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LJL David Brooks' column today jumps shark even by smug elite lib standards

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Yeah, that's what's ruining America. Whitey forcing everyon...
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Sorry, Brooks is on your team. We don't want him.
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no one does. his sole usefulness is to be a purported conser...
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CR. He's even lower than cucks.
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This fuckhead is basically just paraphrasing Murrays's thesi...
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What's the thesis
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That the country is stratifying into completely different c...
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Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop.
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To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you�ve got to und...
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Yes.
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I stand with tls Brooks on this one. True proles really do f...
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don't get me wrong I think it's pretentious and ridiculous t...
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Try ordering lunch at a busy NYC sandwich shop where you don...
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what in the living fuck are you talking about
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Let's take a lib down to the local chicken joint in are coun...
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where can I get me a huntin' license
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they literally sell them in the chicken joint
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Since when has David Brooks been a "lib"?
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Since Trump
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I, for one, welcome our smug elite lib overlords
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:09 AM
Author: indecent lilac whorehouse

"Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named �Padrino� and �Pomodoro� and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican."

TL;DNR: LOL, prole tell!

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruining-america.html



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:10 AM
Author: indecent lilac whorehouse

This is some evan39 level flame here:

https://twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/884754433036476417

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:13 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:13 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:25 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:28 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:29 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:31 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:33 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:35 AM
Author: Blue Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur Mood

lmao savage

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:40 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 11:04 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 11:19 AM
Author: Fishy glittery haunted graveyard legal warrant

can someone explain this shit

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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:42 PM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:18 PM
Author: Thriller stage

lol, what's his moniker

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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:24 PM
Author: flushed fiercely-loyal police squad

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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:25 PM
Author: slap-happy cyan rehab

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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:27 PM
Author: Painfully honest dog poop

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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:13 PM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:20 PM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:44 PM
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Date: July 20th, 2017 12:16 AM
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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:37 AM
Author: aquamarine lascivious antidepressant drug piazza

wtf, this guy died 2 years later: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/simon-maloy-twitter-media-matters-journalists

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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:52 AM
Author: bonkers pocket flask

Very sad.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/september-october-2021/it-still-seems-unbelievable/

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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:55 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:56 AM
Author: aquamarine lascivious antidepressant drug piazza

lmao

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:10 AM
Author: glassy galvanic marketing idea box office

Lol jfc

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:10 AM
Author: Histrionic tripping heaven weed whacker

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:26 AM
Author: pearly circlehead office



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:13 AM
Author: high-end deep mother

Yeah, that's what's ruining America. Whitey forcing everyone to speak Italian.

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:21 AM
Author: Bistre arousing travel guidebook theater



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:15 AM
Author: sienna site

Sorry, Brooks is on your team. We don't want him.

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:20 AM
Author: offensive insecure native half-breed

no one does. his sole usefulness is to be a purported conservative that liberals think they could almost tolerate. he's nothing to conservatives.

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:21 AM
Author: Razzmatazz cowardly business firm

CR. He's even lower than cucks.

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Date: July 20th, 2017 12:38 AM
Author: slap-happy cyan rehab



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:22 AM
Author: impressive fortuitous meteor



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:31 AM
Author: Bipolar gay friendly grandma ladyboy



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:18 AM
Author: Razzmatazz cowardly business firm

This fuckhead is basically just paraphrasing Murrays's thesis in Coming Apart.

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:23 AM
Author: fear-inspiring demanding selfie location

What's the thesis

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:49 AM
Author: Canary address

ass gets fucked into multiple pieces

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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:38 PM
Author: Razzmatazz cowardly business firm

That the country is stratifying into completely different cultural spheres based on education/income/prestige and that those elites at the top have nothing in common with the proles in the middle and bottom.

His point is that even the wealthiest among us used to have similiar tastes as middle and lower classes, either in music, food, or hobbies. Today, the groups are basically different nations.

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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:54 AM
Author: Coral Cocky Ticket Booth Becky

at least we all share the iPhone!!

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:21 AM
Author: Plum maniacal garrison people who are hurt

"To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you�ve got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality."

Lmao I've been an investment banker for 10 years and went to a JJC dream school and am married to a surgeon and we don't do any of that shit (except drink wine sometimes). He is literally drunk on the smell of his own farts.

