If you want to understand what is happening to society, go to the nearest park and watch how some parents, especially some fathers, behave with their children.

Watch how the child decides where to go, and the father meekly follows with a look of servile embarrassment. 1/3
Watch what happens when the child misbehaves or starts making too much noise. Again, the father's primary emotion is embarrassment. He squirms, he pleads, he says something loudly so others around him hear how embarrassed he is. The one thing he won't do is take control. 2/3
We have become deeply uncomfortable with any form of hierarchy. We confuse structure and authority with abuse and corruption. We are embarrassed about setting rules and boundaries. We would rather let a child/bad ideas/mob run wild than do something to set them straight. 3/3

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Feb 22
The "Why You Were Wrong About Ukraine and Will Be Again" Megathread

“There will be no invasion,” they said. “Putin is just sabre-rattling,” they told you. “It’s just Biden trying to escalate the situation so he can look good by defusing it,” they explained.
Anti-establishment voices on both Left and Right - voices of reason - urged us to be careful. They argued, often convincingly, that Russia must not be provoked, that concessions must be made to secure peace.
And you believed them.
You believed them for the same reasons I would have believed them.
You believed them because the establishment voices keep lying to you.
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Feb 21
Putin has just recognised "breakaway republics" in Eastern Ukraine (i.e. parts of Ukraine his forces invaded in 2014) and said "Ukraine has no history of being a nation".

Will the useful idiots in the West now understand what's happening and stop appeasement? Probably not.
For useful idiots with broken brains who understand nothing about the region and regurgitate lies about "the people are all Russian, they want to be part of Russia" who have never set foot in Russia or Ukraine, don't speak the language or know any history, read the replies.
BTW, one sleight of mouth you see useful idiots using is the idea that anyone who thinks Russia shouldn't be allowed to invade other countries thinks we must immediately start WW3. That's why they say stupid things like "you go and fight" as if anyone suggested we go to war🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Feb 16
I see lots of people talking about how people aren't having enough children. Very few seem to understand the real reason. And very few of the ones that do are willing to be honest about it:
If you demonise women who prioritise children over careers and brainwash the rest into thinking that being a wage slave is superior to raising your own children, this is what you get.
The laudable of idea of ensuring women could work and be treated equally ended up with women being forced to work. When you double the supply of labour, you halve the price of labour and before you know it both parents must work to survive.
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Feb 12
I keep writing tweets about Russia and Ukraine and deleting them.

I genuinely understand why people abhor Western foreign policy after Iraq, Syria, Libya etc.

But I also wish people who have no understanding of Russia, Ukraine, history and geopolitics would be quiet right now.
The Ukraine crisis is a big problem for Ukraine, obviously, but it is a symptom of a much bigger problem for the West.

The West is weak, distracted and naive beyond belief. Unable to define, let alone defend, our values at home, how can we hope to project them abroad?
This is why China is expanding into South China Sea, suppressing Hong Kong protests and is belligerent on Taiwan.

Aggressive, expansionist regimes like Russia and China only care about one thing: strength.

Appeasement doesn't work with people who see it as weakness.
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Jan 24
One of the strongest pulls of our social media echo chambers is dehumanising people with whom we disagree. Every time I tweet something moderate, extremists on either side demand I give no quarter to anyone who disagrees with them.

No. I refuse to dehumanise people, no matter...
... how much I disagree with them.

Some people were so scared of the virus they demanded excessive restrictions, scapegoated the unvaccinated and did a lot of harm. I think they're wrong but I will not dehumanise them.

Some people are so scared that there is a conspiracy...
...to <insert your favourite here> they refuse to listen to any data or facts which show the vaccine reduces your risk of being seriously ill, they spread misinformation and do harm as well. I think they're wrong but I will not dehumanise them.

This is the battle of our time -
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Dec 21, 2021
I am writing this thread about my own experience of getting COVID for a second time so I can link people to it when they inevitably ask how I know.

First time:
Me and a friend got COVID in Feb 2020. We got it from a guy who had just got off a plane from China. I had a very mild illness but I had every telltale symptom: dry cough, fever and loss of smell. No tests done as no tests were available.
Second time was last week. Me and the same friend. We've been in bed for a week. Fever, dry cough, this time I *completely* lost smell *and* taste. It also clearly has mental health effects (this is widely known COVID symptom).
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