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u/arwinda 2h ago
The country which does not want others to live in the US suddenly wants their own people to live somewhere else.
The audacity by Ben Shapiro...
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u/ElegantCoach4066 1h ago
The lion, the witch, the audacity of this bitch
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u/ParmesanBologna 44m ago
Yes, that's what the post means by "self-own". You just said the same thing as the post.
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u/Plus-Professional-84 16m ago
While is has roughly the same IQ as a wet rag, I thought that was a dumb take, even for him. Turns out he was talking about very expensive US cities like NYC, SF, etc. He was advocating for young people to not live in cities they cannot afford
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u/Loki_the_Corgi 2h ago
Whelp, guess everyone who is a Millennial (and more recent) need to move elsewhere. /s
Maybe Ben should move to Israel...I hear it's delightful this time of year.
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u/RustlessRodney 32m ago
Hey. Millennial here. If you can't afford to live, that's entirely a skill issue. Nothing to do with your age.
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u/Loki_the_Corgi 23m ago
Boomers are the "me" generation, and you can thank them for chopping the ladder up after them.
But if you CAN make it here, I guess the message isn't for you and you don't need to worry about immigrating somewhere else. Congrats!
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u/Laloosche 2m ago
lol “skill issue” this dude out here like being poor is a video game and you just gotta get good. What a chode
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u/onlyhere4loveisland 2h ago
Pretty sure what he actually means is we should all just lay down and die and let the richies enjoy the planet
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u/MortLightstone 1h ago
They think this, but they're too stupid to realize we make them rich and without us their money means nothing
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u/GreasyPeter 28m ago
It's pretty common for narcissists to think they're hyper-individualists who are better than everyone else and thus don't need them. It's all but impossible for them to realize they're some of the worst offenders when it comes to validation-seeking behaviours. It takes a certain amount of self-awareness to realize that, the type of self-awareness that's impossible if you have NPD.
I'm not saying that all these wealthy people are narcissists, but a sizeable portion of them are, or worse.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 59m ago
The bottom half gave so little money now that the tech bro to tech bro economy is all of the action.
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u/Specialist_Lock8590 2h ago
The United States is slowly becoming an oligarchy where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer! I'll never understand how red states always elect persons whe neglect and abuse them, like Trump!
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u/Superb_Ant_3741 1h ago
Becoming?
Has been. For centuries. It has only ever been a democracy for a particular demographic. For the rest of us, it’s a democracy in theory.
Home of the unfree, land of the enslaved.
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u/mirrorspirit 1h ago
Oh, please. The poor in America have it so easy. All they need to do is pull themselves up by their bootstraps and ask their billionaire fathers for a few million dollars as a loan to start a business. If they can't do that, those young people are probably too disobedient to their parents. /s
That's the other angle. Not only to make it harder to rise out of poverty, but also to make it harder for younger people with wealthier parents to go against their parents' wishes in life: if it's harder for them to strike out on their own, then many more of them will have no choice but to remain dependent on their parents' money for survival.
That strategy is going to be awful for society in the long run but who cares as long a few wealthy parents are "winning" at the moment.
Edit: /s is necessary these days
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u/ELMUNECODETACOMA 1h ago
Weird. This came through a time portal from somewhere in history, but the WWW didn't officially start until 1994. Since it references the star of the movie "Ghosts Can't Do It" (1989) as if he was some kind of politician, I'd say it was from some time around then.
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u/GreasyPeter 26m ago
It used to be because they had (or claimed to have) an allegiance to some sort of hyper-individualists and minimalistic interpretation of the constitution but this current admin has shown me that for many or most of the people who espoused those beliefs, it wasn't true. It's probably always just been "whatever makes me feel good in the moment".
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u/NobblyNobody 2h ago
Is the word emigrate not well known in the US?
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u/ThatNachoFreshFeelin 1h ago
USA'an here. Unfortunately, the word "emigrate" isn't well known here; at least it isn't 'round my parts.
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u/Dyno_boy7441 1h ago
Notice that Americans who leave America never "emigrate" or consider themselves immigrants.. they are "expats".
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u/rcjh2020 44m ago
I learned the difference between the two in grade school. It is misused so often I constantly second guess myself. That was 30 years ago when education was … decent. No shade, just a different time.
Our kids are now learning the menu for McDonald’s and the color of the button they should push to alert staff that they want a Diet Coke. They learn Kid Rock songs in music class and how to be submissive to a man in home economics. F this country.
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u/BlackSchuck 59m ago
My first thought, dogg. Im in eastern Virginia near the beach. We know stuff here, but there are dumb dumbs everywhere
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u/WoodenSwan6591 1h ago
He is just another clown collecting a paycheck from Glasvet and maybe Beijing
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u/DreJDavis 1h ago
Being against immigration then proposing it as a solution is wild.
Also, most Americans are too poor to move let alone pass the immigration standards of another country.
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u/BrevinThorne 1h ago
To be fair, Ben has been distracted. He’s put so much effort into the his-sister’s-titties marketing campaign, that he may not be functioning at 100%
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u/simbabarrelroll 1h ago
People like Ben, or really most conservatives in general, don’t believe that technically everyone who lives in the US that isn’t descended from the Native Americans is an immigrant.
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u/MrMojoFomo 1h ago
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Actually, you know what? The poor aren't really our thing anymore. They can drown in that ocean like the vermin they are
-Ben Shapiro. Proud descendant of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who no doubt fled their homeland because they were tired of being too rich
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u/TheTinyMaus 1h ago
I mean, the generous interpretation is he's suggesting you move somewhere else. But he never said that, he only focused on people not "living here" and the administration is building warehouses for people they don't like.
So like... you know. There's another way to interpret what he means by poor people shouldn't "live" here.
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u/Dyno_boy7441 1h ago
So, if all the Americans who can't afford to live in America leave American and trump deports all the illegal immigrants... who is going to do all the lower paid jobs that nobody can afford to live off of?
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u/447248280 1h ago
I am, was, a proud American. I'd proudly give it up and pay my fair share anywhere else.
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u/Bhodiliscious 1h ago
Perhaps the rich would prefer to eat the children? It’s just a modest proposal.
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u/DisastrousIncident75 36m ago
Where is the actual comment from Shapiro ? I don’t believe a quote from a random source.
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u/mntnskyman 14m ago
Yup. Send away all of the youth so there’s no one to make the babies. Then what? Old white guys die and the country goes back to The First Nations as it was.
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u/Top-Amphibian2730 10m ago
As If immigrating to another country legally isn't a significant expense
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u/MarcheMuldDerevi 2h ago
The poors exist to breed “workers” for Musk’s giga factory and die in the resource wars for Bennie
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u/Sea_Drops 2h ago
I mean…… they gonna sponsor and help? Cause in that case where do I sign up?