why is this forum so dead?

wecandobetter · 2021-07-01T15:29:43+00:00

Hasn't hit the critical amount of usage. Most content is in opposition to reddit instead of anything more genuinely interesting. Recreating reddit is not easy.

wecandobetter · 2021-04-23T21:21:38+00:00

No, the creator never recanted her TiM handmaidening, just expressed frustration with how disingenuously she and her product were attacked.

wecandobetter · 2021-04-19T20:08:10+00:00

The giggle app sucks, and the facial recognition thingy is pretty trash anyhow. Also the app creator had no problem letting in TiMs, they'd just have to message her and ask. But no surprise it stirred a massive amount of shit.

wecandobetter · 2021-04-15T22:45:02+00:00

I actually prefer this. You can opt out of man or woman but into into them.

wecandobetter · 2021-04-15T22:43:29+00:00

I almost blacked out at the Mom Life hat. Fucking asshole. Every other post is literally 'tell me I'm pretttyyyy' too.

wecandobetter · 2021-04-15T22:40:15+00:00

Wow that sub has gotten weird.

wecandobetter · 2021-04-06T02:49:19+00:00

Omg I forgot you guys were here too lol

wecandobetter · 2021-03-12T20:05:42+00:00

Huxley really nailed it didn't he

wecandobetter · 2021-01-25T02:28:27+00:00

Predicted something as extreme or worse than the Patriot Act would result from this

wecandobetter · 2021-01-23T16:35:38+00:00

I thought you were talking about trans people lol. How did we arrive at homophobia? Nevermind. I know there's no changing your mind.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-23T16:34:20+00:00

If if if if when maybe intangible benefits blah blah blah

wecandobetter · 2021-01-23T16:33:16+00:00

I hope we see more from Tulsi Gabbard. I've come to respect her a lot.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-23T00:54:21+00:00

Yes we've all heard the argument. But that's not how people operate. I agree the entire society should pay for education, because we live here and want society to work. HOWEVER, those USING the services actively should at the very least not be paying far LESS than those who don't. If you want people to support social programs, they need to feel a chance to directly benefit from them...or at least not feel like their eyeballs are getting fucked out.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-23T00:49:07+00:00

Listen, I'm pro-trans in the sense that I support every single human being's unalienable right to be free from violence, from religious or political persecution, from discriminatory hiring practices or barring from education, public services, etc. You know, rights. I do not see it as their right to have 99% of the population cater to their mental illness by pretending that a transwoman is literally, in every meaningful sense, a woman. Sports are divided along dimorphic sexual lines FOR A REASON. And the trans activists have glommed on to people with genetic hormone disorders to argue that 'well because Caster Semenya's case is genuinely complicated, all the rest of us should get to compete in women's sports too!". Fuck off. Also I believe Caster Semenya was banned from several female track competition events.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-23T00:40:03+00:00

Yeah I think everyone is kind of looking out the window, realizing there's literally no one representing a majority of our interests, and regrouping. It's not going to be more the same old going forward.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-22T19:32:11+00:00

Agreeeeeeed. Why should a family benefit more from services, yet pay less taxes at the same time?? No wonder the US public mostly hates new social benefits programs - the average income earner knows damn well that they'll never receive any benefit from it themselves.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-22T19:30:59+00:00

Doesn't this just prove that the correlations between Childfree and most of the things you listed there are pretty low?

wecandobetter · 2021-01-22T19:22:52+00:00

The ultra-rare genetic defect of true genital hermaphroditism does not negate the fact that homo sapien is a binary-sex species. The statistic is thrown around a lot that intersex conditions are as common as redheads....but that's only true if you include the 99.9% of people who still have fully functional sexed genitalia and secondary sex characteristics, just have some minor differenced hormone sensitivity. So in other words, it's bullshit.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-22T19:18:07+00:00

I don't think very many women on Gendercritical have voted DFL in an election cycle or two.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-22T19:16:48+00:00

Personal attack is quite low on the pyramid of debate, and is widely regarded a 'point lost' in internet argument rules.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-21T23:55:49+00:00

