Everest can be seen 200 miles away on a clear day

And thank Henry Ford for unions /s

Thank you

What about anarcho-communist communities?

How so? What assumption did I make? And is that different than how you are addressing me?

Like which ones?

Really recommend the book “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era” by Gary Gerstle if you want to know more about what neoliberalism is and what the goals are/were and why it’s actively destroying the country.

Eta: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/06/how-neoliberal-order-triumphed-why-its-now-crumbling/

The neoliberal order was no exception. Despite being a project incubated in Republican circles and launched under Ronald Reagan, its full-scale consolidation occurred under the Democratic presidency of Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

Imo the neoliberal order was a response to the Civil Rights Era, a WORLDWIDE movement that gave ordinary citizens more rights and power than any other time in history. To disempower them, capitalism was weaponized to create neoliberal policies to make poor people stay poor, without capital, and thus powerless.

But it was not until Reagan that neoliberalism actively shaped the policy agenda of the federal government. Deregulation became the mantra of the decade, its most visible manifestation being the assault on collective bargaining and the further weakening of already struggling unions. Progressive taxation was contested ideologically and dismantled politically: When Reagan was elected, the income tax system was structured in 15 different brackets, with the highest reaching 70 percent; after his presidency, the country was left with just two brackets, 15 and 28 percent.

“Neoliberals,” Gerstle writes, “had long argued for the need to ringfence free markets, limiting participation to those who could handle its rigors.” Now they also embraced a religiously imbued neo-Victorian moral code, setting themselves in opposition to the permissiveness and moral relativism of the 1960s and 1970s. The race-biased mass incarceration of an “underclass” — regarded as unfit to handle those rigors — seemed to offer the ultimate solution. Liberation and repression, freedom and order, were not incompatible; in the neoliberal equation they were strictly interdependent.

So sure, I personally dislike neoliberalism, but I have a good understanding of what it is as well, so you’re criticism is invalid.

I love that Lemmy thinks neoliberalism is “socialism”

Bowling and violence: exhibit B

What will happen first, Sims5 or GTA 6?

The government needs to make a social media platform for citizens to air grievances in a protected manner. An online civil forum.

I buy directly from the manufacturer and have for years. Most of my stuff comes gift wrapped with coupons and tracking numbers and reward points; sometimes I can even get clearance items or sales that make it on par with Amazon prices, especially these days Amazon isn’t very cheap. If I need cheap bullshit, there’s always Dollar Tree.

Most people consider comments about their physical appearance to be intrusive. Bodily autonomy is a pretty common value. No one is entitled to controlling another person’s body. No one owes you anything, including niceness when you violate a common boundary.

Telling a woman you prefer anything about her appearance when she didn’t ask you is creepy, especially if she is communicating she is not interested in the male status quo opinion and that’s what you are pushing. “You’d look better if you’d just smile,” isn’t a nice compliment. It’s a controlling asshole thing to say, and shows your male entitlement. Just like calling a woman uglier after she cuts her hair.

Women in particular do not want to hear from men their opinions about looking like a woman, because a lot of times they are unaware of what they are demanding. The OP could have chosen to cut her hair because she has cancer or lupus, for example. Or most likely, she KNOWS men prefer long hair already and has her own reasons for choosing short hair. Maybe she wanted to look more appealing to women by emphasizing her jawline, for instance. Or sometimes, looking a little different can be more interesting anyway to others if that is what she’s concerned about.

In any case, yeah, most compliments are indeed creepy. Do you understand what women mean when they call a man creepy? They are calling him a hunter. They are saying he’s being predatory to them. Invading their emotional boundaries is one aspect (invading their emotional boundaries to comment on physical appearance), narcissism is another (laughable hubris that they even know what would look good on women when they don’t understand hair or makeup or clothes for women), and last is controlling behaviors/objectification (feeling entitled to treating women like a doll to dress up).

So yeah, incels are admitting it themselves - all compliments are creepy when used by predators, yeah.

Here’s an article about Dustin Hoffman’s epiphany about trying to be a woman, from 2013. Btw when women say they feel alienated from leftist spaces, this is what we mean - we are talking about some REALLY REALLY basic feminist theory here and you all haven’t caught up at all. Gee, why are women creeped put by predatory men in leftist spaces when they don’t understand the basics of objectification and Feminism… https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dustin-hoffman-tootsie-interview-women-b2268100.html

I hope the toddlers rise against the system

Wigs. Bald heads are perfect for wigs.

It’s an incel meme. It’s super weird.

Yes punks are toddlers, anyone going against the status quo - toddlers, all acts of rebellion- toddler vibes. Being radical- toddler.

You’re incredibly uneducated to be making the claims you are.

Racism in the US south against black people looks different than racism in the midwest/Western states against Native Americans because the goals of the racism were different.

The govt wanted to grow the black population so they could have a huge workforce to take from. Explicit racism helps a lot with this, because it’s declaring people black and enforcing that they are less than and deserve to be a lower class. This is probably what you mean about how racist the south is.

For Native Americans, the govt’s goal is to take their land and destroy their claims to land - they want LESS Native Americans. That’s why colorblindness is the racism in the midwest and west. That is also why those areas HATE Latino people, even though those people are generally just Native Americans who speak Spanish. That’s why you hear stuff like “We speak English here.” That’s why old John Wayne movies were the way they were. That’s why we had those Native American re-education schools. That’s why we killed so mamy buffalo (to starve them) and the Great Plains to this day has never recovered fully from how many millions of herd animals were killed. It’s why, TO THIS DAY, Christian organizations will adopt Native kids to explicitly white Christian families. It’s why the Mormons are in Utah. It’s why most Native reservations are in extremely inhospitable places (look at the Navajo lands versus nearby in Hatch, NM - the Native people would have lived near Hatch, near water, but we took that from them and gave them barren soil - to kill them).

The racism against Native Americans is like smothering and starving a baby to death, whereas the racism in the south is more like screaming//beating at a baby to depression/“submission”.

Rec reading: Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Smith, Andrea

Old cowboys used to cut Native women’s labia off and put it on their saddle horns to play with. The west is racist too.

Behind the Nazis is what they learned from Trail of Tears and US antebellum slavery. Behind that, you get Rome.

It’s war. War is behind all fascism.

Well, if you were someone playing a game with them, then you can incorporate this. The point is that it’s not obligatory and is based on the people participating