durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
2yr ago
I fully expect this to be one of Adams’ classic hypno-rugpull antics, where he flips it around the next day and says it was all a ruse to elicit some form of reactionary learning.
Nonetheless, it’s a risky maneuver. I have to imagine his publishing agent is not having a very fun day.
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
One would expect that successfully navigating business relationships/social interactions would track closely with navigating successful romantic relationships, not to mention simply being exposed to more opportunities to meet and pursue potential love interests.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
I haven’t witnessed anyone on the right (or otherwise) demonizing the Scientific Method, but rather criticizing the new definition of “Science (tm)” being utilized as a consensus-building weapon against any who would question the mainstream narrative.
It’s the bastardization of “science” that invokes revulsion, not true scientific inquiry itself.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
I think that's a rather dated heuristic. In many urban centers, women outearn men.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
And not just support. In a tight-knit community, if you beat up your wife (who is also someone's daughter/sister), you can expect a dad/brother/their buddies bringing hell to your front door the next morning.
To answer your first statement: absolutely! No one in my generation asked for this, no one in my circle wants it, and I think it should be the one burned to the ground. It’s pure societal poison.
As for men (or women) who treat their spouses in a "pitch-black evil" way, we've always had means of dealing with that, outside a parasitical family court machine. A strong family is a good start, for example. Something that the current M.O. has made scarce.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
It became equally understood that the very second of coitus (or even without it if the sperm is stollen). That absolutely an child conceived will result in the man's complete legal and financial ruin. That the legal system gains full power over every asset, skill, or income source, he has ever or might ever have, and that if he tries to evade legal """Responsibility""" (as if this something that would ever consider being applied to a citizen of one of the other 82 genders) his wages will be garnished, his assets forcibly confiscated, he may be imprisoned, and in many jurisdictions his passport might even be confiscated.
This is the part that leaves me flabbergasted. I've seen close friends have their lives left in utter shambles after being cheated on and left by a wife who decided that he was nothing more than a piggybank. Men who were allowed only a pittance of time with their children, despite having no criminal record/history of abuse/etc. That the modern, overpowered family court allows women to destroy the lives of decent men for absolutely no reason is a stain on our society, and will undoubtedly have more severe ramifications as future generations grow up saying "yeah there's no way I'm risking my life by getting married and ending up in a financial/emotional/spiritual dumpster like my dad".
It makes me physically angry sometimes that so much societal and conversational capital is spent on the most trivial "microaggressions" that supposedly-marginalized communities experience, yet massive legal aggressions with the demonstrated effect of driving men to suicide are only spoken of in hushed tones in the dark recesses of the internet.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
There are also very few enslaved black people in the past few decades.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
Kinda makes you wonder about the “equality” of Title IX, then.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
Ultra-premium wine, like any luxury good, is driven by the fact that people with more dollars than sense will naturally derive more enjoyment from having spent a stupid amount of money on it. So it literally tastes better to them at 200 bucks a bottle than it would at $20, or even $50. Consumer psychology be crazy like that.
Give me Winking Owl any day.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
You don't consider the economy a plausible reason to motivate someone's political leanings? That defies belief.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
The most shocking thing I found in that table is that there are countries that have differing retirement ages for men versus women.
durdenhobbes
3yr ago
I may have missed a valid explanation somewhere along the line, but how are we defining "witches", exactly?
Absolutely, and Muhammad Ali is hailed a hero for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
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