u/Wise-Cold-6733

It’s designed to make you feel like you’re learning something, when in actuality you’re being lead on for months while you get ads shoved down your throat. If you actually felt comfortable in your ability to speak a second language, you wouldn’t be using the service. This is why the free market can’t be trusted. Its not in a companies best interest to actually teach you anything.

I don't mean the key wheel or not casting influencers, I mean a one-off thing that the show tried maybe a few times that was kind of cool and you wouldn't mind if they did again.

I think the Silver Power of Veto from BB3 is kind of cool. Because you can't use it on yourself, you need to get someone else to use it on you, meaning that you actually have to play a social game. If they did it once or twice a season it would be cool.

The Selfishness Veto Competition from BB4 is also super cool. Basically, to win the veto, you had to force everyone else in the house on PB&J (it would be slop now). It actually changes how much people like you in the game, anyone who's selfish enough can win it, and you feel really guilty.

Everyone in the house votes for two people to put on the block. Then, they have a competition, and whoever wins gets to cast the sole vote to evict. If one of the people on the block wins the competition, then everyone has to pick another person to go up in their place.

This would be a horrible idea

I think it would be fun to see what other people think about something in real time. It would probably make the bad moments more bearable because you could distract yourself and commiserate with others. It's like, community and stuff.

He is best known for writing "What's the Matter With Kansas?", as well as "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule", "Listen Liberal Or Whatever Happened to the Party of The People?", and "The People: No!"

I read the Kansas book, and I thought it was so good that I bought functionally all of his other books. In many ways, Kansas is extremely poorly aged. The specific cultural issues have changed a lot in 20 years, and he also asserts very confidently that the Republican party would never be able to overturn Roe v Wade. In many other ways though, the book is evergreen. The thesis is basically that the Republican party manages to get people to vote against their own interest by using the guise of social issues in order to get in office and make their wealthy benefactors extremely rich. The social issues don't have to be solvable, in fact, it's better if they can't be so they can be campaigned on in the future. He also talks about how the Democratic party has completely failed as well. In the late 60's early seventies there was a huge shift in American politics. It was essential that every person, regardless of party, be a friend to business and the free market. This meant that despite the Dems and GOP having extremely different social views, they had almost identical economic views. Thus, the parties had to differentiate themselves with their stances on social issues, a battle that conservatives almost always won. It also meant that Democrats had extremely limited effectiveness as governors.

There's a lot more in there that I didn't mention. The book is really good and I highly recommend it.

I'm reading "The Wrecking Crew" right now, and it's so upsetting that I can't read it for too long without getting depressed. It talks about how a party of people that hates government is inherently going to govern poorly. He talks about how Republican leadership deliberately appoints people to regulatory committees who are at best completely underqualified, and at worst, actively hostile to the work of the committee. The government workers are then deliberately underpaid so that their work can be outsourced to private contractors. This was what made the response to hurricane Katrina and the 2008 financial crisis as bad as they were. It was hard not to read about it about it and not think about all those FOX people who Trump hired.

Anyway, I'm a huge simp for Thomas Frank and I was wondering what other people thought of him. He really makes you hate Bill Clinton that guy.