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if you actually believe the fox news ass all men are rapists line

I heard that first-hand from women on this site.

you wouldn’t argue if I said all bears are dangerous

Yeah no shit, that's the point.

Because retailers are middle-men by definition.

Hell, a large amount of local businesses' stock is probably bought on Amazon Business.

Unfortunately, all institutions need to divest their funding sources away from the Federal government so these economic threats can't be used against them.

I live in a fairly small, poor, remote suburb of my city's district. The city is divided into districts, with a representative for each district, and the power of the city government is largely in the hands of these representatives. My neighborhood is part of a district that, due to geography, is mostly very separated from us (think like a long thin line sticking way out of the main body of the district with my neighborhood on the end of it).

Certain city boards were trying to make up revenue by taxing our neighborhood specifically in various ways. We were obviously furious about it. We have regularly scheduled community town halls, like all the districts, and our rep shows up at them.

The town hall after the taxation proposal was released was scheduled to run from 3pm to 6pm. It lasted until well after midnight.

My district rep stayed there the whole time, obviously exhausted but still asking questions and opinions of the speakers and making promises. He promised to do something about it. And sure enough, within a month, the city boards backtracked on the taxation scheme.

We're a poor neighborhood, and we're not super numerous either. He didn't have to help us, he could have sacrificed us to subsidize the main body of the district. But he didn't, he stayed all night and then went and fought for us in the city government. He later went on to higher offices at the state and federal level.

Also, I once accidentally touched the Mayor's boob at a party rally, so that could count I guess.

I was referring to IRL safe spaces and support groups.

Making men's spaces online specifically has the dual problem of being attacked by both misogynists and radical feminists. It's a lot of work and a lot of hate to deal with, so they don't pop up a lot. But yes, they do exist, there's a semi-active menslib community on lemmy for example. I think that one veers way too heavily into the "us men are really awful aren't we?" feminist takes, personally; the reddit one was a lot better.

no one is saying all men are rapists

You know that's not true.

You know that's not what I'm talking about.

Plural "you". I treat Leftists as interchangeable, since you all parrot the same talking points. Like how suddenly everyone forgot about Gaza.

And hang on, are you really suggesting Obamacare increased economic inequality?

Yes, Democrats are pro-business. Many of them moreso than I (or most Democrats) would like. But there is a significant wing of the Democrats that constantly push for more regulation and trust busting, higher taxes on the rich, more benefits for the poor. Everything you want, short of full worker ownership of the means of production (and some are in favor of that too). This wing is not in control of the Democratic party because of two reasons: 1. until the MAGA takeover, compromise was necessary with Republicans to get legislation passed and people elected; and 2. Leftists refuse to vote, so the progressive wing of the Democratic party has a dramatically smaller base than it should.

But that's a bit of a tangent. It is entirely possible to have both a liberal economic philosophy AND a strong government to check businesses. Europe has been doing it for generations. Liberal economic philosophy is not the problem. The problem is Republicans - both the business interests capturing the government, and the reactionaries tearing the government down. And now, recently, the outright fascists trying to remake the government into a tool of oppression. None of these are inherent facets of liberal economics. They're something that can be and need to be kept in check, and we are failing to do so. If anything, they're inherent facets of any economic paradigm, and whatever you want to replace liberalism with will have to deal with them too.

Man, I have been in SO MANY internet arguments where I am simultaneously arguing against a woman that yes, men have problems, while also arguing against a man that no, those problems are not worse on the whole than women have.

Back when the whole "bear in the woods" thing was going around misogynists would try to jump in and support me.

Woman: "all men are rapists"

Me: "that's insulting and hurtful and misandrist, and also not even close to true"

Misogynist: "Yeah! And also women are heartless bitches!"

Me: "I don't remember asking YOU a goddamn thing"

Men don't always isolate by choice. There's a large cultural aversion to creating and sustaining male-only spaces, and that aversion comes from all sectors.

Every college campus has a women's club but if you try making a men's club you'll probably get reprimanded.

I'm not mocking, she was cool as hell.

It's just...fuckin weird.

NOPE

FUCKIN HOLD IT

You don't get to spend all day conflating liberals and neoliberals and then just de-conflate them whenever you want. You damn Leftists have spent 10 years pretending that liberal = neoliberal. Neoliberals are fucking Republicans. Bush, Cheney, Romney. If you're talking about neoliberal policy, then this whole conversation has little to do with Democrats.

So let's get this shit straight right now: are we talking about Democrat policies and politicians, or Republican policies and politicians?

Remember when that dude blew up his cybertruck in front of Trump tower and everyone was like "oh it probably just did that" rofl

Duuuude why is the air force full of weebs

One of my coworkers was a female former air force mechanic and even SHE was a fuckin weeb

k.

Well I would definitely put blahaj down as a queer-focused space rather than a women-focused space. It's inclusive, women are welcome, but the community there is very much about queer issues.

I don't think we can equate "queer space" with "women's space".

You really don't see the benefit to a group of similar people to have a space focused on them, their wants and needs and daily lives? A community of people like them? It's one of the most fundamental human desires.

Neoliberal policy has led (as it always does) to massive wealth inequality and a general mistrust in government.

This is the keystone of your entire position and you breezed past it as if it wasn't total fiction. Liberal policies have lifted billions of people globally out of poverty. Over the last century, they have measurably improved lives to an extent and at a speed that would stagger a peasant in the 1600s. Liberal capitalism is, in an extremely measurable way, quite likely the greatest invention in the history of mankind.

In the near term, Democratic policies under Biden literally reduced the wealth gap for the first time in a generation. The problem was, facts be damned, people felt like the wealth gap was getting worse.

Which brings us to the real reason for distrust in government under democratic policies - literal fucking media propaganda. The Fascists took over the media apparatus, and the rest was history.

In a personal sense, I define productivity mainly as objectively measurable accomplishment over a period of time. If I used time productively, I either improved my circumstances (or my employer's circumstances, when they're paying me for my time) or worked towards that improvement in a permanent way. Research and learning is productive, when it furthers my ability to improve my circumstances. Research and learning for its own sake is only mildly productive in that it makes me a more knowledgeable person.

Leisure activity is NOT productive, mostly, but that's not a bad thing. The main thing is to avoid COUNTER productive activities. Leisure activity is somewhat productive when it allows me to rest and recuperate and be more productive later.

Productivity involves "getting things done" but only when those things matter. Making my bed every day has no discernible benefit to me, so that time is not spent productively. The dude in front of my house with his loud-ass leaf blower spending an hour blowing a single leaf all around the street is not being productive. Sure, it's more productive than sitting catatonically, but not by much. It's productive to him in the sense that he's getting paid for that time, but it's not productive on behalf of his employer (who is, in a sense, me via my landlord).