Ryan McTague

It increasingly feels like the people in charge want to juice the next downturn to create a new silent generation and they are shocked we haven't gotten back in linw after every economic downturn since the 80s.

Let's just be honest, high isn't a level this administration operates at

"ENDED UP"?! "ENDED UP"?! ENDED FUCKING UP?!?!?!?!?!

The tiniest connection to someone like Epstein should be disqualifying, full stop. We are only having this "nuanced" discussion about how to accept our octogenarian President was best pals with a serial abuser now because our political class didn't do nearly enough due diligence over a decade ago.

The current crop of octogenarians had so much to work with but chose to yearn for a time when the US was oppressing Asian and South/Central American countries as a side hustle. I hope when microplastics make my generation insane in our 70s it's more Barbarella or Sleeper than The Fountainhead.

YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect Noam Chomsky interview on Dissent (1988)

This assessment just gets more accurate especially about 18-20 minutes in

I'm not convinced most Republicans understand transgender is a real word

What are the chances the agreement just takes us back to the Pre Trump 2 status quo?

I always grill service workers about their heritage

Dude is dumber than a sack of pocket squares

NYT Headline: Evidence suggests Trump paid for sex with minors but they were only 13-16 which, according to a guy wearing a trenchcoat we found in a nearby alley, "Is totally cool, literally everyone wants to pick up chicks at the local middle school"

The rich and powerful wouldn't push back so hard on our collective culture trying to make coercion and abuse unpalatable if they weren't exposed...

There's ample evidence that normies care about the existence of UFO's yet I don't give a shit about whether or not they are real...

YouTube video by Gypsy Rogers Clips from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S3 Ep10 About Burning Jerseys in Protest

At this point Kimmy Schmidt was effectively a documentary about how corporate America works.

The rest of us were raised on "great power requires great responsibility" but people with real power were raised on "You have money so you get to believe awful shit and traffic the underage children of drug addicts".

Instead of controlling the vices of people in power we are just expanding access to vice.

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway What Happened to American Conservatism? — with David Brooks | Prof G Conversations

If this is the kind of reflection coming from conservatives then we are screwed. Even though he supposedly abhors what Trump has created Brooks still can't help but rely on an army of Fox-created strawmen to promote his ideas. I am shocked he didn't resurrect the specter of critical race theory...

He made promises, they aren't being kept, that's all there is to it. If he doesn't want to be held to an unreal standard he shouldn't make promises that aren't based in reality.

Prostitution is more honorable than this disgusting display

"Be unified until disunity is politically expedient again"

Hot take incoming: I think Frankenstein was about how shitty Dads are and we can't do anything but just pat them on the head and say "Yeah, you messed me up moron, please die faster"

I believe guys like Peterson, Reeves and Galloway think they have answers. I also believe that they have no real power so the ultimate goal is just to enter the hamster wheel of public intellectual where you get paid to speak because powerful people agree with you not because your ideas are good.

Its the same drivel we always see that won't move the needle. Why don't we fix incarceration? It disproportionately impacts men. It is also frustrating to constantly see commentators push the same narrative about what men are as if it's the only way we can be. Muscular individualism isn't a panacea.

Hoax?

I find this distressing on so many fronts

Most people hear about policy when it's complete not while it's being written. A Canadian douchebag may not qualify for preferential treatment any more than the rest of us.

Progressives have one tent to go to and it doesn't want them for fear of scaring the moderates but it needs them to compete with the GOP. That fundamental tension is what causes the issue you're criticizing in your post. Many democratic leaders want votes without representation and backlash...

Gender Affirming Air or Performative Masculair

Imagine starting your thesis with "men are more rational and women more emotional" while bro culture is currently cry fighting for its feelings king publicly

This is a weird comparison but I think of it like nasal spray. If you use too much your body stops being able to decongest itself. Since religious people have their morals dictated to them they lose the ability to decide for themselves. You just need to convince religious leaders to move the flock.