The problem is america glorifies wealth. We have this national mentality that if you are smart and ambitious you can make yourself wealthy, despite insane amounts of data that shows that 1) being born wealthy is the most likely way you get wealthy now, and that includes those born in the upper middle class…

agreed. Not mine. I think ive seen one episode of their show, and not even the whole thing, just a clip...i cannot believe that was something people found entertaining. Other than “The Real World” and “Road Rules” ive never really watched reality tv. Not my thing. Its cheap to produce compared to sitcoms...so it gets…

 I was pretty sure adulatory was a sin, but Trump is a repeated adulterer and evangelicals love him so....

.....you strung a bunch of words together and said nothing.  

That would make no difference.  Some other vapid rich family would fill the void.  We rarely hear about Paris Hilton...because KK took over.  Plenty of millenial and zoomer rich kids out there on instagram thinking they are hustling.  We let 1%ers accumulate 90% of all economic gains and they have spoiled their kids…

“Socially liberal, fiscally Conservative” Just means conservative.  It means someone is socially liberal, but when push comes to shove they vote for the tax cutters.  Fuck her.  Seriously.  She came from money, dicked around in school, then exploited a sex tape and created a life out of being famous for the sake of…

Their Conservatives are still in power.  If Trump was in power we would be cheering Russia on and refusing Ukranian refugees.

.....there are dozens of producers.  Some producers do fuck all.  Others are there because they put up money.  His name saying producer means nothing.  Producers rarely if ever, would have control over what props are loaded or not.  This is on the armorer and whoever was in charge of the set.  I dont condone someone…

The one that resulted in a a spike in teens reporting high instances of anal sex because it was seen as a loophole?

kind of the only criteria the GOP money men have for bankrolling a candidate is: can he get elected, will he do what we want on regulation, taxes, and limiting enforcement on corps and wallstreet? Used to be this stuff meant you couldnt get elected. Now it seems to polevault you to the top of the heap. Im seriously…

Maybe, but the US has a far more heterogenius society. Hamburgers, hotdogs, pizza, all foods though of as american in our minds now, and while they are german and italian, it is the american version that was marketed to the world. I dont know what it is like in the south or midwest, but in the northeast, every small…

Disney also, they do extremely well in Japan.

Forespoken is not coming to xsx, and there appears to be some time exlusivity for FF16 whenever that comes out.

Apple.  Disney. Just two off the top of my head.  Both sell gangbusters in Japan.

Last numbers I saw suggested ps5 was selling 1.5 to 2 to 1 in North America.  Series X is not one of their most successful systems to date. Its doing fine, but you cant judge sales in the first year as a metric and with supply chain issues its even rougher.  I mean in the first year, XboxOne was their fastest selling…

opening up oil exploration would produce no new oil for a min of 10 years.  Long term, the Europeans are working to get off of oil and gas, oil will be easier for them than gas.  EV sales are increasing every year.  I mean in the face of rising gas prices, US oil companies are pumping less oil now than before Covid…

/s needed because plenty of people would post what you did with no sarcasm intended at all.

Quordle has ruined wordle for me.  I still do it, but its like a warm up.

I advocate for the banning of Beloved, not due to subject matter, but because I hate that book.  I blame my senior year AP English teacher who loved it on Oprah’s book club....so we spent 5 months on it.  5.  In HS.  IN an AP survery course.  But none of that is serious.  Banning books is stupid.  Take a book out of…

In 2016 it was announced that both the DNC and RNC had been hacked, we now know it was Russia.  Nothing came out publically from the RNC hack.  A few weeks and months after, scored of GOP pols switched their tunes on Trump and also stopped talking tough on Russia.  The GOP is compromised.  The whole party should be…