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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 hours ago

TBH the difference is surprisingly technical.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"Please come beat them up for us, daddy Trump. Tariff, tariff, it's a tariff!"

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For people not familiar with this, hodl and rebalance (neither early nor late) goes for the non-crisis investments too. The beauty of it is that, inevitably, one of your things is going to preform poorly, and you're guaranteed to buy the dip when that happens. Panic selling is death, it makes you do the opposite.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

I had to look it up, but it sounds like he was a new age/counterculture personality. I don't really see the connection.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Yup. In the last week or two, I managed to snort shampoo. I wasn't trying to get high; I'm just operating at that level of organisation.

I'm not personally a left-wing asshole, although that's more of a show thing than a tell thing. But, I've gotten to know plenty. The point being that thinking Andrew Tate is cool is a very specific kind of dumb and/or mean.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There's green-tea smelling book clubs too if that's more their speed, but a lot of people think raves are fun. Same for the pasties; they're an option, but it sounds like hipsters in a version of full Victorian dress are just as much of a thing. The central fact being that they get a choice.

The various cultures around the world have many, often contradicting versions of traditionalism. My own tells a good story about women having "respect", but it's a version of respect that doesn't require much from men.

Listen to a random country song. There's a party with cheap beer, where the women are just potential bedpost notches, but the protagonist goes to church on Sunday and feigns piousness, so they still get to be One of the Holy Ones™. A girl's dad shows up and defends her "honour", but it's implied he did the exact same shit when he was young, and at no point are her preferences considered at all. The song ends with a thinly veiled plug for the pickup truck company sponsoring the artist.

It's easy to see why dudes who hew to that are just looking for a way to justify how shitty they always were, underneath it all. Because in practice I see that all the time, living where I do.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago

TBF the layout is pretty confusing.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are many different ways to be a stupid asshole, and you can even do it while at the exact opposite end of the political spectrum.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Depends what you mean by "traditional worldview". I'll go ahead and say young earth creationism shows a lack of openness to objective reality when it's not personally convenient.

In the context I mean, what gets justified with tradition is behavior like putting on a fake persona when dating, pushing boundaries, disregarding the rights of strangers around them and generally being an entitled, eventually controlling dickwad. They'll say that's what men have always done, and boys will be boys or whatever, but I'm certain nobody had to "twist their arm".

When I see one of those dudes dragging a girl around, I have to wonder if she's chasing a kink. That's not how you go about it, if so. 50 Shades of Grey was fiction.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 4 days ago (23 children)

Just based on what I see women doing around me all the time, there were probably some warning signs. Looking for a dude that's "traditional" or whatever is asking for a dude that's going to see you like a form of livestock. It's partly a politics thing, but largely an assholes thing.

41% of young men support Tate versus just 12% of young women.

WTF those are both shockingly high.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 days ago

Depends what OP meant by "problems like this". The specific problem in the headline sounds new; teachers were teachers when I was growing up.

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