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Brisketexan

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  1. I mean.....SIGH. It's okay to have some retrograde fantasies, fellas....right? Help me out here. And this, I would agree with. "We thought we'd get to start every inning on 3rd base, or at least second, and now, we actually have to step up to the plate and bat - THAT'S NOT FAIR" is closer to the dynamic we're dealing with. And I get why you don't like being without the inherent, unearned advantages you thought you were entitled to, but here's the thing.....you weren't actually entitled to them. Getting white males to swallow the truth pill of "you shouldn't have been, and aren't, entitled to anything other than the same opportunities as everyone else" is one of the challenges of our times. It's not going well for us.
  2. But YOU are missing the point. Today's white males do not "have it worse than everyone else." Instead....they have just as average/shitty a lot in life as everyone else (even that's not true. Come on, it's still better to be a white dude than a black dude, we all know it). What they have lost is SOME of the unfair advantage their predecessors had. They do not want a "fair shake." They want to get back the unfair advantage their predecessors had. Now, if your point is instead "now that we see that in a more egalitarian society, white males also get fucked, because everyone is getting fucked, and we should do something about everyone getting fucked," I'd agree with that. But I'll also observe that a material chunk of young white men is not interested in the "do something about everyone getting fucked" path. Instead, they choose the lazy, convenient path of punching down and blaming women and minorities for taking....some of the unfair advantage away.
  3. You can do one of three things with that group of humans: 1) Realize they are part of society, and help build a system for all (which is why I've asked the question repeatedly over the years) 2) Exterminate them (the Nazis liked this one) 3) Weaponize them as foot soldiers to serve the oligarch class (that's the path we've chosen here....but if they're brown and such, we've chosen a bit of option 2 as well)
  4. On this you and I agree. Parenting boys these days means helping them OVERCOME the structural failures of society that disfavor them. It's not the solution, it's the thing that can help some boys overcome those social failings. I don't put it all on "we let women compete, and it turns out, they kick our asses" - it's more than that. But the bottom line is that society has changed in myriad ways the last 50 years that are NOT good for men: (1) our educational systems are even more poorly designed for them, (2) physical/manual/factory labor opportunities have plummeted (3) better-educated women have better options than "I gotta marry a guy, even a loser, if I want to have a home and food on the table," and a dozen more social changes that hurt mediocre white guys. I've often asked the callous question of "what are we gonna do with all our morons?", but it's a genuine question asked in hyperbolic terms. It used to be that a mediocre dude could get a good job at the auto plant, marry a gal who was happy to be a part of that life, and have a good and fulfilling life. Those opportunities are dwindling, and fast. Everyone should have a life of basic security and dignity (or at least a really good opportunity for that), if we are to have a functioning society. They do not. And instead of spending an ounce of energy at addressing these massive structural challenges.....we allow the oligarchs to pit everyone against each other. And the author of this piece is a happy and willing accessory to that counter-productive bullshit.
  5. Yeah....definitely drawing on my own experience of realizing that the girls were studious and could actually pay attention to and advance their studies, whereas Brisket (who was actually a pretty smart guy) was busy laughing at farts with his buddies and thinking about the boobs of every one of those girls in class. "Academic focus" wasn't something my dumb ass brought to the table in spades. And my dumbass buddies seemed to be in the same boat. We need systems that account for young male development timelines and are aimed to help men grow and achieve -- socially, professionally, etc. -- along those timelines.
