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@ChadleyDudebro @KarlDahl @Shadowman311 @TrevorGoodchild I can see two types of objections from women. Obviously the cheaters will object out of personal interest. I can also see women object because they see no moral issue with women cheating even if they do not do so themselves, but seem to think that revealing these women as cheating whores is worse than the cheating itself.

@ChadleyDudebro @KarlDahl @Shadowman311 @TrevorGoodchild Isn't that the number on tests conducted alone? That percentage would make sense with selection bias, as men who are suspicious of infidelity are more likely to get their paternity tested, which we would expect to have a higher incidence of paternity fraud than the broad population as a whole.

Not that any percentage above 0 should be acceptable, but the 30% does not apply to the population as a whole last I recall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEPIOYZD4yg

I had the same thought about how women are written as Mary Sues because "women are just already awesome as they are" while men are written with actual struggles to achieve greatness.

Not sure if I wrote it down or not in one of my posts, but Rollo here says everything better than what I had already written or would have written.

This relates to one of the problems that many broke people have. There is no amount of money you can give to someone to save them from being broke if they are just going to blow through that money until they run out.

Poverty is often a result of stupidity. This may be inconvenient to leftists who think they can solve economic inequality. Because no policy can truly fix self destructive stupidity.

I remember many times reading personal accounts of people mention how "we were eating good" when they got a paycheck or extra money in some way. But later on I read them say how they would be struggling to pay bills and only have ramen to eat.

I realize that I could never see eye to eye with such people since I would never find myself blowing so much money just because I appeared to have extra. Long term thinking, it is not for everyone, it seems.

@sickburnbro "having basic human rights" at gunpoint is indeed a problem. Especially when your so called "democracy"/"will of the people" just ignores what the people there want in favor of the demands of their masters from outside the country.

Not everyone is fit to be a leader. That is not a problem, since those who are fit to be leaders need able and competent followers. If you are someone who is not suited for leadership, you still need to understand what it takes to be a leader. That way you can understand who is worth following and who is not.

@sj_zero @DW2 this is why I am opposed to military intervention in the Middle East (or anywhere else really). All we do is get in the way of people in other countries doing whatever they are doing.

Oh, they have awful laws and aredoing terrible things to [insert marginalized group]? Don't care. We should not be inserting our morals and wasting our resources on places we are not welcome.

https://nicecrew.digital/notice/AoughROjxQG8Ex25jc

It is easy to be apathetic about our government when you are not targeted by them. But if you ever are in the same position as these parents, government tyranny cannot be denied.

So whenever you are asked, "But how does it personally affect you?" these assholes are either willfully blind or cheer on parents like these getting labeled as terrorists, and such naysayers cannot be trusted.

@Mongoliaboo >a wokester larping as a centrist

That is a good way to put it. He would claim in the same video that he was not woke, but I will see him use terminology and lines of thinking that just so happened to align with those who label themselves as woke.

What this guy does not understand about the opposition to DEI is usually the DEI is not what people are upset about, but the bad outcomes from incompetency or agenda pushing.

When the bad outcome is due to DEI, it makes sense why people would oppose it. People do not like bad outcomes, and if you have a repeated reason for those bad outcomes, then you are going to have people call for the end of that reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2QGME8KHzY

Watching this video of out curiosity and to confirm if this guy matches the expectation of the Smuggie here. Pretty much.

But I had the moment of "are you freaking kidding me" was that he stated at around the 30:20 minute mark when he said "she was the only one in the argument actually offering statistics rather than emotion."

The "statistics?" That 1/3 women in the US get raped.

Offering statistics means nothing when your statistics are bullshit.

@Aether Sometimes you are able to win the competition because you are the only one that showed up. That just shows how important it is to show up when others are not even motivated to compete.

But it can also make you complacent and not truly doing the best you can do. Because if it is easy for you to be 1st place, you might not be able to reach your true potential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q153tEib-js

Seeing this video made me think about something regarding right-left politics. It was inevitable that the left would push young men out, because their ideaology of equality is antithetical to how men operate. Men are naturally competitve, and seek to compete to determine where they stand. If left to compete in all areas, men would be dominant in pretty much all areas.

Thus men are shoved down in order to try (and fail) at reaching the ideal of equality.

@shortstories The attacks on Fox News shows the left's playbook is highly outdated, as all cable news is less relevant with their core demographics literally dying out and an increased availability with many alternate sources with the internet.

I also remember how Fox News made it pretty clear they were false opposition during the 2020 election. So Fox News dying would not make me shed one tear.