RadixJournal - January 17, 2025


Panda Express Triumphant

Hosted by
Richard Spencer
Mentioned
Scott Greer Chris Ruffo Chipotle Kevin Deanna Mike Rowe
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Episode Stats


Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

132.94

Word count

1,406

Sentence count

113

Harmful content

Toxicity

18

sentences flagged

Hate speech

8

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Summary

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In this episode, we talk about why most of MAGA should not go to college, and why it s a good idea not to get a college degree. We also talk about how much better it is to work at a Chipotle or Panda Express than at a fancy university.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Yes, I get it that for someone with ambition or at least pretension, someone who wants to be cultured and values those things, that there is a sort of monotony like quality to working at a Chipotle that is going to be grading.
00:00:20.400 I totally understand that. But that's not most human beings. And that is not anywhere close to being the majority of MAGA. And a lot of people like the monotony because it's regular and they can count on it.
00:00:42.080 And every day is the same. And they become friends with their colleagues. And they make that mellow mushroom pizza, or they serve up the orange chicken at Panda Express. And for some, it's a part-time thing. For some, that's kind of what they're going to do in this old world of ours.
00:01:02.680 And we shouldn't demean them. We can be total snobs, arrogant assholes on this program. But you should never demean someone who's working. I think you should be nice to waiters and waitresses and the person at the convenience store. 1.00
00:01:23.980 They are serving you on some level. And there's just no point in being an asshole or showing off or trying to claim that you're above them or something. It's just pointless nonsense. 0.99
00:01:40.340 But like, I don't know what to tell people like Scott Greer, other than like, most of MAGA, it's good advice for most of MAGA to not go to college. I don't know what to say. Now, it's not good advice for other people.
00:02:02.620 And elite people won't tell their children that. And they're, in most cases, right. But there are levels to society. And so I think it's just much more effective to talk about like, valuing work, and bringing meaning to people's lives. And then it is to like, claim that con ink is preventing the rise of Scott Greer.
00:02:29.100 I think that, and this is an ad hominem, but ad hominems are sometimes the best arguments. Like, I think Scott, as a conservative, it's like they desperately want to be a normie. Like, it's all about the left, like preventing you from being a normie.
00:02:47.260 And I think Scott regrets that he didn't either own a small business, or maybe study harder and become a professional. Basically, to do anything besides just being this sort of useless grifter. 0.98
00:03:03.900 And he's expressing that regret through dumb, illogical arguments. 0.99
00:03:15.100 And I think he also resents the fact that he never succeeded in con ink. You see this with Kevin Deanna and all these people, like, con ink's the problem. They succeeded and you guys didn't. Maybe luck had something to do with it. I don't know what to say. 0.87
00:03:31.860 But like, you basically believe in the same shit that con ink believes in. They're just sort of better at it, or they had more connections, or it's luck, or whatever. And you resent them. And so you, like, offer these just bad faith critiques of con ink. 0.99
00:03:50.060 And I know them personally. And so I know that this is true. They all worked in con ink. They desperately wanted to rise in con ink, and they didn't.
00:04:04.340 I never worked in con ink, because I didn't want to have anything to do with conservatives, conservatives. They did.
00:04:11.300 Kevin Deanna, like, worked in the leadership institute for, like, a decade.
00:04:19.060 So they're, like, failed con ink operatives who rage against con ink and their new, you know, employment status. I mean, I'm sorry to be this mean, but, like, I don't know.
00:04:34.720 This, seeing this cafe panda discourse just sort of triggered me, because it's so stupid. 0.95
00:04:41.300 One thing I, and again, just to reiterate my other major thesis, if you are not talking about reducing the number of people entering higher education, then I don't want to hear about you, because you're just part of the problem. 0.97
00:04:54.260 You want to bring more MAGA people to get college degrees? Like, what are we fucking talking about here? 0.86
00:05:00.640 You're just literally part of the problem. You're doing the same thing that led to higher education being overstuffed, way too expensive, ridiculous, full of beer-drinking idiots. 1.00
