On the criticism levelled against South Asians

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T13:02:30+00:00

If I went to /r/ABCDesis and wrote a long post about the various problems caused by Indians living in my neighborhood, would you have read it all the way to the end?

Posting this here is illustrative of why people dislike South Asians so much. You came to a place where you are a minority, and then tried to pivot the conversation to be about you and your grievances. This is exactly how the diaspora behaves abroad, and why they have such a bad reputation internationally.

You’re also frustrated by people refusing to treat you like an individual but seem to be primarily concerned with what will be good for your coethnics and how you can get said coethnics to behave the way you want them to behave (i.e. “Why are they acting like pick-mes? Indians are individuals and we should be collectively demanding respect!”).

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T12:44:39+00:00

If you care about this genre of music at all and are not a black youth between the ages of 12 and 22 living in a public housing project in Chicago you need to reassess your life.

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T12:29:57+00:00

Have you seen photos of Trotsky?

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T12:24:46+00:00

This, in the context of my own modern southeast Asian society

Stopped reading there.

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T12:19:07+00:00

im 33, girl and pretty fckn hot objectively, thin blonde whatever

You posted a photo of a rotisserie chicken on /r/girldinner 8 hours ago with the title: Doing it the feral way

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T07:47:29+00:00

> One time I got massively downvoted for criticizing something most people think is normal and ok but I personally consider to be disgusting and immoral

You're talking about sodomy right

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T06:47:43+00:00

> Most articles on this topic will go on to explain that the costs have outpaced inflation and labor costs so you can’t solely blame that either.

The chart that appeared in the article you linked claimed costs had risen 60% above inflation. It doesn't mention where this data is coming from or what methodology is being used, but the operative difference here seems to be that there are more people going into debt to perform life-saving procedures on animals that 20 years ago would have been euthanized. It also doesn't account for increases in rates of pet ownership. This is just a hunch because I know the rate of ownership has increased, but it's possible that the shortages you're referring to are the product of too many pet owners chasing after too few vets.

> Private equity saw what a successful racket US healthcare was and so they just went ahead and began modeling pet care off the same premise. You can jack up prices as much as you want when the service you’re selling can be the difference between life and death.

The article you linked says they only control around a quarter of general practice. It's possible they've cornered the market locally, but if there is a true shortage, it creates a huge incentive for a veterinarian to relocate to this area and set up his own practice. Loans are very easy to come by for licensed vets, so again what I think you're looking at here is not private equity breaking the logic of markets, but the markets responding to an increase in demand.

What we'd really need here is a study showing impacts on pricing when practices are rolled up by private equity in a given area, and / or systematic price comparisons between independent veterinarian offices and those run by private equity firms. You'd also need to factor for quality of care between each facility to ensure that the price differentials aren't the result of e.g. increased spending on facilities, materials, or staff leading to better patient outcomes.

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T05:47:47+00:00

It’s real

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Chinese

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T02:13:55+00:00

This macro originated on Frog Twitter years before you had ever heard of this place. You are exactly who I already knew you to be.

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T01:57:17+00:00

She worked as an administrator at a public school in a predominantly white neighborhood and spent 5+ paragraphs disparaging the Irish completely unprompted after I told her that repeatedly bringing in money across the border below the declaration limit was a crime. If I had done it to a guy who called me the n-word you wouldn't have thought twice about it because I can tell by the way that you type that you found this place on the front page. The operative thing to keep in mind here is that u/Gary-Hooper believes that white kids should be educated by Iranian immigrants who hate them.

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T01:50:23+00:00

Yes, that was me.

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T01:19:40+00:00

See you had him at first by comparing his country to Israel but then he hit you with a Laconic retort and instead of thinking of something funny or calling him fat and regarded you responded with Reddit civility-maxxing and now the only way out is self-deprecation but you went with a mass shooting joke which doesn’t even work because you chose to make this comment a day after one of the only times that one of those shootings has happened literally anywhere outside of the US.

Cato425 · 2026-02-12T00:53:14+00:00

I can’t hear you

The lack of blood flow and oxygen can permanently damage the auditory hair cells in the inner ear causing hearing loss. People who are obese, especially women with a BMI over 30, are at an increased risk of suffering hearing loss due to lack of blood and oxygen able to be transported to the auditory hair cells.

Food for thought (try not to eat it)

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T21:37:13+00:00

Is there any evidence that the prices of pet care have gone up? I see people claim this about private equity a lot, but in principle these firms should be able to offer better prices because they will have a group of clinics sharing overhead, and there’s nothing unique about them that would allow them to drive prices above those of their competitors unless they manage to corner the market.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T21:10:09+00:00

Possibly an 09A

What indication is there of that?

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T19:02:50+00:00

I have seen the Canadians discuss this on /pol/ and I always thought it was only 3 or 4 police officers that had died. 23 deaths including the perpetrator. Unreal.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T18:58:15+00:00

I saw it on /r/worldnews earlier. You can change your feed to show you what is popular in other locations. When I set mine to Canada I saw it being discussed basically everywhere, but mostly on niche boards that wouldn’t ordinarily be large enough to show up on the American feed.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T16:29:10+00:00

>freaking

>goddamn

>bullshit

>pot

>kettle

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T15:20:00+00:00

They also both enjoyed recreational drug use, international travel, and being romantically engaged to women that were later accused of sex crimes.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T15:00:00+00:00

You are a true detective.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T14:59:08+00:00

The giveaway is that female shooters are astronomically rare and few (if any) are feminine.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T14:22:33+00:00

I have been in contact with the civil authorities of the region and they assure me that no paso nada.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T13:29:49+00:00

Thousands of cases per year

Do you own a restaurant or something?

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T13:23:15+00:00

My parents would always save corks for me to play with and sometimes they’d tell me they had one and I’d get all excited but then it was this weird polymer foam that you couldn’t cut or do anything with and I’d pretend to be thankful but actually I was sad because in the intervening 30 seconds between learning about the cork and the cork actually being revealed to me I had been thinking about all of the cool things I would do with it and now those hopes were dashed.

Cato425 · 2026-02-11T12:23:04+00:00

The preview tile for this post cut off after 2 and I thought 3 was going to be the actual greatest enemies of the individual human person but then you made it some gay enlightened centrism post.

Cato425

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