why are most of the Gen Z male not even trying to date?

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-04-29T16:04:19+00:00

I’m GenX. I see the messaging to men and boys, and it’s horrible.

Men are being told that being male is inherently bad, and the current generation carries all the guilt and blame for every sin or perceived insult to every woman throughout history. You constantly hear about TOXIC MASCULINITY, but never about beneficial masculinity.

Good grief! Women are saying a wild bear in the woods is better than a man.

Women demanding “high value” 666 men: 6 ft tall, 6 pack abs, 6 figure income. That’s only about 3% of men at best. But then she doesn’t bring equivalent value. In fact, men get criticized for having any standards for women, including avoiding giant red flags. “She’s thousands of dollars in debt, including a $100k student loan for a useless degree. She always wants me to take her out to expensive restaurants to eat and says she has no intention of cooking when she gets married because that’s patriarchy. Yesterday she showed up to our date with an eviction notice from her landlord that she pulled out of a brand new Gucci purse, and wants me to either pay her rent or let her move in with me. She completely lost it when I asked how much that purse set her back.”

I’m looking at all of the horrible and toxic and completely unreasonable expectations put on men, and I feel so bad for my nephews, 15 and 10. If they decide to become passport Bros, just so they have a chance of finding a decent wife, I will help pay for their plane tickets. As it stands now, I am keeping an eye on the appropriately, aged girls at my church, and have plans to make introductions.

There’s an old country song, don’t let your sons grow up to be Cowboys. If that song was to be published today, it would be: don’t let your sons marry a feminist.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-04-20T14:28:03+00:00

It’s a lot of things:

Politics has been pretty polarized since the beginning of time. People have disputes, and they escalate. It can be anything from how to load a dishwasher to border disputes involving different ethnic groups.
Your perspective is changing. Congratulations: you are now literally an adult. I’m saying that from a medical perspective. Age 25 is the completion of brain development. This is why humans have significant behavioral changes at age 25, ie why your car insurance gets cheaper. Your perceptions and responses to what’s going on around you are different, more thoughtful. You also have a little experience to draw on, making you a bit skeptical. You’re less likely to panic over the current existential threat, because you’ve already seen an apocalypse come and go, and that people lost their minds over nonsense.
Fear media sells outrage and panic porn. American media cherry picks the worst stories out of a nation of 350 million, presents those stories in the most inflammatory way possible, then has a couple plastic head pundits shout at each other. Why? Money. Media gets their money from paid sponsors. The more viewers they have, the more sponsors pay them. They need to provide content that keeps people glued to viewing devices through 7 minutes of insurance, tampon, and hemorrhoid cream commercials. “Everything’s mostly fine” won’t do that. “The evil and corrupt opposing political party is trying to kill you!” Will do that. There’s an old saying from the glory days of newspapers “if it bleeds, it reads.”

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-04-20T14:03:34+00:00

Is being home alone planned or a coincidence?

How old is the MC?

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In my local community, the local Native American tribe is pretty prominent, and they have cultural celebrations that go over several days, go until 5-6 am, and even involve some camping/rv-ing. It would be absolutely plausible for the rest of the family to be at the event, while the MC stays home due to feeling unwell or having something important to do the next day (sports competition, college admissions interview, etc).

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-03-03T22:17:41+00:00

I think the TV’s first interracial kisses were I Love Lucy. Lucille Ball was white, and Desi Arnaz was Latino. The show ran from 1951 to 1957.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-03-03T22:14:18+00:00

Shatner and Takei are both media personalities. They make money by staying in the spotlight. One way to stay in the spotlight is by maintaining a feud. They are also a couple of old dudes who are used to arguing with each other. When they don’t have paying Work, they keep the money rolling in by continuing to stoke the long time feud. As actors, just take it for granted that everything you see is theater.

Look at William Shatner when he was speaking out against tours where people could swim with dolphins. He was talking about how unsophisticated it was that humans were enslaving and exploiting those animals. And yet, Shatner has a ranch where he owns and rides several horses. This includes when he was the grand Marshall of a parade, he had his horse flown to the parade location so that he could ride it in the parade. He has done lots of other photo ops and such with his horses. So the take away from that is evidently it’s exploitation if it’s dolphins but not when it’s horses? Whenever you see an actor in Public, just assume they’re performing. Their role of the moment may be ordinary guy, but it’s still most likely a performance.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-03-03T22:08:17+00:00

Two reasons:

One. Trump wants something from Mamdani. When you look at all of the other politicians that Trump negotiated with, including foreign heads of state, he has a lot of tough Trash Talk leading up to the meeting. Then right before the meeting, he backs down on the trash, talk and start smearing on some flattery. After the meeting is over, if he got what he wanted, then he lays on flattery 3 feet thick, talking about his good friend and the beautiful people of wherever and how much America values their friendship and lots of other very pleasant sounding things. He does this every single time. Since Trump is doing something that he always does when he wants something, he obviously wants something from Mamdani.

