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Good, but if you are a minority and you are still in the GOP at this point, you are a stupid motherfucker.
Just sayin'.
Everyone still in the GOP is either a Nazi or a nitwit.
As a latina, I am so absolutely ashamed of how many latinos have been supporting the face-eating leopard. A lot of it comes from machismo within the culture, I hated that shit growing up
If I can armchair psychoanalyze for a minute, as someone who is a minority I do see that people within my community who have low self esteem seem to think that any kind of asking for help that doesn't relate to going all in on some kind of sigma grind set, fuck handouts is some kind of confirmation of their inadequacy.
It's kind of sad to see. I've seen a lot of people go down that red pill, weirdly ethnocentric road. Some bottomed out and came to their senses, others aren't there yet but hopefully will change course before then.
It all boils down to:
"Suffering is the highest moral good."
Just suffer because suffering is some flavor of good, and then later throw on some ruleset that specifices what kinds of suffering are more or less good.
Can suffering eventually build character, lead to meaningful realizations, growth, development of useful habits and ethics?
Yes.
But suffering for suffering's sake is pointless, destructive, a form of masturbation really.
Suffering because other people tell you its good for you, even when it uh, doesn't actually do anything good for you?
Well now you're actually something of an ideological cuck/masochist, despite all the exaggerated outward signalling toward the opposite.
Like, I'm a white trash dude, I've known poor latinos, asians, blacks, native americans... yeah, its certainly got different variations and specific details for different ethnicities and cultures, but it ultimately just boils down to 'suffering for suffering's sake is a moral good, that is tied into your worth as a man.'
Its an archetype of a moral/identity structure that is at least more than 'I am a worthless failure' for broken/broke men, as you say, with very low self esteem and self respect.
Unfortunately... it does not actually produce genuine self esteem or self respect, it produces contempt, a worldview where your worth is based on being 'better' in some way, than someone else...
It's not an inward originating worldview, based on actual deliberation and consideration, that, while more difficult to create, does actually produce a stable, model of the self, which thus then actually allows for real self esteem and self respect.