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@WashedOutGundamPilot @pepsi_man I suspect that social media has made this a much more common occurrence, where everyone who wants to seek attention finds different ways to do it. Having "hobbies" that look good with pictures is one example.

Another annoying example is women who "love to travel," but also only do any excursions for the sake of taking pictures and do nothing more with their time once the pictures are taken.

@DW2 >more kids

We are already below replacement rate. So the "overpopulation" issue would already solve itself. But we have our government bringing in so many other people (legally and illegally), so spare me any fake outrage about our country having "enough" or "too many" people.

Not saying it is fine "as long as they are here legally," but rather that we have a large influx of people coming in even if we factored out the illegals.

@Furgar It's not even evolution according to the definition. The more accurate term would be metamorphasis.Since "evolved" Pokemon will always create offspring of Pokemon who are "unevolved."

Probably a translation error or something like that.

@veff @basedbagel @matty > the democracy that voted no to buttsex in california, but was state enforced anyway?

Notice how those who claim to champion democracy never are upset about the fact that a few people in robes made a decision that was against what people voted for? Their "love of democracy" is a farce, because they only are happy when the "correct" results occur. Otherwise, "democracy has failed!"

@matty @basedbagel While democracy sucks in itself, those that say that phrase unironically do not even adhere to their own principles. They falsify results when the people make the "wrong" choice (2020 US election) and make people vote again and again on issues when they vote "wrong" (many EU referendums which only stopped coming in when the "correct" results happened).

@WashedOutGundamPilot @basedbagel I saved them from your posts. I just selected a few that were relevant to my point. The whole exchange was indeed great, and it shows how the very people who the system needs to be willing and able to fight are not going to be so willing.

@basedbagel I just think about the United States during WWI and WWII. Whether or not there was support for the war, the young men were far more likely to have a family of their own to care about and cared more about their fellow citizens.

But now? What is there to fight for? The "fighting for gay sex being legal in Botswana" is hardly that much of a meme, since our government seems to be applying pressure to so many countries to make homosexuality legal.

@basedbagel I recall a shill on 4chan (pics related) going on about how men should be fighting for their families and country.

What families? Many young men are not able to get a willing and marriageable woman, so they have a lot less stake in society. And if you have no family to care for, you probably also will not have strong feelings for your country either. Especially not when the government of that country shows nothing but contempt for the young men.

@Dicer @GoodBoyUV While I would advise he bulk up a bit (165 at 6 feet is spooky scary skeleton territory), it is not a shock that his sister found out that it was not him that was doing anything wrong. Many men will struggle in online dating no matter what they do.

And this experiment has been done several times, with women shocked each time that men were telling the truth about how much it sucks to try and find any success in dating.

@Dicer @GoodBoyUV >caring about the education and salary amounts of the women matches

Yep, a woman wrote this. Men care very little about these factors, as they do not get much benefit from a woman's income. Especially if that income just being used to pay for student loans and frivolous expenses. And it should be clear that "education" means very little with the high amount of fluff degrees out there.

@Curvin @deprecated_ii Even the radical egalitarian talking point of "men are at the extremes of the bell curve" shows why such a scenario will almost never happen. This comic is just like every other attempt to "get women into STEM" by showing examples of fictional women being into math and science.

But when you actually put the subject matter in front of girls in the real world, they lose interest real fast. If someone says "I hate math," it is most likely a woman saying it.

@deprecated_ii Shit like this is infuriating. Not because a of the genius woman showing up all the boys (though that is a tiresome trope), but the idea that people who are intelligent can just pull out some high level solution effortlessly in no time at all.

Pic very much related.

@sickburnbro Even worse, women who go for the bad boy type and get burned end up displacing their anger against the type of men they are hoping to "settle down" with later on, saying that "all men" are just like the ones they keep choosing.

It is like blaming the bench warmer player for losing the baseball game when he only got to go up to bat in the 9th inning when the team is losing 1-12.