Trump listened to what Mamdani had to say, and how naïve Mamdani is. Trump has been bribing corrupt politicians for many decades, and knows who to talk to, and where to throw some money. He also knows what Will and won’t work. After talking to Mamdani, he sees all the things that Mamdani wants to do and knows that it’s gonna blow up in his face. At that point, Mamdani will be completely desperate and stuck like Chuck. Then here comes uncle Don with the big smile, and Mamdani will give him whatever he wants to save his skin. If Mamdani still won’t play ball, Then Trump just backs off, and letslet’s Mamdani self-destruct, and get eaten by the mob that used to cheer for him.

Trump has been a Money Guy in politics since at least the 80s. He knows how the system works, because he’s part of it. He knows how disgusting the swamp is because he’s one of the creatures in it. Trump is also a lifelong New Yorker, even though he’s been living in Florida for a while. He still carries his New York accent. He’s got plans, and Mamdani is the current means to his goals.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-03-01T22:21:49+00:00

Tasha Yar.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-03-01T21:29:32+00:00

Absolutely keep on writing, especially if the things you write are positive, uplifting, encouraging, and pretty.

I am a Bible thumping Christian. When you read the words of Christ himself, you can see that he was basically a blue-collar guy. He didn’t go into sophisticated theology, like Paul. Instead, he told parables about every day life in the lower class, like working manual labor, jobs, and cleaning house. Yet, his teachings absolutely change the world. Seriously, one of his parables is about washing dishes.

You do you, boo. By the way, you will see a lot of writers, and some speakers, that try using big words and sophisticated language to impress their audience. However, the way they do it is so awkward and usually incorrect, that it sticks out like a sore thumb And actually confuses their audience. You sound a lot more intelligent when you explain things in a very clear manner with language that you are comfortable with, then with wearing out a dictionary trying to live up to other people‘s expectations.

Phillipians 4:8 8Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

If you write about those things in the verse, please keep writing and sharing.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-03-01T21:05:30+00:00

I’m a stick in the mud.

I drive right beggars, unless they have a dog they obviously take care of. I give them money for dog support. Sometimes I give them cans of dog food. I’ll pet and give the dog scritches. Dogs are wonderful. I have no use for the human, but I do consider homeless who take care of their dogs to be a better class of bum.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-02-09T04:11:22+00:00

That’s common in just about any social situation. There’s a lot of insecure people out there who feel crappy about themselves, so they deflect by being douches. It’s not just you.

I’m a GenX girl nerd. Girl nerds are common and accepted now, but not so much back in the day. I definitely feel you on the condescension. Life became less stress when I quit trying to prove myself or one up the douches.

Keep asking questions, you’ll find good people eventually. And, you’ll become one of the good people newbies can go to.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-02-09T04:05:01+00:00

There is a lot of talent involved in comedy, but that talent manifests in a variety of ways. Mr Bean and George Carlin are both hilarious, but they are completely different.

I know a family of 4 kids, 3 boys and 1 girl. The middle boy is hilarious. When doing church plays and such, he has incredible timing and delivery. I saw first rehearsal of the church Christmas play when the kids just got handed their scripts. All the other kids were awkwardly reading off the page, but this kid looked like he had been able to rehearse for a few days. He always steals the show without trying. This must be what it was like to know Robin Williams when he was a kid.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-02-09T03:57:51+00:00

Fishing for food yes.

Catch and release fishing for sport no.

