing, while driving yourself into alienated rage spirals. Same thing happened with circlebroke/circlebroke2/gameofdolls.

Don’t go gently into that good night, create artifacts of your unhinged power.

Damn I wonder why there’s a real feeling out there that laws are applied unevenly depending on your wealth / social position. Can anyone help me figure out who’s causing this???

The programs you mention expiring along with COVID-era cash welfare, reversed the poverty/food security trend for 2 years and these Dem dipshits literally can’t figure out what’s going on.

The first question would be “why are you at this guy’s front door?”, she can’t answer that in any rational way. That’s the main problem. She literally has no business there in the most literal sense of the word, combined with the fact that Fuentes got doxxed online, and combined with the fact that this is likely not even the first person to try this shit. It’s very unlikely that he would get prosecuted.

The world in which Fuentes goes down for this, is the world where this can be weaponized against women by their stalkers.