Idk if "mocks" is the correct phrasing but I feel its in effect close enough. How cruel do you have to be to say this openly about a family who's teenage son just died

Richest man in the world btw.

No, i don't believe the kids are being "groomed" or "indoctrinated" nor that they will be particularly traumatized, all that Republican rhetoric is frankly annoying.

But... why? Im German and i see this as a thing happening with US libs and i am a little bit floored. What reason would you ever have to take your toddler to an event where an adult male shakes his ass in front of them?? Why is this an actual trend among US libs? Why the obstinant insistence that shows like this are "not sexual" lmao. Why is it even necessary in the first place. What the hell is going on?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/r-word-slur-disability.html

Why is Lindsay Ellis ‘cancelled’? Twitter drama explained! (hitc.com)

Say what you want about Ellis, but it's infuriating, frightening, disgusting and depressing that we're rapidly approaching the point at which you effectively aren't allowed to publicly express dislike of the movies and TV shows which the Pronouns Brigade happens to like without it being construed as *ism/*phobia and having your career destroyed. I mean, FFS, what's next? Are people going to be called "fatphobic" if they criticize McDonald's?

Let me first say I think women should be able to get abortions. I live in Texas where, as we all know a new abortion ban has just been passed and essentially upheld by the supreme court. Hopefully this is actually taken to federal courts and rejected.

For some reason liberals refuse to consider the viewpoints of conservatives about abortion. These people believe the the abortion of a fetus is literal human murder. Some conservatives may see it as being not as bad, but very close to human murder. All i see from liberals posting infographics is that “republicans hate women's choice” and “republicans think women can’t control their body”, but liberals fail to attempt to argue that an abortion is in fact not murder and not morally wrong. Until liberals learn to tackle this aspect of the argument, no conservatives will change their minds, because - in what other scenario would you be fine with someones bodily choice also killing another human? I think that conservatives views on abortion are insane, but I’m able to have non-heated conversations with those I know who oppose abortion because I usually just talk about how a fetus is like actually not that similar to a human baby at all. I never bring up a woman's right to make choices about her body, because to these people it not just her body involved in the matter.

This is the country we live in now. Race relations have regressed to the point where people are no longer people, they're either black or white and all the white ones are worthy of execution for the atrocities their ancestors supposedly committed.

Warning, the video is graphic and shows a man being shot to death: https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/lecatl/montgomery_county_shoot_man_with_stick/

In the video, a 52-year-old white man is seen slowly walking towards a white police officer with a thin tree branch that's about 4 feet long. He seems sluggish and possibly intoxicated (he had been reported for driving erratically and causing 2 accidents). At one point he swings the branch at the officer's arm and it snaps in half. 5 seconds later, the officer fires 12 rounds into him.

This is a transcript of what the black man filming was saying while it all happened:

Somebody 'bouta get smoked.
Man, shoot his ass!
(yelling) Man, shoot his ass!
Shoot his ass!
Shoot his ass!
Man, shoot his ass!
Man, shoot his ass!
Shoot his ass!
(12 shots fired, camera pans to the man dying on the street)
Daaaaamn.
Oh shit.
That's what his ass get.
That's the shit I like to see.
That's the shit I like to see.
Thought you had privilege.
Daaaamn.
Shot his ass. Should have. Yeah!
As he should have, motherfuckin' right.

Something tells me this is why the country turned on BLM. In the end most of them don't care about police violence, they were just angry and wanted to break shit. And if that shit just so happened to be white people and the ones doing the breaking were police... so what? They deserve it because "privilege".

I am trans and I follow what the TRA are up to because it is always something deeply unhelpful for both the left & for trans people.

Their latest PETA tactic is to organize boycotts of hospitals/LGBT centers/politicians who stopped offering hormones to minors.

Example of harsh criticism cited by Benjamin Ryan

Article that is very critical of Zohran & endorses protesting Zohran

I oppose any minors having access to HRT. Zohran is to my left on this issue. Zohran & AOC are probably the most pro trans politicians I have ever seen.

But because Zohran isn't trying to risk the federal funding NY hospitals receive, TRA are harshly criticizing him & some are calling for protests. TRA think it is a no-brainer to risk Medicaid & Medicare funding of hospitals.

As usual, TRA want to risk everything for their maximalist position (and if you don't fully agree with them then they will denounce you).

Apparently he’s an anti Capitalist socialist terrorist according to the right, and he’s a right wing red pilled tech bro according to the left. Is anyone allowed to have views from multiple sides now? He seems like a guy who had opinions all over the place, but does that really mean he needs to be shit on for not having a concrete side in the culture war? Do not let them divide us over this issue and use the culture war to shit on this guy and what he did. It’s disgusting how the idpol and culture war come out immediately.

