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  1. And...if you want to look into the issue of "young men aren't getting laid nearly as much," that graph plays no small part. Shockingly, women....particularly liberal women, aren't too keen on sleeping with retrograde misogynists who believe that women should be trad-wives and submit to their male betters. Back to the baseline rule we would all be best served by: don't be a dick. Just....don't be a dick. You'll get laid more, you'll enjoy your job more, you'll have more friends (who are also less likely to be dicks). Being a dick opens the door to just one thing: being liked by and friends with....other dicks. We have an information ecosystem that tells young men that THE way to be manly is "be a dick," and it turns out that the downsides of that approach just makes people angrier, more frustrated, and more likely to be even more of a dick.
  2. Funny enough…a coupla hundred years ago, the Catholic Church in South America declared the aquatic capybara to be a fish…so the poor could eat them on Friday. It swims, so it’s a fish. I dunno how they taste, but they do make an incredibly soft leather.
  3. Because he IS a tik tok girl. Seriously, that’s the intellect and maturity in action here. Because he IS a tik tok girl. Seriously, that’s the intellect and maturity in action here.
  4. "Sexually degrading?"
  5. Read the syllabus. The class is not to teach people about a particular piece of kiddie lit. It's about teaching the concept and application of kiddie lit/YA lit, INCLUDING its themes, authors, audiences, etc. And it EXPRESSLY said it would explore "conceptions of . . . gender." Saying that the prof was fired because discussing conceptions of gender was not in the syllabus is a flat-out lie. The prof was punished for daring to teach the perspective of more than two genders. Period. That was it, that was the reason.
  6. Bingo as to the narcissism. My wife and I called it "I am the only person in the world" energy, our kids corrected us and said it's "I am the main character" energy. In any case, it's toxic individualism that is not just at the expense of community/any common good, it's directly opposed to it. That is, if something is good for us collectively, it MUST be bad, and MUST be opposed, because that certainly means it's not the best thing for ME, individually. And I am - literally - the only person who matters. The death of the commonwealth, people (leaders, like Elon) declaring that "empathy" is poison, etc. It's fucking killing us. A society of 340 million people, each of whom is vastly more important than everyone else, at the expense of everyone else, is a recipe for collapse. We need a healthy dose of "dude....just don't be a dick." Instead, we celebrate maximum dickishness as the only true measure of whether you're doing good/right. Oh, and the aggy President's statement on why the dean and prof were dismissed is a flat-out lie. He said that it was because the prof was going to stick with teaching something that "wasn't in the syllabus." Yet the syllabus expressly referenced examining concepts of "justice, power, gender": In other words, the pretext -- prof addressed a concept that was not disclosed in the syllabus, and thus "broke his contract with the students" is a lie. The action taken was not because the syllabus was inaccurate. It was because the US DOJ and other very political entities did not like the subject matter. That's chilling as fuck. But, it's the new normal.
  7. Good post. And I definitely agree that we are in an era of "my authoritarianism is better than your authoritarianism" rather than "the neutral Rule of Law and protecting human freedoms are better than authoritarianism." For a dwindling number of us, we don't see goose-stepping authoritarians in snappy Hugo Boss uniforms as an improvement over (real or imagined) goose-stepping authoritarians with red stars on their hats. For those of us "On Liberty" types, this is NOT our era.
  8. A lot of this. See @DDD Dad, who IIRC was active in the Fed Soc in law school....and these days, is quite opposed to their actions, mission, etc. Interesting way to tell us you TRIED to have an inappropriate relationship with a pretty young coed, but none were interested. SAD.
  9. Well, but see, that's why it's more important than ever to run off a huge chunk of our labor force. See, we knew there would be fewer jobs (that's part of the Trump Economic Miracle, don't you see?), so to make things work, we needed to make sure there were fewer workers out there to do those jobs that went away. DUH. 29-D chess!
  10. People actually available and qualified to build complex plants in the US: Who our leadership wants to build complex plants in the US: Result: ain't shit gonna get built. But Cletus will surely end up collecting 100% "disability" after "working" about half a shift.
  11. Yes....but...I think that USED to be true. Sponge-brained youth would show up at university, get exposed to utopian (fantastical, unrealistic) ideas which are often raised by voices/authors on the left, and buy into them hardcore because they have little wisdom, experience, or discernment. Frankly, it's a natural part of the intellectual growth curve; many people go through an "ignorant, naive idealist" phase. Such "ignorant, naive idealist" tendencies generally didn't lend themselves to hardcore retrograde/"conservative" thinking; that mostly came from upbringing. BUT....in recent years, with social media, algorithms, and an explosion of often purposefully divisive right-wing online content being streamed 24/7 into those same impressionable sponge brains, young intolerant ideologues of the right-wing persuasion have blossomed. Will they grow out of that phase? It remains to be seen, we're still pretty early in this game.