Thanks for the sub recommendations, and pointing me to some fledgling 3rd parties. I'll check them out.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-21T21:31:33+00:00

I'll try to explain it simply (I know you Brits think all us Americans are just too stupid to live, but here we go anyway) - Since the early 2000s, Congress and the Senate have been effectively dead as legislative bodies. Laws are made by EO, then the popular ones are codified and the ones too hot to handle get repealed when the government changes hands. An EO will be law for at least 4 if not 8 years. That's long enough for a new rule to shift the very structure of society. A generation can reach adulthood remembering no time when it wasn't the norm. Can it be undone? Yes. Is it stupid to act like it's a big deal? No no no no.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-21T17:32:22+00:00

So many of us feel the same. So what do we do now?

wecandobetter · 2021-01-21T17:32:00+00:00

Sane

wecandobetter · 2021-01-21T17:13:32+00:00

Go on, keep that head firmly planted up your ass so you can continue to support these people if you want. Myself, I'm going to start working for plan B

wecandobetter · 2021-01-21T16:53:57+00:00

I guess I'm the most mild of optimists. I realize this is a dark moment, but people lived through the entire rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Nothing doesn't change. Keep the faith.

wecandobetter · 2021-01-13T00:52:07+00:00

Yet here we are

wecandobetter · 2021-01-08T00:31:55+00:00

wecandobetter · 2020-12-26T16:39:20+00:00

It seems like more events are coming.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-15T16:02:09+00:00

You're delusional, and running off hindsight. The quarantines. Didn't. Work. The shit came roaring back the moment things lifted and the weather got cold. This is not unique to the united state. Look at Germany, look at France, look at Holland and Belgium and the UK. The GOP didn't set out to kill small businesses...the only ones agitating for business closures and lockdowns were DUMBOCRATS (since we're using stupid childish slurs). The economy is shit due to a bunch of power tripping idiots doing irrational things for irrational reasons. I know it's nice to think that all this could have been magicked away by more control, but it couldn't. It could have been less damaging than it was however. The only people interested in tanking the economy was the crew interested in defeating Trump.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-15T03:13:40+00:00

The suffering to small businesses is being imposed by the government - not by some existential threat to the very life of the vast, VAST majority of all human beings. With a fatality per case % approaching regular flu levels, the justification is looking shakier by the day to keep the working age population caged like animals while their businesses fail and future collapses. The myopic fear will be killing people via drugs and suicide for a decade or more to come. 67000 mostly young what should be healthy people died of ODs in 2018 before all this crap started. But nooooo lets double that number so the 85 year olds can have one more year of sucking wind. Yes, THATS the unselfish moral thing to do.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-12T17:08:52+00:00

I will agree with the idiocy of politicizing. But, it was the most emotionally charged election year of all time so I don't know what to tell you there. And in response to your 'freedumb' comment I'll say only...SK and Germany already had cultures emphasizing submission to authority and lower individualism. This allowed SK, for example, to implement an incredibly invasive track and trace system. The USA does not have that kind of culture, and that isn't something you can just flip a switch on overnight. The EU in general really hasn't faired very well, even Germany is now up to double their spring case/death load. Please spare me about the masks. Outside surgical/healthcare settings, evidence for their population wide efficacy is shaky at best.

And as for Sweden, if you would scrutinize the data from the website you yourself referenced, Sweden's current fatality/case rate is ~0.9%. The goal should not be to entirely eliminate Covid, but to reach the point where it's no more ominous than the regular flu. In sweden, it's about at that point. Also, Sweden is sitting prettier in their deaths/million numbers than countries that had harsh lockdown measures. Seems a bit random doesn't it.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-11T17:12:54+00:00

It's a fairy tale that in any reality the USA could have controlled the spread as well as NZ (a tiny, geographically isolated floating fortress). Could things have gone better? Sure. But arguably the country we should have copied is not NZ, but rather Sweden.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-10T17:38:25+00:00

Strangely not. They have less flu but far, far more restrictions on business and gathering. So while the flu is impacting basically no one, their policies to mitigate it are devastating just about everyone.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-09T16:15:15+00:00

