people got mad at me when i called the subway takes guy reactionary but "transplants don't assimilate" is straight reactionary bullshit with a red coat of paint on them
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Within six months of moving to Philadelphia you’ll be saying GO BIRDS! and starting fights with people over whether you are allowed to say you’re from South Jersey if you live in Haddonfield.
aug 7, 2025, 4:37 pm • 3 0 • view
I meant Hunterdon. Whatever. Fuck Jersey.
aug 7, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
he's not reactionary, he's extremely pro palestine and a big supporter of zohran. the take in this video is "you should participate in your community by volunteering for an org like big brothers/sisters".
aug 7, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Hi! I am actually Palestinian! This guy is still a reactionary! Using the ongoing genocide against my people to provide cover for other incredibly reactionary views is gross! Please do not do that!
aug 7, 2025, 3:44 pm • 15 0 • view
The take in this video is that perceived outsiders have a special obligation to prove that they belong, unlike natives who are presumed worthy because of their connections of blood and soil.
aug 7, 2025, 4:23 pm • 11 0 • view
Its pretty reactionary to judge immigrants as not real citizens for arbitrary reasons
aug 7, 2025, 3:35 pm • 18 0 • view
Transplants arent always immigrants
aug 7, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, migrants. The point still stands even when you think someone is not a real resident because they're from someone else that's reactionary
aug 7, 2025, 9:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Theyre a real resident to the extent that theyre not selfish or antisocial Which is how I also judge my neighbors
aug 7, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you judge native born new yorkers that way.
aug 7, 2025, 11:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Thats what the 'my neighbors' part means
aug 8, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
So you call for the removal of rude neighbors?
aug 8, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
No, i call for judging them based on their actions, thats all. Jerks have rights and its okay to call them jerks.
aug 8, 2025, 3:44 am • 0 0 • view
Seems unrelated to the op
aug 8, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
isn’t he a transplant from minnesota
aug 7, 2025, 2:23 am • 64 0 • view
And she’s from Oklahoma! Gee, why on earth would someone want to relocate to NYC from a paradise like Oklahoma? cc: @golikehellmachine.com
aug 7, 2025, 5:56 pm • 2 0 • view
mhm
aug 7, 2025, 2:23 am • 31 0 • view
Yeah but after he arrived is when the transplants changed and stopped being cool
aug 7, 2025, 2:30 am • 17 0 • view
he literally says he’s a transplant in the video and that he got involved with Big Brother/Big Sister when he first moved to the city, and that it was a great experience. y’all should watch the videos sometimes and *then* comment. sorry for picking on you here but this is a little ridiculous.
aug 7, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
As someone who's done BB/BS, I feel qualified to say that it's still a shitty take. People should do this stuff because it's the right thing to do, not because they have to prove their chops as transplants or whatever. Locals should do it too!
aug 7, 2025, 4:52 pm • 2 0 • view
people defending this dogshit take as somehow prosocial are WILD like, just to explain the obvious, the argument that recent arrivals have special obligations to “contribute” to their homes that people who were lucky enough to be born there do not by dint of birthright is incredibly reactionary
aug 7, 2025, 3:56 pm • 75 5 • view
Do they think transplants dont find work and contribute to the local economy? And im sorry, but its not like every local goes out of their way to volunteer, so maybe people should look inward at their own community before they start ostracizing people.
aug 7, 2025, 4:28 pm • 9 0 • view
I'm also confused by "transplants don't assimilate" as it relates to NYC... Like, what most of us love about NYC is that we are a melting pot of the entire world. That's what separates us from Long Fucking Island. (Also Staten Island, because fuck Staten Island.)
aug 7, 2025, 4:19 pm • 35 0 • view
Exactly. Transplanting yourself to New York is by definition assimilating yourself to New York. It’s the whole point of the place
aug 7, 2025, 7:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Lifelong Floridan here and as reactionary of a hellhole as this place is people here dont even have this extreme attitude towards transplants. We hate how they drive, but no one acts like they aren't a natural part of the community. We get snowbirds every year and some stay. That's how it is.
aug 7, 2025, 4:31 pm • 10 0 • view
lol yeah same dynamic in the bay area, a lot of the boomer NIMBY homeowner fucks also single out transplants for "not assimilating" and having the gall to want more density, as if their kids don't also like that
aug 7, 2025, 5:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Eric Adams - Queens Andrew Cuomo - Queens Donald Trump - Queens Worry less about people arriving from Wisconsin or Afghanistan and concern yourselves with the internal enemy.
aug 7, 2025, 4:24 pm • 10 0 • view
KRS-One would never.
