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@PapaPole @Alex1488 @DW2 @WashedOutGundamPilot I am quite sick of the whole meme of the "college experience" being something that is considered a necessity (I don't mean the drinking and partying but that is also not worth it). How else can you study a variety of subjects in depth unless you pay 5 to 6 figures in costs! Plus, the campus has it's own ROCK WALL! There is no way to find that outside of college!

@PapaPole @Alex1488 @DW2 @WashedOutGundamPilot Another part of the whole college meme are the stats they cite that claim "college graduates earn more money than non-college graduates." This is technically true, but completely misleading and irrelevant for the younger generations, as it conflates the numbers from previous decades to the more recent years. The subset of data from recent years shows that college is not worth the cost for most college grads today.

@sj_zero Perhaps I will need to take a look at this so called "Freedom House" and see if they really care about freedom. And freedom is not the same thing as happiness or getting provided for, as many people will unironically argue that universal healthcare increases freedom (hint: it does the opposite).

@Humpleupagus @koropokkur I will look for this later, but I do recall it has been an issue that Pope Francis has been consistent with. It is not really new that he is against the idea that we should be teaching gender ideology to people.

Not saying he isn't a communist and leftist for other issues, but this is not one of them.

@coolboymew Easy enough for me. My wife is easily less than a 3rd of my PR Squat.

@basedbagel @37712 Let us also not forget how women have inflated expectations based on their dating/sleeping around in their 20s. They often think that the kind of men who would be willing to sleep with them or short term date them are the kind of man she should be able to get past 30. But often that is not the case.

For women who do "settle" for a guy who she would previously overlook in her 20s, they often resent the guy who they end up with, even though he did nothing wrong.

@basedbagel @37712 >Red pillers say that women >30 are undesirable.

There needs to be some clarification here. It is not so much that a woman becomes completely unable to find relationships/husband's after 30, but her options get more and more limited after she is 30 and the become more limited as she gets older. She will most likely not get the ideal man she wants after 30 (unlike in her early 20s).

Also, this assumes that a woman is taking the best care of herself after 30, and many do not.

@SeaTree Now isn't that something. Skip the appointment to the therapist, and get your ass to the gym. Or go run. Just get some physical activity.

I don't think the US will get a full on invasion of our country. In the event that Russia and/or China were to do so, I cannot say I would feel roused to want to stop them.

Just what would I be fighting for? A corrupt system of government that lies to me and seeks to eradicate more of my freedom?

The idea of America is great. But we are far from living in that actual idea. All we have are empty promises towards that idea from those who are deliberately working against that idea.

>fat women who think the battle was won by their valiant twitter campaign.

It just baffles me how anyone thinks that anything on Twitter is somehow affecting what is actually happening in Ukraine. The point of propaganda is to get people who are able to have an impact on the outcome to act a certain way.

In WWII, you could make an argument that small actions and sacrifices made a difference in the war.

But in war today, just what do morons on Twitter have to offer the war effort? Nothing.

@furgar The guys her age are far less likely wanting to settle down themselves at this point, and those her age that do also would not want someone like her. The guys that just want easy sex see her as an opportunity to get it without commitment, while the men who are looking for something longer term are correctly assessing that a relationship with her is a major risk.

This sort of woman would not truly appreciate the kind of guy she claims to be looking for anyways.

@Humpleupagus So does that mean we should have women be required to sign up for the draft, or have them lose their right to vote? I prefer the latter option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NuBCU-wCSo

Uhhh, Bobby Fischer was such a sexist! How dare he not say that women are just as good a men in chess!

You would think in a competition that does not rely on physical strength or speed the field would be equal for men and women. That is, if you believe that men and women are equal in spatial, mathematical, and tactical thinking. Which they are not.

Esports is also lacking in women too. Probably because men have better reflexes too.

Think about the first generations of programmers who were pioneering many things we see with computers. Did they see some guy who looks like them do it? No. They did not. In fact, they had so few people to look at for inspiration, they were ostracized for it.

To tell me that "muh represenation" is the key to having more people successful tells me these people only want the superficial result of seeing someone in that role. Just like putting a monkey at a keyboard and saying he is a programmer.

Here is what bothers me about the premise of "We need to have the token woman/minority/other grievanced individual as visible representatives as doctors/engineers/inventors so that they know they can become one too!" is that it fails to understand that inspiration does not come from seeing someone "just like you" do something.

People that go out there to do and accomplish something like that don't do it because they saw someone else who looks like them do it first.