It used to be true that you were less likely to be murdered in a small town.
Although it was never true that you were less likely to die, you are more likely to die in a small town than a city, simply because there are fewer people around to help and fewer resources.
However, since COVID small towns are experiencing more violence than cities, possibly because many of them have turned against common sense gun control
Thats what SAYS he means but in actuality these guys mean a black person jogging on ‘their’ street.
To clarify, I’m saying there’s no way we can behave that will be accepted by the right, because they don’t speak honestly about what they want and they argue in bad faith. Trying to satisfy them is a mistake. Like trying to satisfy Putin.
I feel like this story is essentially propaganda at this point- at least in the USA where the ‘risk’ for the rich never plays out.
The rich don’t actually risk their money. They risk the government’s money and other’s lives and livelihoods. When they fail, they get bailed. Bailed out by the banks. Or they simply don’t pay their bills and lay off all their employees and let everyone else take a bath.
Rather than inflating everything, why don’t we tax the shit out of their held wealth? Seems more direct without all the side effects of making FOOD, HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE UNAFFORDABLE
all these takes kinda suck.
The people most affected by inflation aren’t the rich at all. Theirs a whole generation inflated out of housing. Some might understand that as modern serfdom.
Because capitalism = cancer. It survives on endless growth. it hates retraction, even if the host survives longer.
So they print money and target inflation. They take actions that MAKE it so things never deflate.
There are authoritarians in every country. I don’t get the appeal - you have to think less I guess? less responsibility? - but lots of people seem eager to give up their voice if they think the person getting the power will use it against the people they don’t like.
The key is to get them to realize that eventually someone who doesn’t like them is going to get the power - maybe? But I think I’ve also heard that some of these preferences are down to physical brain structure that determines sensitivity to fear and empathy
warning this whole comment is USA-centric point of view, sorry entire rest of the world
I think you guys are talking about liberals tendency to infantilize. https://lawliberty.org/infantilizing-minority-students/
Both liberals and conservatives are basically servants of capitalism first, and derive their beliefs from rationalizing the state of the world that capitalism has created.
Conservatives believe that capitalism is the ‘natural state’ - so nothing needs to be done about the unequal outcomes.
Liberals believe that the unequal outcomes are unfair, but rather than attacking the source (capitalism), they try to solve it by ‘babying’ those they see as victims of the system, which doesn’t really help.
edit: I want to note that the source I linked has high right wing bias (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/law-liberty-bias/). I do believe that our opponents sometimes see our weaknesses clearer than ourselves, but still felt like pointing this out because they start blaming stupid shit for the systemic racism in the USA towards the end.
The point is, both parties point at each other and workers as individuals to avoid pointing at capitalism.
Was just in Montana, stronghold of libertarians- someone explained to me that you need a license from game and fish to kayak in a river. Then someone else explained that because Montana has no sales tax - rich people from all over buy their sports car there to save hundreds of thousands.
So the libertarian stronghold is really a bunch of smalltowners cucked by the rich, as usual
wild how many irrational, terribly adjusted people we have in positions of power though
yeah this convo got anger radiation from another similar convo about the same subject where the guys were blaming their economic woes on women much more openly. Essentially claiming that the reason boys were falling behind is that women have too much.
The tone of my responses to both threads blended and became angry due to scapegoating of women in the other thread, this thread was just men talking about their problems which I could’ve scrolled by.
but yeah anytime you see a guy claiming that ‘boys are falling behind because women have too much’ they are doing the work of the rich
maybe call your mom
he can understand that I dislike misogynists, not men
how does your mom feel about you minimizing women’s problems on the internet and claiming that you know the truth about locker room talk to invalidate their lived experiences?
I’m an honest to god old women on the internet who has been in tech spaces since the 90s, so I have seen (and felt) the impact of these ideologies very personally, and yes I hold people over the age of 18 responsible for their own actions. If they believe in PUA bullshit then yes I judge them for it. Are you shocked?
Either you’re adults or you’re not. I can’t afford to coddle these young men anymore, it’s damaging to me and all women - and coddling them hasn’t helped. And the people perpetuating the things aren’t dead, they’re passing the baton - to these ‘young men’.
Wake the fuck up to the fact that like, 100 rich guys are essentially slowly enslaving most of humanity, and THAT is your problem, and stop attacking women. We’re running out of time and I’m out of patience.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
old. how old are you?
You think Im judging all men but I’m only judging men who spread PUA bullshit, which they have responsibility for. Sorry you can’t get it.
well at least thats still an actual minority, instead of a majority vote like the male side.
and yes you’re correct the older the person the more skew for trump, which goes back to my point that plenty of these old fucks heard locker room talk about peeping on young girls
Haha, I don’t hate all men, I’m in a relationship, and you will see my usual activity on social media is moderating a laughter subreddit.
But I don’t have any empathy for men who believe that men are the main victims of PUA teachings, or that men are uniquely disadvantaged - they’re already not empathetic to me, obviously, because they are dismissing that these teachings harm women more than men. Pot calling kettle black?
And I dont agree that coddling these men helps them. They are already too far into the victimhood mindset. Thats the source of their problems, that and economic back-sliding of the working class in general. If their violence and anger solicits help from women that teaches exactly the wrong things.
you’re asserting its an extreme minority but Trump’s popularity among men begs to differ. These pedophilia apologists elected the man. I would have agreed with you more before 2016. Mask off moment for american men imo.
and if you’re not american I’m sorry for assuming, thats the context Im living in and thats the context Im speaking of.
I wish everyone would embrace this view so we could start talking implementation details instead of the endless ideological warfare. These capitalists and communists might as well just make a fucking church out of it already, so much dogma.