i do

the left needs to be more pro gun if they want to solve this

which leaves the people with only one weapon - weapons.

you do know not all past societies were more feminine, right? Have you heard of ancient Greece?

you do realize that hunter-gatherer societies are WAY older than ancient Greece, right? we’re talking about a time before agriculture. you do not understand the context of what i was saying. your entire argument here displays a very juvenile understanding of life in general, so maybe i’m just talking to a bunch of children.

sure seems like it most days but i’m still out here trying to rally

we really do inflate our sense of importance. so many of the most important parts of a healthy mind are wrapped in nihilism.

it’s the only answer and i don’t see how more people don’t recognize that. we have to shout if from the rooftops if we want to react in time to prevent a full collapse.

men built society. whatever problems are inherent in it were practically designed by men. as a matter of fact, the further we go, the more we slip away from the feminine qualities of our humanity (our more egalitarian hunter-gatherer roots). and as it begins to collapse around us, you incels are gonna cry about how it’s unfair? fuck you. put your big boy pants on and deal with it. or better yet, retreat completely from it and let the people with honest consciences rebuild it.

god, i fucking hate incels.

therapy also teaches a lot of sociopathic traits.

my SIL went through therapy recently (after getting into a weird polygamous relationship which allowed her the $$ to do so). she and my wife had lived through a pretty traumatic upbringing after their wonderful father died and left them to deal with a BPD mother who blew through the family money and left them to practically fend for themselves while being batshit crazy.

all the therapist taught her was to be selfish. she practically cut off contact with both her sister and mother and just got really good at doing what was best for herself and herself only. since then, her mother has become disabled and now my wife is having to deal with it all alone while the sister lives a very lavish life on a farm.

fuck therapy and fuck modern life in general. no wonder we’re all becoming assholes.

i was a camp host for a summer and it was possibly the best summer of my life. no power, no water, no internet, minimal contact with people, cleaning toilets, and spending half of my day in a kayak.

aw, it’s like a bunch of dudes with tiny penises coming together for mutual sympathy.

you make salient points but so do i, and as you said, the truth isn’t exactly binary. maybe we’re both right. maybe we’re both wrong. the fact remains that the tool that makes the change is raw power in whatever form it takes. you either wield it or someone wields it against you.

i’d love nothing more than to participate in a big old kumbaya love fest, but i can’t do that until the goddamned sociopaths are in the ground.

you’re right. we’ve always had fat cat capitalists manipulating the system, but remember that FDR did a lot to curb that AND help win WWII. you can’t just paint all of american history as a bunch of villains.

my entire point is that sometimes it takes a hero, and you can’t win wars by being a pacifist.

The US got fucking lucky that it was geographically extremely difficult for otherwise occupied forces to attack, and therefore didn’t get bombed into rubble, and due to that had all it’s industrial infrastructure intact at the end of the war so it could immediately turn it around to rebuilding all these places, and thus having a massive influx of economic activity by virtue of placement on the globe.

which wouldn’t have been possible without a certain kind of ‘rugged individualism’.

but you’re right. russia fought and bled far more to defeat the nazis. credit where credit is due. both the US and russia are bullies. there will always be a bully. BE THE BULLY AND YOU GET TO DECIDE THE FATE OF THE WORLD. be a pacifist and somebody else will tell you how it’s going to be. wake up.

if the people went after the wealthy first, they could use the spoils to fund the revolution

it’s the fucking truth. capitalism may have hijacked it all, but rugged individualism produced a form of military organization that allowed the US to be extremely effective and is now copied by the rest of the world.

if people hadn’t gotten on boats to escape a rotting europe, there wouldn’t have been an america with boundless resources to produce the military hardware to save your asses.

our history is very tainted, but you guys were the model for colonial expansionism. we were just better at it.

get off your fucking high horse and recognize that being the dominant brute can be the only thing that saves everyone from the other dominant brute. it’s not about the power, it’s what you do with it. let’s combine our powers and kick some nazi ass again instead of endlessly bitching on the internet about how it’s all somebody else’s fault.

as an american anti capitalist, i agree with so much of what you just said and still want to punch you in the mouth.

we became obsessed with glorified violence after SAVING EUROPE FROM THE FUCKING NAZIS. we began to worship our individual heroes after PRODUCING SO MANY OF THEM WHILE FIGHTING THE FUCKING NAZIS. we got into meddling in the affairs of other countries because of our paranoia over preventing A GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR APOCALYPSE, a consequence of FIGHTING THE GODDAMNED NAZIS.

europe produced the problem and we solved it. the spoils of that war just happened to be the entire fucking world. sorry for winning. maybe we should all focus on KICKING NAZI ASS AGAIN.

law is inherently flawed and easily manipulated by clever sociopaths. chaotic good FTW. let there be guillotines and morally sound citizens and nothing more.

lol. you’re going to have an awakening soon. lemmy is full of rad left. reddit looks moderate by comparison.

yep. i just need to know what’s going on but i don’t need to ‘hang out’. lemmy doesn’t have enough news to see the big picture.