It's also all that they have because they've been trying to redefine masculinity for years.
These people don't understand brain chemistry, don't understand sex roles, don't understand anything, but they want to dictate to you what's masculine and feminine.
I hate the feminists and the communists, sure -- but I have a special level of hatred reserved for the charlatan men who barked on command.
Still play Out of the Park Baseball every day, but I've been blessed to have a great online league that's been going with the same core group for 6+ years.
I play NBA2k16 for my repetitive mind-off time
I've been replaying the retro FF games -- just have a replay of 6 left.
(For the curious, FF1 - B+ tier / FF2 - F tier / FF3 - B tier / FF4 - A+ tier / FFV - B+ tier / FF6 - S tier (obviously) -- I liked 3 way more than I expected, and 5 was a lot of fun throughout)
Charles got absolutely broken by the military. Maybe he was broken beforehand, I dunno.
But the dude has been an absolute lunatic before he ever put on a dress and decided to look like the villain in a children's book.
Oh, but if there are two words all Koreans know it's fuck and THAT ONE. Not that they get offended by it, but they know what this idiot was trying to do.
I spent a few years teaching English in Korea. My favorite favorite class was this class of near-fluent sixth graders. I told the class they could ask me any question as long as it was thoughful.
The school hired a black teacher, which was a big deal. Parents had to vote on it and everything.
Her first day, one of my students comes to class all concerned and asked "teacher what is a nigger?"
That was a good lesson... I love honest questions like that. We had a good talk, and the kid ended it by asking "so when I was in New York and someone called me a chink... kind of the same thing?"
Yeah kid, you got it. Now you gotta understand the inherent violence risk that comes with it for obvious reasons.
Because these feuds go beyond individuals.
I am sure I could go to the Congo or Afghanistan and find plenty of good people to break bread with, but all I would need to do is run into one or two people who hate me on sight with an itchy trigger finger and it would be game over.
And there are plenty of those running around, believe me.
There is not a fine line between brave and stupid in these cases. Every white idiot who ends up dead or raped in these third world shitholes got exactly what they deserved -- because you know none of them are taking the proper security measures.
Man am I glad Pokemon went to shit before this.
Ten years ago this would upset me. Now... well, this is the beginning of the end. RIP.
When* are those keys is the better question.
Maybe someone went back to 1946 and stayed there.
One of the scariest moments of my life... I don't tell this story very often because I don't think I can convey it accurately if you don't already understand how bad the problem is:
A long time ago I was self-described "very liberal" to the point where I was a PhD student in Sociology. Yes, that was me.
But right from the rip it didn't sit well. Why the fuck were we reading Marx on day 1? Why the fuck are these idiots celebrating Freud? I stumbled through two years while always reading stuff on the periphery, as well.
The summer I was supposed to be writing my thesis I was reading. It started with The Myth of Male Power (which is nearly impossible to find now, on purpose) and went into Who Stole Feminism? and went through about 50 other books and dozens of papers.
I came out the other side with a worldview that made sense. I had to believe that my colleagues would be as thrilled as I was to learn something new. We had all talked about the inconsistencies in the coursework and theoretical background, and I thought I had found a missing piece of some value.
I have never in my life seen people so resistant to ideas that weren't in the pre-packaged box. There was no curiosity, there was an immediate "wait, take men's issues seriously? BURN THE HERETIC" backlash. It was immediately obvious these people were so far down the hole there was no coming back. Cognitive Dissonance had long been murdered. And the entire department of professors was united on this.
Classes for my third year started in a week or two. I wrote a very long email telling the powers that be exactly what they could do with a lifetime supply of chocolate and was back home 5 states away within 36 hours.
I ended up moving to Asia for 5 years... that was the depth of my despair. I definitely haven't done that sense justice in this post, either.
When I talk about why I left grad school these days, I usually just refer to it as "staring into an abyss that shook me to my soul."
It is why, more than anything else, I am MAGA to the core. I will stand with people who haven't bludgeoned their common sense to death with postmodernist bullshit every day.
I don't know who else could have broken me from that miasma if not for Trump and his unabashedly pro-America rhetoric. This is the fight worth having.
During the Dark Times of 2020-2022 we lived in Kansas which was (thankfully) pretty normal. We drove all over: denver once a month (8 hours each way), we did a loop down to the Grand Canyon and back in a week, and we went south towards Arkansas and up to the Dakotas.
I put 65,000 miles on my car in 2.5 years and none of that was a commute.
But I have noticed people cannot fucking drive anymore.
Well of course.
When the equal pay movement was really starting to get going in the 70s and 80s, the loudest and most vociferous voices were the wives of the CEOs who were afraid it would fuck up their gravy train.
Nah, the oversampling of Jews has less to do with intelligence and more to do with money.
You absolutely can buy your way into these schools, even if it's indirect.
It just underscores that the third world is really the third world.
China achieves its results (which still aren't at the level of the US) through some really authoritarian pratices. I think Yao Ming still isn't as famous in the USA as he deserves to be because he was (and is) so beholden to China.
India is largely undeveloped. They have a ton of people but not much else to show for it.
But they will surely put our factories there and decimate our middle class.
Just more evidence that globalization is a scam.
Because he was in academia fairly recently. You can't sneeze without meeting some gender weirdo.
But in all honesty they aren't all bad people. There are smart but weird people who aren't extremely unpleasant to be around, but they are pretty rare.
It isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I think Vance is a really smart guy and when you are really smart you tend to get along well with other people who are really smart just because you have that connection. Just another possible explanation.
I mean, I agree with this as well.
Tax cuts aren't a bribe and I won't really entertain a position otherwise.
The only way we can "bribe" people into having more kids is to bribe them into having stable families.
This means stable manufacturing jobs. Good paying jobs that lead into a stable life which leads into a stable family.
Bribe them with a decent economy and a fair justice system.
Bribe them with all the fruits of good citizenship.
That's the only way to fix this country. Every day under this administration we stray further from this.
But you cannot ever put a bandaid on this problem. Money can never replace stability and continuity in development of our children.
That's true enough.
But we're saying the same thing. His is a pessimistic view, mine is more optimistic.
The purpose of a system is what it does. And what the liberal system does is dogshit.
I've talked with Imp a lot and have spent a lot of time in this forum saying "Imp isn't necessarily wrong, but his tact sucks."
That was just the first time I have ever posted saying "yes it probably is women's fault." You said that it isn't feminism but it is liberalism... I say "what is the difference?"
When you have a 20, 30, or even 40 point difference in polling trends between single unmarried childless women, then that becomes the bedrock of the party.
The Democrat Party has become the party of histrionic cat ladies and academics who don't operate within a fact-based world. The liberal agenda is the feminist agenda.
I truly don't know how you reverse this trend without a collapse so spectacular that these powerful feminist voices have truly nothing to offer and start to scurry to whatever perceived "safety" they can find.
I actually don't think it is a con at all. I see him mostly as a victim of the culture war. That shit took a toll on his psyche and we can see it laid bare.
I think he has been looking for people to trust since he started becoming persona non grata in Canadian academic and Psychological circles. This has led him to some really curious partnerships.
Daily Wire is not the place for Peterson. Peterson was at his best when he wasn't arguing from a political perspective, but now he kind of is. But they were friendly to him when not many places were.
The Tate stuff with his daughter makes less sense, especially when you are as deep in the gender game as Peterson is. Tate is nothing more than a grifter. A new age Pick Up Artist who pulls psychological sleight of hand and uses that to justify his supposed expertise.
I can't fault a layman for not understanding what Andrew Tate is doing, but Peterson should have known better.
George Floyd was a perfect opportunity that the media has been salivating for for over a decade. Every year (and even in 2020) they tried to elevate a shooting or death into a full riot. 99% of the time there's some factor that makes it abundantly clear to normies that it isn't worth the riot.
To be fair, even George Floyd had numerous factors that made this not a big deal. First and foremost, if you can yell "I can't breathe" then... you can breathe. He was committing a crime (passing counterfeit bills) and had a lengthy criminal history. But the optics were so bad the story went viral and any attempt to point out these facts just got you labeled as "part of the problem."
This case is different in a key way: no one is trying to defend the cop.
In a way, the key part of a PERFECT SITUATION is to find a cop in a position where the media can run with a narrative of police brutality AND enough people try to counter the narrative. This has the counterintuitive effect of making the story even bigger and swelling the false narrative. This pattern doesn't happen when the cop is CLEARLY in the wrong. It proves the system works. No outrage.
There's a lot of scheming and maneuvering that makes these events pop up in the national discourse.
I think Peterson is just broken at this point.
There's plenty of anger here, but it's impotent anger. He sounds like a broken man who has lost the will to fight (but not the will to bitch about it). We have known (or at least I have known) about this gender stuff for 20 years now.
He's not wrong, but he's being a little bit too hyperbolic to really get the normies' attention.
And the real problem is the feminine imperative which is powered by emotion and feeling and has the full weight of the DNC (and most of the Federal government) behind it. It's led to:
-Kids getting mutilated at the altar of Gender for virtue signaling points
-Women and children being sold into sex slavery for virtue signaling points on the border
-Failing schools because schools are more concerned with activism and virtue signaling points than education.
-Speech needs to be censored because security is more important than liberty (feminine imperative)
It's the same rot in all areas. Gender shit is bad, but everything is bad. Bad bad bad all the way down, and it's largely because women have attached legitimate government power to their histrionic whims.
Sorry if that makes me sound like Imp, but it's maybe the core part of his thesis that's correct. I don't know what we do about it.
But these things will continue to happen wherever women's interests intersect with government power.
I know we're all being facetious in this thread, but I believe that there actually is an unintended consequence of softening language (and this has bitten the left in the ass).
If you make undesirable things sound desirable then people lose some motivation to escape from those undesirable things. We started calling ghettos "projects" and now there's less shame in living there. We stop calling it Welfare and start calling it Public Assistance, same thing.
I'll even paraphrase George Carlin: I bet we'd take PTSD more seriously if it was still called "Shell Shock."
If such a thing as a "slave gulag" existed, that'd probably be the best name for it, because it sounds like a place nobody wants to be.
If anything this helps Trump because he can't really go in on his attacks the way he can with... literally anyone.
Even while the media was pretending biden wasnt senile, Trump couldn't give him the Jeb treatment because everyone would see him beating up on a senile old man.
Hey, if you ignore the poverty at the fringes, Cleveland is doing alright.
Well, I'm an idiot. Here I was thinking she was going to lecture the man child throwing a tantrum, even through the words "out of respect..."
Perfect summation of everything wrong with the left. Manchild tantrum more important than the ideas of another.