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[–] 67 points 1 year ago*

"Benjamin Aaron Shapiro was born on January 15, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, ... His parents both worked in Hollywood. His mother was a TV company executive, and his father, David Shapiro, worked as a composer.[3]"

If you were not born to rich parents, it is a you problem. Die and reincarnate you silly.

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  • [–] 118 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    This is weirdly almost a progressive mindset but somehow seems to miss the point and make it about blaming the victim.

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  • [–] [S] 118 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    "The problem is that the job doesn't pay enough!"

    "Yes, exactly!"

    "So that lazy POOR should've gotten a better one!"

    "??????????"

    It's amazing how conservatives miss the point so reliably. I imagine it's intentional for Bench Appearo, but many others are probably just genuinely that blinkered in their thinking.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Seriously, so by Ben's argument, the best thing for poor people to do is either 1. Organize into a labor union to negotiate better wages, or 2. Use violence against the rich as a valid tactic to improve your wages.

    But conservatives HATE those two little tricks...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Find out what poor-paying job that poor person holds. Now ask yourself, "if everyone with this job were to vacate, how would that affect me?"

    See? See how you can still be selfish but slightly less stupid at the same time?

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  • [+] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Because they grew up during a time when you could do that, and then pulled the ladder up behind them.

    My step dad bought a farm and raced Ford Broncos for fun doing odds jobs out in a farming community. You'd be lucky to have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day doing odd jobs now.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    If only his sister leveraged her massive milkers in some way on OnlyFans, their entire family's wealth would elevate even higher than what the Russians are currently paying him to spread their propaganda. /s

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    You're poor? Why didn't you choose to be rich instead? It's clearly a you problem.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    See, it’s that simple!

    What an asshole with zero understanding of what life is actually like for people.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Completely agree.

    My advice is, if you're feeling the pinch, then just ask mummy and daddy for a bigger allowance!! Don't be lazy, just get out there and ask for the cash you deserve. I believe in you. I know you can do it too!!!

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    In Ben Shapiro's world, no one is around to make his morning coffee and his morning breakfast burrito because no one works those jobs. Everyone only works jobs that pay enough to cover the modern cost of food and rent/mortgage

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, because I’m sure there are enough well paying jobs for every working adult in the entire USA.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just like when he told a college student concerned that global warming and sea level rise would displace people living near the coast that they'd just sell their underwater houses and move inland.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Why does America breed so many shit cunts?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because we didn't punish the Confederate traitors hard enough.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Because Biden didn't round up Trump and all of his henchmen immediately after being sworn in, and ship them to Gitmo for extensive interrogation about their treason with Russia, and corruption.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    USA has always been scared of applying real consequences for fear of losing popular support. Jefferson and Adams knew slavery was wrong. Adams knew it was wrong and abhorred it. But couldn't do anything because of that reason and the need unite the States of a new nation. Same after the Civil War, healing a fractured nation and all that. Even leading to the Civil War there were Missouri and 1850 Compromises. And it goes on and on. United States of Compromise.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    This is absolutely a cultural issue which promotes and encourages extreme individualism. It’s the land of opportunity, which has been translated into “if you aren’t successful, it’s your own fault for not trying hard enough”. It’s baked into every corner of the mentality. It’s, “Own a gun to protect yourself”, not, “fund initiatives to reduce crime and provide for all”.

    Even some of the most well educated people within this culture hold a deep belief that if you are not doing well it’s a “you” problem, and any suggestion of collective (social) assistance to raise the standard for all is immediately labeled as communism and derided.

    Very hard to combat this thinking when it’s so ingrained.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To be fair, owning a way to defend yourself is a good plan right now, considering the current regime.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    There are actually some pretty intelligent conservatives, but oligarchs intentionally funnel more money to dumb right wingers to afford bigger and louder megaphones.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    citation needed on the intelligent conservatives thing.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton are pretty okay IMO. They make sense even if you don't fully agree. I am tempted to include David Frumm, who is an anti-Trump neoconservative, but he was an adviser to Bush Jr administration and therefore complicit to the invasion of Iraq and financial crisis, so I can't give him more respect as I would have liked.

