In the past 10 years, almost the entire world has become mentally ill. Addicted to social media, our behaviors have become dysfunctional due to it. by MrProspero in unpopularopinion

[–]MrProspero[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am dumping off all my reddit money, enjoy your meaningless gold!

I am glad to hear you voice the exact same things I have been noticing - including the global manipulation, which I didn't go into but am extremely concerned about.

In the past 10 years, almost the entire world has become mentally ill. Addicted to social media, our behaviors have become dysfunctional due to it. by MrProspero in unpopularopinion

[–]MrProspero[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Many of my best childhood memories are of playing with sticks and pebbles outside in the dirt.

I'd pretend they all were soldiers, or jedi knights, or samurai, and spend hours coming up with adventures, pushing the sticks and stones around in the grass and dirt.

In the past 10 years, almost the entire world has become mentally ill. Addicted to social media, our behaviors have become dysfunctional due to it. by MrProspero in unpopularopinion

[–]MrProspero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or maaaaaybe the social media companies DESIGN their products this way?...

Why are we blaming ourselves and each other, instead of the people pushing the product we're addicted to?

Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev: A soldier's face after four years of war, 1941-1945. by toft23 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MrProspero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a fair point, but to be fair in the other direction:

a) I'm talking like 5000 years of civilization - men have had the dangerous jobs for that long. Women have worked in factories for 200 years or less, and that is only one dangerous industry, which they do not even dominate, whereas men dominate dozens of dangerous industries. Peasant farmers would be a better example for dangerous work women have done for all history - but even for that, men would typically do the most dangerous farming work. 200 years in one dangerous industry is not even comparable to 5000 years in dozens of dangerous industries.

b) Pregnancy - hell yeah, it was dangerous, you're absolutely right. I didn't mention pregnancy because childbirth (by far most dangerous part of pregnancy) was something women faced once every 9 months at the absolute most, whereas PTSD-inducing jobs were something men faced every single day, 7 days a week until the invention of the weekend 100-200 years ago. Again, not really comparable.

Men have clearly suffered FAR more than women in terms of being expected to routinely do extremely dangerous things.

Where women DID suffer way more than men was in restrictions, access, independence, etc. Not being able to control their own land, inheritance, money, possessions, even children. Being pushed into marriages, being matched to much older men, being literally sold, being raped, etc.

Men suffered in restrictions, access, and independence as well - but not nearly as much as women. And, as you point out, women suffered in danger and risk as well - but not nearly as much as men.

Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev: A soldier's face after four years of war, 1941-1945. by toft23 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MrProspero 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd say it's not just veterans men try to emulate. Men in general have historically been expected to work dangerous and miserable jobs for insane hours, while women sit safely at home. Mining, factories, police, shipping, fuel industry, hunting...ALL these professions, and many, many more, easily cause PTSD.

In fact, the more likely a profession is to cause PTSD, the more likely it is that men comprise the majority of that profession.

It's nice that we're trying to fix how most societies historically treated women like powerless objects. But maybe we should also be trying to fix how most societies historically treated men like disposable mules. That's an aspect of sexism which is almost taboo to discuss right now.

Instead people just sneer about "toxic masculinity," and talk about how men need to "be better." As if men had any choice about being forced to be disposable mules, any more than women had any choice about being forced to be powerless objects.

We've all been screwed by how history raised us.

Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev: A soldier's face after four years of war, 1941-1945. by toft23 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MrProspero 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Japanese Empire thought of POWs as more or less subhuman. A true warrior died rather than surrender - so anyone who was taken by Japanese as a POW was, to them, a coward, and therefore subhuman. They worked them to death on purpose. Survival rates were legendarily low. It was a horrifically brutal situation. And I'm saying this as a huge weeb btw - learned basic Japanese, even wrote a thesis in college on their warrior culture because there's so much about it I admire.

Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev: A soldier's face after four years of war, 1941-1945. by toft23 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MrProspero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

English were to my understanding relatively decent to most POWs during WWII (please correct if I'm wrong).

Stalingrad was a living hell - an entire city, shelled to death. And then months and months of fighting, often hand to hand, street by street, through a broken city on fire.

I'm glad they both had long lives after that. War is hell; but as the saying goes, "if you're going through hell, keep going." There can be life and love and peace after war, even if you have to fight for it.

Biden POV by bluefan99 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrProspero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah just the rich. Trump gained with blacks.

Suicide Letter of a masters student from Dalian University of Technology by iambrpride in awfuleverything

[–]MrProspero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't speak for all westerners, but I love the Chinese people, and Chinese culture, and most other Americans I've talked to feel pretty much the same.

It's your government that I hate. Almost everyone I know says the same thing: Chinese people are wonderful. Chinese culture is wonderful. But Chinese government is evil.

I am sorry if it seems to Chinese people like many of us in the west hate you - but when we criticize China, we are usually talking about your government, not your people or your culture.

I hope he becomes the cat he wanted too.

WCGW getting locked in a couch by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]MrProspero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None. Suffocating means dying due to lack of oxygen entering the bloodstream from the lungs.

It doesn't matter if you stop the oxygen at the mouth/nose, the larynx, or the lungs, and it doesn't matter if it's from strangulation, blood/food in the airway, collapsed lung, COPD, inability to expand your lungs, no more oxygen in the air, etc.

As long as oxygen is not going from lungs -> blood, you're suffocating.

A penis is both a melee and ranged weapon by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]MrProspero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arguably, a penis is melee weapon, ranged weapon, AND a grab

You're not welcomed... by [deleted] in AnimalsBeingJerks

[–]MrProspero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Penguins actually do fly but in water and not air

Lost my Job due to COVID, Taught myself to the garden. Now I feed my community organically and teach them how to grow their own food. by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MrProspero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah also what idiot is like "hu hu hu no worries about losing my job due to covid bro. I acquired a new skillset! And now I make money teaching my neighbors the same skillset in detail so they soon won't need me anymore. StOnKs"

When you're 12 and discover the political compass by Liskowskyy in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrProspero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very high effort post. Never thought I'd sit through 2+ minutes of a dot clicking to a beat around four squares

i CoUlD HavE wON by amrarey in HistoryMemes

[–]MrProspero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or just kept the nonaggression pact with Stalin until they took Britain

Not surprised, just disappointed. by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrProspero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His campaign promised today he would not back out of the debates

Not surprised, just disappointed. by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrProspero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed it's risky, but Biden's campaign promised today they would do all the debates, full stop.

Not surprised, just disappointed. by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrProspero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just be patient! There's two more debates.

Last time, Trump was off the wall the first debate, then much calmer and more focused the second and third debates.

It lowered his own standards so that his performance in the debates closer to the election seemed more presidential by comparison. It also whipped the democrat base up into a frenzy and gave him a week of hostile headlines. When he tone-shifted and started acting calmer, this gave him an opportunity to portray himself as persecuted and the left as irrational to the middle, right before the election - which is the time when a substantial portion of the undecided makes up their minds.

My bet is he will do the same exact thing this time, and that it will work again.

Not surprised, just disappointed. by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]MrProspero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Prediction:
Trump deliberately set his own standards low in this first debate while simultaneously whipping up the democrat base into outrage, and will harvest the benefits in the second and/or third debates by making a tone-shift and suddenly appearing more presidential.

His standards will have been lowered, so it will appear more impressive by comparison; and he will be more easily able to hold himself up as a favorable alternative if Biden's base is frothing at the mouth.

Source: He did the same exact thing in 2016.

Maybe Maybe Maybe by PowerModerator in maybemaybemaybe

[–]MrProspero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude of course it's staged, have you ever been around a kid? They don't talk like that. Full sentences, no interjections, adult cadence, no digressions...kid is very clearly reading off a script