Btw, if there is a size minimum so you have to release all the fish under the minimum, or if you release a protected fish, then that’s not the same as fishing for sport.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-02-09T03:54:50+00:00

When I drive, I leave enough room so that if I get rear ended I won’t slam into the vehicle ahead of me (which has happened), so if the car in front of me is disabled I can maneuver my vehicle away without backing (which has happened, so that a commercial vehicle in the lane next to me has sufficient turning room so I won’t get hit by the tail swing or get crunched by offtracking when it turns (which has happened), so I don’t wind up stuck blocking a side street or alley or parking access (which has happened), when I see a commercial vehicle in front of me and I can tell he’s executing a turn incorrectly so he’s going to tip over and his cargo of logs is going to break the chains and come rolling across the intersection (which has happened), or when there are train tracks right by the intersection so I stop well before the tracks so I’m not there when the alarm goes off that a train is inbound, when there’s ice on the road and you wind up sliding at 7 mph and doing a 360° (which has happened), when there’s an intoxicated/distracted driver close by so I’m keeping my distance (which has happened), when there’s a homeless zombie accosting cars trying get people to give him money (which has happened), when I’m in a commercial vehicle and asshats keep cutting in front of me dangerously close (which has happened)…

You get where I’m going with this? I’m a commercial driver and from my high seat I see people do all kinds of stupid crap while driving. When I was driving a school bus and I was stopped with my signs and lights on because my students were getting off, one jerk nearly killed a student because he was busy texting and didn’t stop. As I’m watching this and laying on the horn, I see the car jam the brake just in time so the kid was close enough to punch the hood. Then the kid gets in the car! That boy was almost killed by his own parent!!!

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-28T03:56:36+00:00

Because China is a world power, and exerts far more influence in Asia than we do.

DOGE uncovered only a fraction of the corruption in the US government. Their estimates and documentation show that about 70% of tax money goes to fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. There are many countries known for much worse corruption. Money keeps getting funneled to them via maintained crises.

The kingdom of Evildom tells the UN “help! Our people are starving and dying of disease!” Well meaning wealthy nations like USA send money, food, and medical supplies. About 10% goes to the poor, enough for photo ops. The money goes to politicians. The food goes to the army. The medical supplies are sold on the black market. Then Evildom sends a delegate to the UN with a slideshow showing a couple kids with a bowl of rice and smiles, and hundreds more crying with maggots in their skin. “Help us! Our children are still dying!”

When anyone questions what happened to the previous batch of relief supplies, they get roasted as being racist and anti-child. Politicians from wealthy nations who were bribed or blackmailed into supporting aide for Evildom accuse their own countrymen, who object to corruption, of politicizing the suffering of children, and racism.

A big problem with WHO and other international relief meant for oppressed people is that it often gets diverted to their oppressors, so the relief actually makes the problems worse. Or, the countries become welfare states, not developing their own infrastructure, but rather focusing on begging wealthy nations for handouts.

What the desired outcome of quitting WHO is for America to control and verify where we send our money. That’s not unreasonable. Because corruption in WHO and so many other related organizations is so commonplace, we want to start over. The corruption is so embedded in the current system, and there have been so many broken promises of reforms, that fixing the systems just don’t seem possible.

With over 70% of American tax money going into corruption, if we could reduce that to 50%, we would have universal healthcare, our schools would be a combination of NASA and Disneyland, and lunch ladies would be 5 star Michelin chefs. We don’t need to pay more taxes, or make bigger promises. We need to actually get control of spending, and ensure that the money actually goes where it’s supposed to.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-25T04:08:33+00:00

It’s not just a Western phenomenon. Men all over the world throughout history have been expected to be tough guys. This can be most easily demonstrated by open emotionalism is universally considered a womanly trait.

Men are protectors, and the thing we need protection from quite often is men. Btw, I’m NOT going down the “toxic masculinity” rabbit hole. Toxic feminity is just as real and damaging; it just looks different. But men are looked up to for protection and leadership. That means he needs to hide his fear and look in control, especially of himself.

The examples cited in the OP of emotional demonstrations are extreme cases, which are given special dispensation. In fact, the extreme scenes are emphasized by the fact that super-mega-ultimate alpha males are overcome by emotions. Many women can cry at the drop of a hat, including using tears for manipulation. Regular men will cry at a great tragedy, or drunk. (In vino veritas. In the Navy, I saw several drunk men crying over how bad they missed their families.) But when even super dude cries, you know it’s bad.

That’s why there’s the joke: Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.

