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  • Which also is a huge thing capitalism feeds

    And you were off to such a good start, too. If only this didn’t predate capitalism by several thousand years :(

    It turns out even in a perfectly egalitarian society people will still compete for mates, and where teaching malea how to compete for mates gets filtered through idiocy, you end up with toxic masculinity.

    Hell, if you’re being totally reductionist (and if you get to be, everyone gets to be), then you’re likely to experience more support for toxic traits in both men and women in an egalitarian society, because social differentiation becomes even more important.


  • strong industrial waste products in their drinking water (turns out the crap they put in the drinking water was poisoning the land when they dumped it in the rivers, and has been pretty convincingly linked to ovarian cysts and low testosterone while doing nothing for our teeth

    Chemicals in the water turning frogs gay lmao




  • SCB@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHow about that?
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    So first off, I live in a rural suburb not unlike her district, and my wife is from a town of 300 people. I used to live in Eastern Kentucky. I am not belittling rural people or rural living. However, ask people from there and they’ll say, “small town in the middle of nowhere.”

    I’m sorry, but I do not believe rural people getting “steamrolled” because there are fewer of them is a bad thing. Quite the opposite. Your town has infrastructure challenges, so who do they elect? Someone who fights against improving their own area

    A tyranny of the majority is infinitely preferable to a tyranny of the minority.


  • SCB@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHow about that?
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    The people of this region still vote and the way our government is set up means large cities don’t get to dictate everything

    Quite the opposite. Pockets of people from nowhere have outsized control over our federal government. This isn’t a constitutional issue either, but an agreement Congress made to stop apportionment.

    We broke our government and we should fix it.






  • SCB@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlbit of a hot take
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    You’re just as disaffected as everyone else and the day you realize it’s because the system you’re defending is the problem is the day everything will make sense to you

    I’m not stuck in here with you. You’re stuck in here with me.