Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Do fleshlights not work on black people?

So you had an internet connection for three years prior to the election of 2024 to include the very long campaign cycle, and didn't think "You know what? This guy has already been president, so let's look up how that went."

You should not have the right to vote.

What about his first term would convince you Trump wasn't a liar?

It is rapidly becoming hard to deny that anyone less than Captain Planet villains are in charge.

Do we collect spider silk on an industrial scale?

I remember seeing something about genetically modifying goats such that they would produce the proteins in spider silk in their milk, so the milk could be processed and then silk could be mechanically spun. This is a half-remembered TV documentary from years and years ago, so.

Which were America's problem...how exactly? I will 100% grant you, Germany deserved a swift lead pipe to the mouth for how the 1940's went. The United States of America, an independent nation in a different hemisphere to which none of that happened, was trying to stay out of it because Europe is not our fault.

We had no mutual defense treaties with anyone in Europe in the 1930's. It wasn't our fight. In what way was the safety or sovereignty of Poland our problem in 1939? Precisely how many American lives did we owe Poland at the time?

All you little European nations are so big and proud until the goddamn krauts start getting uppity then it's "Why didn't you invade a foreign nation that didn't do anything to you, Uncle Sam?"

This is why we have NATO. Now we do have a mutual defense pact with much of Europe, so if anybody invades a member country, the rest of us come running.

War ME, War XP, War Vista, then we can have World War 7.

So you want us to instantly invade any country whose leader we don't like. KAY!

Meanwhile in another thread I saw some Brits bitching about America not entering WWII until the end of 1941.

You're the bad guy for trying to stay out of international affairs, you're the bad guy for getting into international affairs. If you find yourself forced to play a game you can't win, Just start hurting people.

I've seen two things out of "Men's Health Awareness Month":

• The rainbow hair squad bawling about "No it's Pride Month"
• People posting lazy image macros with lies like "It's okay to show your feelings" in them.

I have no fucking interest in National Whatever Day or Something Awareness Month. They always end up an exercise in worthless busybody tokenism, and the more of them we put in place the more hilarious collisions we're going to find. I got a great idea, let's start observing National Temperence Week as the first week of May, so that we can generate pointless anger at the people drinking Corona and margaritas on Cinco De Mayo. I can hear Latinos now saying "Oh what the fuck have the white people made themselves mad about now?"

The messaging I have seen about "Men's Health Awareness Month" has mostly been addressed to men saying things like "It's okay to share, it's okay to cry, there are five lights." His lived experience has shown that no, it is not. He is overwhelmingly expected to be stable, and any display of weakness will permanently lessen his worth in anyone's eyes. Telling HIM to open up when those are the consequences he knows await, addressing the problem as a change HE needs to make is just pissing up a rope.

I'm going to use the movie Fight Club as an illustrative device here: Pretty much all of the men in this setting find their social and emotional needs unmet by the structure of society. The buzzword you see thrown around today for this is "lack of third spaces." The men in the testicular cancer group have basically only one pain to share with each other: loss of family, marriages, jobs etc. The men respond strongly positively to Fight Club, which at first is basically an underground bare knuckle boxing ring started by a mentally ill man. I have a hypothesis that something like a pickup game of basketball would have served much the same function, that what the men in this setting really need is time to do physical activities with other men, to form those bonds the way men actually do.

On that note, I'll be right back.

Gentlemen, let's go on a hike

The Brothers Green were doing that shit 15 years ago.

This is one where I think the ball is very much in the women's court.

I've seen a trend of vertical videos of fathers playing with their children, with a caption similar to "my latest ick."

Millennial men are the most engaged cohort of dads in living memory, and women have responded pretty poorly to this.

Bring back periods in initialisms. U.N.

Yeah at first during onboarding when you're running like one smelter into one constructor on the ground with a wavy belt and spamming power poles everywhere it's kinda goofy but when you start designing factories you can make some cool looking stuff.

Just bad advice we give all middle schoolers. If at first you don't succeed, try try again.

There's bound to actually be free candy in one of those damn unmarked vans.

Okay, so men should vote Republican. Got it.

Y'all, I just got my replacement tooth, so I'm finally off my mechanical diet, and I've been waiting months to eat some hard shell TACOS! Some SPICY CHICKEN TACOS!

"How do we get young men into progressive politics?"

I know! I know! Make every conversation including this one about women!