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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (11 children)

While all of you meme and joke and minimize the threat, a rising wave of disaffected boys has grown up under the most toxic of social environments and still NONE of you take this seriously.

When you see the world in ten years time you will kick yourselves for doing nothing to stop it now in its infancy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Stop what? Stop it how? Suddenly make every parent in the US loving, compassionate, and effective at raising their children? Or maybe we could just fix the economy? One of those is bound to work, easy!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (9 children)

There is no easy solution and the fact your dismissive and snarky reply is so upvoted is kind of proof that there is no fixing the situation anymore

The hard solution is to first deplatform their demagogues but since they make their media platforms ridiculous money, it isn't changing

There's also a significant possibility we simply won't be having real elections in America anymore so the chance to get progressive people in office to curb this is over

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

If deplatforming and political action by the ruling class are the main methods to stop this crisis, then none of us had any power to do anything in the first place

It's no wonder no one takes this seriously: the epidemic of disaffected young men is only a symptom of greater societal issues and can't effectively be addressed on its own. That's also what I was getting at with my comment

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