  12. TLDR; my pastor wife has a favorite saying that she found on a fridge magnet that has been on our fridge for a long time now:
  13. I don't think they are equivalent in general, but I don't discount the danger of tankie leftist silencing of dissent. Seriously, see the reference to "denunciations" in the Soviet system. It's a dangerous approach, if left to its own devices so it can reach its natural end. Yes, the resistance from the "left" today in response to hard-right government-backed attacks is mostly about standing up for the weak against attacks meant to harm them. But historical hard-left "denunciations" and where they tried to go here (and successfully did in many other countries) is dangerous. Here's a hint: authoritarian crushing of any dissenting ideas is almost always a bad thing. IDGAF if you are a left authoritarian or a right authoritarian. Shitting on academic freedom and liberty, and inevitably personal freedom and liberty, is bad. Except we live in a moment where it is now government policy, and is cheered as good. In fact, it is cheered as the only good thing out there. The only good thing happening in society right now is....owning and silencing and punishing the opposition. That's pretty fucky, and really bad for us.
  14. Being a cruel dick has incredible social and political value nowadays. In fact, it appears to be the ONLY ethos of any social or political value in 2025.
  15. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c741n80ndlxt After facing criticism for corruption and nepotism, the gov't ordered all social media be shut down. Protesters came out. Cops shot and killed a bunch of protestors. Masses rose up and said fuck that. They've torched the Parliament building, PM has resigned. Apparently, they don't really have a government at all right now.
  16. I remember when most of this shit (not all, but most), came from beret-wearing self-important dipshits from the far left (again, I remember the shanty on the West Mall). And, we (rightly in my mind) heard pushback from this about political correctness run amok, "cancel culture" (the more recent iteration of that phenomenon got this name), etc. People who "championed ideas" and said that "freedom of thought" and "liberty" (lotta "libertarians" spoke up) had a lot to say. Turns out....those people were mostly full of shit. Because now that the same approaches and tactics are being used, predictably, with much historical precedent and with much success, by the other end of the political spectrum....crickets chirping. And none of those "academic freedom" and "marketplace of ideas" types are doing jack shit to defend the values they told us were so damned important to them. Turns out, almost all the folks who got pissed off at leftists practicing cancel culture were just mad that they weren't able to do it too. Now they are, with real results, and turns out, they like cancel culture very, very, very much. It's even better when it has the full weight of the government behind it as well. Cancel culture by hippies and shit with little power? That's bad. Cancel culture with the stamp of government approval? That's AWESOME, and we should have more of it. Any of us who actually believe in liberty and a diverse marketplace of ideas? We can get fucked.
  17. I've read it. APD gets a free pass, because you can't expect them to do their job when Garza sucks and also he's mean to them. "Would YOU want to be a cop in Austin?", attributing the implied "no" functionally entirely to the fact that we have a shitty DA. The "yeah but" is no defense of Garza. It's pointing out that some of the problems people are bitching about aren't tied to the shitty DA at all. The DA doesn't decide not to send units to a crime report, APD does that all on its own. Plenty of excusing APD and blaming it on Garza, or at least "it's not APD's fault":
  18. Except....none of us, not a single one of us, has downplayed Garza's shittiness. We've openly and repeatedly called it out. Only one of those two enterprises (Garza and APD) is getting a pass around here, and it ain't Garza. Read the thread.
  19. Oh, don't forget....finding a back door that allows us to re-institute Jim Crow and Juan Crow! Brown people in a boat with drugs, maybe, who knows, we didn't exactly search it? Blow em the fuck up! Black dude with weed? Hoodlum! Toss him in jail for a decade! White kid with weed? Well, he's a good kid, from a good family, no point in ruining his life over a youthful indiscretion.
  20. Seriously. Story, after story, after story, of APD's "policing" priorities (or lack thereof). And they not only get to skate, they get our sympathy and support....because Garza ALSO sucks. Fucking insanity.
  21. France and Italy: two countries that are great at food, and lousy at forming lasting governments. And sexy women. So, they're still winning.
  22. I mean, your post isn't even satire. St. Ronnie, the Most Exalted Republican POTUS ever.....without even trying, I could find better than 100 exact quotes from him that, if I shared them with MAGAts without telling them who said them, they would go apoplectic attacking the soy boy commie libtard who said such things. We live in a world run by people who legit think that Ronald Reagan was a soy boy commie libtard. This is not just the dumbest timeline ever. It's the dumbest timeline POSSIBLE.
  23. Sorry, best we can do is highs in the 80s, and even 90s, until a massive temperature plunge to the single digits in a couple of months, crashing our electrical grid.
  24. Cool. Please provide the proof that the boat blasted was drug runners. And that everyone on board was Venezuelan. Just executing the fuck out of people without an actual adjudication that they are committing a crime is....a problem for societies that have this thing called "the Rule of Law." These are not combatants, attacking or conducting preparations for an attack on the US. They are - even if the accusation is true - just criminals transporting drugs. Do we get to blast any suspected "drug dealers" in US waters? On US streets? When RFK Jr. was dealing drugs in college, would it have been okay to have hit him with a Hellfire missile? What about that guy who someone just accuses of dealing drugs, but really, the accusation is a lie?
  25. Which is why we are beyond saving. It would be one thing if (and bad enough) if 40+ percent of Americans approved of idiocy, incompetence, and moronity. But layer on the fucking performative cruelty and evil, and they also approve THAT. No country comes back from that.
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