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This article makes some salient points and recognizes modern conditions. However, the thesis seems to be "women's freedom to choose divorce is bad for men". Which is familiar to anyone who's been around conservatives. It's kind of odd that they don't mention the harms women's freedom causes society and children. But otherwise this is identical to what the Baptists and Catholics have been saying since forever.

The article suggests that people who have partners who've "checked out" aren't doing a good job, but they don't dwell on that like they do the trauma of an unexpected divorce.

Reads like sane-washed incel shit to me.

The idea that losers abuse substances is the one of the dumbest correlation/causation mistakes. Almost as stupid as "black people are more likely to be criminal".

This is a common experience. But before you listen to the gender war bullshit about how it's just not fair to be a man, consider some of the other explanations.

I've been abandoned, and I've been the friend who chose the girl. And I've learned some important things.

1. it's the couple who forces friends to choose. most people would keep both relationships, but people going through breakups are myopic and insist.

2. I chose to be friends with the girl because she was a better friend. Not because I was endorsing her grievances.

3. I can't blame my friends for choosing my ex. I would have abandoned any of them for her.

We don't understand how the brain functions. Neuroscientists know that serotonin has something to do with it because some drugs effect serotonin production/ absorption/ re-uptake and they also effect mood, but they don't understand the mechanism.

Even the idea that consciousness and the "self" are located in the brain isn't as well founded as you might think. It might be a continuation of the concept of "duality" where the body and "mind" are separate. Same idea behind a soul.

Anyway, we don't understand consciousness which would be prerequisite to explain altered consciousness.

Everyone who eats animals or who "owns" one is contributing to the suffering and abuse. Animals are not a lifestyle choice. You shouldn't own your friends.

I eat meat and have pets. I'm just tired of pretending that the vegans didn't win this "debate" 40 years ago. All in a vein effort to spare my hypocritical feelings.

I don't own a gun. It's has nothing to do with politics. I'm a suicide risk; I don't need a ticket to the bullet train.

The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn't have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn't be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.

Billionaires and policymakers have AI psychosis and they deserve our sympathy and help. Articles like this are a psyop to keep them calm.

His intended audience is Iran. He's terrified of being made to look weak or get a worse deal than Obama. And he's aware that time is on their side. Look at his comments about escalating the conflict: Iran is "taking too long to come to a deal". He's obsessed with getting a deal quick, but also not giving in.

He's in a loose/loose position and former presidents in this situation are responsible for the Vietnam war.

She reminds me of Tucker Carlson. Both were raised to prominence behind a more famous person being laid low. And both were felled in exactly the same way their predecessor was.

If all communism is soviet, then all capitalism is colonialism and chattel slavery.