I’ll bend my bow to your will, sir!

Movie previews make sense to see before a movie. “Here are some other movies you might like to see later.”

Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up: This, is my BOOMSTICK!

“Well where’s the goddamn golden oldie comin’ from?”

FAIL. That’s from a TV series, not a movie.

The one I like is “Document it yourself.”

Hey, this application exposes a Python API to the user, where’s the API reference? How do I learn how to use it?

We didn’t write it.

Well…could you?

If you want it to exist, you write it.

How am I supposed to do that?

Examine the app’s source code.

It is rapidly becoming hard to deny that anyone less than Captain Planet villains are in charge.

Which were America’s problem…how exactly? I will 100% grant you, Germany deserved a swift lead pipe to the mouth for how the 1940’s went. The United States of America, an independent nation in a different hemisphere to which none of that happened, was trying to stay out of it because Europe is not our fault.

We had no mutual defense treaties with anyone in Europe in the 1930’s. It wasn’t our fight. In what way was the safety or sovereignty of Poland our problem in 1939? Precisely how many American lives did we owe Poland at the time?

All you little European nations are so big and proud until the goddamn krauts start getting uppity then it’s “Why didn’t you invade a foreign nation that didn’t do anything to you, Uncle Sam?”

This is why we have NATO. Now we do have a mutual defense pact with much of Europe, so if anybody invades a member country, the rest of us come running.

So you want us to instantly invade any country whose leader we don’t like. KAY!

Meanwhile in another thread I saw some Brits bitching about America not entering WWII until the end of 1941.

You’re the bad guy for trying to stay out of international affairs, you’re the bad guy for getting into international affairs. If you find yourself forced to play a game you can’t win, Just start hurting people.

I’ve seen two things out of “Men’s Health Awareness Month”:

• The rainbow hair squad bawling about “No it’s Pride Month”
• People posting lazy image macros with lies like “It’s okay to show your feelings” in them.

I have no fucking interest in National Whatever Day or Something Awareness Month. They always end up an exercise in worthless busybody tokenism, and the more of them we put in place the more hilarious collisions we’re going to find. I got a great idea, let’s start observing National Temperence Week as the first week of May, so that we can generate pointless anger at the people drinking Corona and margaritas on Cinco De Mayo. I can hear Latinos now saying “Oh what the fuck have the white people made themselves mad about now?”

The messaging I have seen about “Men’s Health Awareness Month” has mostly been addressed to men saying things like “It’s okay to share, it’s okay to cry, there are five lights.” His lived experience has shown that no, it is not. He is overwhelmingly expected to be stable, and any display of weakness will permanently lessen his worth in anyone’s eyes. Telling HIM to open up when those are the consequences he knows await, addressing the problem as a change HE needs to make is just pissing up a rope.

I’m going to use the movie Fight Club as an illustrative device here: Pretty much all of the men in this setting find their social and emotional needs unmet by the structure of society. The buzzword you see thrown around today for this is “lack of third spaces.” The men in the testicular cancer group have basically only one pain to share with each other: loss of family, marriages, jobs etc. The men respond strongly positively to Fight Club, which at first is basically an underground bare knuckle boxing ring started by a mentally ill man. I have a hypothesis that something like a pickup game of basketball would have served much the same function, that what the men in this setting really need is time to do physical activities with other men, to form those bonds the way men actually do.

On that note, I’ll be right back.

Gentlemen, let’s go on a hike

The Brothers Green were doing that shit 15 years ago.

This is one where I think the ball is very much in the women’s court.

I’ve seen a trend of vertical videos of fathers playing with their children, with a caption similar to “my latest ick.”

Millennial men are the most engaged cohort of dads in living memory, and women have responded pretty poorly to this.

Bring back periods in initialisms. U.N.

I mean, what’s wrong with the sintered metal brake pads that have been the industry standard for longer than I’ve been alive?

Okay, so men should vote Republican. Got it.

Y’all, I just got my replacement tooth, so I’m finally off my mechanical diet, and I’ve been waiting months to eat some hard shell TACOS! Some SPICY CHICKEN TACOS!

I’ve said it several times on Lemmy. The American left consists of:

• The DNC establishment, the Pelosis and Schumers of the world who are mostly in it for the insider trading. Their stance on issues falls somewhere between Hitler and Nixon, Israel is their #1 priority, and I’m not sure they care about the wellbeing of the average American citizen anymore than a typical seven-armed octopus does. This group holds all the political power of the “left.”

• The rainbow hair collective. The gay trans vegan gender blender ambiguously brown righteous indignation victim complex crowd. Amongst them they agree on very little, there’s actually a significant amount of infighting, basically the only thing that unites them is their mutual hatred of straight white men. This group wields basically no political power; they’re nominally represented by Ocasio-Cortez in the House and Sanders in the Senate and that is literally it. But, this is the cohort has a lot of control over the party’s campaigning and messaging, and they’ve also basically got control of Hollywood.

The result of this is the DNC’s messaging is often centered around identity politics. There was that meme floating around that read:

“Can we have some help?”

🐘 - No.

🫏 - No. #BLM #🌈

Which…sums it up. Neither party will vote to help the citizens at large but the Democrats will pay empty lip service to the non-white and non-male.

During the Harris campaign, there was a pretty big emphasis on finding a straight white preferably Southern male running mate for Harris. My own state’s lame duck governor, Roy Cooper, was mentioned, before it went to midwesterner Tim Walz. They then proceeded to have this straight white man cosplay as…the caricature of a straight white man acceptable to the gender studies majors in charge. Remember the live stream of him doing some repair task to a classic pickup truck?

Everything I heard about Tim Walz was good. I distinctly remember reading about some of the student athletes he coached talking about how much they liked him. Everything they showed me about him was as cringe worthy as Ghostbusters 2016. Harris herself was caught on an open mic acknowledging that they weren’t going to win the election without men, and then they came out with the “I’m man enough to vote for a woman” campaign. Because the people they got to write the commercials just couldn’t fucking help themselves.

I held my nose and voted Harris. Because while I’m unabashedly vocally critical of feminists and the rest of the identity politics left, I’m very much not a Retard Nazi. The Identity Politics left will accuse me of being a Retard Nazi because I score less than a 110% on their purity test, but I’ve voted in every election since 2008 and I haven’t cast a vote for any Republican in my life. That’s not good enough for the voice of the Democrats. Nothing in the universe can be.

Just…keep yelling at teenage boys that the last 300+ years of history which they had no possible way to impact was their personal fault. That’ll start working one of these decades.

“How do we get young men into progressive politics?”

I know! I know! Make every conversation including this one about women!

see?