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This is the sort of nuanced dialogue about dude problems I think is worth engaging with. I'm a man, I think our problems are VERY real, however I feel like a lot of the time we cannot have nuanced discussions about our problems because the people in the discussion are either bad faith or lack the rhetorical skills to properly talk about this sort of issue.

I have seen lots of "Address men's problem X"-like videos and read editorials and more often then not they lack the sort of depth of dialogue needed to talk about these sorts of complex problems. Like with lots of stuff if you wanna talk about it for real you have to unpack a lot of layered interconnected stuff. Talking about how dudes suffer under patriarchy is hard, complex, and difficult. All three of those things don't do well in internet age discussion. Which is probably why this video is like 1.5 hours long, I think the author did a great job being honest and real about shit but it just took a long time to do so and I don't think the internet is a great space for long, complex, or nuance.

It's a good video and dating is hard. Misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism all suck. Helping and healing an class of social subject is probably a good thing. Making happy healthy dudes would cultivate happy healthy non-dudes as well. Everyone wins.

I hate how self-help books by charlatans have come to dominate bookstores. At least the YA novel craze that Harry Potter started were actual novels.

I would gladly take ten thousand fold YA novels that actually get people reading and talking about to each other (for better or worse) over self-help stuff.

I am in general pro-self-help (so long it's the desire is genuine not this weird modern self-optimization for capital shit), but self-help doesn't really get people talking or connecting. At least people (especially regular people) talked about Twilight, and Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, all them books. People were reading and talking to each other in-person and online about it. Self-help there is no discussion to be had. Sure there is the implementation of the practices and habits or whatever, but there is really no communication to be had, you just do the stuff. At least with YA you can ask someone "what did you think about XYZ", self-help is just do or do not.

The whole false scarcity thing is the thing that drives me into Lovecraftian madness. The sheer amount of normalization of the phrase "access to care" drives me up the wall. Or how we have replaced "healthcare" to "insurance" as the goal is just so damn wrong. I'm very lucky/blessed/fortunate to never really have any real need for physical healthcare or mental healthcare, however always deeply troubled by the ceaseless parade of nightmarish stories of people trying to get care. From people who are uninsured to folks who supposedly had "good" insurance, everyone seems to have a terrible time accessing their "access to" their care. I

Capitalists have convinced the liberals of the world that something very much not real is very much real. For the record, you are not crazy for not buying into the "Catastrophe or Ruination" dichotomy they false create. You are in fact cool and normal for proposing a third mystery option of "What if we didn't have to pick between those two?"

Neoliberalism/Late Stage Capitalism/Hellworld is all about buy into this idea of false scarcity when there is in fact abundance were there the political will. The current Media machinery and apparatus does so much of the heavy lifting for these MEGACORPS too.

Yo you made this? Dope! Isley Brothers really goes with anything.

Striking is cool. Protests of all any form should have an actionable impact on the world. I am so happy to see people are moving past this liberal poisoned “peaceful protest” mantra. Agitation should ya know… agitate.

RIP to the homie. Sorry to hear that. Overdose deaths are a real bummer.

The whole black dragon and red dragon war plotline was just some of MK worst writing. Then again pretty I'd say that Earthrealm is the weakest narrative space in the whole series. Shirai Ryu, Lin Kuei, The "Special Forces" (peak 90's "military is cool"), all of Earthrealm is just kinda lame to me.

Gris is such a great game. The soundtrack really takes you on a journey.

Striking is cool, and labor rights and value remains the focus of the strike.

Bro for real. The dissolution of the very idea of privacy happened at ludicrous speed. From 9/11 to the PATRIOT act to every company in the galaxy doing big data analysis on every component of your life happened over the course of like four years

This video series is really cool. I really like their exploration of the themes of community and social ecology. I really like this vision of Animal Crossing. Honestly I wish there were more opportunities in real life for us to engage in real meaningful community.