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Sympthsical

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11. There is an outright hostility toward males in our ideological warrens.
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 01:38 AM
Mar 2025

Young males gravitate to those spaces where they feel welcomed, supported, and liked.

They vote accordingly. This is pretty basic math.

I don't know if anyone's noticed how Gen Z was raised, but social media is chock full of why men are the worst always and forever by the highly ideological activist quarters and their audience captured media that really just cannot go one day without jumping on men for something. If most of them aren't outright sexual abusers, they're just one step away!

Well, here's the thing. Young males are being brought up in digital environments where they don't really require women. They shuffle off to their Discords. They have unlimited access to porn. Dating over apps is a total nightmare. So people withdraw to socially supportive environments. Mix in that they lost precious socializing time due to the pandemic. Throw on some dire economic straits for fun.

It's a brew that gets, well, this.

And the fact that my saying this will raise all the hackles will just prove the point. People cannot have this discussion. It's like matter and anti-matter colliding. "I shouldn't have to consider men or how we address their concerns better!" People literally say that kind of shit here.

My answer is don't then. And then enjoy election night returns.

Our party is in desperate need of reform. And one of the Top 5 steps is going to be chucking these highly ideological and divisive people who have hijacked the party and driven just about everyone who isn't them away (see: minority communities and the movement away from us that is occurring).

It's been 10 years since this shitstorm started. And not a lesson has been learned because of an abject refusal to consider - ever - that maybe there's something deeply wrong and broken with the identarian ideologies that undergird our party. American voters just aren't in the mood anymore. When is the party going to finally notice? If Trump 2.0 isn't a loud enough siren, I don't know what to tell anyone anymore.

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My teenage daughter's friends are all lefty, unblock Mar 2025 #1
Do none of these young men have mothers? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2025 #2
Glass half full enid602 Mar 2025 #3
I think they are projecting. usonian Mar 2025 #4
Given that people tend to sort themselves by ideology in romantic relationships... pat_k Mar 2025 #6
This is interesting. H2O Man Mar 2025 #7
Having a brother still in the DC area, I follow some things there DFW Mar 2025 #14
Handsome as I was/am, all those A's weren't attractive, it seems. usonian Mar 2025 #8
There was a thread recently about Gamergate... Hugin Mar 2025 #9
Its the algorithms JCMach1 Mar 2025 #5
What would get through to them? A draft, then getting sent abroad to fight in a brutal neo-imperial war 0rganism Mar 2025 #10
There is an outright hostility toward males in our ideological warrens. Sympthsical Mar 2025 #11
I wish I could rec this a million times. Ace Rothstein Mar 2025 #13
Social media makes it to easy to shred people to bits. yardwork Mar 2025 #18
Men think women owe them something JI7 Mar 2025 #12
Yes, even when the opposite is true and easy to understand. MineralMan Mar 2025 #15
They can't be reached. valleyrogue Mar 2025 #16
Right, they want a world where women are dependent on men for their financial security JI7 Mar 2025 #17
Exactly. valleyrogue Mar 2025 #20
Selfishness and lack of empathy in society Comrade Citizen Mar 2025 #19
..re-instate the draft..and send them to.. thomski64 Mar 2025 #21
My daughter married a great guy exboyfil Mar 2025 #22
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