I love that one.

I dunno, their funny random toots just make my day better.

Not unlike the billionaires surrounding Obama who encouraged his wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, and Somalia. The man actually managed to drop more bombs on more countries than Dubya.

Nope.

There’s nothing I can do to change it apart from trying to do good in my own little neighborhood, so that’s what I do.

It’s really shitty that every young man didn’t stand up and refuse too.

Me.

Hate Reddit. Always did. Lemmy’s better.

Oddly, Donald has been one of the most peaceful presidents of the last generation. (Granted, that’s not saying much, as he did inherit war in seven different countries in 2016.)

He’s the pivotal reason we got out of Syria and Afghanistan, where Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Dubya were inventing reasons to keep troops deployed; things like stop-loss policies and deciding to rebrand soldiers as ‘advisers’, so they could pretend to have ended a war while keeping it going.

The attack on Iran is a bit out of character, and also a reflection that Trump isn’t surrounded by any adults or serious people in his administration this time around.

Correlating education to wealth is fine overall but you are intentionally avoiding more direct metrics of wealth and inequality to make it seem as if this is direct causation for women having some upper hand.

No. I’m illustrating that the machinery of government can and has elevated women and minorities in measurable ways.

Women absolutely make less and hold a significantly smaller portion of the overall wealth in this country.

What I’ve suggested above would benefit them as much as men.

Women routinely have to leave their careers to manage the home and their family (due to archaic misogynistic gender roles). There is also just straight up bias in management decisions about pay.

Sometimes yes, hence why there needs to be more regulation, as I’ve suggested.

Your inference that I’m blaming women is projection. What I’m doing is essentially advocating for DEI, but income-based and not based on any one demographic with the dual goals of lessening poverty and improving the overall functionality of society. (So we don’t have entire generations of people being radicalized.)

Inspirational Skeletor: https://mastodon.art/deck/@skeletor@mas.to

Thank you for reading it.

There are two factors here in the US that correlate significantly with a person’s lifetime earnings potential: their zip code of birth and attainment of a college degree. It’s exceedingly significant (in a positive way) that women constitute the majority in college enrollment. I think that’s a good thing, but it also demonstrates inequality.

I want to see policies here that mirror those in more progressive European countries: Free college, a federally-mandated living wage that adjusts with inflation, and universal health care. I also want to see universities’ federal funding tied to expansion of enrollment rates, as there are many that keep them artificially low and yet still raise tuition rates every year. These benefits should target low-income communities without regard to race or gender.

In short, I want to see the economic ship lifted for the poor, and that’s how it should be done.

Most young people, and in particular young men, have three choices when entering adulthood: Work for sub-standard wages and struggle alone and/or live with their parents, join the military, or take on permanent debt on the hope of a college degree and an elevated life. (If they’re fortunate enough to land a spot in enrollment to begin with.)

Rampant misogyny has spread because people who consider themselves progressive have ignored these economic calamities and right-wingers have, conversely, highlighted those inequalities, created communities for young men, and gotten rich in the process. Currently the functional unemployment rate in the United States is 25%.

The solution, is creating an economy where prosperity is distributed among a more diverse population of people.

(But I suspect people will continue to vote Democrat and Republican and this conversation won’t matter much in the grand scheme of things.)

Makes me barf in my mouth a little that Private Bone Spurs and our hysterical drunk uncle are our war leaders here.

I think this person sees someone pointing out the problems facing young men and automatically thinks ‘incel’. It can be disorienting to see people who don’t hate women advocating for young men.

Respectfully, your hostile and reactionary tone demonstrated quite well that you had no intention of discussing things in a rational manner. You toss around terms like ‘redpill’ like they’re Halloween candy, and it demonstrates that even having the discussion is enough to set off your temper. I even gave you an example of the imbalance in economic opportunity favoring women and minorities, and you just ignored it.

And that’s fine.

Be angry, but the least you could do is try to be productive.

The problem is the systemic impoverishment of young men is the root cause of all this, and that is what needs to be fixed if you want to fix misogyny.

I’d suggest you read the entire thread.

No, this is a misrepresentation of my argument.

From the 70’s to a few months ago, governments have made it a fundamental priority to elevate women and minorities, and it’s worked. (Go look at the demographics of college enrollment, at least here in the US, if you don’t believe me.)

I’m arguing that to fix misogyny you have to fix the fundamental economic crises affecting young people.

But I appreciate that you were very quick to demonstrate the point I made about the fashionability of blaming young men and pretending these problems simply don’t exist.

I think it’s far more fundamental than that.

You’ve got a generation of young men who did what they were supposed to culturally: went to school, got good grades, went to college, never broke any laws, and their choices in life are permanent debt and struggling to afford a roach-infested studio apartment, living with their parents, or joining the military to survive. Here in the United States minimum wage won’t even buy you a cup of coffee in large swaths of the country.

The social contract has been broken, and for the first time, you’ve got a generation who are not going to live more fulfilled and enriched lives than their parents largely by no fault of their own.

Of course they’re pissed. Governments should be addressing this, but it’s more fashionable to blame young men instead, and the right-wingers are the only ones willing to admit there are fundamental economic crises for men.

Thank you for your opinion. I hope you have a pleasant day.

Agreed.

Though I do think that if progressive-minded people were more apt to fly the American flag at protests, it would be harder to criticize them.

Americans love to subdivide themselves, and that’s especially true for activists. The flag reflects that.

It feels like 2001 all over again. The Dubya-era WMD playbook is out and they’re not even being subtle about it.

What gets me about the 10 Commandments is that most of them aren’t even represented in US or International law.

If they were, Donald would have already been stoned to death.