#liberal values

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Michael Deacon

Published: Apr 3, 2024

For young people today, finding a partner of the opposite sex must be dreadfully hard. But this isn’t because of the pressure to look like an Instagram gym buff, or the horrors of dating apps, or the fact that no one under the age of 30 seems to drink alcohol any more.

It’s because these days, young men and women have got absolutely nothing in common.

Seriously. All of a sudden, they appear to have developed completely different values. It’s unprecedented. In the past, the two sexes tended to hold roughly similar views on politics. But research compiled over the past five years shows that in Britain – and indeed other Western countries – young women have become more progressive, while young men have become more conservative. And the resulting ideological gap is now staggeringly vast. 

Alice Evans, an academic at King’s College London, is writing a book on this phenomenon, entitled The Great Gender Divergence. She says it’s been caused by a variety of factors, including “social media bubbles” and “economic resentment”. Whatever the reasons for it, though, I think there is a vital point we’re in danger of missing. Which is that only one of the two sexes is strictly responsible.

Recently, the Financial Times published some charts illustrating how the gulf between young men and women has grown in each Western country. And in every chart, there is an unmistakable pattern. The political views of young men haven’t actually altered all that much. Their drift to the Right has been really quite gentle.

The political views of young women, however, have changed dramatically. Their move to the Left has been abrupt and profound. In truth, then, this cavernous ideological divide is almost entirely attributable to them.

Which is curious. Because, whenever the divide is discussed by politicians and commentators, they make it sound as if the problem is young men. They fret endlessly about how young men today are being “radicalised” by nasty Right-wing YouTubers such as Andrew Tate, or horrid Right-wing politicians such as Donald Trump. 

Yet they never apply this word “radicalised” to young women. Why not? I suspect it’s because these politicians and commentators tend to be progressive themselves. Therefore, they see no problem with young women becoming drastically more progressive. In their view, the more progressive someone is, the better. So the fault lies entirely with young men, for failing to emulate young women’s lurch to the Left.

Personally, though, I think this lurch Leftwards should alarm us all. The future of Western civilisation is already threatened by our collapsing birth rates. And this sudden ideological chasm between the sexes is only going to make the crisis worse. No one’s going to be forming couples at all any more, if, on every first date, the woman asks, “What do you think of Gramsci?”, and the man replies, “He’s the type of striker Man Utd are crying out for.”

It’s a chilling thought. So clearly something must be done. Politicians must spend less time obsessing over the radicalisation of young men, and start paying attention to the radicalisation of young women, instead.

As it happens, the Labour Party has announced that, when it’s in power, it will help to combat the influence that Andrew Tate has on boys. Surely it would make more sense to help combat the influence The Guardian has on girls. 

Otherwise, the only way young men are going to get a girlfriend is by frantically boning up on George Monbiot and Owen Jones. And if that’s what the future has to hold, perhaps Western civilisation isn’t worth saving, after all. 

[ Via: https://archive.md/WlLXk ]

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Apparently, it's not "radicalization" when you're calling for the extermination of the Jews; so sexist and racist that you call everyone else "oppressors"; teaching kids about the objectively true mythology of metaphysical "gender" thetans; advocating for the compulsory elimination of all privately-owned property and its forcible redistribution; and/or chanting for the dismantling of society itself.

No, that's not radicalization. It's just the self-evident values of all right-thinking people.

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[connectinglines]

4. Muslims in Israel Without Israeli Passports

4. Muslims in Israel Without Israeli Passports

Muslims in Israel who do not hold Israeli passports are mostly Palestinians living in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Their status is complex:

East Jerusalem: Palestinians in East Jerusalem were given the option to apply for Israeli citizenship after Israel annexed the area following the 1967 war, but most have refused, seeing this as an acceptance of Israeli rule over a city they claim as the capital of a future Palestinian state. As a result, most East Jerusalem Palestinians hold Israeli residency cards but not full citizenship, meaning they can live and work in Israel but cannot vote in national elections.

