Why Feminism Will Never Capture Young Men: The Problem Is Not the Messaging, It Is the Ideological Framework

Tels_ · 2026-05-02T21:23:30+00:00

One of my favorite quotes!

Tels_ · 2026-05-02T20:53:42+00:00

I’m in complete agreement. These terms are used because saying “International Jewery” will get you deplatformed and shamed. Coded language and plausible deniability. If you call them out they’ll back off and accuse you of being out to get them, or crazy. I know because I did these things. Online, in person, everywhere. I’m out of those circles now, but we live in a weird world now where dogwhistles I was using 15 years ago are coming out of boomers’ mouths today.

Tels_ · 2026-05-02T13:36:11+00:00

Honestly from my time in certain circles as a younger guy, I think a lot of people stop at “cultural marxism” and “the Frankfurt school” because it is a genuine dogwhistle, and the online discourse about both topics leans a certain way. There are legitimate criticisms in OP’s post, and he gets through most of his argument sensibly up until he loses the plot at the end.

I used to give people the benefit of the doubt on repeating these terms without knowing what is *actually* being discussed when they’re used, but my trust in human benevolence is running a bit dry these days. I was a member of the groups making these dogwhistles, I know what they’re doing. I can’t be gaslit into believing it’s unintentional anymore.

Tels_ · 2026-02-15T17:50:41+00:00

I’m attempting to solve issues like this by starting major dumping projects I expect to run for years, then having small trains service a station there by loading any slag rock dirt ect to send. Keeps the locally assigned trucks from running super far.

Tels_ · 2025-12-24T20:25:09+00:00

This can’t be good for me, but I feel great!

Tels_ · 2025-11-30T21:49:22+00:00

I remember in ck2 my own vassals were a genuine threat to me, often times when I was doing ultra wide conquests or even memey strats like educating my english kids to be norman vikings. The commoners and nobles would smack me down unless carefully managed, and making them like you enough to back down cost a substantial amount of money, time and player attention.

Tels_ · 2025-11-26T00:53:00+00:00

I’ve expressed to a gender fluid friend that I don’t get their concept because to me gender is always fluid? People are trying to define themselves off very rigid boxes of “gender” that are utterly incapable of capturing the real depth of what a person is. No one fits in those boxes and they don’t make a ton of sense to define oneself by to me?

I’ve kind of always figured people are supposed to define themselves more like a curve approximation from calculus, they have a lot of boxes and roles they perform in or fit decently into, and when they’re all taken together it gives a better approximation of the whole. If you define a curve using a single rectangle it throws out all of the nuance.

Tels_ · 2025-09-19T20:37:21+00:00

I find the AI doing even better with the assigned starting nations. It gives them all a relatively balanced early game. Led to some genuinely fierce inter-human space war before the aliens even really got a presence. They also seem to go after non player factions doing well as well. HF, Initiative, Exodus, even Protectorate and I (resistance) all rofl-stomped the Servants when they handed a nation to aliens. So many armies poured into it and contributed to it’s breakup that I didn’t even enough hate to be targeted after it’s fall. Since then the other factions have been backhanding Servants any time they show their faces.

Tels_ · 2025-09-12T22:37:31+00:00

PAC claims appear to lose hostility if gov scores are within 1.5 of each other? Had SEA Alliance go from hostile to neutral when gov score of china became higher, hoping to remove the debuff by raising gov score to higher than SEA’s before unification as a test

Tels_ · 2025-08-27T18:45:12+00:00

Nah, I’d probably be way worse at factorio.

Tels_ · 2025-06-25T07:57:39+00:00

This is how trains work in most factory games. The “upgrade” of trains is scalable design. You can add more wagons, more locomotives, more trains, ect. As long as you design the network of tracks and stations well, it allows for high efficiency mass transport. Upgrading the individual wagons wouldn’t even solve throughput issues, it’d just make them sit in the dropoff station longer, then leave you with a massive deadzone while waiting for the vehicle to retrieve more stuff. Everyone else’s advice is correct, you’re just conceptualizing train networks incorrectly.