aug 7, 2025, 4:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Imagining telling some recent immigrant doing deliveries twelve hours a day that they should be required to do some bullshit volunteer gig on top of it
aug 7, 2025, 4:22 pm • 20 0 • view
Not a fan of the subway takes guy. Bad vibes for sure
aug 7, 2025, 4:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Assimilation is overrated and over-expected, anyway
aug 7, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
If you take any of these takes and replace "transplant" with "immigrant" most people would be able to immediately recognize the problem and yet
aug 7, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
have y'all seen the "we drink too much water one" yet because oh boy
aug 7, 2025, 6:38 pm • 3 0 • view
the what
aug 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
there's another one where he's interviewing some guy on a ferry and the guy is like "we drink too much water, we have the most hydrated society in history and also too much cancer" and it is dumb as hell, truly to be seen to be believed as my words cannot do the stupidity in this vid enough justice.
aug 8, 2025, 10:42 am • 0 0 • view
ha ha, the punch line on this joke is queers exist! how progressive!! love my gender identity being the kicker for a non-joke joke!!! bsky.app/profile/quan...
aug 7, 2025, 2:23 am • 213 19 • view
This guy 100% listens to Red Scare
aug 7, 2025, 2:24 am • 38 0 • view
i know it's not the point but i am HERE for backlash against any dipshit known for holding a clip-on mic in his hand
aug 7, 2025, 2:28 am • 14 0 • view
Oh is that why they always seem to be holding something that's not microphone as part of the microphone?
aug 7, 2025, 4:21 pm • 5 0 • view
the degree to which colorful hair dye upsets people will never cease to amaze me. like i know rationally it's because the hair color signals a host of associations that make people uncomfortable, but on a personal level i'm just like... it literally doesn't matter stop talking about it.
aug 7, 2025, 6:43 pm • 8 0 • view
Oh, the amount of people talking down to me now since I started dying my hair blue is insane
aug 7, 2025, 6:46 pm • 8 0 • view
ngl my own glorious lilac mane is purposely leaning into it
aug 7, 2025, 7:28 pm • 4 0 • view
yeah i'm kinda same. might do magenta next
aug 7, 2025, 9:58 pm • 4 0 • view
and also, I'd *love* to have a definition of "Transplant" to NYC. does it include people from NJ? Westchester? what about people immigrating from another country, should we force them to work for free to 'contribute' to their new city? you can see where this is going. bsky.app/profile/mela...
aug 7, 2025, 4:15 pm • 97 6 • view
Anyone who came > 1s after you did is a transplant gentrifier of course 😂
aug 7, 2025, 4:17 pm • 7 0 • view
Facebook served me a post from a New Rochelle group with people complaining that people moving into new housing in that town were gentrifiers. This is happening in my own CNJ town people think they’re getting turned into Hoboken
aug 8, 2025, 12:24 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah in in Glen rock and there’s the same shit
aug 8, 2025, 1:20 am • 1 0 • view
What I will say is that there’s very strong evidence that if you volunteer in your community you’re way, way more likely to have positive feelings about it and be engaged in your community. I think that we should encourage that! But lol that’s not what these dipshits are saying.
aug 7, 2025, 4:17 pm • 8 0 • view
Look, I definitely agree with you, but where I take issue is the idea that such prosocial obligations rest uniquely on newcomers.
aug 7, 2025, 4:40 pm • 6 0 • view
Oh, I agree entirely
aug 7, 2025, 4:44 pm • 5 0 • view
Is this not getting causality backwoods though? People volunteer because they’re inclined to positive feelings If you’re inclined to negative feelings compulsory unpaid work seems like it would breed more resentment
aug 8, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
Well, what the research shows is that particularly for people new to their community, volunteering helps create a bond to that community.
aug 8, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
brb heading to the causality backwoods (laudatory)
aug 8, 2025, 3:59 am • 4 0 • view
What about me? Born in Queens, but moved to suburbia as a kid before moving to Brooklyn (a section of Brooklyn I was rather familiar with as a kid for ethnic reasons) after college.
aug 7, 2025, 5:54 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m sorry but jail
aug 7, 2025, 7:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Subway takes has spoken
aug 7, 2025, 7:48 pm • 3 0 • view
the vast majority of people bitching about transplants are NIMBYs in disguise. People will move, places will grow and shrink. It is up to us as a polity to see adjust for/to these trends and minimize the negative impacts while maximizing the positive ones.
aug 7, 2025, 4:17 pm • 15 0 • view
Getting angry at migration is like getting angry at the tides. Conservatives do like shouting and saying we can't explain the tides going in or out, though.
aug 7, 2025, 4:18 pm • 10 1 • view
I would say all those and more count as New Yorkers. Notable exception being every part of Staten Island; that's Pennsylvania's Kaliningrad.
aug 7, 2025, 11:10 pm • 19 1 • view
(I used to call it New Elizabeth, New Jersey, but that was really disrespectful to the Ikea)
aug 7, 2025, 11:11 pm • 4 0 • view
Does that not mean old lady anymore?
