Basman

I had a 6-7/10 childhood. I didn't have anything to complain about physically, but I received very little attention, extracurricular activity or guidance. Basically emotional neglect. I'm emotionally stunted in certain ways, especially socially. I stopped calling my parents "mom and dad" completely by the time I was 14. It's not the case that I have a bad relationship with my parents now. I chose to not be resentful about it all, but I had to take a lot more responsibility for myself emotionally.

Not wanting to have children doesn't mean that if you had kids that they wouldn't be important to you and that you wouldn't love them, but it probably wouldn't be the lifestyle you want and it be harder to go the extra mile. That was the case for my mother, and combined with her autism made, her too self-focused in a neurological sense to have the emotional space and time for me and my siblings, beyound the basics. She pursued her interests 60-80% as if she didn't have kids. In hindsight, she shouldn't have had kids, nevermind that she told me that herself, which I think was oversharing.

I like feminism and I think it's good overall, but there are certain aspects of it that are problematic and has had negative consequences for society. A lot of men feel displaced today in large part due to feminism and how it treats men via cultural attitudes, institutions, etc. There is a lot of male resentment floating about. The issue is that discussing feminism in a critical way is taboo. It makes it harder to make sense of it all. It's part of our liberal dogma that feminism is purely good.

Acquiescing to territorial aggression and seceding sovereignty is unaceptable and can only happen as the result of defeat. Stop trying to whitewash aggressors as moral. Your doing their dirty work. You won't have a communist utopia if authoritarians take over the world.

It's only gay if the balls touch.

Ambiguity is the point of trans ideology. It's necessarily confusing when you try to insert hard labels into a post-modern framework because every distinction is so relative as to be self-defeating. From a trans lens, gender is a just matter of perspective, including the notion of being non-normative and trans. A lot of trans-ideologues present a post-modern framework but want you to treat their distinctions as definitely true as opposed to merely perspective. Most trans-woman just look like dudes wearing dresses to most people. That said, being attracted to femboys is more gay than not. Putting lipstick on a pig and calling it a woman.

Too much of US survival is tied up to Taiwan currently. Concession are non-negotiable. The majority of Taiwanese don't want to be part of China either. It wouldn't be the first time a tankie tried to gaslight people into victimblaming and putting the onus of responsibility for avoiding war on the victim instead of the aggressor. Violence is correct when facing territorial aggression. It's on the aggressor to not invade sovereign territory.

Logistics is a core concept in Models by Mark Manson. Though it's focused on dating, logistics is equally true for forming and maintaining any other kind of relationship. Logistics is at least half the battle if not more, so to speak.

The most social I've ever been was staying in a college dorm with a bunch of other 19-21 YO dumbasses. Socialization happens naturally when logistic align.

The more immediate concern is the military turning. The military couping the government is fairly typical of tribalistic third world nations. That's part of why they use foreign mercenaries (talk about "legitimacy"). They have already moved all their gold to Russia, so it's clear that the regime doesn't feel secure currently.

Palestine has had years and literal generations to accrue sentiment. "Free Palestine" has been a talking point for liberals long before October 7th. When Israel then has a disproportionate response to October 7th then it is easy for that turn into huge protests for a demographic that isn't unfamiliar with protesting.

Why do you need drugs outside of addiction, conformity and shit-life syndrome?

He's mad that he's not in the Epstein files.

Hipsters are people who trendchase in a way which make it feel like it is not trendchasing.