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:25 AM
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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:43 AM
Author: fear-inspiring demanding selfie location

Lol

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:23 AM
Author: high-end deep mother

Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop.

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:25 AM
Author: Sadistic sable set sound barrier

To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you�ve got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality.

The fuck is this guy smoking? Is he talking about the rich folks in NYC that all live within a few blocks of his house?

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:29 AM
Author: Salmon French Chef

Yes.

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:32 AM
Author: Bipolar gay friendly grandma ladyboy

Yes that's exactly it

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:54 AM
Author: Exhilarant roommate stag film



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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:43 PM
Author: supple copper lettuce plaza



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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:03 PM
Author: Lake confused public bath



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:30 PM
Author: magenta church clown

You say that like there are any other people who matter.

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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:33 AM
Author: Provocative hissy fit



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:27 AM
Author: Navy center sandwich

Yeah, it is the sandwich shop that says "you're not welcome here," not $300,000 college degrees or nimby regulations making purchasing a home 2x as expensive as it needs to be



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:28 AM
Author: Geriatric Institution Love Of Her Life

"First the barista intimidates the young black woman with a condescending espresso question, in the opinion piece this past Sunday, and then its soppressata and capocollo that are the weapons of humiliation. Clearly it is the Italian culinary-industrial complex that is at the heart of inequality in this country."

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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:21 PM
Author: Wonderful claret elastic band



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:30 AM
Author: Salmon French Chef

prole italian guidos would be all about that shop

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:43 AM
Author: Odious field kitty

cr all about the gabagool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FUUzmaCxc

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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:50 AM
Author: fear-inspiring demanding selfie location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749367)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:11 PM
Author: Salmon French Chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33750027)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:31 AM
Author: Sticky trailer park

I stand with tls Brooks on this one. True proles really do freeze up and become very unconfortable in this kind of situation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749238)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:33 AM
Author: offensive insecure native half-breed

Haidt shows that libs value variety for the sake of variety, and in the case of UMC libs that most especially means new trendy food items. Conservatives like what they like and are suspicious of new foods.

Leave it to Brooks (a pseudo-con) and libs to elevate this difference into a moral superiority.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749249)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:35 AM
Author: Blue Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur Mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749264)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:36 AM
Author: Sticky trailer park

don't get me wrong I think it's pretentious and ridiculous to call a tomato a "pomodoro" just for the sake of showing that you happen to speak three words of Italian (did I ever tell you about my three week study abroad in Tuscany? meraviglioso!)

But Brooks is objectively right that many people with a HS education will freak out and feel very uncomfortable when put in that situation. That's part of the reason restaurants like that use those kinds of words, to intice the "right" sort of customers and keep the wrong ones out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749271)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 11:04 AM
Author: Plum maniacal garrison people who are hurt

Try ordering lunch at a busy NYC sandwich shop where you don't know the process. I'd rather storm the beaches at Normandy. It's not a rural/urban divide.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749513)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:21 PM
Author: Kink-friendly national indirect expression

what in the living fuck are you talking about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752146)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 1:02 PM
Author: Obsidian nudist volcanic crater patrolman

Seemed really easy to interpret his post. Do you have a low IQ?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33757536)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:37 AM
Author: Sadistic sable set sound barrier

Let's take a lib down to the local chicken joint in are country and see how they react...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749273)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:50 AM
Author: Sticky trailer park

where can I get me a huntin' license

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749365)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:54 AM
Author: mint son of senegal stead

they literally sell them in the chicken joint

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749405)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:35 AM
Author: high-end deep mother

David Brooks' face freezing up as he tries to make sense of a menu featuring "Chalupas" and "Crunchwraps Supreme"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749255)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:42 AM
Author: Drunken bawdyhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749302)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:44 AM
Author: fear-inspiring demanding selfie location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749317)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:53 AM
Author: tan bearded menage tank



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749397)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 11:12 AM
Author: Vivacious Meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749595)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:21 PM
Author: Wonderful claret elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752143)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:33 PM
Author: Painfully honest dog poop

Hope he brought Safire with him to help.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752255)



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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:33 AM
Author: aquamarine lascivious antidepressant drug piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#43200864)



