There is legitimate trauma in his past. But "grew up in poverty" is a distinct thing.

Is your point that childhood trauma makes him an expert on public policy about poverty? I would suggest the public administration degree he got did that.

I'd suggest first-person experience makes you more of an expert than any public administration degree. No shortage of clueless public administration degree holders, with no idea of the thing they're administering, only good in theoritical bullshitting and backstabbing.

No. My point is that "JD Vance famously grew up in poverty" is not well supported.

>In any case, by those elements alone, he knows 100x about "white American struggles" than the average champion of the poor at the Met Gala and the New Yorker.

Doesn't that kinda make his current actions worse? The "met gala" people can claim ignorance, he understands struggling and still screws over the struggling.

Okay. Dude. You triggered me. The Marine Corps is not the Army. Nothing else you say has any merit with me because you can't get that basic fact right.

Are you an AI? Probably not. I think most LLMs would understand the difference between the Army and Marines.

Who cares about the exact breed of government dog?

I do.

I don't know or care which specific branch he went to. The point I make is that he had to enlist as a way out and to fund his studies, he wasn't some dude born with a silver spoon.

Don't care about the distinction between them either, or their subdivisions. Most of the times I call all of it "the army" (as in armed forces) anyway, chalk it to dyslexia if you wish.

That's not how I've heard him tell it.

You're triggered and having a tantrum because somebody confused two branches of the military in a way that had no impact to the substance of conversation?

That is not conversing in good faith, and is against the rules of the forum. Please try to do better.