    But overall this is my point exactly if none of you can think of respectable enough conservatives. The intelligent ones are buried by the more deranged pseudointellectual right wingers because the latter are deliberately given more voice by vested interests to intentionally dumb down people.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Red states learning or will be learning a lesson about this real quick when they can't find the slave wage labor to pick their crops because they deported imprisoned them.

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  • [+] 31 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Prisoners in the US are effectively slaves also I thought?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    Depends on the state. Some states allow for forced prison labor. Most 'only' allow for 'voluntary' and underpaid prison labor. California, the largest state by population, still allows for forced prison labor.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Prisoners are not skilled agricultural workers.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.

    For many crops, picking fruit, for example, is an immensely skill-oriented task in order to do it fast enough to be profitable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Hence when they are "migrant" workers who keep making their way north all harvest season to keep harvesting the crops as they become ready. A lot of fruits have a narrow harvest window of just a few days, and you can't wait around for a bunch of novices try to figure out how to harvest them.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Ben "How much of a piece of shit do I have to be to be able to monetize this?" Shapiro telling it like it is!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Hm. Who has never worked a day of their life?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That’s the trap of capitalism these people take advantage of. Sure in theory vote with your supply and demand. Until one group of people create artificial legal pressures that prevent you from making the truly rational choice. If you don’t take the job that barely feeds you, you will go hungry, loose housing and be homeless.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago

    Doesn't even need to be artificial or legal pressures, honestly. The simple nature of human existence means our needs are incredibly regular; as long as there are impoverished folk whose needs rely on the provision of payment for labor, they will always be faced with some form of leonine contract, though the severity can vary.

    Legal pressures can definitely exacerbate it, though.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd like to meet him one time so I could slap the fuck out of him.

    Like this, https://youtube.com/shorts/ZB6LWAZ8d_8

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The height of pseudo intellectual stupidity .... every once in a while someone will show me one of his videos or podcasts and to the average person with an average intelligence, there are moments where he actually sounds intelligent .... which is the dangerous part. Most people fall for his message because it's peppered with pseudo intellectual babble, with a generous dose of reaffirming a selfish basic instinct of seeing the world without empathy and consideration of other people.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    But who will be wiping your ass then, Ben, you fucking piece of shit piss baby

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It will be a grand day when I can wake up and not see this guy and his eyebrows ever again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    people just don't want to work anymore!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The best thing that could happen to Ben is that he goes blind and deaf. He'll be unable spout his ignorant bullshit, and we'll get to see how quickly his tune changes when he actually needs help from others.

    That's actually where the libertarian 'line' is. When they suddenly realize that maybe their entire life won't be a fairly tale, and at some point, they'll become the 'burden' that other people's taxes are paying for. That's when they suddenly don't find libertarian or conservative ideals sufficient anymore

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    He knows all about " you" problems. He looks them in the eye every day when shaves

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Detached from reality

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Okay, I'm currently working in a shitty Hungarian government program, because if they gave me welfare, I would spend that money on drugs then overdose immediately. Let's see what kind of job openings are for me in my local area:

    • Surgeon (I don't have a doctor's license)
    • Teacher (I don't have a teaching license)
    • Construction worker (no training + too disabled for it)
    • Factory job 60+km away (too disabled to wake up at 4AM)
    • The "computer repair man" job my relatives thought I was learing for when I told them I learned to be a software engineer (requires driver's license, "not recommended" for me to get one due to history with seizures plus medication side effects mess with every ability needed for driving a car)
    • CNC machine programmer my relatives also thought software engineering meant (requires a training I don't have, also I'm cooked the moment I have to lift too heavy objects to the machine)
    • Welding (too disabled for it)
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