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Friday Fun Thread for April 10, 2026

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I love me some good Black Mirror - lots of decent ones, and I'd heartily recommend the episode right before this one, Fifteen Million Merits, as an incongruously clear-eyed dystopian tale that feels like it came right out of a high-quality post from here, /pol/, or X - but I always took for granted that the creators are Euro-establishment-progpilled enough to believe that infidelity isn’t a big deal, the protagonist is unsympathetic for being unwilling to suck it up and ignore it, and he would obviously be better off if unable to confirm his suspicions. Which is a vile view, obviously, but expected of that crowd.

I've heard paternity tests are illegal in France, but the context implied this was a French issue. Is it a more common thing across Europe?

Such a cuck culture is not limited to France; it’s the West in general.

There’s an unholy alliance of progressives and social conservatives who encourages men to wife up single mothers (“you wouldn’t be the stepdad, you’d be the one who stepped up”) and discourages men victimized by paternity fraud from ditching the children that resulted (“don’t punish the child”).

It Just So Happens the best interests of the children in question coincide with the best interests of the mothers committing the fraud. Men’s best interests don’t matter, of course.

I've only ever heard of that legislation as regards France, but I understand the sentiment behind it to be much more widespread. You even see it among ultraprogs in the US, it's just much further from the mainstream. But in any case I'd expect "cuck" probably exploded as a political insult in areas where people's opponents would have a harder time laughing it off as a non sequitir accusation, it just also got broadcast to us in the US because the internet is global.

I always took for granted that the creators are Euro-establishment-progpilled enough to believe that infidelity isn’t a big deal, the protagonist is unsympathetic for being unwilling to suck it up and ignore it, and he would obviously be better off if unable to confirm his suspicions.

I don't want you to be right, but you probably are.

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