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[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours 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)
[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

There could be, but MBAs and CSuite leeches think "line go up" only applies to one goddamned line.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

As long as the line goes up, the shareholders are happy. Does not matter in what metric. Children killed in Gaza? Line goes up = positive.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

The poverty line?

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 33 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Why does America breed so many shit cunts?

Because the rest of the world sent their shit cunts here.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 13 hours 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.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

But that would have been lead to even more consequences from the donors, who pretty much treated the democrats as useful idiots at best.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

because they're trailing most developed nations in education

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 66 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 115 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

It's basically how I feel about people that complain about taxes making it so they get paid less money. Take it up with your fucking boss.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago (3 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.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours 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?

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 37 points 23 hours ago (1 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...

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

His advice is technically correct, but very vague & not super helpful. He says you need to:

  1. Explore your talents, skills, strengths, etc. Identify them.

  2. Find an outlet or a need in society that plays to your strengths, skills.

  3. Make it pay a lot of money.

Technically not wrong. That's all easier said than done, and it can be hard landing a job that really pays.

[–] whyrat@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

Hard to do all those things without support. Student loans for example would allow someone to survive without a low wage job while developing more valuable skills.

What's the conservative position on those again? Checks notes... well fuck you too!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

It allows them to feel an increased agency

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ben Shapiro is big on taking personal responsibility for everything. Your life, your fault. Essentially.

It's interesting when he talks about his family background, very solidly middle class & it involved his dad playing piano at hotels, clubs for tips? Between that & his mother I guess it was enough to pay the bills.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 19 points 23 hours 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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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 28 points 20 hours 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!!!

[–] batucada@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 40 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

See, it’s that simple!

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

He knows. He's just a disingenuous, grifting piece of shit.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 28 points 22 hours ago
[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 13 points 20 hours 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!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

people just don't want to work anymore!

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (9 children)

They'll just use prisoners at that point.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And if there's a shortage, there will be an increase in arrests and convictions, justifiable or not.

[–] coaxil@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prisoners in the US are effectively slaves also I thought?

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[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Red states do not have the capacity to learn lessons.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

It’s in part because Sherman stopped burning, and we didn’t hang Jefferson Davis.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 25 points 1 day 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

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago

Sell their houses to who Ben? Fucking Aquaman‽

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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