  6. More than anything else, it's this. It's cowardice ingrained as a result of a sheltered existence. We don't know how to fail/suffer rejection anymore. You only succeed....after you've failed. Often after you've failed a LOT. I distinctly remember the mental epiphany of "wait....right now, she's not going out with me. If I go up to her and flirt and ask her out and she says no....she's still not going out with me. I've lost absolutely nothing." Which led me to swing the bat, plenty. And the cool thing is, you only care about the hits. Nobody is counting the strikeouts, they don't fucking matter. Their are 3.5 billion women in the world. All but a dozen or so have never hooked up with me, and never will. Yet I'm still winning. Pretty awesome when you realize that's how shit works. And this. Truly, it's interesting listening to my son talk about his peer group, and how the dynamics break down. He has nothing but disdain for the socially stunted losers who just retreated into video games and porn and don't understand why women don't want to get with their socially stunted slightly smelly selves. As he puts it, "it takes so little damned effort. Take a little bit of care of yourself, put yourself out there, and talk with women like they are human beings." That's it. And I remember figuring various elements of that out at his age as well, as I assume most of us did. Is this sort of convention helpful? The sad thing is, it may be. Truly, an experience with an escort, who can actually guide a naive man a little bit into knowing what women respond to positively, really might help some of these guys. I dunno. At this point, a dude in his 30s who's never touched a boob needs some pretty serious measures to get him on track.
  7. This. This is the takeaway. It is the accurate and correct takeaway. The best way that you can tell that white men are being discriminated against is that they are no longer disproportionately dominating various fields and professions. Not "they are not getting opportunities that match their percentage of the population," but rather "they don't have a 10-30 percentage point leg up like they used to." And absolutely this. Do you want to hear me say "white men in our society are fucked and are being fucked?" Because here I am, saying just that. I've been concerned about our young men, definitely including our young white men, for some time. Shit, old-timers here will recall our family alarm bells going off 15+ years ago when my son was in first grade, and we realized that the current educational structures are just poorly suited for how boys are and how they think. We corrected previous biases, and have set up an educational system that's closer to a level playing field for males and females. And, it turns out, on a level playing field....females regularly outcompete males. Girls are better at school (as currently designed), to put it succinctly. They start pulling ahead at a young age, and by the time dumb boy lizard brains catch up, they're already past the college/learn a profession/trade years, and women have put some real distance between them. Then, layer on the fact that our society is doing a great job of poisoning their minds (Andrew Tates and Tucker Carlsons and Charlie Kirks telling them that bitches and minorities are the problem, they need to get back in the kitchen/to the plantation/back to one of those mexican countries) that young men (1) become a toxic presence in society and (2) do nothing to actually improve their lot because hey, it's not their fault. The American Dream was stolen from them by woke trans black mexican amputee women. All of us should be able to be the next Elon Musk (that's right -- they don't HATE billionaires, they IDOLIZE them. How you gonna fix that? When they worship the very thing that fucks them the hardest?) And yeah, I've seen this in real-time and -- importantly -- so has my son. He figured out some time ago that having his shit together, having some social skills, and not descending into a life of just video games and Andrew Tate shit would actually give him a leg up in life. He's not naive. He's a tall, good-looking, white/hispanic man with a broad education and perspective and a charismatic presence. Regardless of what the whiny tittybaby in Bozo's piece wrote, that DOES give you an advantage in the world we live in. And he has much less competition in that respect that he would have 25 years ago, because his peers are falling behind. (Also...him taking a "gap year" to grow up, and figure out how to be a man, was maybe the best thing to ever happen to him. We are HUGE proponents of the gap year for boys, as it lets them "catch up" and mature a bit before they take on whatever is next (college, trade school, doesn't really matter)). TLDR; I actually worry a great deal about our young men. One of the main reasons I worry is that too many of them are becoming whiny-ass pussies who take no responsibility for their lives and outcomes, instead taking a lazy blame approach that ends up pointing a finger at the weakest among us instead of the larger systemic issues that are the real problem. Of course, that's because they have no interest in reining in oppressive billionaires because they want to BE the oppressive billionaires. Weak white men are mad that they no longer have as many avenues to be shitty white men. Waah.
  8. Yeah. Gosh, I may have to stop flying my Clinton flag, and get rid of my Clinton hat, and take my bro-dozer in to get my Clinton wrap-job removed!
  9. It’s worse than that. White male privilege has evolved into white male grievance and surrender of any and all responsibility or agency for your fate. “Everything bad that has ever happened to me is cuz WOKE. I never even had a chance.” They have bought the comforting lie because it relieves them of any agency or responsibility. And hey, if it means that we ultimately have to blame women and minorities, well, we don’t even have to dust off the playbook. It’s been sitting there on the nightstand this whole time.