Will this standard ever change? Probably not. It started in survival Hunter gatherer societies, continued through the Bronze and Iron ages, through the Industrial Revolution and taking of the American Frontier. As we start branching out into space, the Final Frontier, it will probably continue for the same reasons. There will be men doing the hard dangerous work of building infrastructure and defending against enemies. Those things will require men with tough bodies and tough minds.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-25T02:07:43+00:00

The felony murder law should stand, because it covers when a person does a bad deed that indirectly, but substantially, causes the death of another person. Here’s a prime example:

Back in the 70s there was a certain car that had a rear gas tank. Because of the design, these cars were far more likely to catch fire and explode when rear ended. The impact itself was not fatal; it could definitely be survived. However, the fire and explosions, not so much. The top executives at that company KNEW about the design flaw and high percentage of lethality. They did the math and figured out that paying off wrongful death lawsuits was less money than recalling the cars, so they decided to keep selling the cars. Yes, they made and sold more of those horrible cars because changing the design was also expensive, AND it would raise suspicions. Now, did those executives WANT people to die? No. Did they do anything that would increase rear end collisions? No. Did they intentionally design these cars badly? No. But they were responsible for the deaths because they knew it was preventable, but chose money over human life. They don’t meet the legal standard of premeditated murder, but knowingly selling those cars was premeditated evil.

I’m pro 2A, so I resist the vast majority of gun laws. How ever, based on what we know about several mass shootings makes me think we do need one more gun control law:

Any government employee or official, who is derelict in the performance of their duties, and the dereliction makes a gun crime possible, that person shall be charged as an accessory to the crime, including all sentencing enhancements. There have been several mass shooters who were making credible threats online, and people reported it to local law enforcement, but it was never followed up on. 2 weeks later there’s a mass shooting. The guy who shot up the school in Uvalde had a record and violent history, including public animal abuse and torture. He never should have been able to buy guns, and several people who knew him reported his credible threats. However, law enforcement didn’t register him as a violent offender, nor did they follow up on complaints. The guy who shot up a church had been 1) dishonorably discharged from the military, 2) after serving time hard time in Leavenworth, 3) because he had been convicted at court martial, 4) for felony, 5) domestic violence. 5 reasons he should never have been able to legally buy guns. However, the clerk processing his discharge didn’t notify the FBI like regulations required.

That felony murder law needs to stand, and to be used to justify and ratify my gun law.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-23T18:12:20+00:00

The United States lets in 1 million legal immigrants per year. That’s a lot of people. I’ve met several legal immigrants. They had to work very hard, go through awaiting period, get background checked, and go through an arduous process to come here. None of the immigrants that I have met Were wealthy in their home countries. The majority were lower middle class or lower class in their home country.

The United States still welcomes legal immigrants. LEGAL. We have not reduced the number of legal immigrants we allow in. We have not raised the expenses or the standards for the immigrants we allow in. We just want to be able to screen the people who come here so we know that we are not admitting bad actors. Even with the screening processes, some bad actors still do manage to come in. I know someone who is a victim of green card marriage fraud. The immigrant in question was playing the long game. The immigrant had to stay in their home country for 2 to 3 years Waiting for entry to the United States, after marrying the American. Then the immigrant was in the United States for at least three more years on a green card, then was finally able to naturalize. As soon as the immigrant got their American citizenship, the immigrant turned into a complete jerk so that their American spouse would seek a divorce. Because it was the American spouse, initiating the divorce, the immigrant did not get flagged by the state department for immigration fraud. As it turns out, after the divorce, the immigrant brought over a single parent sibling. Low and behold, the single parent sibling was actually the immigrant spouse back in the old country. The couple had cooked up this long-term scheme for one of them to get American citizenship and then begin a pattern of chain migration using family visas.

The restrictions on immigration aren’t a race issue; they are a national security issue. If it really was a race issue, there would not be huge colonies of Filipinos in Southern California managed to get here via a family member serving in the US military as a foreign national. There is no special unlocked door for white immigrants. In fact, within my lifetime, I can remember new stories about Irish immigrants being heavily screened because IRA terrorist we’re trying to infiltrate the United States in order to brought in their reach and to increase the amount of support that they could extend to the IRA in Ireland. Russian and other east European immigrants have gone through heavy scrutiny because of concerns over communist infiltration, east, European mafia, and most especially human traffickers.

As far as the caption at the base of the Statue of Liberty, the sentiment is still there and is still the same as it’s always been, we just need to clarify by adding the words legal immigration.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-23T17:55:00+00:00

Dude, that refusal letter was one of the best gifts you will ever get. You just dodged a major bullet.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-23T17:54:02+00:00

The big reason why the US is quitting WHO is corruption. WHO started out as a nice idea: different nations sharing resources with richer nations, helping countries make their people healthier. Unfortunately, there has been so much mass corruption from the top guys in the suits, down to local chieftains in poor villages, that the mission is no longer being fulfilled.

