I’m currently on my 6th callback of the night with a stacked ER. If you’d rather I do this than treat emergency patients, I’m down. I’m about ready to flip tables. It’s going to be another night of less than 3 hours sleep, and then I’ve got two more day shifts and nights of call in a row before I’m actually “off duty”.

The grind isn’t an optional thing for a lot of us.

That’s ironic when you consider who you mean to be talking about, and who actually tried to blacklist comedians like Dave Chappelle.

I’m of the opinion that left wingers say these things because they sound high brow, but they never seem to realize how big of a self-own they’re making for themselves. It’s like they don’t have the awareness to take a step back and look at how what they’re saying would be seen by those outside their echo chamber.

Oh well. I don’t even know why I’m here. I know you guys don’t believe in dissident views. Keep telling yourselves you are the virtuous few in the face of the evil fash. I’m sure you don’t resemble exactly what you hate at least some of the time.

I take a more neutral view on this. Master Chief and Kratos are great examples of what could be called “toxic masculinity”. They are the epitome of the duty-first, hide-your-emotions male. But they are also great examples of why toxic masculinity is a flawed concept.

Both of these characters have lived lives where discipline and emotional control were key to their survival. They have learned resilience through hardship not by taking the female approach to emotion resolution, but by taking the male approach. Instead of letting their emotions out by crying and socializing, they channeled them into their work.

There is a time and place for both methods. Neither is inherently wrong or unhealthy. But the latter is traditionally masculine, and would definitely qualify as toxic masculinity by the common definition.

You say that, but I think bikinis are objectifying af. I’m perfectly happy for women to dress however they want. But from the perspective of a man, I find almost-naked women to be the option I benefit more from.

Western culture seems to push women into degrading positions through social pressure rather than legal means. Just look at how common skin tight leggings and a sports bra are as gym attire.

Is this actually benefitting women? Or is it just another way to take advantage of them?

The good news is that you’re largely just experiencing a bias effect. We all tend to think the time of our childhood was better than the modern day. I was born in the 90s, and they were much better than the 00s in my opinion.

The same people who commodify your existence today were doing it in the 00s.

Technology has absolutely made this experience more invasive, but people have always wanted to use you to their own end.

Right… because democrats totally supported gay marriage in the 90s. They weren’t all opposed to it at all.

If you’re specifically referring to the liberal spike in the 60s and 70s, yes, you’ve identified the way society swings back and forth between being more liberal and more conservative. We don’t trend more progressively on average, it’s just a natural counter-culture reaction to growing up in a conservative generation. It’s the exact same reason the modern progressive generation came off the back of the 80s-00s conservative resurgence. It’s also why there are so many modern teens trending back towards traditionalism.

You are the dominant culture. You won. Now the stabilizing effect will work against you, because neither progressivism nor conservatism are ideal on their own. Balance always returns.

Considering that what is being taught in that section these days is pseudoscience at best, I don’t think it’s unreasonable.

It’s frustrating how commonly bad science is pushed forward in the realm of psychology. The doctors who made the lobotomy famous also had the best of intentions for their patients, just as trans advocates do. It doesn’t change the fact that modern gender science is quackery, but at least it makes you feel good about yourselves to reinforce delusions to the point of enabling self-harm.

What was wrong with the other countries they could have stopped at instead of proceeding to the US? Fleeing Honduras is understandable, but Mexico is not Honduras. People risk the trip all the way to the US because they want the benefits of living in the US, not because they are unsafe in Mexico.

Do you actually believe the US is the only safe place for refugees fleeing Honduras? Or do you just think people should be allowed to move wherever they want with no checks or balances?

At some point, surely you must agree that “looking for a better life” is not an excuse to go wherever you want and do whatever you please regardless of risks or consequences. Either that, or I hope you are volunteering your city/state to process all of these people. I hope you can at least appreciate how monumentally expensive and demanding it is to handle illegal immigration if no deterrents exist. That will come out of your taxes to deal with.

Dude, leftys are war-hungry af. One of the main reasons I supported Obama back in the day was because he wanted to bring the troops home. He never did. Now democrats have circled back around to wanting to be the world police.

Everyone who wants WW3, how about you go over there and die in NATOs war and leave the rest of us out of it? I personally don’t want our sons and daughters to be slaughtered so that NATO can expand even further.

I’m tired of being the world police. Bring the troops home.

Just to clarify, is he calling them trash and leftovers because they are women? Or because they are his opposition? This wouldn’t be the first time people spun a narrative that insults were targeted at their gender/race/etc to earn victimhood points. Their gender may just be coincidental.

Children? A 16 year old is not a child. They are a teenager; very nearly an adult. They absolutely should work a job to learn the value of working for money. It’s a very important concept for young adults to learn.

