"Most people are against trans women in sports!" The average person has no idea what sex hormones do and thinks trans women are just men who wear a lot of makeup. You don't "meet people where they are" when their baseline is in fucking Narnia. You correct them.
THREAD. It's important for all people of good will to understand the Laken Riley Act before the Senate votes on it tomorrow. It’s unconstitutional. It’s horrific in every word and clause. But there is a deeper, more imminent violence lurking beneath its hate-filled text.
i thought i was pretty rand-pilled but apparently i have so much farther to go
for example, every time i hear someone say the rich are parasites i'm forced to notice that, IF anyone is a parasite in this situation, it's surely people benefitting from tax money paid BY the rich
IDF is now openly acknowledging the 5 journalists they incinerated were indeed operating as journalists, but the IDF believed their work was “combat propaganda.”
The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killed 5 journalists because you don’t like their work is terrorism, barbarism, a crime against humanity, and should be prosecuted immediately
“Demographic based redistribution policy” like what? What are you actually mad at here?
People aren’t laughing at you bc they’re entitled feminists or whatever else. We’re laughing at you bc you’re an idiot trying to make it everyone else’s problem.
The really funny thing is there’s not a single actual policy or specific behavior mentioned here. This is a foolproof midwit test - you see a real problem, but attribute it to vague societal forces you can neither identify nor explain.
Let's see if saying it in yet another new way helps anyone understand:
The problem:
Most men are not perceived as attractive by women who do not know them (about 80-95%).
Men who are not initially attractive to women must compensate in other ways, almost always through provision.
Artificially, systematically removing men's opportunities to provide leaves them with no options.
Men with no options don't behave.
The cause:
Feminism and other forms of entitlement leftism create policy that claims to promote "equality" and "equity" under the false premise that income and power differences are due to "unfairness."
Those differences in outcome are actually mostly attributable to differences in individual and group ability, as well as preferences and free association.
Therefore, "equality" and "equity" policies that claim to promote "fairness" actually reduce fairness by excluding large portions of groups with higher ability, leaving them with insufficient entry points to functional participation.
"I don't care. Wahh! Whiny incel!"
You don't have to! No one can force you to love these people or wish them success. This affects you anyway.
It is unwise to imagine that these groups, who have high levels of ability and are aware of their systematic disenfranchisement from the societies, economies, and governments that their ancestors built for them, are going to take this sitting down.
If you support demographic-based redistribution policy, there is a large chance that you will be held accountable for the misery and damage that these policies have created.
What you can do:
First of all, go right ahead and forget about expecting these people to forget about this or to accept it. "If they all just learn to deal with it, there will be no problem."
That's not going to happen. They will not all just. Large numbers of people never just. I know! If only they would just! But they just won't.
Dissident sentiment emerges in response to real or perceived conditions. These particular conditions are real, and they have long ago exceeded the threshold of tolerance.
Yes, yes, I know: "No one owes you! You're just a loser!"
Mocking them for not tolerating it isn't going to change anything. In fact, it will only reduce the already dwindling goodwill among them. You may as well tell a bear: "no one owes you a picnic basket! Just be happy with whatever's in the woods!" Bear don't care.
The solution to this problem includes, but is not limited to, a return to free association (the right to exclude) and the elimination of demographic quotas.
In other words, if you keep trying to engineer equal outcomes among people with different abilities, you're going to keep creating dissident sentiment among people who would naturally achieve better outcomes, and those are really the last people you want to be dissident. They're good at outcomes.
You basically just sat down at a game you didn't create, outnumbered the people who created it, then told 30 million gadget-loving, tech-literate leaders and engineers that they're not allowed to play their own game anymore because it's yours now, so they're making a new one just for themselves. Whoops!
"Now I'm cranky! I want to keep believing that I'm the hero!"
If you do not agree with what I'm saying here, it is almost certainly because you lack the scope of awareness to see that you are hacking away at the support structures holding up everything that you value, or you're too emotional to become conscious of what you know to be true.
Either that or you're a liar and you know what you're doing.
In any case, bad idea.
Government-mediated special treatment by demographic is singularly responsible for every major domestic political issue on the table right now.
Stop supporting it!
there are videos of starving children being led out of a death camp all over twitter right now and a specific group of idiots is trying to convince everyone we should be horrified that a lady chose to have a bunch of sex on camera for money
Ohhhh so people think the disease in the healthcare system is due to individual cackling bad villains and not due to layers of perverse incentives and backfiring regulations, I see
today i saw a group of 15 teenage boys hanging out after school in the whole foods cafe and every single one of them was eating their own personal rotisserie chicken
The idea that the Earth will recover if humanity collapses is a common but dangerous narrative we must kindly challenge.
While life on Earth is resilient, the recovery would occur on a timescale far beyond human comprehension—millions of years. The problem is not merely that humanity would cease to exist but that the damage we leave behind would irreparably shape the trajectory of life itself.
If humanity collapses, it would be because we already wiped out critical portions of the web of life that we depend on. For instance, if climate change acidifies the oceans and leads to cascading die offs, those feedback loops will not be reversable.
The loss of millions of species would not only devastate ecosystems but also erase entire evolutionary lineages, many of which embody unique adaptations and symbiotic relationships that took billions of years to develop. This would be akin to the destruction of an immeasurable wealth of biological knowledge, each species representing a volume in the grand library of life. These are not just abstract losses—they represent ecosystems that stabilize the planet’s climate, purify water, pollinate crops, and sustain the intricate web of life that even humans depend on.
Moreover, the collapse of human civilization does not guarantee the cessation of environmental harm. Nuclear waste, abandoned industrial facilities, deforestation, plastic pollution, and the destabilization of ecosystems we leave behind would continue to degrade the planet, potentially creating a barren, toxic legacy that life struggles to reclaim.
Critically, the framing of "Earth will recover without us" abdicates responsibility for our role as stewards of the biosphere. It assumes a passive stance when what is required is active, intentional intervention to heal and preserve the world we live in.
This is not just a matter of avoiding collapse—it is about recognizing that we are interwoven with the fabric of life and that our well-being is inseparable from the survival and flourishing of other species.
In short, the assumption that the Earth will recover if we collapse is not just flawed; it undermines the urgency and moral imperative to act decisively now.
Preventing mass extinctions and ecological devastation is not just about saving "nature"; it is about preserving the very essence of life itself, of which we are a part. The libraries of living knowledge and ancestral nations we risk burning are irreplaceable treasures that future generations of all species deserve to inherit. - FFA
h/t EarthlyEducation
I think the "inflation is out of control! Americans are destitute!" meme spreading by social contagion had infinitely more to do with the outcome of this election than insufferable Stancilite libs pointing out "no it's not"
@Moewavy24 @BookerGWash So being BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein for decades is cool with you? Being a serial sexual predator is all good? You’re totally fine voting for someone who molests underage women? Good to know, hope I never run into you in real life