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"Be yourself" is indeed poor advice for men. Whether or not you think you are not being "yourself" as you are, "yourself" can be someone different.

Are you skinnyfat or a spooky scary skeleton? You can fix that by making yourself go to the gym. You might not always like doing that, but you will like the results. You can transform yourself into something better.

Maybe "yourself" is not good at music. Practice, and you can become a better musician.

To some extent, this makes sense if you lack abstract thinking. If they were able to impose every part of their ideology, they would not feel one bit restricted.

Just like a hardcore Christian would not feel all that restricted if the government became a Christian theocracy. A law that says you have to go to church every Sunday? Well, the hardcore Christian is already doing that, so he would not see a difference.

Apply this to any ideology, and you can see how shortsighted many people are.

Some commies think that they will get their worldview with some form of anarchism. Except the problem is that most people would not go along with their bullshit ideology if they were not forced to do so.

So when I call for a challenge to start having the government removed from the equation, I am openly challenging their premise that they are not about using government force. Generally, you find out that they are, but only for the things they want and against what they don't want.

Any time a commie or socialist tells me that their ideology has nothing to do with the government forcing people to comply with their ideology, I would challenge them to support removing the government from our lives as much as possible.

Start talking about getting rid of welfare, laws that force a variety of quotas for "equality," and any other law that is redistributive in some way.

How long will it take before they tell you that "We can't do that!"

On the note of immigration, anyone who talks about immigrants coming here for "freedom" needs to get their head checked. Most people coming to the USA do so for economic reasons. They have no love for any American values (or what is left of them) or have a strong desire to become Americans culturally.

Not saying America is all that great now with our corrupt government wanting to compel everyone to their faggotry by gunpoint, but if you are moving to a country, do so for the right reasons.

"America is such a racist country," which is why people of so many races from around the world go through great lengths (legal and illegal) to get into this country.

Either the country is not all that racist or the people coming here do not seem to think that it is enough of a problem for them.

Not that the word "racist" means jack all these days. It is only used to browbeat whites in order to get more money from them.

This is regardless of how things break down. Be it balkanization or factional conflicts between 2 or more groups trying to control everything, we need to have people see a major change in how they are living and a lack of desire to maintain the status quo, as starving and being deprived of many modern conveniences is not an acceptable status quo.

Rising prices and a gradual decrease in standard of living is acceptable, even if it sucks. It is not an existential threat to your life.

Just think about your typical American. They go to work on a regular basis, get food from their grocery store, and do a variety of things with their free time, be it spend it with friends/family or on some hobbies. This means most people have some sense of normalcy in their lives.

When it comes to a civil war, it is a point of no return, where normal no longer exists. Most people still have their comforts and routines that they would not wish to deviate from in favor of major chaos.

Any talk about civil war in the US should not be considered seriously until we get to a point where actual suffering and hardship is taking place. Even with our economy being a dumpster fire (despite the propaganda insisting otherwise), things are really no where near bad enough.

When we have actual issues like food shortages, energy shortages, and any other shortages, then we have real potential for people to actually be ready for some sort of action.