Botond173
14d ago
I just want to add that the situation many newly married couples find themselves in nowadays, namely that they have nobody else in the practical sense assisting them with childcare, that this is a task the two of them need to manage on their own, day after day, is historically abnormal and definitely not sustainable as a social norm. It has not been the usual case in any society or any age in the past.
Botond173
14d ago
I think it's warranted to add context. If you're poor, don't be a man, the OP said. Fair enough, but their women's situation isn't much better in that regard.
Botond173
14d ago
It isn't exactly new or sophisticated technology if that is what you're alluding to. The Wehrmacht utilized a rather simplistic launcher system during WW2 already which produced the same devastating effect on enemy infantry.
Botond173
14d ago
I don't necessarily agree with the 'unverifiable' part as I think it's conceivable that the authorities will maybe clarify this, but otherwise this theory makes sense.
Botond173
15d ago
16 years old Muscovite Artem killed one Alexey Belyaev deputy head of Roskomnadzor, Russian media and internet censorship agency.
The poor man doesn't even have his own Wiki page.
Point taken. To be clear, I was referring to the sorts of shitty manual labor, mostly in the service sector, that underclass/prole women normally perform.
Botond173
15d ago
I'm no urbanist but the description 'a residential building near the Volokolamsk Highway (part of the Moscow Ring Road)' somehow does not sound to me like a cozy upper-middle class neighborhood. But anyway, what I am suggesting is that security appeared to be lax and the location chosen by the assassin is a bit suspicious.
Botond173
15d ago
I reckon the last time multiple talking heads were making predictions of a swift and imminent Ukrainian collapse was in the first few days of the war. To the extent that such were still being made, they were marginal and incidental until nowadays. It also wasn't until recently that the Russians were able to capture towns and not just on a one-off basis but in a sequential manner.
Botond173
15d ago
Also, such people are probably just selfish and don't care for any suggestions that would upend their existing lifestyle.
Botond173
15d ago
Fair enough. I guess this depends on one's willingness to subject oneself to trashy FAFOist Twitter feeds and comment sections of various sorts (Youtube, Reddit etc). I've seen some people confidently predict a counteroffensive that will definitely succeed the coming summer. Either way, my point is that the Atlanticist promotion of the Ukrainian nationalist cause only makes any conceivable sense if such a swift counteroffensive happens and succeeds. The other options are a war of attrition or a peace deal, and even you're the biggest cynic on the planet whose only priority in any of this is weakening Russia, I think it's probably still a bad idea to compel the Ukrainian state to eventually grind itself down to dust and thus leave the Southwestern borders of Russia without that bulwark.
Botond173
15d ago
I think it's worth pointing out that the life expectancy of underclass women is also generally rather bad, as their diet is terrible, they often abuse substances, and the tasks they normally do everyday either involve standing in one place for longer periods or bowing and lifting relatively heavy objects, which is also terrible for your health.
Botond173
15d ago
And in fact I think we are already seeing this in ultra-religious communities.
I thought their average TFR is also dropping or at least stagnating.
Botond173
15d ago
It's a bit of a stretch to call him a 'war hero' in the everyday sense of the word.
Botond173
15d ago
I just wonder what the 'first deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) since 2011' was doing 'in a residential building near the Volokolamsk Highway', without bodyguards, presumably.
Botond173
15d ago
Maybe I'm uninformed but how does an average wage slave afford to wake up at 10 AM and spend 7 hours a day outside his work shift staring at screens?
Botond173
15d ago
"Day in the life before kids" rather sounds like the day in the life of an unemployed trust fund kid.
Botond173
15d ago
I think you made the simple mistake of taking those arguments seriously.
Botond173
15d ago
Predictably, the thirsty betas repeating those jokes also fail to comprehend that boning the high school teacher will not actually elevate your status among your peers as a male student. You'll just be known as that weirdo whom that weirdo teacher woman invited between her legs and manipulated.
To add to OP's reply I think it's clear in retrospect that the social factors that propelled Gamergate to mainstream visibility had been brewing for a long time up until 2014. For one, online journalism had also been in a sorry state for a long time, one consequence being that those who were picking up PC game journalism as a job were increasingly urban liberal normies who originally dreamed about working for famous mainstream publications and felt that they had to settle for something much less as they lacked other options. They usually had an antipathy for gaming and gamers, especially hardcore male gamers. and basically resented the whole subculture that was now providing them with a meagre livelihood. Also, feminist culture warriors had been aware for a long time that unlike television, movies, literature and science fiction, PC gaming was 'off the reservation', not yet subjected to feminist influence and transformation, populated by many sexist failson dudebro fans yet unaffected by the culture war. The Blue Tribe in general was increasingly characterized by radicalization, desperation and bitterness during those times. The Tea Party happened, OWS seemed promising but puttered out, Obama was increasingly seen as a disappointment and a bummer by many leftists, the Dems lost seats during the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections.
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