The Hunted Is Now The Hunter

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Gadianton wrote:
Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:15 pm
Much better. You've gone from 100% suspected A.I. to 16.86%. Even if it took you three weeks to compose the rest on your own, it reads pretty well.

The part about large-brimmed hats is confusing, as it brings to mind those oversized red hats you folks wear.

I urge caution when applauding the lack of sympathetic emotion from an individual who has been taking Adderall for over half his life.

Your observation about young men is correct. They do seem to be drawn to Trump for his "strength". But that is not because they are strong, it's because they are weak. Do you disagree? Do you think today's young men are independent farm-ready tough guys?

Nick Fuentes, one of the most popular influencers among young men, is ~25 years old and claims to be a virgin. His claim is quite believable. In fact, the reason why so many young men lean to Trump is because they can't get laid. They shed tears often for themselves, they abhor their weakness, and so they look for easy answers from an array of far-right social media personalities who are anywhere from incel neo-Nazis to more traditional tough-guy MMA figures, to wealthy businessmen.

The fact that a whole generation of young right-wingers can't get laid (vs. the older ones who apparently do pretty well with the 'young' ones of their Christian congregations) isn't really their fault. 1) they were raised on video games and total access to porn. Whatever hits their brain chemicals provide them have come too easily, and despite strong abstract problem solving abilities (which video games are good for), they can't do much else. 2) economic challenges due in part but not entirely to the policies of right-wing politicians that they haplessly support. This is in addition to having had the "ideal" childhood of easy and infinite entertainment options, which makes hard work and uncertainty difficult. 3) The rise of options for women. It used to be that men used women for sex and women used men for things. Now that women can get things directly, what use are men? Women are the more stable sex within a capitalist meritocracy that has moved past the stage where most of the work is done by brute strength.

Right-wing politics isn't going to solve any of these issues for young men. Left wing politics won't either, but right-wing politics will exasperate them faster. Whether that's a bad thing for them remains to be seen. One option is, of course, they will realize that right-wing politics is only making their lives worse, panic, and try something else. Biden still has the most votes in history. Another option is they will double down: ruining the lives of others such as with "mass deportations" may make them feel better about their own suffering.
You are completely overlooking the key reason why men, particularly young male voters, are choosing to support Republicans. The Democratic party, guided by progressive ideals, believed that the most effective way to empower women and achieve equality with men was to criticize male masculinity and portray men negatively. They effectively silenced a significant portion of the population, asserting that all the world's issues stem from men.

Men are increasingly weary of being portrayed as the villains of society by progressives, and they are beginning to assert their masculinity and male identity. Progressive scare tactics are losing their effectiveness, and men are responding by taking action, particularly by casting their votes for the Republican party. All men, not only white men, are gravitating towards the Republicans.

Are you aware that a key principle of the progressive movement is to persuade women that they can thrive independently of men? The efforts of progressives to persuade women that they can thrive without a man are not only misguided, but also resemble cult-like strategies aimed at leading women to believe that the government is the sole source of happiness and fulfillment in their lives.
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Young men will be chomping at the bit to go die in a Middle Eastern desert because we were dragged into another war that Donald Trump was too weak to prevent.
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Hound of Heaven wrote:
Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:01 am
You are completely overlooking the key reason why men, particularly young male voters, are choosing to support Republicans.
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Hound of Heaven wrote:
Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:01 am
You are completely overlooking the key reason why men, particularly young male voters, are choosing to support Republicans. The Democratic party, guided by progressive ideals, believed that the most effective way to empower women and achieve equality with men was to criticize male masculinity and portray men negatively. They effectively silenced a significant portion of the population, asserting that all the world's issues stem from men.

Men are increasingly weary of being portrayed as the villains of society by progressives, and they are beginning to assert their masculinity and male identity. Progressive scare tactics are losing their effectiveness, and men are responding by taking action, particularly by casting their votes for the Republican party. All men, not only white men, are gravitating towards the Republicans.

Are you aware that a key principle of the progressive movement is to persuade women that they can thrive independently of men? The efforts of progressives to persuade women that they can thrive without a man are not only misguided, but also resemble cult-like strategies aimed at leading women to believe that the government is the sole source of happiness and fulfillment in their lives.
Do you have a woman?

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:27 pm
Hound of Heaven wrote:
Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:01 am
Are you aware that a key principle of the progressive movement is to persuade women that they can thrive independently of men? The efforts of progressives to persuade women that they can thrive without a man are not only misguided, but also resemble cult-like strategies aimed at leading women to believe that the government is the sole source of happiness and fulfillment in their lives.
Do you have a woman?

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It’s as if he’s proudly advocating for a Republican Party that identifies itself as victims, incels or butthurt snowflakes.
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:27 pm
Hound of Heaven wrote:
Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:01 am
You are completely overlooking the key reason why men, particularly young male voters, are choosing to support Republicans. The Democratic party, guided by progressive ideals, believed that the most effective way to empower women and achieve equality with men was to criticize male masculinity and portray men negatively. They effectively silenced a significant portion of the population, asserting that all the world's issues stem from men.

Men are increasingly weary of being portrayed as the villains of society by progressives, and they are beginning to assert their masculinity and male identity. Progressive scare tactics are losing their effectiveness, and men are responding by taking action, particularly by casting their votes for the Republican party. All men, not only white men, are gravitating towards the Republicans.

Are you aware that a key principle of the progressive movement is to persuade women that they can thrive independently of men? The efforts of progressives to persuade women that they can thrive without a man are not only misguided, but also resemble cult-like strategies aimed at leading women to believe that the government is the sole source of happiness and fulfillment in their lives.
Do you have a woman?

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How do you define a woman? It seems that many contributors on this board struggle to articulate the definition of a woman. Perhaps it would be beneficial for someone to clarify that before I respond to your question.
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Hound of Heaven wrote:
Mon Jun 23, 2025 1:54 pm
How do you define a woman? It seems that many contributors on this board struggle to articulate the definition of a woman. Perhaps it would be beneficial for someone to clarify that before I respond to your question.
Apparently, you are unable to do so?
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democrat...was to criticize male masculinity and portray men negatively
okay.
to persuade women that they can thrive independently of men
Women can thrive independently of men, they don't need to be told that by anybody. I mentioned this as a key problem to why young men can't get laid, and are therefore drawn to revenge heroes.

Hey, remember that trad wife who made the news a while back for using a certain word repeatedly on TikTok (I think) and talked about the kind of white man she needed to protect her with a gun?

How old is she and how many kids does she have?

Case in point.
We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have. They get rid of some of the people who have been there for 25 years and they work great and then you throw them out and they're replaced by criminals.
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Canpakes wrote:Apparently, you are unable to do so?
Correct. Hound is in a classic fork. If he insists on biology as the definition, then cultural norms and gender roles are open to either sex. And if liberal men such as myself are suggested to be less man than conservatives who wear beards and shoot guns, then the role of assigned sex at birth is diminished. I've only known a couple of trans people in real life, and in both cases, they were stereotypes of the gender they identified as.
We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have. They get rid of some of the people who have been there for 25 years and they work great and then you throw them out and they're replaced by criminals.
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