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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I cry bullshit. Incels aren't that way because of money. Generation X ate out of dumpsters and did what they could to survive. Not saying younger generations have it easy, but you can be broke and not be a misogynist. From what I understand, sex offenders created the incel movement to normalize their bullshit. Trump and all of those rapists want a world where they can be evil with no consequences. They are working hard towards that end. They need an army of like minded degenerate perverts to achieve this. The algorithms promote this sort of insecure male content on YouTube and other media. Most of those influenders make money trafficking women for sex. This is a new thing. 30 years ago, people were moving away from sexism, and racism. Now, everyone is a protégé of the sociopath billionaires and misogynist tech bro oligarchs. People need to realize this isn't a natural movement, it's a synthetic one. Fuck incels! Not literally, of course.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

30 years ago, people were moving away from sexism, and racism.

what ? my liberal friend, you've been in an echo chamber since birth. welcome to the real world. sun down towns never stopped existing. the glass ceiling never shattered. dropping racist slurs in the company of white friends never went out of fashion.

you are just too poor to know anyone who isn't performatively liberal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Conservative Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, and Conservative Ronald Reagan put Sandra O'Connor on the supreme court over more qualified candidates because he wanted a woman on the bench. People were pushing the GOP to make Colin Powell the 1996 and 2000 candidate [he didn't because his wife was afraid he'd be assassinated]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Back 30 years ago, there were spheres outside the old boys club and celebrity racket. Naturally, much was done to destroy that. If people had the option to interact with people who aren't psychpaths, racists and assholes, they choose that option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

the Nazis and other fascists used hyper masculinity to appeal to young men's lack of agency in post WW1 Europe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's kind of a perfect storm.

Fifty years ago, Alvin Toffler wrote a book called 'Future Shock.' He knew that there would be people who couldn't/wouldn't adapt themselves to the coming change from the Industrial era to the Digital Age. We've got people using the most advanced tech to push the stupidest ideas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Toffler inspired science fiction writer John Brunner. Brunner wrote a book in 1969 and set it in the early 21st Century. He predicted things like middle class folks needing a room mate to make the rent, legalized marijuana, AI, and mass shootings. "Stand On Zanzibar."

https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, I looked it up and it's all you say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

My work here is done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Fuck incels! Not literally, of course.

Why not? It would cure them 😉