rant · moment 15 of 15
The American Dream Is Dead: White Men Need to Shut Up
from Alt Ass Eating · #57
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3 minTim delivers a rant arguing the American Dream died after WWII pensions made people soft, that white men complaining about being oppressed need to get over it, and jokes about opening Aaron Carter's asshole with a barbecue rib at a picnic as a bizarre callback.
- 1:08:51The American dream is the biggest lie—people think they pulled themselves up by bootstraps, but after World War II, America became a nation of slobs living off pensions and secure jobs.
- 1:09:11Tim argues the problem is that post-war Americans had it cushy with eight-hour jobs and retirement at 55, which was unsustainable.
- 1:09:48White men complaining about their lost cushy jobs need to stop blaming Black people, Mexicans, and Jews for their own failures.
- 1:10:08No one is oppressing white men—they have it fine and should shut up and get a job instead of whining.
- 1:10:39Women and minorities faced actual oppression over decades while white men just played golf, and now whining about a correction being sloppy is pathetic.
- 1:11:21Market corrections get messy, and if some white people get left out of the best stuff at the picnic in the grand scheme of things, that's acceptable.