Maybe you should move to Afghanistan?

I’m not responsible for the anti-male gender bigotries that others hold.

As an egalitarianist I’ll call it out when I have the opportunity to do so, but I’m staying right where I am, thanks.

“If you think you can intimidate us, tough luck. We will never let our beautiful country be taken away by extremist troublemakers,” the party’s leader, Rob Jette, wrote on X.

Oh, the irony.

they dont want large quantities of immigrants that are unable to contribute back. […] other countries dont want their taxes and well paid social welfare programs to help with people that aren’t part of their own society, nor has paid into it like its own citizens have done.

Holy shit that’s racist AF, and wholly incompatible with reality.

Immigrants take the worst jobs, work the longest hours, pay some of the most taxes (because of all the work they do), and if undocumented/illegal, cannot take advantage of the services their taxes pay for. Without correct documentation - which requires citizenship or the equivalent of a green card - none of them are taking a single penny out of any public service.

How reality-free IS your world?

Unfortunately, Canada really turned down the screws with regards to immigration. If you’re from the States or any other first-world country, you need to have skills and significant existing wealth with which to invest in Canada. American citizens currently have no basis for refugee status yet, no matter how bad things get.

My scotch-bonnet-munching brother took one look at this and nearly laughed his ring of fire clear off his seat.

I mean the commonly-repeated theory that there “won’t be an election” next year.

Oh, there WILL BE “elections”. They need the circus spectacle to justify their existence.

But with Trump’s cronies in control of ballot machines, where votes can be deleted or altered after the fact, future elections are likely to be entirely performative; a thin veneer of legitimacy papering over a massive edifice of fraud and rot.

Trump could legitimately get zero votes and the voting system will still show him with a landslide victory. That’s their objective, after all. It’s torn straight from the Chinese and North Korea and Nazi Germany playbooks.

Ah, an angry, argumentative pseudo-intellectual. I don’t think further conversation with you will add anything to my life, so I’m blocking you now. Goodbye.

Now THAT is a proper, intellectually bankrupt ad hominem.

You really have nothing anvailable, other than personal attacks, do you? Feelings before facts, I suppose – it fits the pattern.

Yeah, “white knight” is usually a dead giveaway.

How so? Especially since the term has been in common use since the 17th century. That’s a good 400+ years, now.

“Women get whatever they want”, “white knights”, “men can only help other men behind the scenes, otherwise people start avoiding them” - honestly, that sounds like toxic manosphere shit.

Direct observation of interpersonal interactions in the community at large can be one hell of a superpower for anyone dedicated to evidence and facts. It’s why I prefer it, myself.

And you can do better than strawman attacks and claiming things I never said. Or will you double down and let fly with a full-on ad hominem next? You already came close with that last bullshit line.

Where the fuck do you live, Afghanistan?

Nope. North America. It’s where this is most frequently seen.

In fact, men supporting men is a lot better in Islam than it is in western culture. You can hug other men and talk about insecurities with each other far more freely there. It’s homosexuality, specifically, that they have an issue with.

Maybe you need different friends.

Removing all women from my social sphere seems to be just a little bit extreme…

As a man, I have experienced the exact opposite.

When I have seen women unhappy, entire communities have come together to help them. White knights, in particular, fall all over themselves to help her.

When I have seen men unhappy, it’s invariably accompanied by women saying, “so fucking what? Man up, you baby.”

Sure, those men who understand how to help also reach out to assist unhappy men. But they do their best to avoid doing so in the presence of women, otherwise that “un-manliness” gets infected over to them as well like a miasma, and news of that percolates throughout the wider social group. It never ends well for any man who visibly assists, unless they’re wearing a uniform in an official capacity.

Cool theory.

Not a theory. (2) (3) There are now lawsuits in motion due to this.

Adorable that these people don’t think that this election won’t see even more voting fraud than the last one.

I mean, if the last one was stolen, why wouldn’t the next one be, as well? He’s going to have three more years to build systems that ensure a permanent Republican ascendency.

many small or medium-sized companies “will tell you they actually can’t find workers to do the job”.

Hahahahahahahaaa… BULLSHIT.

There are PLENTY of workers out there, there just aren’t many willing to work for sub-poverty wages.

If your business relies on H1B workers in order to exist, then you either have an abysmally shitty business plan, or you’re pulling too much out of the company for your own benefit.

Man you are wound up so tight

And too much of this world is painted with the same fucking brush, when that’s the worst possible thing that can be done.

Too many people taking too many cognitive shortcuts, refusing to dig deeper or acknowledge details and differences or even accept facts and evidence over their pet ideologies because it’s too hard for their pablum-fed goldfish brains to handle.

So I push back. Sometimes a slap in the face wakes people up when nothing else does.

personal insults

Oh, yes. Because criticizing someone’s lack of real-world experience - with context - is so very much like trying to shame a person into silence by attacking their character instead of their argument.

Like, apples and oranges are the same species, no?

Nuance, due. It exists. It’s a real thing.

This was all a calculated strategy to make independent farmers go bankrupt and into foreclosure, so that the big agritech companies could snag prime agricultural land for pennies on the dollar.

At some point, most food will be grown by corporations that can set whatever price they want for that food, and people will have to pay that price or starve to death. It’s the definition of “captured audience” that makes the Parasite Class extract so much wealth from the working class and become so fantastically wealthy.

At this point, I wouldn’t blame any company that immediately ceased expansions in America and started to consider moving existing production facilities to adjacent countries, like Canada.

Most Canadian cities over 5k have significant recycling programs in place in order to cut down on the cost of landfills.

I hear that this is the exception in American towns. Places like pretty much the entire eastern half of Washington State, IIRC, has no recycling whatsoever. I hear that landfills there are being bought up by organized crime because cardboard recycling is so financially lucrative.