A lot about this is, in my opinion, misleading.

I don’t need to be able to read Ulysses and understand all the themes and the deeper meanings, to be literate. As to actually understand all the meanings, I would have to be familiar with the culture in which it was written and the personal perspective of the author on that culture.

I don’t think the perfect world entails that everyone (or, at least most people) is overly familiar with ancient cultures and authors.

Unfamiliarity with the context of what was written is usually why people don’t catch on themes. A person with german cultural background will not read a passage about bringing honor to your bloodline, in the same way a chinese person will. A lot of Germans are deeply suspicious of the idea of honor. I learned that after decades with Germans and their culture.

How many Cultures are you familiar enough with to be able to correctly understand a text written in it?

E.g. the “remorse of conscience” is a cultural theme. A person who reads a lot of books and seek out these themes, has a different culture than a person who only scrolls on TikTok. And if the person reading books isn’t on TikTok, they are probably unable to properly understand the themes in a TikTok.

And yes, you said that there are different levels of literacy, so you didn’t say that I was illiterate if I wouldn’t catch on the “remorse”. But you present literacy as a 1 dimensional scale. 1 level, 2, 3, etc… When it is not, your ability to correctly parse a text is not 1 dimensional. You will probably fail to correctly understand a story written in ancient china, and if you understand it, you will probably fail to understand a story written in the 1950s in Germany.

Get off the horse. Stand next to us and enjoy your pleasure of reading with other people and learn different perspectives. They aren’t less literate than you, they are differently literate than you.

That explains why there are so many of them. It is for the WAP.

“traveling” yikes.

That is one way to say, you think wealth is attractive.

I have traveled quite a bit and I like it a lot, but it is no hobby. For it to be a hobby, I would have to have a lot more money.

Once or even twice a year, is hardly a hobby.

I think people explained it horribly. This is my attempt. If you got it, ignore this and think of it as an explanation for everyone else.

Dude said he was against processed food, especially fast food, and he made it part of his political identity. Just like he made his stance against vaccines part of his political identity. There is a chain of events that highly suggest that he is partly responsible for the dead of (I think) 83 children, due to his stance against vaccines. He joined trump because trump promise him control over the department of health. Obviously, that is kinda his wet dream As he promised his supporters that he would go against vaccines, processed food, gmo,…

Now he eats McDonald’s. He threw away part of his political identity. Part of why people supported him, because he can’t say no to trump. He sold out.

That might be good for America, as trump isn’t against vaccines. As trump expressed he would like to brag about the “fact” that over his presidency, they “found” a vaccine against COVID. But trump knows that COVID vaccine bad in his supporters mind. That doesn’t mean over vaccines are. So maybe it is good that jfk Jr is betraying his political identity.

But of course, betraying your political identity right after an election, is a dick move.

I hope this helps

I am trying to understand but I have no clue what you mean.

What is your issue? What makes it remotely similar to humble bragging?

No to be rude, but your comment feels very coquelicot… Wondering what the fuck I could possibly mean? That is how much sense yours makes to me.

The “same lawyer” seems a bit unfair tbh.

He taught at Harvard law school and is seemingly a very good lawyer and a celebrity lawyer.

He had also Mike Tyson, o.j. Simpson, trump and Julian Assange as a client.

He seems to be popular with disliked celebrities

Oh and that is fine but then you have to ask yourself if you want to have a partnership with bad sex. If not, break up, or “teach” by communicating what you want, what is good and what is bad. There is no alternative, accept bad sex, break up, teach.

(Technically, you could let them have sex outside of the partnership to study, but… Well, not my cup of tea)

Which is why I am almost certain that there is a reason why they import raw sugar

Honestly I think, as a cis man, cis people are probably very bad at answering the question.

humans tend ignore “harmony”. When you walk through the field, do you look each blade of grass or at the cow? Do you feel “non-pain”? How could you possibly explain someone pain that doesn’t know pain? Do you remember the last time, you sat next to your friend watching a show on tv, in the same detail, you remember the conflict/discussion that you had with them?

Generally we will remember and pay attention to the things that are “wrong”.

If your gender is right for you, why would you pay attention? What would you even pay attention to?

If it is wrong for you, you feel the “pain”, see the cow and remember the conflict.

I understand your perspective but I want to ask a question, not to you, but for you to think about it. What motivation causes the imports?

If corn syrup is a replacement for whatever they are doing, why are they importing raw sugar? If raw sugar is cheaper than you would expect them to already use sugar for everything and not corn syrup, and switching to corn syrup would be an increase in cost . If raw sugar costs the same, import is additional paperwork, why import? Raw sugar is more expensive, why would they pay more?

Raw sugar can’t be replaced easily in their use case? Now that makes sense.

No. That is the point.

Sugar is “fancy” as in “you don’t need sugar for your diet”.

Based on what I find online, the us import about $2B in raw-sugar, while some (about 100M) is exported again.

Source: https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/raw-sugar/reporter/usa

How much “processed” sugar leaves the us again? I am not sure. Maybe all of it.

Sugar too. That ain’t healthy and is kinda fancy but… Can you see them losing their shit over sugar prices? I do.

Tomatoes imports were 2.5B in 2023.

Apparently the us imports 15% of it’s food supply.

I left Twitter on the day, musk bought it. I knew, I could trust him with my data and him firing so many people proved me right. Twitter isn’t a safe place for your data.

His politics, now and then, would have been good reasons too but you don’t need politics. Everyday it becomes clearer, Twitter will fail.

Hey, I think his point is rather simple and don’t require much mental gymnastics, if you are a little generous in reading it by ignoring how it is phrased.

His thought process is,

You saw the meme and there is no comment or expression by you towards how they knew men voted for trump. You seemingly just accepted it but when I express the 52% statement, you correctly doubted my words and expressed interest in how people would know. Why did the potentially photoshopped screenshot from some random news channel with similar information, didn’t trigger the same response in you?

Ofc it is flawed to assume that you weren’t wondering about that when looking at the meme. For all everyone else knows, you saw me as someone who could tell you as I was presenting similar information. So their hostility wasn’t proper. But the core of the question might be interesting for yourself, which is why I try to communicate it better.

If you weren’t wondering about the method of obtaining the data in the meme, you might want to reflect on why.

Well said.

As a guy who used to be a young man and with a lot of young men as friends, retrospectively yeah, most issues were based in insecurities. You really want to be an adult and you feel like you should be one but you don’t know how to be one. You go out and want to meet girls and you are scared of the rejection.

You can act like that is “anti-masculine” sentiment but it isn’t. It is an understanding of humans.

Just as a sidenote, based on my experience every young adult is struggling with insecurities.

So just to get you straight, you make fun of men for being upset at the “meme” for push gender war non sense. When I critic you over you also push gender war non sense, you tell me that it isn’t about the popular vote and when I point out that the exit polls are effectively popular votes. And ask, why aren’t you talking about the popular vote of white woman but focus on men? Pointing out your gender war non sense, your defence is “I just engage in gender war non sense of the meme and push those ideas”. Okay

How do they know that men voted for trump?

Exit polls.

https://www.statista.com/chart/33408/female-male-us-voters-exit-polls/

Didn’t catch that sorry.