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@Humpleupagus @cjd Better looking women also have a better chance of attracting men who earn more. And if she has a couple of brain cells to rub together, she will realize that having higher taxes on his earnings will mean less money available for her (assuming the least charitable outlook on a woman marrying such a man).

And bonus points if she is influenced by his (most likely) right wing politics.

@hindudindu Was her promotion due to her actual merits, or is her company filling a quota? If the latter, her ego boost is undeserved in that manner.

Also, I see no mention about her husband doing anything wrong, just her being a complete bitch that cares nothing about her vows (e.g. "for richer or poorer").

@DW2 this makes me appreciate all the more that I am off the market. But unfortunately many men in my situation are blind to the rest of the landscape who just assume that just because they got married fine means that no other men could possibly have any problems in the dating market.

I know that I had a lot of failures before I found success. I could easily be in the same situation as many other men struggling if not for finding a diamond in the rough.

@deprecated_ii perhaps getting rid of welfare spending across the board us a pipe dream, but I know this for sure: if there was no welfare whatsoever, most of the immigration issues would be solved because the people here just for the free money would self deport. Many immigrants went back to their own countries if the could not make it here when we did not have welfare spending.

@deprecated_ii Libertarians often also insist that this will not be an issue because "we will just get rid of welfare spending too" without realizing that you cannot just have open borders before getting rid of the welfare state and that the people coming here are never going to vote to get rid of it either.

I take no "libertarian" seriously if their first step is not get rid of the welfare spending.

@WashedOutGundamPilot While that may be true, I would not doubt that there is some agenda pushing going on too. Just as you have said about trying to socially manipulate men with a false concensus ("the majority are willing to try it").

Good thing I don't care whether or not the majority actually want to do it. Nor should male who wants to call himself a man.

@WashedOutGundamPilot >There is this idea that even if it is a woman doing the penetrating, it makes them gay.

It makes you gay-adjacent at the very least, and the idea of that is the exact opposite of masculinity.

There are some things in life I do not need to try to know I don't want it. This is most certainly one of them.

@deprecated_ii I don't care how public your name is. Any words you say or write should be able to stand on their own. Only appeal-to-authority faggots care about "who said it" rather than evaluate what is being said. If you are incapable of evaluating words from someone else without knowing if they are an "expert" or not, you are admitting that you are stupid.

These are the same type of people who think having an "advanced degree" is the same thing as intelligence.

@BowsacNoodle @Marakus @Rhodesian_YuKari @Shadowman311 When I used to be on Reddit, I got quite a bit of ire when I stated that the idea of a "deaf culture" was absurd when the topic of their "culture" came up.

I know I should not be surprised, but I was not on an overtly lefty part of Reddit with that thread.

@DoubleD not a problem at all if there is nothing to add. Sometimes I see other people's posts and have nothing to add either.

I do not think it is predistined for any group to be in the "trash category." But the same people who use the perjorative "white trash" accept the same behaviors from other racial groups. White people who are in the lower class give them a punching bag that is politically correct, thanks to anti-white political attitudes.

The truth they do not want to acknowledge as that whites are the only ones given the added label of "trash" is because it is considered atypical for whites to be in this category. But to say this for any other race would be "hurtful" because deep down they know it is true that other races have "trashy" behavior as something that is quite common with them, but they do not want to admit it.

Thinking back on that song that has the lyrics "No Russian ever called me white trash," it makes me ponder. Why is the label of "trash" only associated with whites? Yes, the anti-white attitudes are obvious, but there is another thing at play. Those very same anti-whites would have great anger at the term "black trash" or any other label, even if they were to act in a matter equivalent or worse than "white trash."

It looks like I am above the cutoff age for a potential draft. Though I suppose that is not a sure bet in a full blown war where they want as many men as possible.

Even if a draft were to go through and every man complies without resistance, it still would not yield good results, as a demoralized population does not make for a great fighting force. Forcing all young men to serve will do little good when the motivation to fight is severely lacking.

How many news stories are out there about how "we need to send more money to Ukraine?" I cannot honestly say how often this has happened or how many aid packages have gone through because it seems like an endless cycle.

Perhaps I have one thing to look forward to when Russia finishes things off once and for all. One way or another.

@Aether Why would you as a man be the one to plead for an open relationship? Unless you are some sort of Giga Chad and have women falling into your lap, you are going to be hard pressed to find nearly the same success as the average woman finding easy sex.

Usually it is the woman that suggests the "open relationship" because she just wants to have sex with other men without technically cheating, so this is quite the odd case. He is clearly clueless.