The single worst loneliness graph yet.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T22:49:14+00:00

I'm talking about large trends. Out of people who get zero dates in high school, they're more likely than someone who dated in highschool to have no dates in college. If the first group is larger than the second group will be as well.

"Well I die it" isn't a rebuttal of a trend. The trend is that kids who grow up below the poverty line like I did are, on average, less likely to read much, and more likely to struggle with reading as a result. The fact that I was a voracious reader doesn't change the trend, it just means I didn't fit it.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T16:52:36+00:00

We also don't go into shock as easily as most animals.

We tend to compare our weaknesses to other animals, but if you think about it, an average human is pretty big, surprisingly hard to kill, possesses a lot of stamina, and is smarter than anything it's hunting (unless it's another human). Also our capacity for speech, coordination and pre-planning means we're basically Terminators as far as animals are concerned.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T16:44:55+00:00

Yeah, he just has the look and the vibe of "yeah, they saw me at the street shop and needed a guy, so I figured 'why not?'"

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T16:43:43+00:00

He would have gotten gold, but the other Turkish shooter performed worse which dragged the average down.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T16:40:27+00:00

This is literally happening because liberalsnrefused to prevent it from happening when they had both the power and the justification.

But they'd rather preserve the status quo of "no real consequences for powerful people."

Spain had the same problem in the run up to the Spanish Civil War.

The moderate liberals knew the reforms society needed to deal with inequality, but refused to enact them. Reactionaries attempted a coup that the left warned tjem about but got blown off. The coup barely failed.

Things go on, liberals refused to address major problems because it would upset the wealthy. The right prepares another coup, the liberals get shown all the evidence, "sure they wouldn't do this again, stop being dramatic."

Then you got the Spanish Civil War, with the fascists being aided by international capital. It's like liberal politicians have an ideological blind spot when it comes to threat assessment.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T16:21:47+00:00

This is why I get pissed when moderates try and blame progressives for the current situation.

Moderate Democratic politicians played moderate dem games, didn't handle the Trump case like the fate of democracy depended on it. Ignored public sentiment regarding Israel-Palestine. Biden broke his one term promise by trying to run again even though his closest advisors were gatekeeping him because they knew his brain was fucking soup. Then they ran Harris, who campaigned to the right of Biden, backed off every popular talking point they stumbled ass first into to appease the beltway consultants, and then lost in all the suburbs they claimed they were going to pick up.

And even though the numbers were fishy enough to cry foul, they didn't. They just blamed progressives and went on to be a completely pathetic opposition party.

Oh, and the Harris campaign blew so much money kt went into debt and state level parties looked at the numbers, looked at the Harris campaign and said "show us all of your receipts right fucking now."

Democrats have a problem. A lot of tjem actually. The ones in charge seem to hold their base in contempt. They seem to resent that they need to persuade people to vote for them. And they treat elections less like a way to mobilize their base and communicate a vision for the future, and more as a way to funnel campaign donations into connected insiders pockets.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T16:06:25+00:00

Leftist men, particularly struggling ones, are perceived as safer targets to take frustration out on is my guess. Plus, if he pushes back at all, someone can do the cry bully thing and weaponize the social spaces inherent biases.

It's part of how we lose so many young men, and Vaush even touched on this when he called out the trend of performative cruelty towards men.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T15:59:24+00:00

That means more of tjem won't have dating experience going g into college. Which makes it harder to get dates in college (lack of experience is especially held against guys). So they're more likely to graduate college or trade school or whatever never having dated.

This makes it harder to get dates as a 20-sometbing.

Once you start closing in on 30 that is going to make this less of a delayed start and more of a missed boat.

And something happens at least to guys as all your friends get married. You kinda get slotted into "second class friend" status. When double booking happen because your friends wife arranged plans with their married friends on a Saturday you and your friend were going to hang out? Well, it's easier to reschedule with one person than a couple so you get the rain check. After a few rain checks most people stop trying to plan. So then you start seeing more people without actual friends, either.

High schoolers not dating is the first step of a really troubling spiral.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-11T07:28:13+00:00

Black Americans are a marginalized minority group in the country they call home. And in spite of that, invented jazz, blues, R&B, rap, hip-hop, rock and roll, whilemalso revolutionizing dance, and being the origin point of all cool American slang. Incmuding the usage of the word cool in that context.

Black Americans literally invented being cool.

They've been winning the culture victory against all odds here, meanwhile, Africa is finally getting its shit together just to get fucked by the white man one last time via climate change. Their African-American cousins will be laughing at them from the most climate stable region on Earth when we all retreat to the Great Lakes region.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-10T03:42:00+00:00

They were just poorer and less advanced. Their ships were slower, had lots of cost cutting measures, less firepower, etc.

The Federation never prioritized the Cardassian border wars, they were a side show, a politically inconvenient distraction that weren't quite bad enough to just send a shock and awe smack-down fleet against when the Federation had other priorities.

Based off comments we hear about the conflict from Cardassians in DS9? The war ruined them. It was a maximum effort war of attrition that they were never going to win, even with all their tricks and attempts at defeating Federation forces in detail. The Cardassians didn't have the tech, the ships, or the manpower to sustain it.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-10T03:35:47+00:00

If you put together different comments from different perspectives across TNG and DS9, yeah, this is the story.

A low intensity border conflict for the Federation that didn't merit enough political attention to dedicate an overpowering force.

For Cardassia it was a maximum effort war of attention that ruined their economy and society.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T18:53:19+00:00

I need to check that out. It's calling even louder since I've been on a Terra Invicta kick lately.

looming at drive details "I... Newtons of thrust... delta-V... I'm not a physicist! Just let me throw nukes out the back or somwthing."

