Most NIMBYs are liberals, so that makes sense. Though some of the worst NIMBYs are on the right, absolute numbers matter; that 80%+ of NIMBYs lean left means that in blue cities, not a damn thing gets built.
Which might have an actual positive effect (not overall) in this way: the non-affluent are forced out and into swing states. And these people are more likely to vote Democrat.
That orphanage should not have attempted to join NATO. That was its mistake, you see.
Incels cause a lot of their own problems, but what creates a ton of incels is that young men get absolutely no sympathy (quite the opposite) for being lonely, confused and socially unskilled, while young women receive mostly sympathy and understanding for the same.
And that matters.
Does anyone else have a spouse who has that weird corporate mindset?
I had a girlfriend who thought the business she worked for saw her as family. But of course it did not. First, they cut her hours in half and then they laid her off.
Cured her of those misapprehensions right quick. I felt bad for her of course but everyone has to learn this lesson the hard way, I think.
A woman on Reddit (sorry, lost the comment) said a lot of women get tattoos to deliberately make themselves unattractive to men. And yeah, I guess I can kind of see that? Seems drastic but I know there is a lot of unwanted attention and harassment.
But that is hard to understand from a man’s perspective as most men spend vast amounts of time and money hoping for even a bare scrap of a woman’s attention for a fraction of a second.
So that is a vast difference. Seems unbridgeable sometimes, especially when you’re actively dating.
The short answer is MTV and emerging from a terrible recession.
The “Thriller” video came out in December of 1983. Michael Jackson, of course, was already extremely famous and had been since the late 1960s. He’d also had a string of hits before the video for “Thriller” was released.
At the time, it was the most money ever spent on a music video and it was much higher quality than any made prior. Off the back of a really punishing US recession, “Thriller” was something engaging, dumb and really fun put out by the most popular singer in the developed world.
For context, MTV played the “Thriller” vid about 30 times a day back then. It was not the first music video to have something of a plot, but it was the first to have a story that was engaging, made some sort of sense, and was also funny while being a bit scary at the same time. In other words, it hit a lot of notes other music vids did not. Hence, its staying power and why people still watch it today. And that it was a loving homage to horror certainly did not hurt.
To return to the recession and recovery theme, people needed something that was pure fun. Back in those days, we were allowed such things more so than now, where all must have a political dimension. “Thriller” was a distraction everyone could just enjoy without thinking about it too much.
It was a very different time and Taylor Swift, as famous as she is, is only a small fraction as well-known and worshipped as Michael Jackson was back then; the world is wider now and there are many more niches.
I’m reading 34 books right now. In the past, I’ve had many more going.
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Every job posting in 2024 be like….
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