As opposed to modern women, who are sterling paragons that men would be crazy to not marry.

To be this spiteful about it? Kinda. You’re treating this like a tit-for-tat battle of the sexes for dominance in society, a contest to prove which one really is better, instead of, you know, a grievance somebody has with men as a culture.

Let’s imagine you’re right, that women aren’t great. Would this mean that the men who are socialized not to be desirable don’t have anything to do, then? Because both sexes are equally awful, neither one is obligated to improve?

They might be growing. I feel like I haven’t heard about MGTOW in a while, but whatever. And, it is true the right wing apparatus is built to court men’s favor specifically, yeah. But that apparatus socializes them into pretty toxic people. When people complain about men, those conservative attitudes are what they’re talking about.

Unless you hang out in some strange circles. It’s obviously possible someone just really hates men, but letting that overshadow a real criticism is pretty god damn silly, in my opinion.

I’m just not sure what any of this has to do with women not being sterling marriage material.

This is what I mean about projection. You’ve got a chip on your shoulder about something, and so from a tweet with a fairly benign take on men as a culture, we get this insecure, jealous, whataboutism about careerless women being owed alimony, I guess.

I would agree that the left gives up too much social capital about men to the right.

Oh, you’re right, I forgot about the 100 years of uncultured, savage men being conscripted into slave labor to build rail roads or whatever.

The persecution complex with you people is astounding.

men are useless and have no place in society.

You are projecting your insecurities, my guy.

Like, you’re over here complaining about hypergamy at the same time that you’re whining about this very pedophilic “hit the wall” business. What’s wrong with being 35, exactly? Won’t you be 35 one day?

… What argument?

Neither OP nor GameChild has made an argument. They’ve just said things.

“Cheese is delicious.”
“No, it’s not.”
“Damn, my argument was flipped on its head.”

What are you talking about?

True, but it encompasses a lot of people.

Nope.

When you’re talking about demographics, you do not need to carve out exceptions for every single little outlier—it would be useless to talk about them otherwise.

A man expressing masculinity? “That’s violently toxic!”

Okay, I have to imagine you’re here in bad faith because anyone who understands toxic masculinity would not phrase it this way.

I’m not sure I agree, but I’m also not sure what you’re talking about.

Is there a view that dark skinned people are more masculine? I might accept less feminine; such a view would serve the purpose of making the violence against them easier for people to stomach.

It’s clear.

Out of curiosity, how did you feel about man vs bear?

harks back to racist ideas of “uncultured savages”

Does it? Does it really?

What are you referring to?

Well, Shadow is strawberry ghirardelli, so I think it’ll be pretty easy.

Ah, thanks!

I’m on Sync and I don’t see any convenient way of looking at it either. This info does help a lot, though.

Maybe there’s no good answer 'cause I’m on an app, but how do you even check the modlogs.

I have six on right now. And two belts.

One can hope.

He can be really subtle in his messaging, too.

Like, reading this comic as a normal person, I see a ha-ha funny joke about the robot doing a hitler. Why does being rejected from art school make him do this? Uh… I don’t know. It’s just a reflection on an old story, don’t think too much about it.

Viewing this comic through the lense of a nazi, however, doesn’t it seem a little bit like a call to action? As if it’s excusing the violence the nazi robot will engage in as a kind of justice for people’s dismissal of AI art?

The only thing you have to do to reach that second conclusion is not believe that the nazi outcome is a bad one.

Anyway, I dunno. I’ll never know what Stonetoss really meant, I just think it’s interesting.

I’m generally skeptical enough to read between the lines.

Haha, honestly, some of that was just me putting down thoughts I had while looking for some kind of supportive argument.

Yeah, I think it’s a paradox only to absolutists

I mean, it is called a paradox, haha.

I like the idea of resolving it, but that’s only because I like math. I imagine both could be rhetorically useful.

If you’re talking to someone with a strong belief in fairness, telling them about social contracts seems useful. It reminds me, actually, of the best prisoner’s dilemma strategy: cooperation, retaliation, and forgiveness.

If, however, you’re talking to someone who likes splitting the Earth, the punk rock energy of telling god to go fuck himself, and rotating 4D objects in their mind for a laugh, telling them they can just accept the paradox as-is and invoke it on purpose seems just as well.

leads to people like Ayn Rand

Oh, speaking of Ayn Rand, have you read this? I love this.

So you think running a video game through a jpeg compressor would be a bad idea?

I’m ready to roll up my sleeves, man. A little elbow grease can work miracles.