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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/one-million-france-protest-pension-reform

It is not exactly shocking that France is on the verge of having riots, as it is part and parcel to modern French culture. Apparently, changing the pension retirement age by 2 years is enough of a reason to have uproar.

If this plan is pushing people over the line, how much worse would things be with actual cuts to entitlements/welfare?

This is the perfect example of why we are going to hit the wall at full speed instead of fixing the problems with government spending.

@LouisConde 1.3? Still not enough. Needs to get to at least 2.1 to get to replacement rate. Nothing too crazy, just enough to not be dying off slowly.

@furgar This is not me being against better city planning with more walkability and less car dependence, but do not assume that having such a city will guarantee that the other problems such as crime will somehow vanish. You either need to have the pre-existing conditions where crime would not be a problem in the first place, or you need to have a means to deter the criminality. City design alone will not deal with this issue.

@furgar One big gripe I have with the recent influx for the shilling towards the "mixed-use walkable city" advocates is their assertion that low crime is a guaranteed when you implement their city planning ideas. But they never consider that having a high trust society is a necessary first step. Such a society is far more easily achieved when you have a common ethnic/cultural background. In the US, we certainly have no such society.

@TheVeryLutheranHousewife >Open your eyes and look around and notice what needs to be done.

This is assuming men operate the same as women. No, we are not going to "see what needs to be done" or "anticipate your needs" to what a woman actually wants because we have a different outlook due to our wiring.

Would I as a man tell my wife, "Why can't you just pick up the air conditioner and move it to the window?" That would be me assuming she would have the means to do that, which would be wrong.

@TheVeryLutheranHousewife >They can't hear it when you are asking for it explicitly.

I have some doubt on my end that they are truly being explicit, as so many women communicate far less straightforwardly than men do. Her "explicit" is likely, "There are just so many dishes that keep piling up!" Rather than, "Could you please take care of the dishes now?"

Men respond far better to straightforward communication than hinting. I would want to observe the conservations to confirm my theory.

@deprecated_ii The point I am trying to make is that you cannot make a straight line comparison of "150 days of work" versus our work days. I don't think most people arguing how "peasants had it better" would be willing to trade their current life for that of a medieval peasant. They would soon find out that the meme is not quite telling the whole story.

@deprecated_ii And my statement is also not a condemnation of life during those times. Most people had to live in conditions many in our time might find deplorable. But can we say we are happier than the peasants were? We have discovered that even when you give people modern conveniences, they still find things to bitch and moan about. Just look at your average leftist and see how they are still unhappy even when they live pampered lives.

@deprecated_ii I am kind of sick of this meme of "only 150 days of work." This is wrongly understood. Those 150 days were work for the lord of the land. Sure, you had the rest of the days where you did not need to serve the lord, but you still had your own personal work to do. And no, it would not be the simple chores that we have, but quite a bit more work as well.

Not to say that the bugman replying is living a genuinely fulfilling life, but the infographic is only half the story.

@Fiddle When you give a woman freedom to do whatever she pleases, she often ends up like these women. But it is not the freedom of choice alone that causes this, but the rudderless upbringing they had. How many of these women grew up with a good father figure? Chances are they didn't. They don't appreciate a genuinely good man because they have no model to reference for what a man should be.

This problem will only get worse as divorce remains all to easy, as well as single motherhood.

I think it was an interview with Robert Malone, where he mentioned the vaxx issues could be even worse than we know, given how one demographic that was most likely to take the vaxx could be dying suddenly without raising any alarm bells. That is, the elderly. When a 70 year old gets a heart attack, nobody is surprised. Which means that any of them who are getting heart issues due to the vaxx (or rather accelerating any issues) will go well under the radar.

I don't think the vast majority of people who took the vaxx are doomed. A significant percentage already has immediate problems, and many more will probably have additional complications. But I do not think it will mean the death of all.

But even if it is just 1 percent that will have significant problems, it is bad enough. But my guess would be that around 10 percent will have problems, which is certainly a significant number.

@Aether @IAMAL_PHARIUS More likely they are just linking to/referencing the exact same article. I have seen it before, just plain lazy publishing.

And I can confirm that it is the exact same article, as they all will link to the Associated Press, written by Sophia Tulp. See for yourself if you do not believe me.

In a way, it makes sense, as many news sources will be able to spread the same article to a wider audience. That way they make sure the bullshit propaganda spreads as far as possible.

@37712 Women are so oppressed they can be fat, have height requirements while seeing only a tall man as the bare minimum of being a man, while being free to say all of this with no real consequences to herself.

If we have any form of collapse, perhaps women like this will rethink whether or not "a man needs to be TALL (tee hee)" is really that important when she is facing starvation. Which might take a while if she is fat (and she likely is), but it will only be a matter of time.

@grey @deprecated_ii @PvtProperty @WashedOutGundamPilot >being short, something that is completely out of your control due to genetics, is a red flag.

Much of the other parts of the list is trash too. Why do women want a man to be an iPhone user so much? They are just asking for the man to be the opposite of a high T man. Not all men who have Apple products are, but being an iFaggot does not scream manliness to me.

And on the topic of marriage, I have said before, the primary purpose of sex is to make babies. Yes, sex feels great. That is because your body wants to create a baby. When you short circuit that primary purpose in favor of hedonistic pleasure, you will discover that like all other hedonistic pursuits, you will be left empty if you try to skirt around the primary purpose of sex.

Why do you think sluts are so unhappy? No, being happy in the moment does not count as actually being happy.

What is the primary purpose of marriage? To start a family. If your idea of marriage is that it is solely for those butterfly feelings or so that you can have the wedding celebration, you are more likely to have the marriage fail.

Yes, you need love to make a marriage work too. But that love is not in the form of shallow attraction that many mistake for love. The kind of love you need is the "this person will stick it out with me even when we can barely get any sleep due to a crying baby".

@Tfmonkey Also, given WinteryKnight himself is not married, it would be absurd for him to tell other men to just go line up to get slaughtered. Not that it never happens, but he is not one of those types.

Sorry for the many posts, but I had more to say that can fit in 500 characters.

@Tfmonkey Continued quote:

"No amount of shaming and blaming by pro-marriage conservatives is going to remove the risks of divorce, loss of custody, loss of parental rights, alimony, child support and forced transing of kids. Good men can do good in other ways. They don’t have to get married, especially not in a time where society is producing radical feminists as wife candidates, and stacking the schools, courts and hospitals with more misandrists."