It’s like Facebook’s squandering tens of billions of dollars on the Metaverse even though nobody asked for it or wants it. Ultimately they had to give up on it, and the same thing will happen here.

You know you can still make your point but use the correct terminology

That’s not what a civil war is by definition

You unironically consume and believe the most mind numbingly blatant and low tier propaganda directly from the islamic regime’s asshole, directly contradicting the rest of the world and even Iranians themselves, and I’m the NPC? Boy, your brain is as smooth as a marble.

They’re saying all these things themselves. Is it Zionsit propaganda when the islamic regime is literally telling you these things? Take it from a lemmy moron to simp over an evil tyrannical regime over people rising up to take back their rights, country, and freedom.

It’s a meaningless statement because people are always stupid. You can’t infer anything of value from something like that. When you get opinion shifts in demographics this big, it represents a real world change that’s affecting people’s lives negatively. In this case the piss poor economy is causing people to stress and they’re blaming it on immigrants due to the changing demographics.

I’m not sure what you’re asking for exactly. My point is that the demographics of the country continue shifting every year, and this shift is visible on the ground. A lot of people are viewing this shift as an increase in immigration, even though immigration rates are technically down. If you want numbers, literally any chart that shows UK ethnic and religious demographics over the years will show this to be the case.

Right now, we have nothing. There’s literally zero resistance. Trump is doing whatever he wants with zero obstacles and zero consequences. We have neither peaceful or violent protests in the works. The “peaceful protests” are nothing more a gathering party for people who like to virtue signal, and all the “armed resistance” is too chronically online. I just wish there was at least a sense of urgency among people, but there isn’t. Without a feeling urgency, nobody is willing to go out, connect, organize, and carry out meaningful protests and resistance. It’s baffling to me how after a year of the orange dipshit setting the country and world on fire, people still don’t care.

I get your point, but I don’t think it invalidates mine. The tactics and optics that protests use matter a lot, and subsequent protests should learn from previous attempts what worked and what didn’t. However, we’re not seeing that evolution. It’s the same damn issues every time that lead these protests to fizzle out rather than build to actual change. I firmly believe that this time will be no different, these protests will find ways to devolve into an omnicause protest and fizzle out. Which is unfortunate because if that time and energy was more organized and disciplined, we could have formed genuine resistance to Trump and MAGA

This has been the case for a while now. Nothing here is new, they’re just learning how to use these tools and tactics more effectively now. Privacy died in this country after 9/11

Nothing will come of these protests. They’re all going to be infected with a severe case of the omnicause, and that will cause too much internal division and infighting to actually produce anything.

The one and only time in the past few years where that didn’t happen was during the hands off/no kings protests last year, which is why the turnout was so big. Unfortunately that didn’t last.

If you take a second to think about it, this poll makes sense. Your average Brit is having less kids than immigrants on top of the new immigrant arrivals annually. Every year, the demographics shifts more and more, and therefore it feels like the number of immigrants is growing even when it’s technically not the case.

One of the biggest reasons why I’ve always hated the Guardian is because they always pump these grand sounding articles with very strong slants, but conveniently keep out the most plausible explanations that pushes back against them. When the polling shows that 60-70% of the country think this way, you can no longer just chalk it up to “hurr durr people are dumb”, it clearly signifies something more substantive is happening.

You’re off the deep end. It’s really simple, the Iranian regime is brutal, incompetent, and corrupt and the Iranian people have had enough. If you find yourself simping for a ruthless theocracy over the people fighting for freedom then you need to log off the internet for a while.

This is an excellent write up

I never had a problem expressing my feelings because I am secure in myself. Men who fear showing their emotions tend to be young and insecure. Young men get fed so much bullshit about how they should live their lives and carry themselves from all angles.

You have the “progressive” and feminist types try to shame you for being a man and they try to pretend that it’s some sort of defect to overcome. The “macho” and misogynist types try to convince you that your gender is a point of pride and that you should double down on the stereotypes they approve of. You have the “traditional” types that try to instill the idea that being a man is a like a job with specific roles that you have to fulfill to qualify. There’s many more types, but the point is that you’re getting constantly bombarded by all these nonsensical, contradictory, and misinformed ideas about how you must live your life. It’s not wonder young men are having an identity crises.

In reality, all these people are full of shit. Masculinity is not a role and it’s not a stereotype, it’s a state of being. You’re masculine because you are a man. Everything that you do is masculine because that’s what masculinity is, it’s the behavior of men. You being yourself is masculine. There’s no need to live to some misguided ideal or rigid standard set upon you by others. You’re masculine whether others approve of it or not.

As it happens to be, men are humans, and humans have emotions. It is perfectly natural and healthy for men to express their emotions as they fit. If you’re sad cry, if you’re upset be mad, if you’re filled with joy then be happy, if you’re anxious then be afraid. There’s no shame in expressing yourself or being vulnerable. These are things that make people interesting and deep. If someone takes issue with that then they’re the ones with the problem, not you. If someone can’t handle you for you then they’re not even worth your time. At least that’s how I see things.

Other companies would come in to fill the void and we’ll have new tech giants, if not in the US then elsewhere. The point is nothing will change, these tech giants are what they are today is because they ultimately provides services that a lot of people want to use. I don’t see them going anywhere.

However, for the spirit of your question, if we just remove the corporate world from the internet, the internet will be what it used to be 20-30 years ago. It’ll be largely run by nerds and enthusiasts, and the user base will be a lot smaller and more niche based.

Today my friend’s gf challenged me to an arm wrestling match to prove to her friend that she was as strong as a man now. She’s started doing karate a few months ago and she never stops talking about it. She’s super proud of the results she achieved. Anyway, they asked me because I happened to be closest guy in the friend group to her. I thought it was a joke and so I put out my arm while barely applying any pressure, but she was taking it seriously. She was clenching her teeth and holding her breath, and her face started turning red. I felt nothing… but I felt really bad for her and didn’t want to humiliate her in front of her friend so I pretended to struggle and lost.

It doesn’t matter what style of Marxist ideology is attempted, they will all lead down to the same path of authoritarianism, mismanagement, and corruption. The ideologies and underlying framework are fundamentally flawed.

That being said, I don’t appreciate the false dichotomy. There’s clearly more, and way better options than a corrupt tyrannical leftist state or a corrupt tyrannical right wing state put in by the US. There’s no reason anyone should support either because they’re lesser of evils when there are paths to pick something that’s not evil at all.

Can whatever this is even be called a war?

Read what I said again, you missed the point