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All policy aside, I will never understand how society, particularly young men, decided that this is “cool”
65 upvotes, 50 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "All policy aside, I will never understand how society, particularly young men, decided that this is “cool”"
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Anonymous 10w

Young white dudes fell down the alt right pipeline in middle school and never matured out of it lol

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Anonymous 10w

Some men never felt the touch of a woman and are making it everyone’s problem

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Anonymous 10w

How does anyone over the age of 14 think this is cool?

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Anonymous 10w

It’s funny 5 is crying about what aboutism when he literally did that in the first comment OP: this pic of trump is cringe 5: it’s better than (unrelated things like queer people and democrats) (what about this group who looks dumb)

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Anonymous 10w

Anyway @ OP you have your answer

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Anonymous 10w

Don’t let the long threads distract from the fact that this crap is incredibly cring

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Anonymous 10w

Cause the Democratic Party has told them they suck for the past like 15 years

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Anonymous 10w

5 I hope we meet again on this platform. Stay strong 🇺🇸

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Anonymous 10w

This is awesome 😂😂😂😂😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

idk how they didn’t grow out of that shit man

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

Cringe

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

Not at all it’s hysterical. Lefts need to relearn how to take a joke

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 10w

If i want jokes i’ll watch comedy shows. I expect the govt to be serious

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

That’s pretty sad to live a life without some laughter in everything we do. Sad very sad.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 10w

Ok, so was the “Dark Brandon” and “Kamala is brat” funny? No - they were both cringe

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

Lmao that’s liberals not the left

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 10w

its all the same to these guys

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Anonymous 10w

None of us are friends

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Anonymous 10w

and who signed the CRA

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 10w

That’s just not true what you just said

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 10w

You not believing facts, don’t make them go away

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

Grow up 😂😂😂 “none of us are friends” 😢 and yes that stuff was funny. And it’s funny when Trump calls out other republicans like Tiny Mike or Chris Crispy. He’s a very funny guy just like Bill Maher said

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Anonymous 10w

Southerners filibustered the CRA of ‘64. In between Roosevelt and Nixon, the parties were less divided than the regions were. Both Democrats and Republicans in the conservative South were against civil rights, and both Democrats and Republicans in the liberal north were pro-Civil Rights. What really solidified the party switch was the 1964 election, in which Republican Barry Goldwater ran on vetoing the Civil Rights Act, though the switch started in 1932, it ended with ‘64 and ‘68.

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Anonymous 10w

What do queer people have to do with (this post) thinking a picture of trump as superman is cool?

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 10w

The Deep South has consistently voted red ever since Barry Goldwater, because the Republican Party adopted the “Southern Strategy” of appealing to racists. Don’t take it from me, google “Lee Atwater Southern Strategy Tape” and listen to Ronald Reagan’s top campaign strategist tell you himself.

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Anonymous 10w

And what do dems have to do with a picture of trump as superman and you thinking it’s cool? What does Julianna have to do with this picture?

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Anonymous 10w

Didn’t answer. Try again

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Anonymous 10w

see this is why we can’t give laymen access to academic terminology, because for some reason you hear “toxic masculinity” and think people are saying ALL masculinity is toxic, not that they’re talking about specific toxic behaviors encouraged by traditional ideas of masculinity. There is also positive masculinity, those two aren’t mutually exclusive things.

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Anonymous 10w

but shit that takes more than five words to explain so you ain’t gonna hear it

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Anonymous 10w

I’ll ask again then, where is a democrat mentioned in either of the posts? Is the word queer or anything involving the LGBTQ in the posts, yes or no?

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Anonymous 10w

how bout no one glaze anybody

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Anonymous 10w

And what do the DEMOCRATS have to do with the post when OP didn’t mention them, the picture doesn’t mention them, etc. You’re bringing up dems saying it’s cool because look at this other group that did this, that is by definition whataboutism

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 10w

We could just get back to neither party putting out slop like this, I’d like that

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Anonymous 10w

I’ve personally dealt with “i hate men” women It’s annoying, but I don’t extrapolate that to Dem candidates (and tbh judging from the past 7 months they might have a point)

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

(“they” being the “i hate men” women)

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Anonymous 10w

Bringing up dems in a post that didn’t even mention them, is whataboutism. Now you’re running away because you don’t actually have an argument lmao Keep crying that your comment got removed. I’ll gladly take credit for you being offended this much

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Anonymous 10w

They leaned to the left (as do i) but again after the past 7 months i do not blame them

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Anonymous 10w

There are plenty of men who don’t get offended as easy as you

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Anonymous 10w

Bringing up something unrelated to compare why this illicit the reaction it does, is whataboutism. Didn’t you say you were done? You can’t even run away right lol

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Anonymous 10w

Yeah cause the democrats were the ones who were so offended by Harris losing that they tried to fight it in 60 court cases and put it into history textbooks after the election was counted

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Anonymous 10w

If it wasn’t unrelated then quote the portion of the post that even mentions that OP is a dem or implies dems marketing. Or will you just try to run away again?

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Anonymous 10w

It doesn’t say how did Trump win over young men, good job lol. It was how did young men think pictures like THAT are cool

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Anonymous 10w

I mean yeah there’s dipshits with a flawed perception of toxic masculinity on the other side of the bad reading of the term who use it to bash all men too, but I’m a man and I just laugh at both of those people for not knowing what the word means. Like, an example of toxic masculinity is the whole “boys don’t cry” thing, not when the dude you like doesn’t like you back like these tiktok girlies use it

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 10w

The amount of shit I’ve heard about how I suck for being born a white man is crazy. And it’s all from democrats, so it pushes me to the right. I’m pretty moderate but I can easily see how people like me would be pushed to the far right. Obviously there are people who have it harder than me, I’m not arguing that, but people gravitate towards groups that support them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 10w

See but I don’t think the right wing actually supports young men being better men, I think they 100% prey on the grievances of young men who feel slighted by society, and there are people who say stupid shit like that, I think you can be intersectionally feminist without resorting to man-hatred. I love being a dude, dudes rock, I like doing dude shit, that doesn’t mean there’s not some downsides to the traditional archetype of masculinity.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 10w

I think people on the left would do well to talk more about positive masculinity for sure, because toxic masculinity is absolutely a problem but without posing an alternative yeah it just sounds like man-hating. But I think that’s a messaging problem more than a substantive one.

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 10w

They definitely prey on grievances but they also have no gripe with men actually acting like men, and when faced with the choice between that and a group that wants you to support them while actively saying you are the worst type of person - people are obviously going to pick the side that lets them be them

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 10w

I mean I got no issue with men acting like men, I got an issue with men acting in ways that make life worse for themselves and others around them. That’s why I think we gotta do better at preaching the gentle strength that is accepting the good parts of masculinity and acknowledging the bad, instead of what the right seems to have been encouraging for the last few years, which is to just embrace the destructive power that comes with performing masculinity in a toxic way.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 10w

Both masculinity and femininity are roles that we perform within society, and there are ways to perform both that are toxic and ways to perform both that are positive.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 10w

Like I’m a dude who believes in male privilege within society because I’ve both seen it in real time and studied it, and when I can tell that I’m being taken more seriously than a woman peer by someone in authority, like a professor, simply by virtue of being a masculine dude it sucks and feels unearned, but that’s not your fault, you didn’t build society that way, you shouldn’t feel guilty or ashamed of it, but you should call it when you see it.

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