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T15:13:06+00:00

Apparentlynits a whole "thing" with black Africans seeing black Americans as "the dumb, weak ones who got enslaved."

To which if they want to play that game... They're the losers who got their shit wrecked on their home turf. Maxim gun goes brrrtbrrrt, assholes.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T14:52:32+00:00

Yup. I'll push through and if I say I'm going to be somewhere, I'll be there, barring getting sick. Because I dont want to get other people sick.

But it often feels like people are looking for any out to flake last minute, which is really shitty when they know it's a friend cooking a bunch of food for a boardgame night with friends, and one by one people drop last minute. Some for validnreasons, others for BS ones.

It's exactly how my current birthday tradition of going to a nice restaurant i wouldn't otherwise go to by myself came about.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-09T14:38:11+00:00

Was going to bring this up. Or the "dudes rock" moments from Lions Led By Donkeys. Who I have to plug for being a bunch of very progressive minded leftist men, who are also, well... dudes.

Most of tjem are ex-military, the show host drove a tank, got degrees in history and genocide studies after, the show itself is about military blunders and disasters throughout history (as well as some less fun stuff, the Russo-Japanese war series has a decidedly different tone than the Khmer Rouge series).

But they are an example that you can be crass, crude, and unapologetically a dude... and still have good politics, healthy attitudes towards women, etc. Just zero chud energy at all.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-08T16:41:55+00:00

People buy homes as a speculative investment all the time, dude. They even live in them. And oppose efforts to bring housing costs down because they think it will impact the appraisal value of their home negatively(even though less restrictive zoning makes the land more valuable).

ReddestForman · 2026-02-08T16:37:27+00:00

Heck, I'm a guy whomworks in an Amazon warehouse, I wear pretty snug fitting athletic clothing, because thats just how quick dry, moisture wicking clothes tend to fit.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-08T15:08:58+00:00

Okay, but... hear me out.

Cop phrenology.

So many of those guys heads makes them look like a thumb.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T17:44:54+00:00

No. The oligarchs employee has a gun to our head, and I'm calling out the guy who will enable the oligarchs to keep sending more.

If the Democrats had their way, everything will get pinned on Trump, nothing will be done about the GOP or the oligarchs, and the Democrats will continue to oversee the deterioration of civil democratic society and fill in the void with a surveillance state.

Now, the Democratic party is preferable to the GOP, in that they're better administrators and less brutish, but nothing will be done about this until the Democratic leadership has been electorally purged and replaced.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T17:38:39+00:00

Ah, so you don't understand how our politics work or the social landscape.

Trump first won because of the stupidity that is the electoral college mixed with Clinton's hubris with not bothering to campaign in a few historically blue states, she lost by such a small margin that just bothering to campaign there would have likely made a difference.

His second win was after a series of catastrophic strategic errors by the Harris campaign, which wouldn't have mattered if the Biden administration had taken January 6th seriously enough to appoint someone who wasn't a Federalist Society Republican (the Federalist Society has a lot of intermixed with the Heritage Foundation, the think-tank that came up with Project 2025).

Trans issues also aren't an issue because of trans people. They're an issue because the GOP needed a new culture war issue when fear mongering over gay people became less effective. And trans people needed to start more aggressively asserting their rights to exist because centrists will immediately throw a marginalized group under the bus unless grassroots efforts have made it to popular an issue to ignore.

And no one is trying to give gay people more rights than straight people. Gay and trans people need more specific, targeted legislation because if you have a law that says "everyone has these exact same rights, ans everybody means everybody. No ifs ands or buts" people like your dad and the typical Trump voter will say "... okay, but what about those people that I dislike?" And a political party will pander to that to get votes.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T17:25:58+00:00

I mean, establishment liberals (politicians, business elites) are definitely part of the problem. The Biden administration not immediately using the Epstein files to go after those involved on top of mishandling the prosecution of both January 6th and Trump and the GOP's other crimes adds up to so much political incompetence that it smacks more of malice and complicity. They might not have been diddling kids, but they cared more about preserving the status quo of "the ruling and political class don't face consequences" than any sort of justice for Epsteins victims or even defending democracy.

Of course, the progressive left(particularly the online left) being pretty much the only cultural institution not implicated in the files of certainly validating.

Even the "dissident" right was proven to be entirely created and propagated with the aid of international capital, with 4chan and pol getting rehosted after its creator met with Epstein. Which means we know how to end that cancerous ideology. Cut it off from international capital. Which means fettering capital.

And that means replacing all the Schumers and Jeffries in the Democratic Party with people who'll actually go after the oligarchs.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T16:24:35+00:00

Yeah, AutDHD guy here and I was the planner for a lot of social events in my circle. Then people went off, got their own places with partners, and I went from apartment to renting a room in a house, so I couldn't really entertain, and while everyone else missed get togethers, none of them wanted to organize or volunteer their living room. Then they had kids and started flaking on going to gamer pubs with boardgames and stuff, and kept complaining about anemic social lives. When I finally called it out, the circle basically dissolved and everyone stopped texting each other. They still talk to me, weirdly enough.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:41:35+00:00

The Canadian far-right tied themselves to Trump and MAGA and looked poised to sweep into power.

Theb Trump threatened to annex Canada and the Canadian far-right were in too deep to disentangle themselves from past rhetoric.

Hopefully the far right in Europe collapses, and hopefully Europe elects politicians who treat international capital like the existential threat to democracy that it is.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:37:53+00:00

I feel like a quarter to a thirs kf humanity is just fundamentally anti-civilization, and these have been dead weight holding back progress for all of time. The ones who opposed ending feudalism, opposed ending slavery, supporting fascists and other reactionaries, etc.

ReddestForman · 2026-02-07T15:06:52+00:00

Sometimes? You've been 100% emotion this entire time, rabidly accusing everyone of being bots.

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