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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:40 AM
Author: glassy galvanic marketing idea box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#43200896)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:39 AM
Author: mint son of senegal stead

NYT i think is just trolling at this point. they all get giddy at any opportunity to mock non-new yorkers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749292)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:50 AM
Author: Canary address

how bout we take dem elites to a gun show and see wut happens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749363)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:59 AM
Author: aquamarine lascivious antidepressant drug piazza

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ryan-reilly-twitter.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749456)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:22 PM
Author: massive multi-colored forum liquid oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752576)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:56 AM
Author: Exhilarant roommate stag film

"I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she said "Fuck no, shorty, I been waitin' all day for some gabagool."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749428)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:58 AM
Author: passionate sooty puppy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749448)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 11:11 AM
Author: Topaz Boyish Shrine Internal Respiration

Black woman from yesterday needs to take this woman to an espresso joint

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33749574)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:11 PM
Author: know-it-all corner halford

"Recently a friend with only a high school degree to me lunch. Insensitively, she led me into a Mexican restaurant. Suddenly my colon froze up as I was confronted with entrees named �Chalupa� and �Bell Grande� and ingredients like gluten, high fructose corn syrup, and trans fats. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she said no."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33750024)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:32 PM
Author: crystalline adventurous lay new version



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33750168)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:49 PM
Author: emerald personal credit line

her name was Sonia Sotomayer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33750267)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:17 PM
Author: indecent lilac whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752105)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:33 PM
Author: Exhilarant roommate stag film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752263)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 1:12 PM
Author: Chrome 180 space regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33757612)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 12:41 PM
Author: cheese-eating tanning salon

This is cr. Better we never give poors any exposure or access to the upper crust at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33750221)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:48 PM
Author: Cerebral Onyx Theatre Chad

http://www.avclub.com/article/explaining-david-brooks-column-stupid-coworker-who-257938

Recently, I discovered a coworker who just has an associates degree holding The New York Times. Instinctively, I understood that they were planning to use it to pee on like a crated Labrador, their two years of junior college slumming clearly leaving them with little working knowledge of indoor plumbing, or where to direct the neon-green Mountain Dew micturition of the lower classes. But as I gestured to help them arrange the broadsheet on the floor and offered to relax their bladder by soothingly expounding upon the ingenious early sewers of the Minoans, suddenly their face froze, and I could tell from their primitive grunting that, to my surprise, they were actually trying to read it.

Specifically, they were pointing their humanities-schooled sausage fists at the latest column by David Brooks, America�s preeminent analyst of our moral decline according to whatever he read or watched on TV or overheard in a Starbucks that day. �How We Are Ruining America� it was titled. �Hmm, yes,� I said, knowingly. And seeing as I have a bachelor�s degree, once gave money to NPR, and own a pretty nice sweater, I volunteered to interpret Brooks� words for them.

David Brooks has read a book, I said with fatherly patience. A book is like a meme with very many words. I explained that this book was written by a man named Richard Reeves, called Dream Hoarders, and that this book was full of very many complex ideas about the ways in which America�s wealth inequality has become a self-perpetuating system as the privileged classes create structural barriers�including zoning restrictions and college admissions biases that ensure their kids become elites as well, thus making it difficult for poorer people to achieve their own class mobility.

I could tell from the furrowing of my coworker�s community college-graduating Neanderthal brow that these concepts were perhaps too complicated to address in a mere conversation or 800-word column, so I skipped ahead to the part about the sandwiches:

Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named �Padrino� and �Pomodoro� and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican.

A-ha, I said to my pitiable friend who has never seen a Fellini film and thinks oolong is a Disney villain. Here Mr. Brooks is illustrating that those �structural barriers� we were just discussing �are less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent,� whose ignorance of fine meats stands between them and true affluence.

I explained how this was just like the time I squired them to a Subway and they didn�t know what an avocado was so they started crying. Great, phlegmy sobs, like the kind heaved from the bosom of Lady Liberty, lifting high her lantern as she welcomes the wretched to the shores of opportunity and great sandwiches, only to see them starve because they don�t know the right words for fancy ham.