West Bank and Gaza: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are under Israeli occupation, though Gaza is governed by Hamas. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority provides limited self-rule in certain areas, but Israel maintains control over security and borders. Palestinians here do not have Israeli citizenship or passports; instead, they carry Palestinian Authority-issued documents.

[quillsword]

Ten Ways to Tell if You are a Democrook

10) You think it’s perfectly okay to lie, cheat and even steal if it benefits the Democrats but if Republicans so much as jay walk, it’s proof that they are evil. 9) You believe that watching any news source besides MSNBC or NPR makes you a Russian spy – and you’re beginning to doubt CNN. 8) You are convinced that the only way to save democracy is to ensure that only people like you can…

[thenewdemocratus]

Dan Mitchell: 'The Fiscal Case For Federalism'

Source:Dan Mitchell being interviewed by federalism.  “Fixing entitlement programs is the the most pressing fiscal need in Washington. In a discussion with the Club for Growth Foundation, I explain that we also need federalism – i.e., shifting programs to the state and local level. Some of those activities should be left totally to the private sector (agriculture, housing, etc) while others could…

[jebmungall]

Alien Invasion Films & Traditional Values

Alien invasion movies have long been a favorite for me. In these films, humans are forced to confront their limitations and vulnerabilities, both as individuals and as a species.

Shortly before the COVID-19 epidemic hit, my younger brother asked if I’d be interested in doing a movie-based podcast with him. While nowhere near the movie-buff he is, I thought it would be a good opportunity to spend some time together. We soon developed our gimmick for the “Cinesiblings Podcast” where we would draft films or pieces of cinema fantasy-style. Our first such draft was “Horror…

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Every "Western" "democracy" in Northwest Asia aka Europe banning so much as hoisting a Palestinian flag I TRULY never want to hear you corny motherfuckers talk about muh censorship and free speech in China or w/e again

[bonefall]

I haven’t read these books in years WHAT is the angel fetuses. What is happening

LMAO yeah there's actually been three instances where Warrior Cats made fetuses into StarClan characters. We're joking about Moonpaw's absorbed fetus twin (Starpaw/The Voice) meeting with Clear Sky's first dead wife's unborn kids.

The first time they did this was in the last book of DOTC, on Gray Wing's deathbed. Bright Stream, last seen in early pregnancy and being carried off by eagles to be gruesomely eaten alive, shows up accompanied by Tiger Tail and Pale Sky. Her embryos.

Because they show up in this big fanservicey montauge of all DOTC's fridged wives happily living as eternal mothers in StarClan, I sardonically call them the Dead Angel Fetus Children.

(It's dark humor to cope with how much the concept freaks me out)

And with Moonpaw, I have to explain how fusion chimerism works.

There are a few types of chimeras, but when a single individual is created from the combination of two fully fertilized zygotes, that is called fusion chimerism. That's what Moonpaw is.

And you have to understand, we're talking zygotes as in cells. The fusion of haploid gametes. NOT embryos (developing major organs) or fetuses (has major organs). When multiple embryos or fetuses are detected during pregnancy, but one vanishes, that is called Vanishing Twin syndrome (VTS).

There is actually very little linkage between VTS and the chance of a baby being born with fusion chimerism. At best it's an overstated link. At worst, it is a general misconception of Vanishing Twin syndrome.

Fusion Chimeras can happen in a lot of different ways, most of them fertilization errors, very few of them involving the multiple embryos of VTS. Likewise, the vast majority of VTS cases do not result in fusion chimeras. I explained Chimerism in-depth over in this post, and I encourage you to follow my citations to learn more if you're interested.

Sooooo... we're not even talking fetuses for Starpaw and Moonpaw. If they ever were separate, it would have been as embryos at best.

Which means that Moonpaw is haunted by cells that hadn't even developed major organs.

Ergo, we're joking around about how peculiar it is that Supernatural Utero Ghosts have happened thrice.

[cleofem]

Women used to sell their engagement / wedding rings to escape abusive marriages. Learn from your foremothers. Never tell a man you have your own money. Financial freedom is the most important of all.

Having your own savings and source of income that can't be stolen from you gives you so many opportunities. Don't fall for their smooth words under the guise of 'fairness' and 'trust'. Protect yourselves and only trust yourself. For your safety and autonomy.

