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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This being a weekly columnist in The Guardian, a newspaper whose journalists are almost all upper middle class people who went to very expensive private schools (curiously callled "Public Schools" in the UK because theoretically anybody can send their children to one, if they can afford it) as are the editors and the board - so they're almost all from roughly the top 11% of the UK population wealthwise - I expect that her real problem with these present day overlords is that they're neither posh nor English.

If they had the kind of "proper" manners, soft discourse, cultivated look of detachment and posh dress sense that are taught at the "right" schools, they would be alright.

You don't see this kind of critique there against posh English super-rich (especially not "old money"), even though they're just as sociopath as Elon and Zuckerberg.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I expect that her real problem with these present day overlords is that they're neither posh nor English.

If they had the kind of "proper" manners, soft discourse, cultivated look of detachment and posh dress sense that are taught at the "right" schools, they would be alright.

This is pure fiction. It sounds like an american projecting an accurate understanding of the NYT onto the guardian without having read it.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Since I'm an European, lived as an immigrant in the UK for over a decade and was a regular reader of The Guardian for most of that time and even for some time afterwards, your ad hominem missed the target by a huge distance.

Your post says a lot more about you given that you've jumped to such a conclusion about me from what you read and chose an ad hominem as "counter-argument" than it says about me.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Peterson is a big voice in men’s rights – well, a small Kermit’s voice in men’s rights – and he’s also an embarrassment.

Annihilated.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Fucking lmao

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The first time I read it, I thought she wrote "Kermit's voice in men's tights," and then I re-read it. But then re-read it again how I wanted, and it was back to 'tights'.

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they were burning the world down in a cool way, maybe I'd be on board. But we're burning all our future for THIS?!? gestures wildly

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The worst part is, they're not even enjoying it. No one benefits from this, except comparatively

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Sure they are, think of the billions spent so they can ride a dick rocket to space and stay there for 5 min!

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, cool people don’t act that way.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cool and Good aren't the same thing.

Some of the best people I've ever met were pretty low key and definitelly weren't overly concerned with presenting an appealing image to others.

What's percieved as coolness usually is just dressing the part and acting the part and in my experience "cool people" are often people who just take the whole maintaining a public persona thing to quite extreme levels, pretty much playing a role as if life was a Theatre play.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I dunno, the cool kids at my school were mean little bitches

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

Popular =/= cool.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Those were actually cruel kids. Common mistake.

The ruling class has always been like this. They were just able to hide it better before social media.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But wasn't Elon real-life Ironman? /s

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago
[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(cursed sentence) is an expression that I will invite to live in my head rent-free.