  10. You’re missing the ultimate point that there’s no “solution” that doesn’t make all of us worse. Hate, rage, and pain are the only currencies. Yeah, I am quite aware of your comparison to evangelism, marketing, etc. And it’s true in all of those milieus.
  11. “It all counts.” Yep. Including my contempt for them, and my belief that they are unreachable and unsalvageable because they don’t want to be. I read the piece. I particularly loved his half-assed use of stats and lack of realization of what they might actually indicate. And I got the overt message blaming older generations of men in power for fucking him over….by offering opportunities to women and minorities, who…come on…you and I KNOW don’t have the merit that the auditor has. He has it. You can tell. Just look at him. “Progressives lost these people.” Seems likely. And all we have to do to win them back is re-define “meritocracy” as “the white guys get the job, even if they are only 35% of the applicant pool. Because…merit. Yeah, that’s it. Merit.” We are in some shit, we are headed for more shit. I’m tired of trying to head it off, and coddling the fucking worst people in a futile effort that only makes us worse human beings. Fuck that. Time to burn. All of it. And all of us. There’s no other way forward.
  12. The regime is truly no different than the Nazis: a criminal gang of minimal competence, yet incredible power. The reacted the names of the abusers, but not the victims. They are simply malevolent, evil lumps of shit. All of them. Every one of them.
  13. Fantastic post. Thanks for stating the decision tree so well.
  14. The author of the piece you cited does. He wants to blame everyone else for his failures. Well, not EVERYONE else. Just…certain people. You know the ones. Those people who got jobs that HE really deserved. Those other people didn’t deserve them. You can tell they don’t. Because they aren’t white men, who are obviously the inherently superior life form. If a white man doesn’t get a job or opportunity, well…we know why.
  15. “Engaging with them and empathizing with their problems.” So, like I said…tell them comforting lies. I can engage with them. But I can’t empathize. I just can’t. But I can lie and act like I do. I’ll engage with them. And I’ll tell them “gosh, that sucks. I’m really sad for you.” And I won’t mean a fucking word of it. Because all I’ll really be doing is boosting and enabling their grievance and contempt for every “other,” who they RRALLY think is beneath them. You fail to grasp that their grievance is NOT that women and minorities are getting more jobs and opportunities. It’s that they’re getting those things…when we all KNOW that really, they are inferior, and white men are the people who REALLY have “merit.” The best way to figure out if someone practices “merit-based” hiring is if all they hire is white males. Anything else? Well, they’re obviously practicing woke DEI and hiring people who don’t deserve to. Stop cutting these whiny fuckers slack. They’re shitty people who are shit who won’t do shit to actually better themselves and yearn to be as shitty as their parents and grandparents instead of bettering themselves or society. Fuck. Them.
  16. Kiddos are home. They want all kinds of stuff they can’t get overseas. Shrimp and catfish and grits.
  17. Each kid flew home separately the past couple days, and they were bitching about to at exact thing, doesn’t matter what airport you’re in. Zero situational awareness.
  18. Do minorities and women have luxury of indulging them? These “aggrieved” people 1) believe it’s a zero sum game, 2) WANT it to be a zero sum game, and 3) will only accept everyone else losing as sufficient evidence that they are winning again. Yeah, I’m SUPER interested in partnering up with people who will not think they’re getting a fair shake until they see my daughter getting fucked over. To this demographic, “discrimination” is just like everything else: every accusation is a confession. Sure, they’re voters and humans, so engage with them…but do it at arms length. Because right now, the main thing they want to see is discrimination…in their favor.
