floofloof

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[–] floofloof 74 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

There are also those 34 felony convictions. And the civil court finding that he raped a woman.

[–] floofloof 48 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

We need more people prepared to not be careful. Being careful means acquiescing to oppression in silence. Real resistance means taking risks.

[–] floofloof 14 points 9 hours ago

Don't cave, Harvard.

[–] floofloof 2 points 9 hours ago

An embarrassment, but more importantly a danger to the USA and the rest of the world.

[–] floofloof 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Ah, but Democrats will fight back by (1) pointing out that it's against the rules, (2) waiting for him to acknowledge his error and apologize, and (3) voting for their own imprisonment.

[–] floofloof 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

For all their professed know-how with money, conservatives have never understood the idea of investing in society for a long-term return. They're always very short-sighted.

[–] floofloof 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Indeed. If only Americans would stop their Nazis before that becomes our job.

[–] floofloof 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

For me the recommendations have been circling the drain for a while. It's just the same songs over and over again, and it seems to have decided that I only like ambient electronic music and indie pop, both of which I actually find quite boring. No matter what I do, and no matter how much I like songs in other genres, that's what it serves me, along with the occasional '80s hit because it has figured out I'm old. It was good for a few years but then seemed to get stuck in a rut.

[–] floofloof 16 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I fear the plan is darker than that. They will keep sending people in, and El Salvador promises that no one will ever come out (even if they're innocent). If you keep piling people in and never let anyone out, you run out of space unless you find some other way to dispose of people.

[–] floofloof 44 points 11 hours ago

“Anyone who has (not) broken the law should not be worried,” Leavitt told The Associated Press. “If you have broken the law and engaged in the weaponization of justice, then you should be worried. It’s that simple.”

The blatant abuse of language is one of the most disgusting ways fascists revel in their power. Everyone knows they're doing exactly what they falsely accuse others of doing, but they love saying it to remind you that there's nothing you can do now they have all the power.

[–] floofloof 2 points 11 hours ago

Canada, please no Poilievre.

[–] floofloof 17 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

That tends to be the case in many countries because the left are under so much scrutiny they have to be very careful with budgets. The right, on the other hand, are given a pass to do all kinds of irresponsible things because they are assumed to be "fiscally responsible" and their supporters only want to hear them say "tax cut" a few times and they're satisfied.

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How I Beat Male Radicalization (darrellowens.substack.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/19420914

Trying to understand why I had these opinions, I recalled how much different being a man felt at 18 versus 28. I had no money which I presumed meant I had no value to the opposite sex. I wanted the company of women and girls, but I also resented them because I lacked experience in dating and my few experiences were rocky. A lot of magazines and headlines focused on the shortcomings of men and boys in the early 2010s, and it was easy for me to get negatively polarized into thinking it was a personal attack. Academic feminism did and does a much better job explaining patriarchy better than blogs and news sites which boiled down systems of sexism to individual behaviors.

My experience as a resentful teen boy wasn’t unique. It’s the same experience that millions of boys are going through, which they’d ordinarily grow out of by the time they hit their twenties. In my case, it was happening during a period of social revolution on gender and during an evolution in mass communications. Many of these early communities on Atheism, which captured me for their sensibility and anti-orthodoxy, evolved into anti-progressivism and eventually evolved into the Redpill and Manosphere which is how millions of young boys today engage with their gender. At least my period in this mindset was short lived: about two years. By the time 2016 rolled around, I had clearly lost interest in online gender wars as tyranny seemed a greater threat. I was now 24 and actively attending college; I had plenty of friendships and dating experiences with women, and that teenage resentment was forgotten.

The big crisis we’re dealing with today is that the resentment is not only not expiring when men get into their twenties, but it’s being weaponized globally by parties against men’s material interests. What young boys like me didn’t realize when we were being lectured about patriarchy and the problems of men, is that being a man is an extremely privileged position over women, we’re just not old enough to benefit from it yet. This presents a problem on how we teach oppression and discrimination to young people who have little autonomy of their own and feel bad when you imply your immutable characteristics harm people you seek validation from.

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