And the fertility rate collapse rolls on due to…political incompatibilty among the younger generations.
Young boys are exposed to near constant right wing internet programming and are increasingly attacking girls in school, verbally and physically, starting as early as elementary school.
Combine that with largely apathetic and inattentive parents + very few male teachers and school is becoming an absolute nightmare for everybody
This essentially reflects the rise in incel school shooters except these young men just grow up to become bitter right wing misogynistic bigots instead. They have nowhere to go but right
The good news, I guess, is that people can get better. I was one of those people who moved further right in young adulthood. I’m glad the social media and such didn’t exist then as I was not equipped to handle that by my upbringing and would have fallen right into that trap. We just had Limbaugh and Beck and the like. At some point, I pulled a 180 and, now in my mid-40s, find myself probably somewhere around center-left to left as most western European countries might define that.
The joke is on the right-wing men. Good luck finding female partners. Also, the best time to be a left leaning progressive guy.
This is how the entwives ended up getting lost.
And they will never be found because they don’t call themselves “entwives”
Wtf is an entwife
That talking tree in lord of the Rings was named Treebeard. He spoke about how the time of the ents was ending because the entwives had left and could not be found.
What does “right-wing” and “left-wing” even mean at this point?
Historically it apparently meant who sits on the right side and who sits on the left side of the president of the french National Assembly. From wikipedia:
The terms “left” and “right” first appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the Ancien Régime to the president’s right side and supporters of the revolution to his left side.
But i think that’s a kinda stupid categorization because it doesn’t explain why things developed like this. They could have developed completely differently, and are therefore arbitrary and not reliable.
I have instead come up with the idea to classify people’s position on work. Who wants to work and thinks that work is a good thing for humans, is politically right, and who doesn’t want to work is politically left. This is more natural because for one, it refers to more natural concepts (work instead of Ancien Régime) and also because the liver organ (who does lots of work - metabolism) is on the right-hand side of the human body.
The comments here on this Lemmy post can serve as a perfect demonstration for the reason behind men turning right-wing. Any comment trying to point out some specific aspect of life where men are experiencing more hardships is immediately shut off and getting told these experiences and concerns are invalid.
There is a limit to how much “fuck you” one can hear before going “well, fuck you too”.
They are Joe boys and UFC fans. The RNC literally lasso’d these low hanging fruit that get their news in 10 second videos… As soon as their parents kick them out and they have to work and pay rent, they quickly run from the dark side. It’s easy to sway INCELS. The DNC simply chooses not to and it’s a bad game plan. Most of them were Bernie Bros until they, gasp, gave the nomination to Hillary. I have two that have done the circle of life with this exact scenario.
Bernie Bros Voted for Trump Voted For Biden Voted for Trump kicked them both out and all they even do now is bleat about how Trump hasn’t done a GD thing to help them. No shit.
No wonder they are trying to suppress women’s ability to vote again. I’m fairly certain women outnumber men just given by a statistical outcome of X vs Y chromosome at birth. I’m not certain but there’s probably a statistical study somewhere out there that a left leaving woman married to a right leaning man will vote right due to proximity. I’ve seen the former example in real life many times over sadly.
I think toxic podcasts have a big influence on young men, especially those who grew up without strong father figures. My own dad wasn’t perfect, and many of us went through that risky “2015 phase” of consuming unhealthy online content.
What many politicians and advocates on the left often overlook is that toxic masculinity isn’t solved by telling men to be “less masculine.” You can actually counter unhealthy masculinity with healthy masculinity. Instead of shaming men, we should be teaching a better version of manhood one that includes therapy, emotional intelligence, and being able to talk honestly about what’s going on inside.
Most working-class men who grind through 9–5 jobs, going from shift to shift, are worried about affordability and stability. If someone comes along and says “I’m going to make your life easier,” that’s who they’ll vote for even if it’s Trump. You can call them naïve or say the leopards ate his face or whatever , but the reality is that many of these men are desperate for change. And they’ll keep voting for whoever promises that change. When society pushes these men aside or dismisses them, some end up looking for someone to blame. That’s when you get people saying, “Women are the reason my life is hard,” or “Jews control everything.”
Of course, some people are genuinely racist or sexist, and there will always be trolls who just want attention. But why do those trolls exist in the first place? Often it’s because they feel insignificant, and attaching themselves to extreme movements gives them a sense of identity and purpose they don’t have otherwise.
My teen observed …… guys are more likely to appreciate edgy, crude or offensive humor. Guys are more likely to be entertained by those assholes, even if they don’t agree with their message
Most queer folks have a darker, edgier, more offensive sense of humor than the average right-winger and they tend to skew left so I don’t think it’s the humor that’s winning them over.
I think they mean dark humour as in “scream a racial slur as loud as possible and call it a joke.”
I guess what I’m getting at is we shouldn’t let them get away with claiming that they like humor when they clearly just like bigotry. Humor takes nuance.
Reminds me of a time I was at a party and this dude is like “hey I’ve got this super funny song, wanna hear it?” Then after folks agree to hear it he thinks for a second “also it kinda has some bad words, is that okay? You’re not gonna get offended?” Then plays a song that just has a bunch of racial slurs for shock value and nothing funny or redeeming about it. I don’t think a single person laughed and I hope it was as awkward for him as it seemed like it could’ve been
I’m reminded a lot of a discussion I read about people saying they don’t want tomvote for Dems because “Dems care too much about identity politics”, but “identity politics” just turns out to be code for “let me be transphobic”
I guess that’s true, but you’d also have to qualify that as being self-deprecating humor that’s clearly tongue-in-cheek, as opposed to straight-up hateful messages being passed off as humor. Like, “What up, f-slur”, “That was homophobic” for whenever something doesn’t go their way, and “Gays don’t deserve rights” for whatever silly thing they pretend to dislike. It’s all very self-aware and actually funny. The quality is on another level.
Young men are more left leaning than any generation befire them.
I guess good for us left leaning men?
On the other hand kinda sad, it further drives the fertility-rate downwards (see south-korea, which has a bad future because of this…)
Girls always were a lot smarter than us
I like their boobies
Same
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What will these goose stepping idiots do if the USA invades Venezuela or Iran? Are they going to march with the MAGA patriotism or chicken out? I would say over 75% will claim bone spurs. Bunch of losers.
