I love how one potential troll derails an entire instance. Just block the fucker (gender neutral pronoun right there!) and move on. When nobody interacts with the fucker anymore they’ll find somewhere else to troll.
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Arguably it’s been going on since Nixon normalized relations with China, which led to the factories moving there for cheaper labor and the eventual hollowing out of the so called middle class in America.
It really took off in the 90s though with the passage of NAFTA and the establishment of the idea of globalization and neoliberalism aka “third way” thinking and the idea of the “end of history” (Francis Fukuyama) after the fall of the USSR. (He has since reneged on a lot of ideas that made him popular in the first place).
It most certainly has not been just a decade though. Any fair argument is gonna pin it on being the last 30-50 or so years.
Over the summer while waiting for my mother at one of her apts I decided to take an iq test out of curiosity, one of those free online ones that seemed legit but who knows.
I got 144 or something? I think 145 was the cut off for genius? I remember being a point below the cut off.
Anyway. The point isn’t to brag, but to say that like you, i am almost certainly autistic (but mid 30s female who wasn’t a disruptive child so I can’t be!) and I’ve only held down minimum wage or close to it jobs my whole life. Despite having an education and being “smart” my personality pisses people off. Especially in “real” jobs.
I’m also constantly called a know it all derisively but I’m sorry when I was a kid I was left alone and none of the other kids played with me so I read encyclopedias (and later Wikipedia) for fun.
I don’t think I ever use you as a plural ever, except maybe as a generalization.
I brought up y’all and yous because those are current slang terms that are close to the plural use of you.