WatDabney

“Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin

After reading through the other answers, I’m not sure of what to make of the fact that my first thought was coffee.

Because the Department of Transportation is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil.

What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.

It could’ve been the case that I would’ve had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I’m actually one ahead in the long run.

And that’s it.

And he’s right.

By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.

It’s akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.

That rather obviously would mean you’d failed.

So literally what happened here is Trump said, “I want to violate the Constitution” and the Supreme Court said, " Okay — go ahead."

And that’s it for the rule of law in the US.

All that’s left now is to tally the mass murders along the way to the inevitable collapse of the US, and to hope that our descendents can build something better out of the rubble.

Sorry, but no. That’s just the paper-thin excuse.

Pirating, like pretty much anything else that’s sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.

Political corruption should be a capital crime.

Ah… yeah… I see it now. I took it wrong.

And yeah.

That’s the same reason that I do the opposite - I take an equal number from each end, so the remaining eggs are centered in the carton, so I’m never surprised by a carton that’s unbalanced in an unexpected direction.

No jelly - it’s peanut butter and honey (and cinnamon), and no bread - it’s on a tortilla that’s then fried just enough to make it toasty warm but not crunchy, then rolled up.

Brands don’t mich matter. The only ingredient that can be problemstic is the peanut butter, and so long as it’s just peanuts, it’s fine.

Clearly he exemplifies the qualities the IDF values most, including brazenly engaging in indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed innocents.

Wow… I didn’t realize that got posted.

I wrote it out (mostly - I didn’t finish it), but then thought better of it, but I didn’t immediately delete it. Then later when I opened my screen, there it was, still. And I actuslly thought “Lucky I didn’t butt-post that.”

Apparently not.

Ah well…

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There was a time in our history when instant hatred of blacks was the norm too, and people then would’ve no doubt also been lost by any effort to fault the haters instead of the hated.

And before you even go there, they also would’ve been able to trot out a list of reasons why their hatred was purportedly justified.

At some point in the future (if we have a future) people will figure out that boys need and deserve help and sympathy because they too face hardships, and they’ll provide it for them, rather than just leaving them to deal with it on their own, then blaming them for turning to a bunch of toxic assholes who have made a comfortable living out of offering boys the help and support and affirmation they’re not getting elsewhere.

Until then, unfortunately, I expect to keep seeing a large chunk of society alternately disregard boys at best if not outright condemn them out of hand, then cry about the fact that they’re turning to the manosphere for support and affirmation.

I must’ve missed the part where Winston Smith hated women and wanted to rape them and remove their rights.

Either that or you’ve blithely and inaccurately assigned a particularly noxious set of behaviors and beliefs purportedly engaged in and held by some members of a group to the group collectively, and thus to each and every member of it individually.

Which is the very definition of bigotry.

Holy fuck I’m glad I’m not growing up now. This whole “incel” thong just makes me so fucking mad.

We have a subset of adolescent males who are harassed amd bullied and depressed and self-destructive, and how does the rest of socirty respond? The best they can manage is to gridgingly say things like:

You can both condemn their ideology and find it abhorrent and also remember that we need to have empathy for these people."

Many people—women especially—might find that a tall order, and Beckett-Herbert understands that reluctance. “I do understand people’s hesitancy to empathize with them, because it feels like you’re giving credence to their rhetoric,” she said. “But at the end of the day, they are human, and a lot of them are really struggling, marginalized people coming from pretty sad backgrounds. When you peruse their online world, it’s the most horrifying, angering misogyny right next to some of the saddest mental health, suicidal, low self-esteem stuff you’ve ever seen. I think humanizing them and having empathy is going to be foundational to any intervention efforts to reintegrate them. But it’s something I wrestle with a lot.”

How nice. You think maybe you should try to empathize with them and remember that they are human beings, but gee… that’s a tall order. You’re not sure if you can actually do it.

And then you have the gall to wonder why they exist - how they got to be that way. You should, if you genuinely want to do something about them, be offering them help to deal with their struggles before they even get to that stage. But no - you won’t do that. Fuck them - they’re boys, so they’re on their own.

We can care about the well-being of women and girls and also acknowledge that young men are struggling, too. Those don’t have to be at odds."

So that’s the best you can do? You “care about” girls and women but can only maybe manage to “acknowleedge” boys and men? And you still don’t understand the appeal of the manosphere?

"There is evidence that men who are short or not conventionally attractive are discriminated against in hiring.

So right there - there is evidence that one of the things the incel community complains about is in fact true.

But do you even acknowledge it? Nope.

“But there’s also a lot of evidence suggesting that this actually affects women more. Women who are overweight face a greater bias against them in hiring than men do, for example.”

You just breeze right past it and dismiss their feelings entirely, because girls and women have it worse.

Seriously, you still don’t get how we ended up with a generation of boys who think the world shits on them and girls and women get preferential treatment? Even after you just shat on them and gave girls preferential treatment?

Here’s va fucking news flash, since so many people are apparentlybtoo fucking stupid to figure itvout - if you all actually cared about thecstruggles boys are going through and listened to them and took them seriously and tried to help them, they wouldn’t have to turn to the manosphere to find someone who gives a shit about them.

It’s not complicated, so you have no fucking excuse. Stop belittling boys and treating their problems as if they somehow don’t count.

If the best you can manage is to maybe “acknoeledge” boys’ problems, even as you “care about” girls’, and you can’t even mention a problem boys experience without immediately shifting your focus away from them and to girls, then the boys aren’t the real problem - you are.

“Well, we need to do something about that. And when I say ‘we,’’ I of course mean ‘you.’” - Adrienne Berene, TES4: Oblivion

Of course.

The overall dynamic surrounding Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is simple and obvious - Israel’s actions are entirely indefensible, so all the efforts of the people responsible for it and of the many more people enabling it are directed not toward countering criticism, which is impossible, but toward silencing it.

This is such a bizarrely evil timeline.

The Republican party is a death cult.