aug 7, 2025, 3:17 pm • 7 0 • view
I share this confusion
aug 7, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Its a right wing pejorative for LGBT or otherwise gender non conforming people
aug 7, 2025, 3:51 pm • 8 0 • view
"blue rinse" hasn't meant old lady in like 10ish yrs, particularly since vivid colors have become more in fashion
aug 7, 2025, 4:17 pm • 20 0 • view
TBF, a number of progressive/liberal women of distinguishment are in on the trend. But they're aggregated with their younger peers in this respect.
aug 7, 2025, 4:22 pm • 4 0 • view
The weirdest take I ever saw on this website was someone arguing that their use of "bluehair" as an insult was merely anti-queer, not reactionary Like they were genuinely more offended I was calling them a right winger than anti-LGBTQ
aug 7, 2025, 6:33 pm • 31 2 • view
I thought bluehair was an insult against hippie grannies
aug 7, 2025, 6:47 pm • 11 0 • view
I know, this is Rose DeLauro erasure
aug 7, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 7, 2025, 6:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Every time people refer to an obviously very Online thing, like Subway Takes Guy, and I don't get it - I just feel this moment of sincere pride, joy even.
aug 7, 2025, 7:52 pm • 11 0 • view
I just feel old.
aug 7, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
What exactly does this guy mean by 'transplant'?
aug 7, 2025, 2:22 am • 13 0 • view
it means transfer like a metaphor and he is the only one who gets to control the subject matter
aug 7, 2025, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view
this is me disassociating for the subway guy is not worth it
aug 7, 2025, 2:28 am • 3 0 • view
would love to have that definition pinned down.
aug 7, 2025, 2:23 am • 21 0 • view
Always reminded me of just a guy playing Cards Against Humanity on TikTok
aug 7, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Subway Oracle > Subway Takes
aug 7, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
odd how commonly immigrants and transplants then go on to say anti-immigrant and anti-transplant things. strangely consistent problem in this era of US politics the subway takes guy was born in Egypt, grew up in Minnesota and graduated from there before moving to NYC. makes his comments fucking odd
aug 7, 2025, 2:39 am • 26 0 • view
‘pull up the ladder’ mentality is unfortunately a broadly global problem in this regard
aug 7, 2025, 2:40 am • 38 0 • view
I know it exists but its so fucking dumb. I live in government housing and next door is section 8 housing. One of the apartments had a banner hanging off of it that said "Trump was right about everything." Yeah I'm sure he was right to try to destroy the section 8 program you fucking dipshit.
aug 7, 2025, 2:50 am • 21 0 • view
"Transplants don't assimilate, but I, a transplant, did." - guy who has never said good morning to any of his elderly black neighbors, who all hate his ass for stinking up the block smelling like cocaine sweat and American Spirits.
aug 7, 2025, 3:18 pm • 154 8 • view
The first time I realized this was a thing was when I was in Colorado and the dude had one of those NO VACANCY on a Colorado plate bumper stickers while wearing a North Carolina hat. This was in 1999
aug 7, 2025, 4:15 pm • 9 0 • view
Colorado, famously bereft of any open space. Was this in Boulder by any chance?
aug 7, 2025, 5:51 pm • 7 0 • view
Hilariously, Breckenridge, where I used to live. Breckenridge, where there are absolutely no transplants, only 6th generation people working the lifts, food service, and tourist shops. /s, obvs
aug 7, 2025, 5:56 pm • 7 0 • view
What does it even mean to “assimilate” in New York if you’re from another part of the US? Dropping “y’all” and replacing it with “youze”? Becoming a Mets fan instead of a Cincinnati Reds fan? (I have bad news about the number of opposing jerseys you see at any Mets game)
aug 7, 2025, 5:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Pretty funny how they both literally do the “but not me, I’m one of the good ones” bit
aug 7, 2025, 3:59 pm • 13 0 • view
💯 Like, the idea that transplants don't assimilate is just utterly disturbing. Honestly, I always loved meeting new people when I grew up in NYC and shit, by this logic, does someone who was born in NYC, left, and then moved back, count as a transplant or a 'native'?
aug 7, 2025, 3:21 pm • 31 0 • view
As far as I can tell (never watched his vids) guy follows the Joe Rogan strategy of just agreeing with whichever nonce he gives the mic to
aug 7, 2025, 5:12 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah, but I guarantee that if he put his mic in front of me and I say “we need to build more housing so people don’t get pushed out of their neighborhoods” he’d immediately stop filming and delete it.
aug 7, 2025, 5:59 pm • 5 0 • view
I doubt it
aug 13, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
One time he interviewed a woman who claimed we were losing queer spaces to "gentrifying bisexuals" aka she's seeing too many normies at her Bushwick queer bar and decided it must be those damn diet gays
aug 7, 2025, 2:49 am • 43 0 • view
oofh.
aug 7, 2025, 3:10 am • 17 0 • view
Wow, I saw this & listened to the first half, took it to mean a positive and not negatively separating between the established peoples and transplants.
aug 7, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view