“Front Row” doesn’t mean “The Popular Cool Kids Who All Uniformly Like Each Other”, tho’.
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Replying to @TamSlick
it kinda does, tho I mean, yes, obviously you're exaggerating "who all like each other". It DOES mean people who fit in, who understand and reflect the cultural norms, who drift to the institutions that have power and authority
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Replying to @MorlockP
Bubba who lettered in football, went to State College, owns a landscaping company, and lets his crew leads snort blow off the vanity in his McMansion at the company Christmas Party is not “Front Row” except in the minds of angry former nerds.
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Landscaping companies have power and authority? Huh. Here I thought they just had guys they pay cash under the table.
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@tr0g Who said they did? You?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
"Jocks who dissed me" this is so unrelated to anything I said, and almost designed to misunderstand / strawman my positions that it seems fruitless to engage any further
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This is fair. That was, slightly hyperbolically, how I parsed what you'd written, so we are probably entirely talking past each other.
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gosh THAT has never happened before!
to clarify my earlier point / engage with yours: I actively champion the kind of hard-working jock / meat head / whatever, and sing the praises of the plumber with four trucks and crews.
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to be talking about. The topic is not material success, but socio/cultural engagement and success. The hard worker with a lot of landscape crews is shat upon by the cultural elites. He expresses an opinion to a CNN reporter and he gets doxed and harmed. The elites push >
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policies that tax his trucks and make his two stroke brush trimmers illegal, etc. The folks who vote for this sort of thing are the Arlington MA / Brooklyn / etc NPR listening folks. They are engaged, they are listened to, they feel connected to the oversociety ...
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