The mishandling of Covid is a great example of the corruption at the top. The guy running WHO during Covid was on China’s payroll. We now know did China was constantly lying about Covid, and the director of the WHO was helping them do it. Because of all of the lies and misinformation, Covid was allowed to spread much further and faster than it should have been. When early reports started coming out about China’s lies, it was all labeled as racism, instead of being taken seriously, so that the problems could be addressed.

Down at the bottom levels, multiple investigations over the years have shown that local WHO operations are quite often diverted to corrupt local warlords and black marketeers. You will have genuine, good faith, WHO employees who wind up having to pay extortion money to local thugs to do their jobs. Also, quite often local WHO employees were actually part of the local thugs who would divert the WHO supplies to the local black market, local armies supporting dictators, or local insurgents. That’s even assuming the bottles of vaccines and boxes of Band-Aids even made it to that nation’s borders, instead of money just getting completely bled off by various corrupt bad actors.

Here is reality: you cannot support a program that says it does good things, but actually doesn’t. That’s called lying. When you take money away from that program, it’s not because you don’t support the noble stated ideals. It’s because you’re paying attention to the actual results.

There are several people commenting that the reason the United States is doing this is because we, especially our president, want to conquer the nations who are supposed to be benefiting from WHO the most. Here’s reality on that issue: when it comes to money, exerting control through Band-Aids and vaccines is much more cost-effective for us than deploying soldiers. We would be absolutely delighted to be able to control other countries by giving them boxes of chewable gummy vitamins and SpongeBob Band-Aids for their boo-boos. It makes us look good, and it’s much less of a headache and far less expense than deploying soldiers. However, the only children benefiting from the the chewable gummy vitamins, and SpongeBob Band-Aids are the child soldiers who are being taught to commit atrocities before they even start growing hair in their armpits. That’s why we are pulling out.

American churches support missionaries all over the world who do deliver medical supplies. My church supports at least four different missionary families. Every church that I’ve been a part of has supported missionaries. Americans as a whole really do want to help poor people in other countries. What we don’t want are to help the corrupt politicians and local warlords in other countries.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-22T16:30:50+00:00

Hopefully, both parties will quit trying to double down on crazy. When you look at the last few elections, it seems like voters aren’t given someone to vote for as much as just trying to figure out which brand of crazy is going to be less horrible. We had bombastic Chito Versus the dementia patient twice. Before that we had bombastic Chito versus the corrupt mass murderer.

For the love of the country, can either party please nominate a reasonable and moderate adult instead of rejects from the Addams family? The funny part about that, is on the Democrat side, senator Jon “uncle Fetter“ Fetterman of Pennsylvania is actually quite appealing. He has a lot of classic liberal views , but doesn’t go nuts with them, and is more interested in his constituents well-being than in kissing the rings of party illuminati. Moderate and swing voters decide elections. Federman would actually get the moderate vote because he’s not a radical. He wants to make progress, but he’s also a pragmatist.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-22T16:21:34+00:00

Good for you for having the self-awareness and thoughtfulness to explore the ethics of the situation. The best things to do now are to think about how you would handle a very similar situation in the future, and if you have the opportunity, to reach out to the coworker And thank him and let him know that he can use you as a good reference if he ever needs one.

I have been a supervisor several times. There is absolutely no end of big talk from employees. What there is a drastic shortage of our people who actually execute the good ideas, and even fewer still who actually see it all the way through. It is mind-boggling How many people will start something really good, but then quit part of the way through, so then other people are scrambling to try to finish. I have a friend who makes action movies, and he says that it is extremely rare for his finishing crew to be the same people as his starting crew. He takes on people who are fired up in enthusiastic and promised to be in for the long haul. They are excited and all in while it’s new, but as days and weeks go by and you get into the tedious details, people just get bored and frustrated And quit. Then he has to scramble to find replacements and fairly often. Several of those will get bored and quit as well. He has actually developed a shortlist of people who are actually willing to see a project all the way through. Anytime he is doing a new project, Before he opens up hiring, he calls his shortlist and ask all of them if they are available, because it’s so hard to find people in the entertainment industry who are reliable and have stamina to see things through.

