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I'm confused because this reads to me like an admission that the 2016 primary was rigged against the most popular candidate, but I know that Sam Bee is bullshit and would never admit this, but I can't read it any other way
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we have embraced death, only to spend our time openly asking why things are so hopeless
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Nov 27, 2019 16:50
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A Handed Missus posted:
A reminder that kids were already in camps and being separated from parents as official policy when this picture was taken.
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Nov 27, 2019 16:52
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mormonpartyboat posted:meritocracy is more a fundamental element of social structures with any competitive elements - those that are better at a given competition will succeed. you cannot sever that without a perfectly uniform society composed of perfectly identical individuals. recognizing its effects is not a sin but if your definition includes “being born into wealth” as “being better at competing” then sure you’ve made the term basically meaningless
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Nov 27, 2019 16:53
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loquacius posted:I'm confused because this reads to me like an admission that the 2016 primary was rigged against the most popular candidate, but I know that Sam Bee is bullshit and would never admit this, but I can't read it any other way Nah its her throwing a joke about Hillary losing the popular vote Except whoever created the graphic didn't think through the implications of using it in the primary
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Nov 27, 2019 16:54
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Any day now. https://twitter.com/SusanVermazen/status/1199397317314523137?s=20
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Nov 27, 2019 16:54
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Trust the plan edit: lol I didn't realize Q anon stole one of their slogans from an NBA coach
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Nov 27, 2019 16:56
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Trabisnikof posted:but if your definition includes “being born into wealth” as “being better at competing” then sure you’ve made the term basically meaningless what definition
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mormonpartyboat posted:meritocracy is more a fundamental element of social structures with any competitive elements - those that are better at a given competition will succeed. you cannot sever that without a perfectly uniform society composed of perfectly identical individuals. recognizing its effects is not a sin even this is fundamentally naive, because it assumes that success is based on performance in the competition independent of both inherited advantages and collusion to alter the rules of the competition itself merit and ariste are synonyms, as are their derivatives, meritocracy and aristocracy
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Nov 27, 2019 16:58
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mormonpartyboat posted:meritocracy is more a fundamental element of social structures with any competitive elements - those that are better at a given competition will succeed. you cannot sever that without a perfectly uniform society composed of perfectly identical individuals. recognizing its effects is not a sin meritocracy means [a just-so story] that people succeed based on individual merit of whatever potpourri of positive attributes
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Nov 27, 2019 16:58
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lol about the only place that meritocracy exists is professional sports and even then it requires a tremendous amount of luck to get to that point
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Nov 27, 2019 17:00
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Even without wealth inheritance and all the indirect benefits like geographic proximity and family connections, there's networking and cronyism, too. For a lot of majors, by the time of your junior year in college they've switched the story to "it's not what you know, it's who you know" while encouraging attendance at networking events.
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Nov 27, 2019 17:02
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like I could be born wealthy and get hired at through my parents connections but my dad being rich isn't going to help me catch a football it will help of course getting to go to like a private high school that focuses on basketball or something but a lot of those kids will wash out in college if they even go of course, that's assuming you dont' get sick and miss a tryout or you don't like blow out your ACL playing a game in high school. but for the most part professional athletes are the best at what they do. but that's like the only place I think I could argue that a meritocracy or something close to it actually exists spacemang_spliff has issued a correction as of 17:06 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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galenanorth posted:Even without wealth inheritance and all the indirect benefits like geographic proximity and family connections, there's networking and cronyism, too. For a lot of majors, by the time of your junior year in college they've switched the story to "it's not what you know, it's who you know" while encouraging attendance at networking events. If you ever attend a work search seminar of any sort, from ones for welfare recipients up, they straight up tell you that the vast majority of jobs are filled through nepotism i mean they usually call it networking, but that's about the amount of effort they put into hiding it
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Nov 27, 2019 17:05
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comedyblissoption posted:this isn't what meritocracy means. you're just stating a tautology that people succeed and fail in a competitive system. yeah, but all this other bullshit just kind of drives past that tautology and the myriad of small competitive systems that build up social structures. people ignoring the trees for the forest you gotta start from the basics, and recognize the importance of them. that tautology is the engine of current systems, the important thing is gaining the perspective to recognize the sheer volume of competitive systems that drive decisionmaking every day, and the ways that the criteria for success are usually very different than the nominal criteria for success dipshits sprinting after academic acclaim by skipping the dirty work is, also, a function of meritocracy. as is worshiping their trails
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Nov 27, 2019 17:06
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spacemang_spliff posted:Trust the plan It was a phrase designed to gaslight 76ers fans into believing that their dogshit team wasn't just dogshit, but dogshit for the purpose of gaming the draft and that they'd be good someday. Which is 100% applicable to pretty much everything in contemporary American society.
