Bingo.
The only people you actually end up reaching are people with good intentions who don’t need to hear it in the first place. “Stop taking advantage of people” is a message which can usually be dispensed only by force. The moral panic over “toxic masculinity” did very little to affect those who actually caused problems, but a great deal to disenfranchise those who would actually make bad actors stop taking advantage of others.
They destroyed far more than just America, everyone’s just too myopically focused on America’s problems to notice what they’ve done to themselves by attempting to copy the digitization of society.
That’s exactly my point. If you come into a conversation and start declaring the definitions have to be different from how the speaker uses their own words, because people they’ve never even met said so, that’s not a good faith effort.
The point is that you have to make a good faith effort for communication to be possible, which you are not doing here. Language evolves organically, not by the dictate of a legally mandated authority.
Well if you actually want to communicate with others outside of academia, you’re going to have to get used to attempting to understand people rather than constantly trying to “fix” them.
Whoops. Accidentally suppressed discussions regarding the accidental suppression of discussions. Those darned silly technical glitches are just so unpredictable.
In common usage, I’d argue it just means a society which is run by technology rather than people, which everyone is trying to do these days.
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I was unaware this was a feature of society unique to the political far right.
You’ll get no argument from me there, and if you actually engaged earnestly instead of seeking strife by twisting one word you’d have learned that what I actually mean is that men have provided the material goods required from the system. I suspect you did know that, however, and you’re just seeking an argument.
Why would we want to protect them from being exploited to enrich someone who doesn’t care about them, as just another wage slave (or worse)? You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t accept the idea that being provided for by someone who loves you is a form of slavery.
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Yes, I do hate when people have become so bitter with the world that they lash out at everyone and everything they touch. It happens to men too, and there’s absolutely no shame in hating to see it happen to good people.
We hate Babylon, actually, and all the stupid things that money makes people do to each other because they forgot what it means to actually live as a real person in the real world, instead of chasing clout inside systems designed to ensure the house always wins, regardless of which banner it happens to be flying today, be it feminist, Marxist, capitalist, socialist, or whatever other asinine idea people who produce nothing real come up with to explain why someone else is to blame for the shit state of affairs.
And no, we very definitely do not hate women. We do very much hate what this shitty world turns women into, which is why we have worked ourselves to death to protect them from it in past generations. But that peace was broken, and now there’s going to be hell to pay.
Way too many people treat life like a movie, where anything other than gripping emotional drama is just stumbled through with eyes glazed over.
Not like there are heavily armed ex-military cartels who rely upon the border to traffic drugs and humans, or anything.
I think of it like an oil slick on a pool of water. Very pretty, but absolutely zero depth. They indulge heavily in the aesthetic of a space sim, without actually having anything of substance tying it all together into something coherent.
Read as much as you like, so long as you don’t mistake the words on a page for an accurate representation of the real world.
Falling out of reality irl