Tom Cruise in 1999 played a manosphere influencer in a film called "Magnolia." The character comes across as unhinged but now you see even crazier takes on a typical scroll session:
The SBU is responding to the anti-conscription riots in Kiev, and earlier in Lviv, with something approaching a counterinsurgency operation: about 130 people have been identified and forced to apologize on video, and the women who tried to rescue tortured men and deserters held for ransom in an illegal Azov prison have been arrested without bail.
Meanwhile, the anti-corruption bodies are going after top SBU officials for involvement in a large-scale drug cartel and scam call-center business. When NABU detectives came to search an SBU general, he threatened them with a firearm.
Meanwhile, the SBU is searching a military intelligence (HUR) officer in the investigation into the high-profile attempted assassination of a Ukrainian businessman in Monaco.
For over a decade, the Western public sphere, including a big part of specialized academia, presented post-Euromaidan Ukraine as nation-building, democratizing, and progressively reforming and strengthening the state and civil society on the path to European “civilization.”
The reality after this decade looks more like Latin America in the 1970s: states deeply penetrated by the mafia, a comprador bourgeoisie, fascist paramilitaries, and extreme anticommunism, only without any communist guerrillas.
In my new article “The Broken Mirror of the World in Crisis,” just out in the brand-new journal The Ukrainian Forum, I offer a theoretical and longue-durée perspective on the disintegration of Ukraine’s state and society, which both reflects and advances the crisis of the order on which a big part of the Ukrainian elites fatally staked the nation’s future. I discuss the role of political capitalism, post-Soviet class conflict, and the deficient Maidan revolutions, and how all of these lead, in particular, to a dramatically weaker Ukrainian capacity for mobilization (in contrast to Russia), which underlies the escalating domestic mess and may define the outcome of the war.
Read it here: https://t.co/st8cEJH1j1
@A_A_Almonds@TessW62@CopperCation You can say that with a smug face, but you're speaking for all women with zero authority. Not all women and men are the same, and neither are their sexual preferences. A lot is shaped by porn/novels and culture (Sex and the City e.g). Blaming it all on male partners is just bias.
@nathan_cafearo@Barrister79@PParker98812 Defendants are generally advised to use their right to remain silent during pre-trial investigation. But in sexual offence cases where the prosecution must be objective and impartial, an early statement can be more beneficial than waiting, as silence may allow adverse inferences.
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People are being so sexist about this plane crash that even Matt Walsh had to be like “whoa guys calm down”, and then also remind you that he is still sexist
A plane crashes in Florida, lives are lost, and within HOURS the blue-checkmark crowd is blaming a female pilot and screaming “DEI.”
Here's the problem: They don't understand how a two-pilot cockpit works.
As a pilot, I'm disgusted. Watch this before you embarrass yourself.
An extremely well deserved flop. There is justice. Let the ethical minority rule prevail.
I was in Kazakhstan a few times after "Borat"; people were still distressed about it, would bring it up randomly to explain that "the film misrepresents the country".
Antigoyimism is real.