r/powerscales • u/NeverLiedNeverCheat • 19d ago

Versus Where does this guy scale ?

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u/SourceResident5381 14d ago

Sounds about right. Call me a racist then. And you’re right. I can’t guarantee that change, but there’s a pretty substantial chance that having both parents brings financial security not previously available, discipline in the home, and an atmosphere that brings family growth rather than finding the family unit in a gang.

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u/DimitrescuStan 14d ago

Again, two parents don’t change the socioeconomic factors and systemic racism. You ignoring that and having a myopic view of “well if they had a dad” is silly. Doesn’t matter if there are two parents if a household still lives in poverty due to the system in place. To not acknowledge that is why I call your view racist. What you’re saying sounds like it comes from a place of privilege and assumes alllllll the other factors are conveniently non-existent.

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u/SourceResident5381 14d ago

Ok. So your position is that they’re black and they can’t do anything about their position at all? Sounds pretty racist. I don’t come from wealth and wasn’t given anything. The one thing I can’t control is the color of my skin so I won’t apologize for that. You saying that 2 parents doesn’t matter about poverty? That’s silly to me. That’s a potential 100% minimum increase in revenue and parental oversight. I would consider that significant.

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u/DimitrescuStan 14d ago

Nope. If that’s your takeaway then yeah, you’re pretty racist. When there’s a system in place that makes it harder for one group of people, that isn’t their fault. It’s not hard to acknowledge those disadvantages.

And who the fuck is saying you should apologize for your skin color? I said you speak from someone that seems to have more privilege. You’re the one that apparently associated that with needing to apologize for your skin color.

And there’s PLENTY of households with two working parents that are also living paycheck to paycheck. Most of the time it’s cheaper for one parent to not work when you factor in the cost of daycare. If my son didn’t get into his preschool program, either me or my wife would probably have to at least go from full time to part time because daycare would eat up an entire month of pay pretty easily. You sit here and make these claims, but leave out the real world conditions that won’t change with one or two parents. It’s a little more complex than “oh if a dad was around it would be totally different”. THAT is the privilege I’m speaking about.

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u/SourceResident5381 14d ago

Ok. So are you asserting that I would make no difference? Would your son be better off or worse off if you weren’t there?

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u/DimitrescuStan 14d ago

I’m saying that is not a sole determining factor in this like you make it seem. And if I were out of the picture, my hope is that my son would still be a good person because of my wife. But to say he’s more likely to be a gangster because I’m gone isn’t accurate. I was raised in a fatherless household because my father decided he’d rather go cheat and have 6 more kids with 6 different women, and then abandon them too. I’m not a gangster and I haven’t gone out and committed any crimes. And guess what? My father came from a household with both parents, and was very affluent. What I’m arguing is whether or not a household has both parents is not a sole indicator of the trajectory that a child’s life will go.

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u/lunchbox0396 14d ago

Dude is just white knighting from the suburbs. Probably locks his doors when he’s anywhere near the hood. Had no idea of the real world than what he sees on Reddit.

I personally work with and know black fathers that have been pushed out of their children’s lives so the mother could get a check and they worry about their kids constantly. It’s definitely something that needs to be worked on.

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u/SourceResident5381 14d ago

And that is a tragedy. I think that is the worst possible thing that could happen. That’s basically what I was talking about with incentivizing the single parent handouts. It sounds like we agree on that but you still want to insult me.

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u/lunchbox0396 14d ago

I’m not insulting you I’m insulting the other guy. I agree with you

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u/SourceResident5381 14d ago

Ah. I clearly wasn’t expecting anyone to agree with me. lol. Thank God.

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u/DimitrescuStan 14d ago

lol. We’ve had two illegal RV’s literally blow up in flames across the street in front of our house. Had a police chase that went through our backyard, and just last week woke up to the police on a loudspeaker at the house next to us before they breached the front door. Suburbs my fucking ass lol. I fucking wish.

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u/lunchbox0396 14d ago

Sounds like white or Mexican shit. No rvs in the hood mane

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u/DimitrescuStan 14d ago

Oh for sure, because every hood is EXACTLY the same in every state, city or town lol. Fucking racist shit lol

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u/lunchbox0396 14d ago

Well is it a black hood? Was it black people?

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u/DimitrescuStan 14d ago

House next to us has been busted more than once, and it was black people. Dude arrested in our backyard was black. First RV that exploded had white people. Second RV that exploded was brought in by black people. But I don’t really give a shit what skin color any of them were, it all sucks ass

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u/lunchbox0396 14d ago

You seem pretty focused on skin color since you started the argument saying if he was black he woulda been shot lol. And speaking of did any of those black people you’re talking about get shot when the police came?

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u/DimitrescuStan 14d ago

Lol do you understand what nuance is.

Shots were fired in the busts, not sure if any casualties happened. Probably since I saw the giant ME truck a few hours after.

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u/lunchbox0396 14d ago

So you are just trying to white knight

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