fratsarerats [none/use name]
Hate to say it, but most of the dudes on this sub (and yes they’re mostly bros, don’t front) were probably just like Destiny or were massive gamer types as recently as two years ago, maybe more recently. Hell, some were straight up chuds or borderline white nationalists.
It’s funny seeing all the hate he gets, some of it deserved, but he’s definitely not a nazi. He’s just a dumb lib. From a tactical point of view, pushing him away like this derails someone from the gamer > lib > socdem > socialist pipeline and pushes them to the gamer > libertarian > conservative > civic nationalist > white nationalist pipeline.
I have to say that I think that this point is kind of an irreconcilable disagreement. I think that if a given set of people cannot engage in basic human social activities, then that’s both a problem & potentially a social one.
I hate to say it, but any kind of solution to the problem of lonely men isn’t going to come from the West (or from leftists in the West). I think it’s going to come from the comrades in the Global South. I’m curious how China is going to handle its surplus of men (https://jezebel.com/china-and-india-have-a-man-surplus-and-its-as-dire-as-i-1825360810). I seriously doubt they’re gonna do what I see most on here and other mostly western leftists do (i.e. respond with ridicule but no tangible solutions, just platitudes of “be yourself”).
I mean I’m not sure what part of the source I’m to believe. The abstract, or the annotation which says “but the authors contend that this belief cannot be unconditionally supported.” And I’ve seen a at least two responses in this thread alone that seem to unconditionally support that contentious belief (“Childhood abuse is strongly linked to all sorts of behavioral issues, sorry.” and "Yeah I mean that’s true. ", you can search them here). So maybe the belief that abusers behave that way because they were abused is not only not true (as UnicodeHamSic’s response seems to suggest to me), but also harmful.