I knew an Nb who tried out as a plumber. The job was fine and they were perfectly capable of doing it, it's just that every other plumber they met was an unbelievable piece of shit. Or something about the culture being hostile to anyone who wasn't a straight white male
You'd think being a teacher in a liberal school district would be at least somewhat "progressive" but nope, just about all my fellow faculty were gambobrained hogs that liked to snicker about "feeemales" whenever they got the chance (including students ) and would get really uneasy about thugs walking past their Ring/Nextdoor fortresses.
I’m pretty sure Cop-Teacher is the most common marriage in the US in terms of professions (excluding one/both spouses being unemployed or staying home).
There’s a reason why schools look and function a lot like prisons, and a certain type of chud attracted to the disciplinarian system.
Unlike cops there are decent teachers out there, who really do strive to help kids how they can. The environment and funding and support is just not there.
The environment and funding and support is just not there.
I did my best for as long as I could, but the testing industrial complex wanted kids to fail so more schools could get privatized so it was always an uphill fight to teach kids anything but the tests themselves, and I had to resort to shortcuts and the like just to try to get them to pass the corpo rituals just for their own sakes.
And oh yes, there was a lot of security theater in the school, including armed harassing kids constantly.
To a lot of fairweather liberals, they see "progressive" as "the world is full of tourist attractions and I can score sophistication points by indulging in that."
A local example was "DAE LE TACO TRUCKS" enthusiasm while at the same time muttering in "polite" company about how much they didn't like them sticking around after building their houses and maybe mowing their lawns.
One of my teachers had multiple units about the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement as part of the curriculum.
Photos of Abu Ghraib came out and we were watching it on the news. The student news anchors were commenting on photos of men being stripped naked and tortured about how barbaric it was. My teacher then said "Yeah but they're terrorists trying to kill us."
Most of my respect for her died that instant. She didn't care about the Holocaust because it was the fucking Holocaust. She cared because it happened to people that looked like her.
I was a plumber helper for a week and a day. I was being paid 14hr to help dig up septic pipes and drainage fields. Was never given proper PPE to touch shit with. My supervisor would blast Tom Mcdonald in the work truck and treat me like shit on the job. Which isnt universal in labores jobs Ive had supervisors who were fucking ex cons that still had control over their emotions.
Anyways that supervisor and my coworker were racist as shit. Big reason to never show up again
My supervisor would blast Tom Mcdonald in the work truck
I find this hilarious. Like, usually I imagine McDonald as the sort of slop hogs listen to privately because it just isn't very good music, so they are basically listening to a slam poetry version of facebook boomer memes with some garbage trap beat on top, but it's all just a recitation of grievances, you aren't gonna dance to that shit. That and they use it as a shibboleth to find out if someone is Your Guy. Blasting it in public is shit taste even for a Tom McDonald fan.
I knew an Nb who tried out as a plumber. The job was fine and they were perfectly capable of doing it, it's just that every other plumber they met was an unbelievable piece of shit. Or something about the culture being hostile to anyone who wasn't a straight white male
You'd think being a teacher in a liberal school district would be at least somewhat "progressive" but nope, just about all my fellow faculty were gambobrained hogs that liked to snicker about "feeemales" whenever they got the chance (including students
) and would get really uneasy about thugs 
walking past their Ring/Nextdoor fortresses.
I’m pretty sure Cop-Teacher is the most common marriage in the US in terms of professions (excluding one/both spouses being unemployed or staying home).
There’s a reason why schools look and function a lot like prisons, and a certain type of chud attracted to the disciplinarian system.
Unlike cops there are decent teachers out there, who really do strive to help kids how they can. The environment and funding and support is just not there.
I did my best for as long as I could, but the testing industrial complex wanted kids to fail so more schools could get privatized so it was always an uphill fight to teach kids anything but the tests themselves, and I had to resort to shortcuts and the like just to try to get them to pass the corpo rituals just for their own sakes.
And oh yes, there was a lot of security theater in the school, including armed
harassing kids constantly.
I wonder what's up with that perception. Like, I meet "progressive" teachers a lot, but that's because I largely meet "progressive" people a lot.
To a lot of fairweather liberals, they see "progressive" as "the world is full of tourist attractions and I can score sophistication points by indulging in that."
A local example was "DAE LE TACO TRUCKS" enthusiasm while at the same time muttering in "polite"
company about how much they didn't like them sticking around after building their houses and maybe mowing their lawns.
One of my teachers had multiple units about the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement as part of the curriculum.
Photos of Abu Ghraib came out and we were watching it on the news. The student news anchors were commenting on photos of men being stripped naked and tortured about how barbaric it was. My teacher then said "Yeah but they're terrorists trying to kill us."
Most of my respect for her died that instant. She didn't care about the Holocaust because it was the fucking Holocaust. She cared because it happened to people that looked like her.
I was a plumber helper for a week and a day. I was being paid 14hr to help dig up septic pipes and drainage fields. Was never given proper PPE to touch shit with. My supervisor would blast Tom Mcdonald in the work truck and treat me like shit on the job. Which isnt universal in labores jobs Ive had supervisors who were fucking ex cons that still had control over their emotions.
Anyways that supervisor and my coworker were racist as shit. Big reason to never show up again
I find this hilarious. Like, usually I imagine McDonald as the sort of slop hogs listen to privately because it just isn't very good music, so they are basically listening to a slam poetry version of facebook boomer memes with some garbage trap beat on top, but it's all just a recitation of grievances, you aren't gonna dance to that shit. That and they use it as a shibboleth to find out if someone is Your Guy. Blasting it in public is shit taste even for a Tom McDonald fan.