The cement king of Sioux City who drives a brand new F-350 and has two vacation houses in Florida isn't an elite but a grad student with $200,000 in debt and a nose ring is, that's how this works.
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Brian Phillips
It would be so useful if everyone who writes about “elites” could make the tiny extra effort to be specific about who they’re actually talking about
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Welcome back to the Gilded Age. Try not to get trampled when the elephants dance.
to the media, "elite" actually means "you read a poem once and liked it"
Elite athlete makes sense
Otherwise it’s just a “nice” pejorative to apply to people you want to disempower.
Should've been a sheet metal worker.
Yes? Get in the elite line.
“Yes”
“Sturgill Simpson or Morgan Wallen?”
“Sturgill Simpson”
“ELITIST!!!!!”
No the other one.
Maybe the three of them get together and have a "Tides of Kill" or "If books could History" episode on the Patreon sometime .
So is the one he bought for his wife.
Not elite: not wanting or showing interest in things outside of convention, even if you’re super successful within convention
That's the rule.
Same reason they *love* to rag on NYC. Shit, Ted Cruz tried to call out Donald Trump for having "New York values" during the 2015 primaries.
Sometimes a local elite, like "opinionated person whose family owns a big construction company" can convert that gentry status into a more national level elite access, e.g. MTG.
(I always spell it out as Margarine Traitor Green, even though that's petty of me.)
Those whose trucks aren't up on blocks.
if you subscribe to any type of print news media or written journalism, you’re elite
if you have a fishing boat or anything else you hitch to your v8 quadcab, you’re just a regular hard working American