It can be the difference between being homeless and being safe. Spread the word.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[whetstonefires]

Hey here's an angle on the Jiang family dynamic and its impact on Wei Wuxian that I haven't seen discussed:

Wei Wuxian grew up seeing Jiang Yanli routinely having her agency cut off and denied in both large (betrothal) and small ways. That were largely tied up in her gender, sure, but this was also a family containing Yu Ziyuan. A daughter in this household had every chance of having her gender treated as of secondary importance.

She just had to earn it.

The way Jiang Yanli was hemmed in and her potential as an independent actor dismissed was at least as strongly correlated with her failure to be a powerful sword cultivator.

So Wei Wuxian's total refusal to let anyone know that he'd lost access to his cultivation and his violent reactivity against being diminished or condescended to during his Sunshot-to-death period, when before he was pretty immune to being looked down on, could have a lot to do with having been presented with this clearly labeled diagram of how your personhood gets stripped away when you are, by the standards of your society, disabled.

[succulentsiren]

Shame is a choice. Make the decision to be free of it.

[thenewdemocratus]

Salman Rushdie: Freedom of Speech

Source:Ingur– Author Salman Rushdie, making the case for free speech. Source:The New Democrat Salman Rushdie: “Nothing should be immune from criticism.” From Imgur “Author Salman Rushdie, who lived for years under a death threat after his 1988 book The Satanic Verses drew the wrath of Iranian religious leaders, said the right to free speech is absolute or else it isn’t free. Following a speech at…

[paranormeow7]

finally trying to like. watch the flipside bc I don’t have money for the game and honestly like? it didn’t kill my family and salt my crops or anything it was just a mid, weird game that came after absolute peak (the re up). I agree that the characters felt ooc but they felt like stupidly exaggerated versions of what they already were. like we all knew Jeffery was a freak. he was a self insert of SBN3 written so he could be weird to women. he took a photo of Nicole in her underwear and blackmailed her with it, shot up the school over his fetishes being exposed, etc. honestly the game just wasn’t as funny bc like. each game had these girls in miserable situations, they can technically both be “torture porn”. but flipside just wasn’t handled well LOL… the foot shit was nasty, especially considering they didn’t SHOW any of Nicole’s sex work when she did it in the first two games. the Taliban shit was nasty, felt especially weird considering current events and like. general racism. I don’t know like. I do agree that the game just kind of left a weird unresolved pit in my stomach instead of being cathartic and clever like the re-up. idk like I guess snb3 just wanted to alienate his fanbase who wanted fun yuri content? which yknow it worked!! but the game was never really all fun yuri content (even though I do love it). I don’t blame people for hating the flipside, I certainly don’t really like it, but like. again. it just feels like a middle finger kind of exaggeration of what the game Already Was. it was always edgy it just stopped being edgy in a relatable and fun way and just started being edgy in a “cmon man” kind of way. I already see people going through what Jecka went through every day, you’ve got to do more with it to make me want to see it. Re up made it funny, Flipside was just like “HEY SJWS. YOU WANTED A RELATABLE GAME FOR QUEER PUBLIC SCHOOL KIDS? FUCK YOU. IM SHOWING THIS TEENAGE GIRL GETTING SEX TRAFFICKED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. TAKE THAT LIBERALS”.

doesn’t matter tho sbn3 bullies autistic kids for fun and hates gay people so. fuck that guy lol. I fully support people taking back his characters bc how do you make a game that is so perfectly relatable to gay teen girls and then decide you hate gay teen girls like

[queerism1969]

[iwieldthesword]

"Oh wow OP sounds like you weren't Their Good Jew™ enough to avoid experiencing antisemitism in antizionist spaces, I guess you'll change your mind about antizionism now!"

Actually this is so crazy, but my political activism isn't actually based on what will personally benefit me or if I'm rewarded for it, but is in fact a reflection of my moral compass and what I think is right. Way to tell on yourself that your political views and activism are 100% based on other people's approval and what you think will personally benefit you best, though! Couldn't be me.

[sadbeautifutragic]

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