He's the cartoonist who drew this originally, and a flaming liberal. His stuff is funny, no doubt, but also he would hate this place and everything it stands for.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-09T16:14:30+00:00

It's hard to pin down trends over time, but this article points to some telling statistics. Lesbians are only 16% of all self-ID'd LGBTQA+GHJHLASFHLSA, and of those, 69% of them are over the age of 40. This suggests a decrease in younger lesbians 'coming on-line'. Young women who might have used to ID as lesbian are now more likely to call themselves bisexual or queer or genderfluid or whatever. Being 'lesbian' just isn't cool anymore (not that it ever really was). Most trans are male-to-female, but the rate of female-to-male has been exploding of late, to the point where even the mainstream media has somewhat picked up on it. There are a lot of reasons for this, mostly having to do with confused teenage girls spending too much time on the internet watching yaoi porn and fetishizing gay male relationships. Women in anime/porn, on the other hand, are treated...not very well. So the aforementioned teenage girl is repulsed from the idea of womanhood. Plus the whole gender/sex dialogue has gotten so fucking stupid, any girl who leans toward 'butchness' gets told she must just be a 'man inside'.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T23:02:30+00:00

Quite the opposite actually. There's almost no lesbians left in the country. Just a rising tide of teenage girls lopping their tits off to become 'men' and "non-binaries".

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T23:01:04+00:00

All over a slightly severe flu

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T22:39:20+00:00

Does it begin with C and end in CP?

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T22:37:21+00:00

Adamtots would hate this being here. Nice work.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T22:36:22+00:00

I downloaded it after the 1st kerfluffle. It was honestly pretty garbage, all things considered. Uninstalled for that reason.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T22:34:30+00:00

The wheels of competitive degeneracy thunder onwards I see.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T18:58:44+00:00

Why did this person dress up as Gibli Studio character?

wecandobetter · 2020-12-08T18:43:40+00:00

It's hilarious how pearl-clutchy these idiots are that simply getting rid of voices you don't like on the major platforms didn't put an end to those voices existing. "Now they're OUT THERE, in the WILD, beyond our censorship and CONTROL. Turns out some of those fucking uppity bitches are PROGRAMMERS. Panic, everyone, PANIC." The_donald migrating to its own site got a full-blown coverpage in Vice a while back. I'm slightly proud that Ovarit managed to draw the same level of hysteria.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-02T03:15:09+00:00

derppppppp

wecandobetter · 2020-12-02T01:30:07+00:00

She's trying to outwoke her current 'canceling' since it came out that she's a raging asshole who treats her guests and staff like crap. Now she changes nothing and saves her career.

wecandobetter · 2020-12-02T01:27:08+00:00

Honestly? You're welcome here with us older straight tomgirls. We're the only ones left, and they mainly leave us alone since we at least still like dick. Hugs, friend.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-27T22:47:30+00:00

You mean to tell me that groups that don't act as a collective to preserve and promote the interests of the group get outcompeted by those that do and eventually cease to exist? ASTONISHING.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-25T19:37:21+00:00

Wtf are you on about?? Australia was back in lockdown not even 5 minutes ago, and you're holding up the CARIBBEAN as a model of accurate reporting or relevancy?? THEY GET TO LIVE OUTSIDE YEAR ROUND. THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE A FLU SEASON.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-25T19:35:54+00:00

...you don't even know about the Denmark study, do you?

wecandobetter · 2020-11-25T19:34:49+00:00

Oh so only medical experts are allowed to have opinions? Then what exactly are your credentials?

wecandobetter · 2020-11-25T19:32:13+00:00

I never said it wasn't 'real'. I said the threat of it has been exaggerated beyond all rational proportion.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-23T19:46:21+00:00

Bioholes. Charming.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-23T01:42:38+00:00

The numbers do not bear out your conclusion regionally. It got worse in the SOUTH, where its disgustingly hot and everyone stays indoors in AC. According to the beloved media, riots do not spread covid 19 (through magic) and barbecues in summer are not high risk activities. Look at MN, WI, or MI over the summer months and then contrast that with the beginning of the school year.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-23T01:40:30+00:00

