thesis: men should be masculine, women feminine

antithesis: gender roles are oppressive. people should be whatever they want to be

synthesis(?): most men are happier being masculine & most women are happier being feminine, but a mature culture can carve out space for the rest

Modern US politics is a guy standing next to his new car pumping 3.50 gasoline. He’s on his new phone, on Facebook. He sees a meme saying “Gas is 8 dollars a gallon! Thanks Joe Biden!” He immediately shares it

What we are doing to Ukraine genuinely churns my stomach

Absolutely a mortifying failure of our nation and our alliance. Ukrainians deserve better

I wish these guys yet another high score, as they slaughter dozens more Russians every day

Fuck Russia, Slava Ukraini

I can't get over the feeling that folks like this and the anti motorcycle types are just grown up hall monitors who have contracted agoraphobia or something like it

16k likes for straight racism

Leftism is the authoritarian backwardness it always claimed not to be. It's just indulgent neanderthalism the same way right wing fascism is

Literally the only political hope in the world is boring, principled liberalism

Marco Rubio is one of the most pathetic fools in politics

Obviously smarter than this, but can do nothing except look down the barrel of his own political demise and squeal out this horseshit in fear

So sad, a total waste and a disgrace

This is territorial conquest. No different than what Russia wants to do in Ukraine.

There is no way the U.S. should be supporting this in any way, shape, or form.

He’s right. Something can be extremely bad without being the worst thing possible.

I’m on record not supporting the Rafah invasion. I don’t think Israel’s course of action is going to lead to security long-term.

But this Orwellian use of language is intellectually dishonest.

Look, I hate to tell you this, because it's a little depressing, but the reason you can't seem to find a good man/good woman is because you're not horny. When you were 23 you were like 'OMG, SEX is amahhhzing!!', and then you stuck with that person for the sex and eventually both

Why are there so many astonishingly brainwashed and mentally ill people on this site?

This position is held only by troglodytes w/ a complete absence of knowledge of the major sources of and abilities to retain human progress

The fight against autocracy is one of the chief means of human flourishing in the last half millennium

I'd rather not retvr to neanderthal

This was always an inevitable outcome of letting a social justice cult take over the zeitgeist of the Democratic party

Circumspect and disciplined politics does not come naturally and the adults in the room have become children indulging stupid thoughtless trends

Everyone who opposes Biden from the left is essentially calling to let Trump hurt a bunch of people so they can make some personal statement about how pure they are

Its sick!

It’s frustrating, but this helps explain why the progressive victories of the Obama presidency -the ACA, gay marriage, the Paris Agreement, the JCPOA, getting out of Iraq, etc.- count for so little to some younger voters. They can’t imagine a world where those things aren’t real.

People belong where they are. You cannot undo sins committed by the dead against the dead and the living descendants of neither party bare responsibility for or the victimization of their ancestors

Live the life you got, the living have only their own crimes to atone for

Something I haven't heard anyone claim, but which I suspect is true: The reason Putin and Xi decided it was time to overthrow the world order was NOT the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. It was chaos in the U.S. - the Floyd protests in 2020 and then January 6th.

Remember, when we call openly racist Trump supporters “deplorable,” we’re out-of-touch elites who don’t understand the real America, but when Trump calls America a “failing nation” and “cesspool of ruin,” he’s just a populist

These people are straight up untethered from reality

Support Ukraine even when it’s not popular anymore.

Social media has moved on but the reality of the trenches has not.