�It�s okay,� I said to my own adopted huddled mass yearning to achieve a certificate of vocational training. �We�ll just go get a burrito and empty it in a Ruffles bag.�

As I explained to my grateful, greasy compatriot then�and as David Brooks so finely elucidated for us now�it was not their fault that the nation�s deeply entrenched class divisions fostered by systems built on institutionalized racism and economic disparity have left them so feeling marginalized. They just need to pull themselves by their Wonder Bread bags, stop eating gas station nachos, and get hip to David Foster Wallace, because that�s what�s really standing in their way:

To feel at home in opportunity-rich areas, you�ve got to understand the right barre techniques, sport the right baby carrier, have the right podcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to mention possess the right attitudes about David Foster Wallace, child-rearing, gender norms and intersectionality.

Indeed, I said single-malted-scotch-ily. I explained how this column serves as yet another clarion call alerting us to America�s slow sinking into a morass of cultural decline, which David Brooks and others like us�we who thoughtfully chew our piquant charcuterie while brooding over the Proustian reveries of ourselves it inspires�can only look upon it sadly, gazing down at our bologna-smeared consorts and lamenting the many bloviating, condescending, overpaid butchers of language and meat that are driving us apart.

My barely educated friend nodded sadly in agreement at Brooks� wise column, then took a giant burrito-and-GED shit on it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752353)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 5:49 PM
Author: flesh electric cruise ship trust fund

Since when has David Brooks been a "lib"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752363)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 1:04 PM
Author: high-end deep mother

Since Trump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33757551)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 1:05 PM
Author: massive multi-colored forum liquid oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33757558)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 1:13 PM
Author: Obsidian nudist volcanic crater patrolman

He's a cuckservative. Close enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33757621)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:10 PM
Author: soul-stirring frozen rigpig

(((Brooks))) is a fucking idiot. My 1L year in 2000, I'd never been to a coffee shop or ordered coffee. I went which some chick to a SBUX and tried to order a latte which I knew had coffee/frothy milk but I pronounced as lat like latissimus dorsi. Some faggot behind the counter snickered at me and I shot him a look like I'd grab his throat over the counter. Chick taking my order didn't correct me and that was the end of it. If a faggot shitlib gave me snark, I'd just tell them to make sure and wash up after playing with their buttplug before we share a banana bread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752506)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:11 PM
Author: Blue Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur Mood
Subject: lmao @ how fucking tone deaf libs are (link to wapo article)

this is wheels-within-wheels levels of out-of-touch shitliberalism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/11/the-real-problem-with-david-brooks-sandwich-column/?utm_term=.c8e20594a2d0

Wonkblog Analysis

The real problem with David Brooks� sandwich column

By Caitlin Dewey July 11 at 3:27 PM

Whatever you make of Italian salamis and David Foster Wallace, we should all be able to agree on one point: �lower-class� ≠ �Mexican.�

In a Tuesday column for the New York Times, commentator David Brooks earned the ire of the Internet masses by suggesting that the college-educated bourgeoisie are single-handedly ruining America. The entire column has proved controversial in some corners, but no piece more so than the lunch anecdote that appears toward the sixth-to-last paragraph.

Brooks recounts taking a friend with a high-school degree to an Italian sandwich shop, only to turn tail when he realized the shop�s �upper-middle-class � cultural signifiers� made her uncomfortable. Instead, Brooks says, he and his friend �ate Mexican.�

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The obvious implication is that tacos exist in a totally different cultural caste than those Italian subs. It is common, accessible and, most importantly, cheap -- a cuisine even Brooks� flustered friend could love.

The association between cheapness and �ethnic food� is not Brooks� invention, of course. In fact, it has some basis in data: The average cost of a meal at a Zagat-rated Italian restaurant in New York is more than $16 higher than at a Mexican one, according to a much-covered analysis by Krishnendu Ray, a New York University sociologist.

The average price of a restaurant meal, by cuisine

Based on the averages for Zagat-listed restaurants in New York City

0204060Japanese$68.94French$66.45American$63.92Continental$60.38Italian$56.32Spanish$52Greek$49.94Korean$47.40Vietnamese$40.44Mexican$40.41Indian$37.40Chinese$35.76Southern $34.15Thai$32.50

Source: Krishnendu Ray/Zagat

WASHINGTON POST

But the real issue here -- and one that goes to the heart of Brooks� column -- is why Mexican food is cheaper than Italian. In his 2016 book �The Ethnic Restaurateur,� Ray argues that the price gap can be directly attributed to the social status of these different ethnic populations.