00:05:17.580 I mean, you're part of the problem. So I don't want to hear from any of these people on this discourse. They're just full of shit. 1.00
00:05:22.100 So, Chris Ruffo is correct that earning $70,000 to manage the orange chicken aisle actually sounds good for many people. 1.00
00:05:34.620 Sorry.
00:05:35.260 Okay, yeah, to play devil's advocate here, I guess. I think a lot of the anger at Ruffo, it actually kind of ties into the H-1B discourse.
00:05:47.340 Because if I recall, Chris Ruffo, he works for the Manhattan Institute, which is basically like the discount Cato Institute.
00:05:56.820 And so they want to bring in a lot of these H-1B immigrants to replace people who are genuinely educated and have the potential to go into high-paying professional jobs. 0.99
00:06:08.120 And so it seems like his response to that is, well, if you're mad that we replaced you with Ranjit from, you know, Mumbai with 37 degrees and Kamputerskians from the University of India, you know, if you're mad about that, then just go work at Chipotle and fold the burrito.
00:06:32.040 Fair enough. Fair enough. I agree with that. Fair enough.
00:06:36.400 I also oppose H-1B visas in Toto, so I'm consistent. 1.00
00:06:42.660 Well, I also wanted to say, I mean, I agree that less people should go to college overall.
00:06:49.060 I mean, somebody else said, I don't think anybody disagrees with that.
00:06:52.820 But there's two issues.
00:06:53.760 They do.
00:06:54.480 Number one, the, well, yeah, well, number one, it is kind of funny.
00:07:00.440 Somebody pointed out earlier that you see a lot of these conservative personalities saying, you know, don't go to college.
00:07:06.380 It's full of libtards. 1.00
00:07:08.120 Mike Rowe says to go work a trade job.
00:07:10.540 They're basically ceding these institutions to the left.
00:07:15.200 And then they'll turn around and say, you know, oh, the long march, the left conquered the institutions.
00:07:21.220 Not really.
00:07:22.000 You guys just kind of ceded ground to them.
00:07:25.140 The other thing is, I mean.
00:07:26.460 Let me stop there.
00:07:27.520 Sorry.
00:07:27.860 Okay.
00:07:28.060 Well, I just want to jump in on these things.
00:07:32.380 So, a couple of points.
00:07:35.600 First off, you speak differently to different audiences.
00:07:41.480 You don't, this is something we should learn from Plato.
00:07:43.900 Many other people have said it.
00:07:45.620 Like, you speak differently to a madman than you do to a reasonable man.
00:07:51.340 You speak differently to a child than you do to an adult.
00:07:55.240 But you have, for most people, telling them not to go to college is actually good advice.
00:08:04.680 Now, would I say that to someone who has real potential, et cetera?
00:08:10.420 No. 1.00
00:08:11.280 But unless you understand that you have to speak differently to different people, then you're full of shit. 1.00
00:08:17.780 Because, like, on the aggregate, getting a 70K job at Chipotle is good. 0.99
00:08:24.340 That's a good idea, in fact.
00:08:26.860 Don't waste your time at college.
00:08:28.600 Most people should be given that advice.
00:08:31.780 We, because we understand human differences and hierarchies, et cetera, we understand that you can tell different people different things.
00:08:41.100 They, as conservatards, think that, like, oh, you know, I don't know.
00:08:47.000 We're all Americans. 1.00
00:08:48.300 It's some bullshit like that. 1.00
00:08:49.860 So, I would stress that. 0.99
00:08:52.420 Secondly, this is something I've been thinking about it.
00:08:56.640 Is it really the case that all of these conservatard parents told their kid not to go to college, whereas the libtard parents all told their kids to go to college, and thus college is full of libtards? 0.99
00:09:14.200 Or is it the case that the type of intelligent person who can succeed at college is far more likely to become a libtard and or that libtardism is a kind of managerial elite strategy for America? 0.99
00:09:40.760 So, it's not a coincidence that all of these people become libtards because they're, first off, more predisposed intelligence and openness and et cetera of being correlated. 1.00
00:09:56.800 They're more predisposed to becoming libtarded, but also libtardism is the reigning ideology of the government in corporate America. 0.93
00:10:07.840 And thus, if you want to get with the program, and these people are good at getting with the program, that is perceiving how the world works and kind of fitting into that, that you're going to become a libtard. 0.81
00:10:18.400 So, there's no world in which there's like a long march by conservatards to produce an ideology like conservatardism, which doesn't function as a managerial ideology.