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  • Probably more than a few cannibals in Gaza too right now, sadly.

  • I think this person sees someone pointing out the problems facing young men and automatically thinks 'incel'. It can be disorienting to see people who don't hate women advocating for young men.

  • Respectfully, your hostile and reactionary tone demonstrated quite well that you had no intention of discussing things in a rational manner. You toss around terms like 'redpill' like they're Halloween candy, and it demonstrates that even having the discussion is enough to set off your temper. I even gave you an example of the imbalance in economic opportunity favoring women and minorities, and you just ignored it.

    And that's fine.

    Be angry, but the least you could do is try to be productive.

    The problem is the systemic impoverishment of young men is the root cause of all this, and that is what needs to be fixed if you want to fix misogyny.

  • No, this is a misrepresentation of my argument.

    From the 70's to a few months ago, governments have made it a fundamental priority to elevate women and minorities, and it's worked. (Go look at the demographics of college enrollment, at least here in the US, if you don't believe me.)

    I'm arguing that to fix misogyny you have to fix the fundamental economic crises affecting young people.

    But I appreciate that you were very quick to demonstrate the point I made about the fashionability of blaming young men and pretending these problems simply don't exist.

  • I think it's far more fundamental than that.

    You've got a generation of young men who did what they were supposed to culturally: went to school, got good grades, went to college, never broke any laws, and their choices in life are permanent debt and struggling to afford a roach-infested studio apartment, living with their parents, or joining the military to survive. Here in the United States minimum wage won't even buy you a cup of coffee in large swaths of the country. (And 2/3 of the states still use that as their standard.)

    The social contract has been broken, and for the first time, you've got a generation who are not going to live more fulfilled and enriched lives than their parents largely by no fault of their own.

    Of course they're pissed. Governments should be addressing this, but it's more fashionable to blame young men instead, and the right-wingers are the only ones willing to admit there are fundamental economic crises for men.

  • Headlines like this are a good reminder that, except for your local surroundings, you're basically powerless change anything meaningful.

  • Agreed.

    Though I do think that if progressive-minded people were more apt to fly the American flag at protests, it would be harder to criticize them.

  • Americans love to subdivide themselves, and that's especially true for activists. The flag reflects that.

  • It feels like 2001 all over again. The Dubya-era WMD playbook is out and they're not even being subtle about it.

  • What gets me about the 10 Commandments is that most of them aren't even represented in US or International law.

    If they were, Donald would have already been stoned to death.

  • Somebody get this man a whole-ass NY-style pepperoni pizza immediately.

  • I wish I knew how to get people to care as much about wages and health care as they do about this stupid shit.

  • …and they basically stole it

    It's the American way. We're honestly lucky that it wasn't feasible for the big telecoms to build their own versions of the Internet, or there'd be several of those too.

  • Is this not the responsible thing to do?

  • I recall this being the major complaint from Americans about ending the permanent war we had going in Afghanistan too.