To come to that conclusion, Ray draws in large part on his analysis of nearly 30 years of data from Zagat, the popular restaurant guide. He found that a handful of cuisines -- namely, French, American, Italian and �continental,� or Western European -- have consistently been more expensive than their competitors.

When cuisines do experience major price shifts, Ray also found, it often has something to do with the economic and social status of their emigrants. The average price of a Japanese meal jumped 97 percent between 1985 and 2013, for instance. That has been attributed, in part, to the growth of Japan�s business class, many of whom made frequent visits to the U.S.

There are exceptions to this �ethnic� = �cheap� rule, of course. (Brooks could have taken his friend to New York�s Toloache, where tacos run $16 a pop.) But Ray�s data demonstrates that the pattern -- or as he calls it, the �global hierarchy of taste� -- still holds for most restaurants, even if there are outliers.

That�s had real consequences for restaurateurs and chefs of color. As my colleague Ana Swanson chronicled in this great piece last fall, a huge number of Chinese immigrant-owned restaurants have begun serving sushi because they realize Americans will pay more for it. In a stunning essay for NPR, published earlier this year, the L.A. restaurateur Diep Tran railed against a culture that�s prompted some customers to tell her that, �for Vietnamese food,� her restaurant is too expensive.

�Immigrant food is often expected to be cheap, because, implicitly, the labor that produces it is expected to be cheap, because that labor has historically been cheap,� Tran wrote. She goes on to write that it�s been difficult for her restaurant �to break out of the trope that equates communities of color with cheap food and cheap labor.�

Similar tropes have been broken before. As Ray recounts in his book, Italian food was eschewed by �the taste-making elite� of the early- and mid-20th century, who viewed the influx of poor Italian immigrants with something like disgust. As those immigrants� children began moving into the middle and upper classes, Italian food moved with them -- into gourmet sandwich shops.

As the sports radio host Julie DiCaro wrote on Twitter: �My Sicilian grandparents would be thrilled to learn that in 2017 soppressata and capicola are the rarified info of the elite!�

Maybe that will one day be said of chorizo, bolillos and Oaxaca cheese.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752507)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:16 PM
Author: Transparent University Blood Rage

Escherian incomprehensibility

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752541)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:17 PM
Author: Blue Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur Mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752547)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 6:40 PM
Author: Outnumbered hall rigor

prole instincts are probably cr here. sandwich shops where everything is slathered in some sort of horrible aoili or some shit can be really horrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33752650)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:37 PM
Author: Heady carnelian temple partner

I, for one, welcome our smug elite lib overlords

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33754422)



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Date: July 11th, 2017 10:57 PM
Author: Citrine stage gaping

This is literally the only op ed Brooks has ever written that's cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33754635)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 1:13 PM
Author: mint son of senegal stead

i'm sure his "high school educated friend" is actually his mexican nanny or housekeeper. if he had taken some dago plumber instead then he'd be fine ordering the pomodoro shit sandwich as long as faggot brooks was paying.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33757624)



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Date: July 20th, 2017 12:56 AM
Author: Heady carnelian temple partner

yep if he had taken some dago plumber instead then he'd be fine ordering the pomodoro sh*t sandwich as long as f*ggot brooks was paying.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33814462)



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Date: July 20th, 2017 12:35 AM
Author: Stirring Up-to-no-good Church Building Round Eye

i have made so many hundreds of posts dissecting this self-congratulationism-posing-as-'analysis' maneuver by David Brooks (and other similar faggots). I'm so tired of this brazen cocksuckery not being called out instantly. it's so pathetic.

"OH LOOK AT HOW 'ELITE' I AM WITH MY POMODORO!"



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33814340)



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Date: July 20th, 2017 12:59 AM
Author: Heady carnelian temple partner

I too, am so tired of this brazen c*cksuckery not being called out instantly. it's so pathetic.

"OH LOOK AT HOW 'ELITE' I AM WITH MY POMODORO!"



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671689&forum_id=2...id.#33814477)



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Date: September 30th, 2021 11:31 AM
Author: aquamarine lascivious antidepressant drug piazza



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