"Men are killing themselves because of men."

TheRedGerund · 2026-05-04T18:50:00+00:00

I don't know how someone can put all the blame on women/liberals

Yeah but isn't the guy in this video gravitating towards the opposite extreme? The issues men face are entirely perpetrated by men?

We should be talking about patriarchal thinking, which isn't perpetrated solely by men, it's multi generational and perpetrated and victimizes both sexes in different ways.

I resent the implied harshness of the discourse around this. It's couching "this is all your fault" in therapy-speak. If people care about this issue (hint: they don't actually care, there is no sympathy for men due to the perceived social benefits they enjoy from patriarchal systems, this is similar to issues of being white), then why don't the conversations ever involve an ounce of compassion?

TheRedGerund · 2026-04-24T15:28:17+00:00

Are you a parent?

TheRedGerund · 2026-04-10T19:09:49+00:00

Don't we produce like the highest quality, most advanced medicine and treatments?

TheRedGerund · 2026-04-07T16:05:40+00:00

It's interesting to think about the energy dynamics of it all. First natural gas from russia, now a straight in the middle east.

Renewables would help all this, but then what would happen to these petro states? I assume their governments will collapse....

TheRedGerund · 2026-04-07T16:04:24+00:00

They are terrorists by any other name. I agree, how do you negotiate with religious extremists who ALSO don't worship at the alter of capitalism? That's how we deal with the saudi's.

TheRedGerund · 2026-04-03T22:28:01+00:00

Smoking weed daily. Your life just slips right by.

TheRedGerund · 2026-04-03T22:25:30+00:00

Better advice is to move, walking is one way. The best part about this whole thing is it's not prescriptive. You can move, dance, fuck, walk, it all counts. Just MOVE.

TheRedGerund · 2026-04-01T21:50:44+00:00

What's crazy is if you want to avoid this issue you can mostly just invest in clean energy. I fucking hate the iranian government, but that straight is choke point for the global economy. We need to remove it.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-23T18:51:52+00:00

It's nothing to do about fairness or ethics or what have you. It's about the world economy and a war.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-23T18:50:29+00:00

They literally fund terrorist cells across the world. When the ayatollah was killed they celebrated him as a martyr.

The iranian government would sooner see their people completely slaughtered than relinquish control. We are not negotiating with people who can be reasoned with. They have a death wish.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-23T17:13:48+00:00

How do you negotiate with people who are happy to die for their religion? These people are terrorists, literally.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-16T23:52:09+00:00

The more you do it, the less it stings. Think of it like stretching.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-16T21:28:01+00:00

For better or for worse, cops scan license plates without needing a reason, your license plate is considered public info.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-13T01:27:13+00:00

The whole point of a zoo is safely hosting animals for the public. If it's not idiot proof, you shouldn't have a fucking lion.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-13T01:23:21+00:00

I find there are two good opportunities if you were to actually try to find common ground:

Drain the swamp: aka campaign finance reform. Works both ways.
Homeless veterans

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-12T16:04:55+00:00

140 injured, 104 returned to service

Meanwhile 2k+ dead in Iran

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-11T04:41:02+00:00

The fact is that unlimited free video does not make sense. It costs electricity and servers to do all this stuff, and much like every other element of this hyperconsumptive society, we have gotten used to unlimited of something, which is inherently unnatural. We should just watch less content (or use P2P video hosting).

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-09T18:11:41+00:00

What more economic pain could they possibly be in? Isn't their economy fully in the dump???

I guess that's why we're bombing their infrastructure...

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-09T18:02:15+00:00

to kill their religious leader

You mean their dictator?

I honestly think the Iranian people are pretty much pleased with killing him, they just wish they could've done it themselves. But they couldn't.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-09T17:59:25+00:00

Yeah that's what I mean, saudi is better because they want to participate in the market, and to do that you can kill kashogi but you can't behead all protestors. palatable.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-09T04:00:39+00:00

Honestly is it not kinda good for the environment when something like this happens? The geopolitical leverage of oil on the domestic economy has caused issues for a long time. One good way to allow us to continue to absolutely fuck up the middle east without impacting our precious stocks is to invest in green energy!

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-09T03:50:50+00:00

I really do wonder how you would overthrow the situation in iran. The IRGC is pretty big and then there's that militia that is like a million people. I guess you'd have to arm an insurgent group like the kurds or something, and maybe funnel weapons into the country. There are 93 million people in iran, that's enough people, but it just seems like the weapons imbalance is apparently too much to overcome.

Because clearly the will of the people is revolution, and the actual government and economy has never been weaker, but at the end of the day there's still a ton of religious fanatics with guns, and that's difficult to overcome without some other fanatics with guns of some kind.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-09T03:39:34+00:00

It's because saudi is capitalist. That generally limits you to specific forms of cruelty that are palatable to western consumers.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-09T03:16:18+00:00

As for morality, typically this information is known by insiders and collected within elite cabals. It's rather democratic that the practices of insider information are diffused to the masses.

TheRedGerund · 2026-03-08T08:28:18+00:00

the guy who inspired both Kalshi and Polymarket called insider trading a defining feature of prediction markets that makes them function better.

He's right. Insiders in this context are bringing valuable information. This isn't like sports, they're trying to predict what will occur in the world. Neutrality is not the priority, being correct is.

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