fantoozie @ head_socj @midwest.social

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Thanks for drawing me back in towards empathy. I totally agree with everything you've said.

Nobody does a damn thing about it? Way to pre-emptively comply you spineless cuck.

Facts. But the other side of that is the massively unequal tax burden. Tax corporations and wealthy proportionally to their reported net worth and use that to fund substantial public services (healthcare, transportation, education, childcare) so that rising wages aren't just funneled back into the same pockets.

You're wrong about the founders not understanding identity politics; I recommend you read through George Washington's farewell address. It's is lengthy, for sure, but it explicitly warns Americans about the danger of unchecked fealty to a political party and the promulgation of a politics of identity versus national interest and unity.

The founders knew our democracy would be repeatedly tested by enemies foreign and domestic (almost like they included that in the Constitution for a reason) they simply hoped we would be educated enough to see when we're being manipulated, and faithful enough to the country's ideals to defend it. We'll see if they're right.

I hope you're practicing rolling on your belly and wagging your tail for fascists.

What a useless, whiny attitude to have.

I have very little faith that this ship will be turned around. It's not even the explicit invasions of privacy from facial recognition that are the most damning. Its the hordes of people willingly providing their data through social media. Our culture has embraced the erosion of privacy and autonomy with such enthusiasm it almost feels engineered. In fact, it very well might be. When we let money dictate the stories we tell and who tells them, it shouldn't come as a surprise that culture becomes yet another tool to entrench the inequality we live in.

I think that's a very sanitary answer. My opinion? It's not some mysterious sociological quandary to unravel why men are sexually frustrated and lonely. These young men have few prospects, a bleak future, and have been raised with exploitative social media that's slowly eroded their critical thinking skills and empathy towards others. Their failure to achieve a life they've been told they're entitled to all their lives breeds resentment and is being manipulated against women and minorities as a function of social engineering through social media algorithms.

Oh no all caps! I'll never recover from this

Im not sure what you're talking about. I'm simply calling attention to the fact that Trump is a manifestation of a much more fundamental dissonance between Americans and the rest of the world, particularly the Global South, and even if this country turned around right now the trajectory towards technocratic authoritarianism has been leaning towards this since 9/11. The US is a sick, twisted place; that's why Trump's your president.

Great comment. I think they can be equally intelligent in recognizing the consequences of their actions while also being so short-sighted and obsessed with control and immediate financial and political gain that they don't recognize how much harm theyre causing for all parties.

Agreed. These jobs are overwhelmingly concentratedin developing nations and pay pathetic wages, too.

I'm actually impressed at how ridiculous this is. But I'll bite:

What's the plight of men?

Is it sexual frustration?

Is the solution ensuring that young men have access to sex, regardless of the means or impact on women?

If that isn't feasible, are we simply supposed to engage in war to cull off these sex-starved, victimized men who seemingly are incapable of contributing to society in any other way then impregnating women and waging violence?

If so, what is the benefit of living in such a world?

Lol the West is doing that all on its own. But keep crying or whatever l.

Right but Western aid has only ever done good right? I mean, that's why South America and Central Africa are booming with industry and lack any serious endemic diseases right? Because the West made sure they would have the same living standards and be seen as truly equal competitors , right?...right?

But what will you do when the rest of the world's working poor turns around and suddenly you're "them"

No it's not. A well off doctor in the U.S. has more disposable income and assets than ~97% of the worlds population, and is able to sustain their resulting material wealth as a function of economic labor exploitation of "developing" countries

Y'all are just mad because Trump is kicking you down to hang with the rest of us poors.

Yeah as a brown immigrant also in the US...get over it. This was inevitable; were just speedrunning it. I know you're hurting and want to expel that pain, but you really need to figure out how to channel it into something constructive instead of whining on the Internet.

You're conflating political ideologies of radical groups with a false narrative that the entirety of Germany is inherently racist, and therefore irredeemable. I don't disagree with your points regarding genocide in Gaza, but you're also racist AF.

Oh, right; like empathy. /s