If we didn't signal our virtues, nothing would ever happen.
People MUST speak their feelings about things or the very worst things go unchallenged.
What you meant to say is "Let's not make me cringe by making me think about things that have deeply divisive social consequences in either one direction or another, yet I keep getting bombarded with messages that I need to take a side on this issue, why can't I just play video games in peace."
I'm trying to make things easier for my own FBI agent, we've been through a lot together.
It's because a lot of his base are people who just say shit, and some of the shit they just say is "I will leave the country if [fill in the blank] happens!" even though they rarely ever follow through on this promise, and when they do, it's gloriously disastrous.
Trump is very good at that act of mimicry that you do to engrain yourself on someone, he has figured out how to mirror the way that America's dumbest and most reactionary people talk and act, and for that they fucking adore him. Let's remember was not elected despite his flaws and despicable personality, he was elected because of those things.
Let's just choose our words carefully for now or the people with the money will get spooked and pay the people with the missiles to start blowing things up.
This is but one of many reasons why people should (have) cared more about net neutrality and the abilities companies have to reduce the internet to a giant advertising platform without limits on how they can shuffle your personal info around.
If we had greater protections for personal data, we wouldn't have an entire internet that's now essentially a series of scams and grifts to keep you clicking.
When you live in that kind of mentality, only shitty people hang out with you anymore, and shitty people tend to have shitty relationships if any, reinforcing each other's attitudes about women and relationships and forming larger and larger communities of like-minded individuals, and then BAM next thing you know Jordan Peterson becomes a best-selling author.
Crush corporations, swiftly and without fanfare rebuild capitalism with worker co-ops, seize the means of production without all that stagnation and failure that usually follows.
A mistake many men make before going into a serious relationship is they think avoiding conflict and avoiding arguments should be their goal for both finding a partner and sustaining a relationship with them.
The whole idea of committing to someone long-term is that you want to pick someone who can share your life, that means you need someone whom you feel safe enough with that you can talk about or argue about the most personal of topics. You can disagree with each other and still be safe. A good relationship lets you be vulnerable with someone else and gives you a place where you can both let down your masks and be honest, and this often takes the form of emotional efforts to understand each other.
But where we're at now is a rapid backslide from that ideal image of relationships. We have people retreating to social media and bubble-worlds online where you can get your every terrible idea validated and your every insecurity defended. Where if you don't like how someone makes you feel, you can just click them away or call for mods. With men in these spaces, their attitude about women who disagree with them is less than charitable, to say the least.
When you spend time in that kind of environment and then go into a relationship with another person, you won't have emotional growth, it will be worse than if you were just a blank-slate. These forums and sites create bad mental habits. In self-defense I taught people for many years "It takes five minutes to take on a bad habit, and five years to get rid of it."
We are sponges for ideas and feelings of others, if you fill that sponge with angry men lashing out at the world and ranting about their own fantasies and validations, you're not going to be ready to have a real, intimate connection with another person.
They love weird insults that only make sense to them. Like "cuck."
There are millions of conservative men that find this deeply insulting, they hear the word and every nerve in their body lights up at the very idea of cuckolding. They sling the insult at other men expecting it to connect the same way and become enraged when they are met with smirking and chuckling and quizzical expressions.
They invented this insult at about the same time that cuckold fetish porn was lighting up and trending hard. We don't need to do TOO much math here to connect the ends of this soggy, frayed rope.
As I've said elsewhere here, the root of fascism always has been and always will be about sexual insecurity and the combination fear/arousal dichotomy that deeply repressed men have about their kinks. They will allow the world to burn and millions of lives extinguished just to preserve the narrative that they're "normal" while at the same time beating off like wild animals to the fantasy of swarthy, masculine, dark-skinned gentleman having sex with their wives or girlfriends.
In the words of the greatest treatise on political philosophy of our time, Disco Elysium, the entirety of Fascism boils down to "putting women in their place."
Everything else is just garnish and dressing to get to this one, fundamental idea, which is "women are scary" and need to be controlled in some way.
They will burn the world down and spark world wars that take millions of lives just to commit to the bit, but really it was always about just a deep sense of personal, subjective sexual insecurity.
There's a reason why so many incels and their ilk online identify as nazis and fascists. They are the same movement.
"This is totally normal, despite the fact that leftists and democratic voters generally don't do anything like this and aren't even offended."
And lets not even start about the state of seeing either specialists or especially mental healthcare.
Brain is acting funny and flooding you with feel-bad chemicals every day and it's impacting your life to the degree that some days you don't even want to live in a constant state of despair for no reason? "Sorry, that will be three months to see a psychiatrist, try thinking positive and taking walks!"