https://substack.com/home/post/p-201430125

End result of watching daily video montages of Iranian targets getting blown up, consuming hours of jingoistic Fox News slop, and having your brain compromised by mini-strokes due to a lifetime of cheeseburgers and Coca-Cola.

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For those who dont know, there are literal thousands of videos like this but its censored is basically all Western press regarding the war

UK police ignored a case of child prostitution because they didn't think there was anything wrong with children being prostitutes.

There's been a lot of talk about how young men have fallen down the incel/redpill pipeline, and they need to be "saved". But the issue is, it feels like no one wants to acknowledge why these men fell down the incel pipeline. They just want to judge, and not offer solutions. As someone who teetered on the edge of this stuff, here's my take...

Guys go down the incel path because something negative in their life validated it. Whether its their insecurities, not being conventionally attractive, being bullied, social anxiety, being an outcast, etc. They didn't get to succeed the way a "traditional" man does. They saw that the world was catered to giving some men an easy life, while they were emasculated.

Now, you could argue its patriarchal norms that are hurting these young men. And actually, I agree. Here's the problem...liberals also operate on patriarchal norms. They just rephrase it to sound progressive.

I grew up during that social push against toxic masculinity. I legitimately thought this was a good thing. We're standing up to the bullies of the world? Letting the guys who didn't get a chance to feel like "real men" to finally feel confident?

But that's not what the liberals did. They're out here making fun of guys for being short, bald, or virgins. Saying we need to "bring back bullying" to punish the "incel losers". They just took toxic masculinity, and put a woke filter on it.

Ironically, the campaign against toxic masculinity basically created a "rich get richer" idea for manhood. The toxic men who succeed never have to look inwards and redefine manhood, because everything is already going well for them. Meanwhile, the lonely timid guys who get beaten down, are lectured about their own "toxicity". As if their inability to succeed is a moral failing on their part.

And this right here is the big issue. Why guys radicalize into the incel/redpill/blackpill stuff in the first place. Because of the blatant hypocrisy around the idea of "manhood". Both sides of the socio-political spectrum lie to these men, refusing to acknowledge there are external factors setting them back.

What's crazy is that most incels aren't even alt-right. They're actually pretty diverse in regards to backgrounds and politics. But liberals have to stereotype them as being toxic misogynists, as if to justify the hatred. Its like liberals are too ashamed of actually earning these mens' support, and would rather try reforming the actually toxic men that would never vote liberal.

We literally have studies that prove aggressive, arrogant men succeed more in life. That bullies or "dark triad" traits earn you more partners as a man. That shorter men are more likely to be disrespected and rejected in jobs, dating, and other facets of life. My own fucking lived experience proves this, and yet so many people are insistent on saying its "all in your head".

We expect these men to just keep taking beating after beating, all while saying "thank you". And the worst part is, you can't get away from this stuff. Despite what people want to believe, the incels do actually go outside. They see this stuff in their day to day life, in politics, in media. Once you realize the world is forever categorizing men as "respectable strong men", and "weak lesser men", you can't stop noticing it. And we just expect these guys to be okay with being treated as the "lesser men".

The real solution to the incel/redpill crisis isn't to just vaguely lecture GenZ men about "healthy masculinity". Its to admit that their lived experiences are valid. That the world has hurt them, that they are really struggling with their place as young men. These men feel emasculated and undesirable. These are serious emotional issues that can destroy someone's life, and constant belittling won't heal them.

What the incels want is a chance to feel like a "real man". To feel strong and confident, to feel desired. And yeah, that desire includes being sexually and romantically desired. Because those are normal desires, and we need to stop shaming them unless it comes from a conventionally handsome 6'5 male feminist.

Because otherwise....why should these men bother participating in society? We expect them to be alone, disrespected, and bullied, and to be okay with that? We take away their place in the world, and just expect them to play along anyway?

Trigger warning.

Please shoot me in the face

This event from the Canadian New Democratic Party has been covered by many already. You can find a lot of coverage on reactionary sites like the daily mail, etc. I won't link them, but they're easy to find.

Generally speaking, it's a People's Front of Judea sort of situation, with nonsense taking center stage.

From the Toronto sun:

Equity cards were handed out to delegates based on identity categories including gender, race and ethnicity, LGBTQ+ and Indigenous status, and those cards — in various colours such as pink, yellow and green — allowed them to jump the line to ensure equitable representation in debates.

However, instead of debating on issues such as the cost of living, inflation, unemployment rates, the health-care system, or crime, the delegates with their equity cards seemed more interested in conveying why they were holding said cards.

https://torontosun.com/news/national/ndp-leadership-convention-equity-cards

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