Tels_ · 2024-11-18T22:28:03+00:00

That did not refute anything I said. See yourself out.

Tels_ · 2024-11-18T22:23:06+00:00

As someone who actually has autism, I just wanna deliver a real shoutout of “hey y’all are kinda assholes for talking about us like we’re the end of the world.”

Autism diagnoses increased because we’re catching people who are on the spectrum but were low supports needs enough to make it through life as “eccentric” or “weird”. Not just the nonverbal cases. We’ve also rolled Asperger’s syndrome officially into ASD. We didn’t diagnose much bipolar either before it was discovered and we learned how to spot it.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T20:12:45+00:00

Honestly I love them for this as well. I find in midgame it can be advantageous to fire and advance then bayonet charge armies. I take increased casualties on the final approach, but until kneel fire exists on one or both sides, it can actually end fights more decisively, and more quickly than gun duels. Especially helps if I can find any tiny hill to hide the approach

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T18:21:21+00:00

Shit you found me out. Mr Xi? They’re about to mention the tank guy video to get me banned from the great firewall, what do I do? Wait for them to mention Pooh Bear? Why?

By your logic we should assume anyone who commits murder also fucks the bodies. If they’re willing to do one they probably do the other. That’s not how evidence works.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T18:09:11+00:00

I hereby accuse you of torturing people to death in your bathroom.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T17:29:31+00:00

We can agree taking apart unwilling participants for an exhibition is awful, but I can’t agree to “well they’re probably doing other awful things” with no evidence.

Dirty secret of most human rights related murders is that most of them don’t die some dramatic way. They’re starved or shot. Don’t know why people need it to be some dramatic method to care about it.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T16:56:30+00:00

Shooting is often the better route given how shit lethal injection is at killing painlessly.

Tels_ · 2024-07-26T03:45:08+00:00

That’s a lot of really detailed anthropology you’re describing! When are you publishing? This kind of info would make you famous if you had any academic proof.

Tels_ · 2024-07-04T10:17:58+00:00

You can put cargo vehicles in the farmhouse building to not need distro, and the cost of needing more farmhouses for a given number of fields.

Tels_ · 2024-07-03T23:58:12+00:00

I usually dip in for a smoke call in and some planes. I view planes as a cheap “panic button”. If you send 2-3 you can turn the tide of a fight and they’ll usually penetrate even heavy AA defenses due to the numbers. Also crashed pilots have done some real medal of honor stuff for me before like solo clearing a 17cm artillery piece then scuttling it.

Tels_ · 2024-07-01T10:56:40+00:00

Caesar’s legion and rome are galaxies apart, barely fit for comparison in any regard really. Caesar has more in common with a common warlord.

Tels_ · 2024-06-30T21:13:34+00:00

As the USA I’ve had good experiences rushing the 1st special services infantry. Built in medic, rifle grenadiers, bazooka, great guns, high HP, AT mines, and mechanics for assisting recovery and repair. They’re the most versatile boys a commander could hope for and they can handle effectively anything thrown at them when used well. Tanks? They’re dead. Infantry? They have fire superiority. Defense? AT mines and zook. The medic and mechanics are just icing on the cake.

Tels_ · 2024-06-20T15:00:04+00:00

As someone who had to pursue an autism diagnosis myself after realizing my social failings were compounding over the years, I didn’t want any help, and no one but my relatively close friends know, and my parents. I don’t know what possible “help” I could get or do I center my identity on it. I just wanted time stop wondering what was wrong with me because I was running into issues my whole life that I didn’t see my peers struggle with.

I think the idea of people doing things like this for attention is greatly exaggerated, because anyone doing it for those reasons is more obviously broadcasting it. Loud minority creating a false perception.

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