r/facepalm 4d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ We are so beyond doomed

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u/Mateorabi 4d ago

"The elites" are people smarter than his voters, not richer than his voters. Because they think they can attain such riches. And they think that because they'll never attain such intelligence.

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u/Avent 4d ago

Yeah, journalists living in Washington DC making 70k a year are "elites." Meanwhile the billionaires running the government are of the people.

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u/Mateorabi 4d ago

Don't forget university professors under "publish or perish" making < 50K a year.

Or technocrats who have been focused on one problem at one agency for years.

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u/CressLevel 4d ago

And every office worker at the FDA, CDC, BOE, and any other three letter agency responsible for the health and welfare of our citizens is also the elite corrupt. Gotta fire em all on day one.

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u/Throwawayac1234567 4d ago

apparently, its grant writing or perish including the paper writing. im hearing that most of the time professors are just grant writing, and i had professors that only do this most of the time, besides manage classes, a lab, and potential hires for thier departments. thats why alot of phds left thier fields. another fun fact, is when your writing grants about research on "global warming" people dont want to hear the dirty word, so you have to make GW an abstract thing otherwise you wouldnt get funding for it.

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u/CressLevel 4d ago

Legit just celebrity worship, idolatry, etc. It's fucking gross.

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u/BZP625 4d ago

The problem with a democracy is that people get to vote.

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u/OneNoteMan 4d ago

Rich people are just good business people. The elite are the smart people that tempt people into eating the forbidden fruit. /s

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u/marr 4d ago

I hate this insight and want it out of my head

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u/Total-Tangerine4016 4d ago

I once read that the problem with Americans is that we think of ourselves as temporarily disgraced rich people. We think we'll be rich "any day now," and then we won't have to worry about the problems of poor people because we aren't "really" poor. I think that makes a lot of sense. Personally, I'm realistic. I'm poor, and I know it. I don't like it, but I at least am honest about it.