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  • 2025... IT doesn't feel real as the current year, I legitimately odn't understand how I'm still alive. I feel like an aged immortal being that was there at the dawn of man and has watched him fail to approach anything resembling a true Gilded Age, and now I crave death to see a world beyond the material, to be free from my captors, and ascend to greater things.

    I'm 33

  • It's often been pointed out that Right Wing Media Literacy is poor.

    We see this often when they root for villains or characters intentionally unsympathetic, like Bojack's Dad, Homelander.... heck Trump's 2020 Re-Election team compared him to Thanos, saying he was "inevitable" and making gifs of him as Thanos snapping the DNC away.

    So this isn't anything new in theory, but it's amazing that this "They're rooting for the bad guys because they don't know how media works" problem extends to the FUCKING BIBLE!

    The Heroes of the Bible are intentionally meek a lot of the time, the point is that even when you aren't powerful yourself, your dedication to your Faith and standing up for what's right should be enough to make up for your shortcomings, for the Lord will lift your burden.

    It's why "Proud Christian" doesn't make any sense, it's a very Pro-Humility faith!

  • This is why I believe the virtue we need more than any other is forgiveness.

    To be honest, I'd be all for legislation that makes a criminal record less damning.

    Think about it. If you tell someone "We're not going to hire you, we're not going to help you in anyway, and we're not even going to recognize your basic humanity you're a criminal and that's all you'll ever be!"

    Will they aspire to better themselves, change how people see them, pick themselves up by their bootstraps, and try to find a foot in the door?

    Or are they going to say "Well, if I'm a criminal, that's all I'll ever be and I have bills to pay, I guess I better rob a convenience store so I don't starve to death."

    The former makes for a feel good story, but the latter's going to be more realistic.

    If you tell someone they're worthless because of X, then they will live up to the label. You need to BELIEVE in someone and give them a real chance to change their ways, we cannot be defined solely by our mistakes or we will always be the worst versions of ourselves.

    And in the case of what's happening with men, they're not even being judged by their mistakes. They're not even being allowed to make mistakes, for too many have already declared them guilty by association with the penis.

    They say that men are afraid women will laugh at them, but the truth is, men are afraid that women will have them arrested for the crime of maleness.

    This is why I will never call myself a Feminist, I prefer the term Egalitarian. For I will not stoop to misandry (As Modern Feminism has often been accused of, as boys are constantly left behind while their female peers are given a leg up), nor racism (Anyone else familiar with the term "White Feminism"?)

  • This. I'm trans and I've existed in public as both a man and a woman.

    Nothing is more soul-crushing than being called The Devil simply for being of a sex that isn't even one you want to be!

    One of the few Right Wing talking points that I sort of agree with is the idea that men are demonized just for existing, because they REALLY are. I'm not surprised men are responding with hostility to being told their very masculinity is toxic.

    Don't get me wrong, Dudebros are still fucking awful, but... "I get it" if that makes sense.

    Doesn't mean I recommend anyone takes Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson's advice and no incels are not based, but... damn ya know.

  • I have mixed feelings about this, it's one of those games where people get distracted by the symbolism and graphics, that they fail to notice what the creator's trying to say.

    They think it's about finding your identity and how asserting yourself as something society says you're not supposed to be is like climbing a mountain, and just miss the REAL message...

    Which is of course that transpeople can double jump, air dash, and bounce off walls!