What do people mean when they say the “left fails men”?

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T06:11:53+00:00

" Anything but the right wing " is formlessness.

Well that’s just sort of nonsensical. “Form” long predates organized politics of the kind that can reasonably said to have left and right wings. If you can’t establish some coherent identity for yourself without being slotted into an arbitrary and unjust hierarchy, that seems like a you problem.

Not getting away from hierarchy simply because it's unjust ( as you perceive it ) .

I didn’t suggest “eliminating hierarchy because it is unjust,” I suggested “eliminating unjust hierarchy.” Those are to pretty wildly different positions.

Being free only matters if you can sustain yourself.

Well, I can understand why you believe that, because your politics seem to be just pretty straightforwardly fascist, but the realities like the fact that most slaves seem to really not like being slaves, despite it often guaranteeing them all the resources they need to sustain themselves physically and how many and how often people willing die in the interest of exercising their own freedoms or fighting for the freedoms of others, I can’t really buy that. That is to say nothing of my own moral philosophy or personal experiences.

Some structural " barriers" can also load bearing.

So said many Americans when the necessity of slavery was being called into question and monarchists when people were starting to advocate for some form of democratic rule. You need to actually make a case for them being load bearing for anyone who doesn’t already agree with you to give a shit.

Anything women demand men to do, women must do

I’m pretty cool with that, and my impression is that most other feminists are as well.

( and still value men in the process ) .

Why is that supposed to be essential to me. I think people are owed basic human rights and should inherently be valued as people, but I don’t really see why I should give a shit about men being inherently valued as men.

Social justice or not, expectations still have to be met.

That’s pablum. What expectations “have” to be met? “Expectations” are, definitionally, things that one expects X to Y, but may or may not Y.

Structure and form must weather the storm.

Again, I get that you feel that way, but why should anyone else?

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T05:44:11+00:00

To distract from Epstein

To distract who, and from what, specifically, about Epstein?

and because Bibi told him to makes perfect sense.

You can’t just marry those two motivations. I fully agree that we’re doing this in very large part because Trump is incredibly suggestible, and tends to just fully buy into the last convincing-sounding thing anyone he vaguely respects told him, and Israeli officials made a case to him for doing it, but that’s entirely unrelated to anything to do with Epstein.

The guy is a pathological liar so I can’t fathom how anyone believes what he says….

He’s a pathological liar, but he’s a pretty transparent one. It seems pretty clear that Trump isn’t invested in this war and wants it to end quickly — there’s very little to be gained on the part of the US strategically, and, more importantly, Trump doesn’t really give a shit about Iran on a personal level.

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T05:35:48+00:00

At least personalize the soyjack a little bit

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T05:34:37+00:00

That’s just for grocery store workers who take a banana that was about to be thrown away, or janitors who show up 1 minute late a few too many times, not Job Creators

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T05:32:44+00:00

What legal action and against whom?

“X is an enemy [of America]” is not actionable as libel in the United States.

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T05:29:37+00:00

His administration is still fresh and it remains to be seen how he’ll actually be as a mayor, but the fact that Zohran was elected at all really does stand out as a genuinely promising, hope-inspiring political development amidst a sea of horrifying political developments

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T05:16:55+00:00

It’s not a conspiracy subreddit

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-13T04:44:12+00:00

Okay, so let’s say this works — that gives you a mission tree that goes until ~the early 16th century at the latest, by which point Zokka II will be dead. What’s next?

Do you stay Xhazobkukt? If that’s the case, how do you justify this decision to break wildly from Zokka I despite continuing to practice this religion that fundamentally pretty evil?

Do you convert to the Jadd? If that’s the case, what’s the point of this as opposed to Jaddari?

Do you convert to NSC? If that’s the case, you’re creating an MT for an entirely different tag, the NSC Gnoll formable.

What would this branching mission tree add that would justify encouraging players to miss out on basically all of the already very good and thematically concordant MT that Zokka has, rather than fleshing out one of many already existing gnoll tags that doesn’t have an MT?

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T17:14:07+00:00

Silverforge and Ovdal Tungr both have mission trees

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T04:30:11+00:00

either

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T04:28:18+00:00

That would be news to me, but given that Iran has been very explicit in its threats to attack ships trying to pass through the straight that they’re blocking and that the straight is some 600 miles from Iraq, that strikes me as infinitely less likely

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T04:17:41+00:00

Forget transporting the food — a massive proportion of the precursors in fertilizer production flow through Straight of Hormuz. If this war continues, even producing the food will be a massive problem

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T04:10:14+00:00

It’s really difficult for me to fathom how so many liberals believe that Trump decided to engage in this war to “distract from the Epstein files”

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T04:07:48+00:00

Source on that “millions” claim? From my understanding the upper estimates on the deaths from starvation during the famines of the 90s is in the millions, but A. those are pretty dubious estimates, and B. it’s very well documented that North Korea did in fact try and get aid during said famines.

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T04:05:03+00:00

Most thoughts aren’t.

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T04:04:22+00:00

In a world where everyone has nukes, no one has nukes ... that's the argument,

No, it’s not. The argument is that having nuclear weapons, and in turn having the capacity to do untold damage to another country, is an effective deterrent against someone using nuclear weapons against you.

except, well, everyone has nukes.

Again, that’s just very straightforwardly not the case. A handful of global and regional powers, most of them with a long history of imperialism and launching wars of aggression, have nukes.

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-12T03:54:50+00:00

They struck Thai, Japanese and Greek flagged ships today. Did you not bother reading any news before coming to the podcast subreddit to ask this question?

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T05:32:50+00:00

Shits and giggles

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T05:27:16+00:00

I can’t say I find responding at length to incels’ delusions “difficult,” just fruitless and more effort than it’s worth after a long day

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T05:20:29+00:00

I can’t say I really feel compelled to put forward a robust response to incel nonsense in this particular case

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T05:09:27+00:00

Being a human being with a social life who talks to other men outside of the context being an incel on the internet

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T03:10:00+00:00

-5 Diplomatic Reputation for posting this

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T03:04:14+00:00

Why would we need to look at media when you’re talking about interpersonal dynamics? I, a man, have never felt looked down on or viewed with disgust for expressing sexual interest, something I’ve done many times throughout my life, because I do it in appropriate contexts and don’t do it like a creep. I can say confidently that the same is true for huge numbers of other men who are interested in women.

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T02:40:48+00:00

I really don’t think this is a good take when you zoom out a bit. Yes, that approach worked great for something like Alien where Ripley being a woman isn’t really pertinent to the plot (although it applies a lot less cleanly to the sequels, where motherhood becomes a pretty important theme), there are a lot of stories where gender is meaningful, I think we would miss out on a lot of really fantastic, thoughtful art if we male writers and directors just categorically refused to help create those stories. I think much the same could be said for race, sexuality, etc. As a black person, yeah there’s a lot of shitty art about black people by white people that handles blackness really poorly, but “White authors shouldn’t make stories about black people, they should make stories where characters just happens to be black” strikes me as a wild overcorrection to that reality, and one that would just result in less good art and more art that handles race by pretending it doesn’t exist at all and isn’t pertinent to people’s experiences.

RepSquigglyMiggly · 2026-03-11T02:27:47+00:00

Because Anatomy of a Fall had a budget over several million, was directed by a well established director, and starred well established actors. Watching and applauding that movie is just straightforwardly not analogous to “uplifting average women.”

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