  19. I’ve raised that specific concern numerous times. Our society and systems are failing our young men across the board, and alarm bells should be ringing loudly. And at least in my circles, it hasn’t been taboo to discuss. We had a system of secondary and higher education. We opened it fully to women, and encouraged them to participate across the board. And it turns out, women are really good at the very things that helps one succeed within those systems. So, they’re beating men at their own game, at a 60-40 clip. Good for women. But it’s also very bad to leave men behind. A large cadre of bitter dudes is not a good social outcome. However, I also don’t think that young men are willing to do their part to address this systemic issue. INSTEAD, what I see and hear is lazy generalities (minorities stealing our jobs, women are stuck up bitches who won’t have sex with me even though I’m the best Call of Duty player in my friend group, etc). We can’t “solve the problems of young men” until they are willing take SOME modicum of ownership of their situation, and make an actual effort to change it. Nope. Just gonna whine and blame and demand that someone put their finger on the scale to favor them again. Indeed. And it starts at a young age. Our educational system is perfect for little girls, it’s lousy for squirmy little boys. The gap begins in first grade, and just gets worse. Leading to discouraged boys who just fall further behind. But don’t worry, we have a social plan to deal with it: teach little Timmy in second grade that the real reason he’s falling behind is woke DEI.
  20. Bold words from a grown-ass man with a butt-cut.
  21. Surrender its humanity, join the whiny white men in blaming minorities for everything wrong in this world down to the crabgrass in their lawns…profit. Seriously. It’s all about indulging in grievance politics, which is a creature of “distract from actual systemic issues by focusing people’s ire on some ‘other’ so a corrupt oligarchy can continue to fuck everyone.” By the way, I agree with playing that messaging game. Lie to them. Tell them the sweet excuses they want to hear: “it’s not your fault that your B- GPA-ass didn’t get a high-paying job. It’s because some black lesbian amputee stole the job that was rightly yours.” Promise that you’ll stop that from happening. Then, just deliver on sound economic policies. Break up some monopolies, protect unions, that sort of shit. But this is America 2025. You won’t get a single vote from anyone until you tell them you hate/resent all the same people that they do. Empathy? Empathy is for suckers. Lies and manipulation are where it’s at.
  22. Counterpoint: I have a huge and well-known weakness for French gals.
  23. Oh, I get the point. The point is that opposition (left) messaging is utterly missing these types. I agree, it clearly is. So, we need to speak to whiny babies the way you talk to whiny babies when you want to manipulate them. Tell them the sweet lies they want to hear, and tell them that everything that they find upsetting is actually the fault of someone else. I suggest blaming the Dutch, but I’m willing to workshop it. Sure. But they think they are getting the short end of the stick because OTHER people struggling to make it are maybe not living as shitty lives as they did before. The author doesn’t want advocacy for him. He wants advantages that he thinks he’s entitled to. See below. BINGO BINGO BINGO. They do NOT want equality. They want a return to the bias in their favor. Women are getting hired at a 60% clip because the pool of qualified grads is 60% women (again, I offered my observations from law and trained pastors; the pool of quality grads has a materially lower percentage of white males than it did 30 years ago). If 30% of the quality grads are white males, then the pool of new hires should have a similar percentage. The author doesn’t want that. He wants a return to not just higher percentages from a day when there were more quality white male grads, he wants a return to the inherent advantage that built in bias also gave them. Also a bingo. It comes down to the fact that they don’t want equality, they want the advantage and favorable bias their parents and grandparents had. Should we try to appeal to them to get their votes? Absolutely. Lie and tell them whatever they want to hear, shameless, impossible lies absolutely work. Then go about policies aimed at changing systems as a whole and at weakening oligarchs. Everyone will benefit. But that benefit will probably be equal, and we know that won’t be enough for the whiny titty baby crowd, the bunch of specialest, fragilest snowflakes to ever exist. They will bitch and cry till they get the full suite of biases and advantages in their favor again. How do we know? Because when given ANY power (see this admin), that’s exactly the policy outcome they pursue.
  24. Empathy is fucking dead. We don’t kill it, but we damn well know what the stench of “death of anything good” smells like. I can’t do it. I just can’t. I cannot make myself feel any empathy or sympathy for a group that has, for all living memory, been the most privileged group in the history of humanity, who are now pissed because they may have lost .000001% of that privilege. Yeah, I’m aware of the strategic point in courting them. That’s why I have long been a proponent of lying to them, telling them the sweet lies they want to hear to get their votes. But I can’t care about them. They and their predecessors have never given 1 billionth of a fuck about anyone else.
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