Boy Scouts declaring bankruptcy.
I’m an Eagle Scout. Boy Scouts was a pretty big part of my childhood–weekly meetings and monthly campouts for years, but the kind of stuff you don’t appreciate until you’re older.
Now I hope they burn the whole thing down and start over. Maybe next time don’t build a religiously-oriented pseudo-military culture that fosters and protects sexual abuse.
It’s someone making a lot of money telling people who don’t make a lot of money how they should live. AKA poor shaming.
It’s not a big deal. Sanders has built a revolutionary movement, so if he’s unable to compete for a second term, he’ll just hand things over to his well-groomed successor and heir apparent… checks notes… AOC, who can’t actually run in 2024?
It’s not like Bill Gates scolding poor people out of the blue for making bad financial decisions. It’s professional bad-with-money scolder Dave Ramsey! That’s how he became rich, giving advice to people in bad financial situations. Now you might think that his advice is bad or that professional bad-with-money scolder ought not to be a profession that exists. Totally fair. But yelling at Dave Ramsey for yelling at people for going to restaurants when they’re buried in debt is like yelling at a bear for eating salmon. What are you hoping to accomplish?
You’d think someone who lived in Germany would be hip to how toxic “poor people are dumb” takes are, but here we are.
I’m not “yelling” at Dave Ramsey. I’m saying that quote is poor shaming. When you add the extra context and change it from a blanket statement that no one follows to something more nuanced and completely different than what he actually said then yes, it becomes financial advice. As writ however, it’s poor shaming.
I mean shit, you don’t have to make a huge leap of imagination to imagine a call to drug test restaurant employees as well…
Right, when you add the context of who he is, what he does, who his twitter followers are, it becomes financial advice. Why wouldn’t you do all that?
Because I don’t research every twitter poster who gets quoted here. And regardless of who you are, if you have to add that much context to make an off the cuff statement non-offensive, maybe you should.
Why do it over if it will inevitably lead to protecting pedos? Boy Scouts shouldn’t exist. They’re the Trump Youth under a Donald Trump dictatorship.
Minor quibble, she turns 35 in October of 2024 and would be eligible.
I think she wins in 2024 too.
I believe in the benefits of a youth organization getting kids active in their community and interested in the outdoors. I don’t think it should be built on religion, military worship, or patriotic bullshit. Just stick with the service and environmental aspects of it.
And let girls do it too.
Your bad take on this doesn’t upset me in the slightest. It comes across like a child saying “there should be no more wars because killing hurts people”.
Like woahhhh you mean poor people can just soak some beans when they get home from their graveyard shift instead of eating donuts all night?! Who knew! If only they had your guidance or ever “thought about eating” like you!
There’s a 1305305823085 reply thread in OOT about the leading and latest fast food cheese-stuffed taco pork explosions and you think poors just blindly shovel food in their mouths?
Not sure why you’re going berserk here. It’s not bad advice. I get that it’s tone-deaf, but it’s probably what some of his listeners need to hear.
If you order well, a lot of fast food makes excellent sense economically.
I eat fast food most days for lunch at work. I am a very introspective person - usually to a fault.
I need an hour to myself every day at work. If I bring lunch from home, I need to eat in the lunch room where everyone else eats and I need to talk to them instead of reading the forum and enjoying the silence. I also enjoy a diet Dr Pepper, I find it calming.
There are ways around this - I could bring lunch and go eat it outside or something, or sit in my office and make it obvious I just want to eat alone, but the easiest way I’ve come up with is to leave and eat cheap food for lunch.
I walk a lot and eat pretty healthy at home, and my BMI is still in the normal range I think, so it’s not the end of the world. But I’m saying this to point out that there are a million reasons someone might choose to eat fast food, and very few of them fit into your judgmental world view.
Annnnd there’s your answer… I’m from the UK and the boomers will complain that’s its to hot in summer, too cold in winter and even alough they got an option from the doctors for a surgery or natural fix they still moan.
I’m eating fast food for lunch right now. Cost me $3.19 for about 750 calories and is about as nutritious as a sandwich I’d make at home.