Assumptions assumptions. They don't make you right, they just make you sound stupid.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-22T03:59:50+00:00

Yew. A million times yes.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-21T22:45:10+00:00

There is never going to be enough 'compliance' to prevent spread meaningfully. So stop yelling at 'babies'. It went away in the summer, not because of masks/social distancing, but because activities could be kept outside. Now we're inside, and predictably, spreading more germs.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-21T22:37:56+00:00

Ya know for most people it's just a flu. Most people get flu annually. With all the lockdown and sanitizing, this is the longest I've made it in a year without so much as a sniffle, which is nice, but being sick for a week is not actually the end of the world.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-19T15:51:41+00:00

Hahaha that doesn't look anything like a penis. Wow.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-18T18:37:30+00:00

By doing what - sitting in your living room being grumpy about it?

wecandobetter · 2020-11-17T03:10:47+00:00

I'll agree the makeup forums were mischaracterized, and that was not intentional. I do not however apologize for 'body shaming' AGPs loudly larping as women. I'm also going to point out the hypocrisy: this exact sub is none of those things listed, yet has historically been effectively off limits to men. Ovarit is even more off limits. Tightly censored and policed. Why? We all know why.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-17T02:30:17+00:00

My favorite was how he spent nearly a year paying a model to pretend to be his boyfriend, and then had a meltdown when that model went public with dating an actual human female and took to youtube calling Nikita a liar, revealing the 'relationship' was all just a financial transaction.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-17T02:21:29+00:00

I see how your experience is informing your view. And I have nothing at all against men using/being involved in makeup. Note, this post isn't complaining about drag queens, gays, or even just the ultra-rare but not nonexistent makeup experimenting straight dude, and I'm sorry you interpreted it that way. My problem is with TIMs who go out of their way to find a spot where a lot of women are hanging out, and then insist that those women drop what they're doing and cater to them them them. Teach me makeup, rate my look, tell me I'm pretty me me me.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-16T22:10:56+00:00

The industry, like most things, is built and controlled by men. The subreddits and FB groups that discuss the actual application and products, however, are probably 99% female.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-16T22:09:43+00:00

It's obviously not only for women. But the overwhelming majority of users/followers of makeup related pages are women. Which is why the TIMs are bleating for attention there.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-16T17:11:08+00:00

Not true. I regularly fight with morons that think all world events are jewish conspiracies on here. And we can't do anything about each other. It's perfect.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-16T16:59:47+00:00

If you want some old-fashioned, non-cringey makeup personalities, Robert Welsh and RawBeautyKristi are about the only two worth following on Youtube. The rest of them I can't stand.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-15T21:52:16+00:00

....no you fucking moron. Lab grown just means the crystal was grown under ideal, sped up conditions as opposed to slowly in the ground. Same exact chemical composition and structure, but typically higher clarity and fewer flaws. So objectively better in pretty much every way.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-15T21:47:38+00:00

Whenever a politician or billionaire starts a 'foundation' you can pretty much rest assured that its merely a tax shield/way to hand out money via fake jobs to buddies, not a legitimate charity.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-13T15:47:52+00:00

Also they're the ones throwing fits over female labeling on Tampon boxes. Bunch of brats.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-13T15:46:11+00:00

^This a million times, with more and more extreme and self destructive hedonistic habits attending it

wecandobetter · 2020-11-13T15:39:06+00:00

You Jew-conspiracists are incredible

wecandobetter · 2020-11-13T04:01:40+00:00

No it's not. It's classism disguised as racism.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-13T04:00:35+00:00

Shut the fuck up. Don't even say it. This isn't a game. Blood would run. Precious wilderness be destroyed, irrevocably. The banner-carrier of western thought extinguished. Over what? Slightly higher taxes? Settle it at the voting booths and in the courts. Shut the FUCK UP with this childish play-tend revolutionary bullshit.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-12T19:14:26+00:00

