This is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife. HOW DID I GET HERE!!
Nobody in Canada wants to be called American.
This is a language and continent model issue, the lack of understanding is not in the side of the Americans or the rest of the anglosphere.
I'm 46, I wish I could go to bed at 22 again.
Well I've got bad news for ya, there's nothing any better that's yet been devised.
Human nature is not great, and barring a massive population collapse this is how it's gonna be.
And frankly, it's better then it's ever been in all of human history for those of us in the developed world.
Neither is correlation with atrocities proof of the economic system NOT being ethical or the way we should run society.
The point is correlation is not causation, and in fact we KNOW that capitalism is better then previous systems.
We also know if no other system that works to replace capitalism yet, other then the previous and worse systems.
Not the guy you responded too, but his point is obvious.
The assertion that capitalism is the root cause of the atrocities listed based purely on their existing at the same time is evidence of nothing.
People have always been like this, increases in technology have helped increase mans mistreatment of his fellow man. Economic system be damned, that's not the point.
Or do you think mercantilism or feudalism where actually any better?
So, in a nutshell, the assertion is that gender is entirely nurture and not nature.
Yeah, sorry, that is an extraordinary assertion and I'm going to need extraordinary proof.
Are there people for whom gender and sex don't neatly match up, or even those for whom it is purely performative, sure.
But they are statistical outliers, and not representative of the majority experience.
People can be different then the statistical norm, and that's ok, but to assert that this norm is entirely cultural is over the top self serving.
100000% yes.
Learned this one long ago.
Took years for my wife to understand it.
The cheapness is STRONGER then my ADHD.
Yeah, the "discussions" in the 90s where about normal behavior in the 70s and 80s.
Hell the 80s religious and political scene in America is what inspired A Handmaids Tail.
If 90s shows make you clutch your pearls god help you if you catch something from the 80s or 70s.
Right, but any definition that has those two land masses as a single continent is objectively wrong.
Same with Eurasia being two, just eurocentric quackery.
And anybody getting worked up about Americans calling ourselves Americans are flatly on the wrong side of this.