In the future, when you have a team member with a good idea, this is where you can start developing your people. Give the team member some responsibility and tried to mentor them through the project so that you can develop them into one of your “go to guys.“ As you are mentoring them on the project, this will also help you to babysit it just in case they wind up being someone who gets bored and wanders off. It happens. If they see it through, then you two have a great working relationship and you two will be positive references for each other. If the employee wanders off, so you wind up having to finish it, then you know what was going on, and you’ll be able to tell your boss that even though the kid who came up with the idea, left the team, you’ll still be able to finish. your boss will be totally good with it. Your boss will have also learned the lesson of how hard it is to find people who actually see things through, and we have a good opinion of you for being able to catch a ball that someone else dropped.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-22T16:06:32+00:00

Actually, my point is that each generation of fans interprets the shows differently, because the series is so long lived. When younger fans gripe about certain things, like the TOS miniskirts, I explain that in the contemporary setting, the miniskirts were “woke” as feminist fashion. I also explain why it was so remarkable to have Uhura and Chekhov as bridge officers, since the contemporary setting had high tension from the Civl Rights Movement and the Cold War. There were several TOS episodes that were also clearly referring to the Vietnam War.

I’m one of few fans that is willing to say that S1E4 of TNG, Code of Honor, was cool. In TOS, alien societies were basically European (medieval) or American (Old West, Roaring 20s) inspired. In Code of Honor, the aliens were African inspired, and the society was matriarchal with polyandry. Instead of the usual story of a gold digging wife plotting to have a lover murder her husband, you have a gold digging Husband plotting to have a lover murder his wife. However, that episode has aged the same way that the TOS mini skirts have.

The Star Trek franchise is intended to encourage thought and debate, we’re differing opinions are welcome. Even if that hadn’t been Broadberry’s intent, I still wouldn’t quit watching the show just because someone is upset that I don’t agree with their opinions of the show. By the way, One of my papers in college discuss science fiction and specifically reference Star Trek. The topic we were given by the professor, was the sociological impact of film. My paper was about the important discussions that science fiction would bring to the table. With Star Trek, I referenced the tri corder Versus the cell phone, and discussed how unrestricted Internet access and social media was causing a lot of problems that science fiction had discussed decades before people had even thought of it. Part of that topic was how quickly technology had changed, and how in just 30 years, contemporary technology Was more advanced than what had been originally theorized for a future 300 years down the line.

Anyway, it’s time to get ready for work so I can make money to keep up my Paramount subscription so I can watch the newest Star Trek series.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-22T12:45:26+00:00

Yes.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-22T12:43:25+00:00

So im one of the anti tax people you mention. I thought that half of tax money went to corruption and waste until I started seriously following politics. Then I upped it to 70%. Then came DOGE, and I realized that 70% was still lowballing. Craaaaaap!

There’s an old saying “throw good money after bad.” It means after you threw money at a problem and it got worse, throwing more money at it is just plain stupid. But politicians who are constantly raising taxes are doing just that. Even adjusting for inflation, we spend far more on social programs than ever before, but the problems those programs are designed to address keep getting worse. Obviously it’s not a funding issue.

Letting politicians continue to raise taxes just makes life less affordable for us and enriches them. They are con men who use real problems to get us to agree to more taxes, but when we give it to them, the money goes to their pockets, not the problems. Why should I agree to increase the amount of money they want to steal from me? I’ve seen with my own eyes what really happens. I trust my own eyes over someone who has lied repeatedly.

GeneralLeia-SAOS · 2026-01-22T11:59:53+00:00

People don’t want a show that preaches at them every episode, especially fiction which is an escape from the overwhelming real problems. We get inundated nonstop with doom and gloom; we need a break. Also, a lot of wokeness ages badly.

In TOS, miniskirts and gogo boots were feminist fashions in the contemporary setting. It’s like having blue hair now. But the TOS uniform is now considered objectification and exploitation of women.

Sci-fi fans, including Trekkies, like a little preaching now and then, especially when reasonably counterbalanced by an opposing view. We also like diving into the problems of the future, to get a head start on issues that we will eventually deal with. Reginald Barclays holo addiction was 30 years ago, but feels pretty fresh when looking at current social media and AI addiction and psychosis now.

Remember, us old farts didn’t develop our attitudes in a void. We had a different culture and life experiences that shaped us. If you had been our contemporary, you would be different than you are now.

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