That said, none of these jobs should exist if appropriate safety measures aren’t being taken. I don’t care if you’re a teenager or an adult, you shouldn’t be dying in a lumbar yard or a mine barring a freak accident. You shouldn’t need a union to protect you. Safety regulations should just be a natural part of doing business.

That’s kind of the point. We live in a system that is supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty”. Not because people who commit crimes should get away with them, but because the opposite system would be completely untenable. How exactly is he supposed to prove that he is innocent? I don’t care how sure anyone is that he did it. Prove it, or by our legal standard, he must be considered innocent.

If you want to live in a society where accusation is tantamount to fact, you’re going to regret it as soon as anyone says anything about you.

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Replace “religion” with “opinion”.

People didn’t talk about wanting a sex change, but loads of us hated our bodies and wanted to wake up in different ones. Given the option and institutional support and reassurance that transitioning would help us, many of us probably would have been convinced to do so

This is actually one of my primary concerns regarding transgenderism in the modern day. I think it’s a tool in the toolbelt for when it’s necessary. I also think it’s a tool we reach for much more often than is necessary.

The comparable example I like to give is adhd. It isn’t binary. You don’t just have it or don’t have it. Some people have symptoms that need no intervention. Some people have symptoms but are misdiagnosed as adhd. Other people get by with therapy alone. Yet others find medication necessary to be functional.

Giving gender affirming care to all people with gender or body dysphoria is like giving high dose Adderall to all people who have trouble paying attention in history class. It’s the nuclear option, and you’re using it on someone who may not even have adhd, or may not require such a strong intervention.

I know everyone hates this word, but starting with more conservative treatments first is the norm throughout healthcare for exactly this reason. We’ve made an exception for transgender people for political reasons, not scientific ones.

AI could lead to the single greatest transference of wealth and power from the people to the elite. It could also lead to SkyNET.

It’s an incredibly powerful and dangerous technology. A handful of poor decisions is all it takes to turn the world into something out of a dystopian/post-apocalyptic novel.

The best we can hope for is that AI makes hundreds of millions of jobs obsolete, and we then have to fight the elite to make sure that wealth is appropriately distributed. I think it will be a lot worse than that.

All I see is someone who finally wants to shut down the war machine. I have waited since the Bush administration for someone to do that. Obama ran on bringing our troops home, and actually expanded foreign military involvement.

If Trump is the only one who has the balls to put an end to the American World Police, then so be it.

I don’t know how or why democrats decided to be pro-war, but they’ll have to fight the rest of us to keep it up. That money and those soldiers would be much better utilized locally, and with a much lower chance of dying for someone else’s cause.

Keep in mind this works both ways. The progressive outrage machine is arguably even more active than the conservative machine. Look at the reaction to Sound of Freedom. An extremely neutral movie when you consider the politics of its content. But the main actor is a conspiracy theorist, so I guess that means the movie is a far right propaganda vehicle? By that logic most movies are far left propaganda vehicles.

A similar phenomenon has always followed Trump around. Media gets insane hits for anti-Trump content. Some people built entire careers off of reporting on his tweets. The more shocking and exaggerated they could make the content, the more money came flooding in. That’s why so much of the coverage of Trump was sensationalized and uncharitable. It’s also why moderates couldn’t help but root for him. There’s only so much the established powers that be can lie about someone before you want to support him regardless of his character flaws. It helped that his policies were generally great, focusing on anti-war and populist market adjustments.

This is why you should always take the news with a grain of salt. They’re all out to make money, and they all have agendas.

lemmy.blahaj.zone are left wing extremists with zero tolerance for anyone who doesn’t already believe what they believe. I’m not sure why they don’t just defederate themselves. They’ve been openly upset that people who disagree with them on certain issues keep finding them through the all communities tab and, gasp, disagree with them in the comments.

I don’t see how banning everyone who disagrees with you is easier than creating an insulated community of people who do agree with you, but I guess that’s their preference.

I saw a lot of progressives turning into free market libertarians as soon as social media started censoring right wing opinions. Suddenly all I could see was “They’re a private company, they can do what they want!”

It reaffirmed my belief that a healthy portion of either side doesn’t actually have any principles. They just care that their side is winning and the other is losing.

I’m a moderate that a lot of people confuse for a conservative, and I say nail big business to a wall. I think the Microsoft-Activision deal should be declined just on the nature of the size of each business, not because it meets some arbitrary standard of anti-competitive behavior. Businesses as big as Microsoft do not need even bigger market coverage through owning more production houses. The whole point of the anticompetitive corrections is to avoid these giant conglomerates that have their hands in everything.

Microsoft already owns video game production houses. They produce one of the most popular home consoles in the world. They own a lot of the ecosystem that most people use on a daily basis on their pcs, namely Windows OS, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.

Why does one company need to have a bigger market share than this?