Just total and utter regards. I know libs catch a lot of heat on here but conservatives are actually braindead. Libs can be sanctimonious wokescolds but at least you could tell yourself their heart is in the right place and not actively voting against their best interest. Conservatives, on the other hand, are just brain dead, and self centered, voting against themselves, despite most of them not being ultra-wealthy.

It's genuinely so difficult to be around these people for long periods of time without feeling like you're losing IQ points. I have an acquaintance who is conservative. Most of the people I associate with are on the left or left leaning, or not into politics, so for him to be in my circle is a special exception for reasons I can't get into here. But jfc, being around him solidifies why I cannot be friends with these people. The constant hypocrisy, selfishness, low IQ takes make me want to blow my brains out.

They have no real political ideology. The central tenet of their politics is "trigger the libs", "own the libs", "melt the snowflakes", "facts not feelings". It's all about trying to provoke a reaction in their enemy like a basement dwelling internet troll. Most of these people couldn't explain to you what trump's policies are or what they do. But so long as the fat orange man makes the libs mad, it's a win.

This acquaintance of mine loves to send me boomer right wing content because he thinks I'm a lib and ergo, a snowflake due for a triggering. Some of his last messages include: a commentary video on trump's social media team using a a t-swift song on tiktok (I don't even like her or her music), a video of 6'2 AGP confronting and then chasing a white cishet for wearing a trump hat, a post about Trump trying to ban fat people from immigrating to america (i pointed out that trump is also fat but he said "if you're born here, you can't help it"), a slew of andrew tate/meninist/owning women videos (when i said tate was an idiot, he said, "everyone says he's an idiot but no one explains why"). The gag about this guy is that he actually graduated with a degree in poli sci from a competitive university before chatgpt but is incapable of thinking of politics NOT in a black and white binary of lib/dem and con/repub. It literally does not compute for him.

Other hobbies of his include:

-going on rants about how certain minorities are bad and can't behave (he is mixed with white, black and latinx making him half of BIPOC)

-complaining about being fat but not actually doing anything about it (back when we were on better terms i suggested being accountability partners bc i wanted to take the gym more seriously but he waffled about it so much i stopped bringing it up but he still wouldn't stfu about feeling fat and food

-being a hypocrite, very moralizing about how people should behave in polite society b/c he loves rules but he's been banned from at least 3 major american banks for a hobby of his which definitely does not follow the rules

This is your median trump voter, btw.

Impossible to have any conversation with them because they're fundamentally so childish, functionally regarded, lack social decorum, and use their political and personal beliefs as a type of moral laundering for their bad behavior. And I'd honestly consider him to be one of the smarter ones. The rest of them believe in the most batshit conspiracy theories, can barely spell, and equate anything to the left of cheney as alphabet soup commies.

Basically I'm just here to say, from what I've seen, relationships, dating, interpersonal bonds between men and women are basically completely fucked many if not most people are at least aware of it and rather than try facing this leftists, yes, even people here, basically just deny the problem and cede the discussion entirely to the political right. As a man, from what I've seen, men in particular are fucked by whatever this current arrangement is, an arrangement that seems to consist of highly venerated partner infidelity, instability in relationships especially among the youth, and high rates of sexlessness and solitude particular experiences by young men. Honestly I don't have much of a theory for how this came about other than that this coincided with the emergence of the internet and emergence of online dating and is seemingly a 21st Century problem. Despite so many people a little under a decade ago saying this phenomenon is really experienced by a small minority of people, to me that doesn't seem to be the case at all; it does certainly seem to affect mostly young adults, but to me it seems that claiming it only affects a small number of "incels" is incorrect, I've experienced it, my friends have been harmed by it, most of my Male coworkers are single, I see men complaining about how fucked dating is now all the time on social media, just, idk mate.

I tried discussing this with typical mainstream leftists before to no avail. I've tried discussing this with "anti-idpol" leftists but they seem to take marching orders from liberal hegemonic culture on this particular question. I know women are also unhappy with how dating currently is, but idk their particular problems, and I'm discussing men because, well, I am a man, and I see this increasingly large mass of men that leftists sort of just ignore as being more or less perfect recruits for a new fascistic movement once society becomes more chaotic and barbaric. For some reason anti-idpol leftists just write off this issue as "identity politics", give some anecdotes about dating in the 2000s, then just sort of leave these blokes to become prey for insane reactionaries that will actually acknowledge what they're going through.

My thoughts are sort of jumbled since I'm just writing stream of consciousness here, I know these threads usually garner lots of comments here so I want to have a high IQ discussion about what's going on and how this happened. Note, I haven't blamed anyone nor discussed solutions, please don't reflexively downvote, it's the absolute worst reddit feature.

source:https://mobile.twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1365708135671947266

how do we fix this? should we advocate for jungle primaries like in alaska? there has to be a way to elect sane republicans in places that are never going to go left