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Nov 27, 2019 17:07
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Warren: *backtracks on a whole bunch of her policies including M4A; freezes up on-camera whenever she hits the slightest bit of resistance; loses a bunch of support in the polls* Tom Watson: goddammit THANKS A LOT BERNIE  https://twitter.com/GarbageApe/status/1199718320162922496
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Nov 27, 2019 17:07
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Nothus posted:It was a phrase designed to gaslight 76ers fans into believing that their dogshit team wasn't just dogshit, but dogshit for the purpose of gaming the draft and that they'd be good someday. Which is 100% applicable to pretty much everything in contemporary American society. lol god America sucks
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Nov 27, 2019 17:08
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meritocracy as an idea is about promoting a nominal socially acceptable criteria for success and not about what actually gets ahead. no one promoting meritocracy is running around saying society should better reward nepotistic gladhanding and machiavellian backstabbing and in general promote the opposite idea, saying that such problems if they are acknowledged to exist are flaws that need to be rooted out for a better meritocratic society
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Nov 27, 2019 17:09
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Hodgepodge posted:because it assumes that success is based on performance in the competition independent of both inherited advantages and collusion to alter the rules of the competition itself no it doesn't it's just talking directly about the actual things being measured rather than the nominal things being measured. that there's usually a huge gulf between the two is the loving point, that and the fact that there's way more micro-competitions happening that have a far greater aggregate value than the few macro-competitions that people tend to hoot and holler about
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Nov 27, 2019 17:11
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lol they're just straight up calling them investors
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Nov 27, 2019 17:13
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mormonpartyboat posted:no it doesn't this reads like you're trying to say something straightforward while possessed by eripsa
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Nov 27, 2019 17:15
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comedyblissoption posted:i personally dont like societal narratives that separate people into hard-working, mediocre, smart, etc. yeah "smart" doesn't have a whole hell of a lot to do with class mobility outside of like a genuine mental disability or something, and Harriot is a guy with an exhaustive education in black history and a job writing as a "wypipologist" who gets totally blown away that Presidential candidates are personally charming and the FBI didn't side with him against the billionaire white President of the United States, so I got opinions on who the real mediocre mind is here. But like, I grew up in conditions pretty similar to the ones he describes, and I wasn't exactly a straight-A student, and being able to pass for a distant Trump relative by putting on a thrift store suit and some rich-kid affectations was a huge part of getting old white folks to focus on the good parts of my resume instead of all that poo poo. Meanwhile any time a black kid shows up in the news for any reason there's hordes of people scouring Facebook for evidence he ever smoked a weed or made a funny hand sign and is therefore A Thug who should be killed immediately, and I don't buy that those guys aren't exactly the same way when it comes to deciding who to help or hire. I could afford to have a less than perfect record while people are sucking their teeth about whether any given ghetto kid from Baltimore is really exceptional enough to deserve a job or a scholarship. They just factually have to never gently caress up to get as far as a white guy who fucks up all the time, and there isn't a lot of language to describe that that hasn't been coopted by meritocratic smugging. A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 17:27 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 17:17
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Hodgepodge posted:this reads like you're trying to say something straightforward while possessed by eripsa sorry id idnt think 'our personalities are built up from a million tiny value judgments, which we take for granted' was v mind shattering
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Nov 27, 2019 17:17
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democrats are a mess democrats are a waste
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mormonpartyboat posted:sorry id idnt think 'our personalities are built up from a million tiny value judgments, which we take for granted' was v mind shattering Our personalities are but a tiny, mostly irrelevant schema of the resource gathering appendage we call our bodies, which exists primarily to feed the gut microbiota.
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Nov 27, 2019 17:25
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mormonpartyboat posted:no it doesn't what measurements?
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Nov 27, 2019 17:26
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spacemang_spliff posted:lol about the only place that meritocracy exists is professional sports and even then it requires a tremendous amount of luck to get to that point Being professional level at sports is almost solely genetic.
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Nov 27, 2019 17:30
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Addamere posted:Our personalities are but a tiny, mostly irrelevant schema of the resource gathering appendage we call our bodies, which exists primarily to feed the gut microbiota. perhaps the answer to the ever present question of "who farted?" is, in fact, all of us
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Nov 27, 2019 17:32
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this implies that the poop transplant is the single biggest contribution to human society
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punk rebel ecks posted:I This is absolutely not true
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Nov 27, 2019 17:36
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Presenting Nipples posted:This is absolutely not true im the nba star with one leg
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Nov 27, 2019 17:37
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spacemang_spliff posted:like I could be born wealthy and get hired at through my parents connections but my dad being rich isn't going to help me catch a football Like most things in American society, economic inequality is erasing a lot of opportunity for poorer kids in sport. basketball and baseball are being dominated by kids who are on travel teams which are very expensive to participate on. Football is a little different since there isn't really competition outside of the high school season. track and field has club meets but is also pretty cheap to participate in. most other sports like swimming, ice hockey, lacrosse, etc are expensive to participate in because of the scarcity of the playing areas required or it only being played in affluent areas. there are definitely poor kids that have sheer talent and are able to overcome the barriers, but it's a stacked playing field
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Nov 27, 2019 17:37
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Presenting Nipples posted:This is absolutely not true To get to that top fraction of a percent you have to have top tier genetics.
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Nov 27, 2019 17:38
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https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1199728969949552640 racism: actually good?
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Nov 27, 2019 17:39
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punk rebel ecks posted:To get to that top fraction of a percent you have to have top tier genetics. lol gently caress off
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Nov 27, 2019 17:40
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https://twitter.com/thoatley/status/1199638078673084417 free college: actually unaffordable?
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wow i cant believe one of bidens sons would do cocaine
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