The Culture Wars
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When your son goes MAGA
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/...le_code=1.rE4.hQkF.pZTaILOqU0Ny&smid=tw-share
No, it’s the children who are wrong
It's easy to make any accusation. And it's easy to prove you're not a racist or fascist. You wouldn't be able to label me racist or fascist too successfully. I'd be able to defend it easily.
I don't know why everyone is acting so surprised that young men are turning into pieces of shit when blaming men and using their gender as a pejorative term has become so normalised.
If blaming and using gender as a pejorative term was a good explanation of anything, women would be off the scale when it comes to being antisocial.
Ok, andrew.
Prince or Tate?
Andrew Tate is a cnut
Good to see there is as much room for nuance and open discussion in the debate as you'd expect though.
I'm left, for the record.
Looking at criminal stats, especially the heinous ones, ( + e.g. fatal car accidents etc pp) one is rather surprised there isn't more young men-blaming happening.
There's no debate regarding what you said in my view, it was just silly.
Over half of Gen Z want UK to be a dictatorship, study suggests
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/study-gen-z-dictatorship-channel-four-b1207319.html
Jesus. Social Media is destroying democracy.
Yes it’s the moving images on the telephone and not a democracy which overwhelmingly favours asset holders.
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sorry but even by your standards asset -> assist is
They don't exclude each other. I'm fully aware that neoliberalism is the root cause of all this shit. That doesn't change that the apps many are so addicted to are their most effective weapon. By far.
I’m always sceptical as these authoritarian views told to pollsters never match with voting data. Almost no one under 50 votes conservative in Britain. It’s the Gen X and Boomers(due to their homeownership and landlordism)which have given us the current right wing hell hole.
Overall think social media brings more good than bad(Here’s an interesting article written around the potential US tik tok ban -
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...al-platform-us-ban-silicon-valley-chinese-app).
Imo too much importance is given to the role media/culture plays in politics.
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I personally believe that these concerns are often extremely valid, even though the idea that is supposed to be put into action, is a good one. Usually because the financial and personal support isn’t there. Teachers need to be educated on stuff like this. They need the financial means to support special needs students and the likes. If you then set up these programs, but the proper education and funding aren’t there, you create a complete mess and end up discrediting a good and maybe even important idea. We see that in many government projects worldwide.
Another example is the refugee crisis in Europe. The issue has never been that so many refugees arrived in Europe. The issue is that neoliberalism has fecked up most countries budgets, so they lacked the funds to invest into those people.
Take Germany for example. I’m still proud we took in so many refugees. I still believe we have a historic responsibility to do so. But accepting them and then closing sport venues to house them, because we lack social housing, or housing them in horrible circumstances, isolating them from society and housing them in the outskirts of towns or in small villages, failing to provide proper education and a perspective was always going to lead to disaster.
The last decades have seen western countries drifting to the left on social matters. A great development. But at the same time, in regards to economic issues, they drifted towards neoliberal values. So we lacked the funding to put these wonderful social ideas into practice, creating mess after mess. That’s what makes it easy for right wingers to attack those „identity politics“ as the cause of so many issues. They are a consequence of neoliberalism, but are easily misrepresented as the actual cause of so many issues.
you might enjoy reading about the tension between the social and economic goals of the revolution during the very early (and very very poor) soviet period:
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3202-women-in-russia-before-and-after-the-revolution
Kid saying "prove me wrong" is definitely getting coached at home.
Insert Sopranos meme.
Make America Gabagool Again
War on easter? I don't even know who won the war on christmas!
Gutter press tells everyone that Christmas will be called "Winterval" within years. 20 odd years later, hasn't happened.
They've keep trying to manufacture a "war on easter" ever now and then. They keep failing because easter is just a long weekend and chocolate eggs for the kids to the general public. Church going Christians are more invested, but not in anyway that they'd care if Cadburys don't write the word "easter" on a box with a chocolate egg in it. The word Easter and most of the associated traditions are germanic pagan anyway.
Thinking about it, when has any easter egg had "easter" written on it, or its packaging? It's always been the brand of chocolate and nothing else.
Do they know it's Easter time at all?
CAF fame isn't enough to get you a supply of chocolate eggs
What utter drivel. Acting like a cnut and then getting called a cnut isn't the same thing as being unfairly treated just for being a man.