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TheFudd

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  • ‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

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  • Can I look down on them with disgust instead?

    Andrew Tate would probably thank you for doing so. Without contempt and disgust from folks like you, he wouldn't have nearly as large of an audience, nor such an obscene amount of money.

  • ‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

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  • I disagree. Maybe if they received validation from their families and community, they wouldn't need validation from grifters? I think it says quite a bit about society when people feel the need to purchase the same kind of validation that they used to receive for free from their own communities in ages past.

    Nobody likes being told they're worthless, they're a loser, they're an incel, or a "stupid bro", or that all of their struggles aren't valid. If everyone around them is telling them those things - Including you - Then validation becomes a rare and valuable commodity... A commodity that someone like Tate can make a lot of money selling to people.

    There’s so many other, manlier, kinder folks out there who can provide that same validation.

    And yet, those "other, manlier, kinder folks" are not out there doing that, are they? Instead, many of them are calling these people losers and incels and lost causes beyond all redemption, just like you are right now.

    Why should they listen to those "other, manlier, kinder folks" when they aren't acting very kind to them?

  • ‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

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  • ^ This reply shows me you don't understand what men like Andrew Tate are selling. He's selling validation to these boys and men, and you're providing a perfect marketplace for that product to sell like hot cakes.

    When you reply like that to these people, the mental picture of grown men having hissy fits and "mashing downvote buttons with tears in their eyes" might feel good in the moment, but those men and boys aren't actually reacting like that. Instead, the message they get is they were right the whole time, that people like you really do just hate men and masculinity, and that people like Andrew Tate are the ones "on their side".

    I get that it feels good to trigger people you don't like, but all you're doing is making Andrew Tate's job easier. Don't you think he's already making enough money as it is?

  • 'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

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  • So what happens when they grow up and start beating you senseless because they learned that violence is a quick and easy way to get people to do what you want them to do, rather than something to be used as a last resort?

  • 'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

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  • Why do you think handing out massive numbers of "F"s will change these kids' behavior?

    That might work when there's only a few kids screwing up and there's social pressure on them to change for the better, but right now the social pressure is going in the opposite direction because of people like Tate. The boys will just say they're getting "F"s because teachers/women/"liberal educators"/whoever just hate boys and masculinity, and people like Tate will validate their views there.

    I get that the idea of flunking these kids to "teach them a lesson and show them how wrong they are" might provide a nice, satisfying dopamine hit to you in the moment, but all it's going to do is make the problem worse.

  • 'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

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  • Okay, now how many of those boys were saying they have a "negative opinion" of Tate just because they didn't want to get in trouble with their parents/teachers/etc. for listening to Tate?

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  • I love how the propaganda bots have persuaded everyone to focus on whether or not this image was made with AI, and everyone completely forgot about the very positive and constructive message in this image.

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  • Yes, that's clearly much worse than what's going on right now. By the way, how do you plan on spending your time when you get a free vacation to El Salvador courtesy of the Trump Administration?

    Just kidding - You won't have a choice in how you spend your time, you'll be too busy performing slave labor.

  • Violence

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  • Complete the following sentence:

    "Live by the sword, ___ __ ___ _____."

  • House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions | “It’s a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials”

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  • Nope. No more excuses for Democrats.

    If the Democrats weren't so spineless, Garland would be a Supreme Court Justice right now...

    ...But then again, maybe it's for the better. Seeing how often Garland slept on the job while he was Attorney General, Garland's performance shows he was clearly a poor choice for either Supreme Court Justice or Attorney General in the first place.

    We're all tired of Democrats being weak, incompetent, and useless for anything other than collecting lobbyist bribes and insider trading info. No more excuses. Do better, Democrats.

  • House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions | “It’s a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials”

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  • The reason people are angry is because when things are reversed and Republicans "don't have the levers of power", they don't let that stop them from getting their way. No, Republicans figure out a way.

    Republicans will come up with some obscure rule or law from the 1800s, or bribe/threaten Democrats in swing/conservative areas to join them, or not allowing a vote on something via underhanded means, or whatever.

    Hell, just look at Mitch McConnell denying Obama a Supreme Court seat. That was illegal. McConnell got away with it. Not only do Democrats refuse to stoop as low as Republicans to get what they want with their "when they go low, we go high" BS, but Democrats won't even put up a fight when the Republicans are clearly in the wrong.

    That's why so many people are saying, "Do something!" to Democrats. Because we all know that if the parties were reversed, Republicans would damn well be doing something, even if that 'something' is illegal or just plain morally wrong.

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  • Libertarian here. That's a terrible idea, most of us are downright nutjobs. The only things us libertarians have going for us is that (unlike Democrats or Republicans) some of us are fully aware that our party is a joke, and sometimes when we screw things up it's amusing. Ever hear about the time we got an entire town over run by wild bears? I mean, bringing in actual wild bears might sound more entertaining than Democrats saying they'd rather be around bears than men, or the bear markets that Republicans have create with tariffs, but it's still not exactly good for the people living there.

  • Are most people here left-wing?

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  • See, this is why so many right-wingers are seen as simply not intelligent enough to understand basic science. Numerous studies have shown that the left-wing is on average, plumper, juicier, and more tender.

    I bet you probably also believe those wing pieces with two bones are better than the big one-bone wings that look like little chicken legs, too. Typical right-winger, your brain has been melted by right-wing propaganda.

    Sorry, but reality has a left-wing bias. Educate yourself, and do better.

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  • If you could move anywhere to minimize the impact on you of the worldwide rise of fascism...

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  • I'm one of the lucky ones! Because of my service to our great country fighting against those dirty communists, when the bombs fall my family and I will be safe and sound, underground, in one of the local vaults in our area: Vault 108!

  • ONE OF US

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  • Nope. In 1985, your best bet for plutonium was connections from Libya. A guy named Doc Brown was my hookup, had a really nice DeLorean he was working on for a project of his...