Examine what this actually is - teenage females finding out they're turned on by physically beautiful young males. How kinky! How unusual! ...............no. It's heterosexuality. There's hardly been a female teenager born on earth that wasn't into boy bands or kid actors. That's ALL. But because these porny relationships are presented exclusively as male-male, they think THEY need to be male to have these loving egalitarian relationships. The only male-female relationships they see in anime/porn are the kind where the female is presented as a doll/toy/object of torture/humiliation/domination. Which one would you, as a scared teen, gravitate towards?? Obviously the sexual dynamic that involves less anal rape.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-12T19:10:18+00:00

LMAO what the hell are these mental gymnastics?? "Most females discover they are attracted to males sexually during puberty" should be the title of this post. So many unnecessary steps to arrive back at regular old run of the mill heterosexuality. My god.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-12T19:05:35+00:00

So he's basically the village idiot of saidit and we've just gotta warn the younglings not to listen to crazy ol' Chipit.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-12T16:09:18+00:00

Welcome!

wecandobetter · 2020-11-11T15:09:23+00:00

Good. Let the TIMs win at allll the sexual objectification contests. Let them work in porn, and be the object of creepy male fetish. May all the men in the world has a wonderful time banging each other and leave us the hell alone.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-11T15:06:11+00:00

Right. It's like "I'll give 50 bucks to the first moron that can show me where Jamaica is on a map".

wecandobetter · 2020-11-10T17:43:53+00:00

This is the one conspiracy theory I actually believe. The timing of it all was just too suspicious, and the fact that they overreacted so badly had the effect of scaring the piss out of everyone....then it just vanished for them. Right, sure.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-09T20:09:23+00:00

Harvard Med is getting epically roasted for this and I love it

wecandobetter · 2020-11-09T20:08:48+00:00

Yes that's more accurate

wecandobetter · 2020-11-09T15:43:36+00:00

It's not one or the other.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-09T15:40:50+00:00

Kamala isn't even black by black standards.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-09T15:33:21+00:00

They're getting dragged to shit though.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-07T22:47:38+00:00

But they're on Biden's team...they have no reason to lie about it. In fact, they would seize on the slightest instance of voter intimidation by Trump voters and exaggerate it if it were happening - which it is not.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-06T22:40:18+00:00

Massive citation needed on that first point, bud. There have been isolated accounts of people at polling stations bearing arms. This does not systemic intimidation make. In fact, NPR was reporting on election day that despite fears, they were NOT seeing any evidence of voter intimidation or violent conflict nationwide.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-06T22:33:03+00:00

Well that's certainly true. Can't argue that last point.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-06T17:38:04+00:00

That's probably the right answer. I was thinking about that the other day. Companies keep moving manufacturing from cheap shithole to cheap shithole, moving on whenever labor costs start rising. But they're running out of shitholes. The end-state of globalization, unchecked, would be a world-wide equalizing of wealth and labor-leverage. Wealthier people demand things like clean air and water and nature parks and fewer 8-limbed babies. They can't have that. So they have to somehow artificially freeze certain areas in filthy cheapness, bake in a permanent underclass if you will.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-06T14:42:08+00:00

You have no evidence about what kind of politician Biden is? Really? REALLY?

wecandobetter · 2020-11-06T00:56:53+00:00

No, that's an actual evidence-based opinion unlike your forward looking conjecture. Trump's policies were good, even if his personality is repugnant.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-05T22:57:31+00:00

XD yes. Awesome.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-05T22:25:18+00:00

As if Biden, a 77 yr old career politician multi millionaire gives a flying fuck about climate change anyway.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-05T22:21:52+00:00

You're still very much ignoring u/StillLessons excellent point - which is that if you look at what Democrats do, not what they say they'll do, they are either horribly ineffective or else they're liars, and all the years of Clinton and Obama didn't look a wit different from the Bush years in terms of war, decline in economic mobility, decline in civic institutions, and general undermining/malaise in the working class. Joe has no fucking brilliant new ideas....he's a relic of the old machinery. He has nearly 50 years of politics behind him showing what he is and what he does, and dude, he can not and will not deliver any of those vaguely nice sounding things.

wecandobetter · 2020-11-05T22:15:47+00:00

This is the intelligent, non-ignorant-child analysis of the 'tax the rich' issue

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