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Article I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Article I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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Colibri
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Jan 18 2025, 4:18 PM
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

Quote:Climate crises keep coming, genocides continue, women keep getting murdered, art is being strangled to death by AI, bigotry is on the rise, social progress is being rolled back … AND these men insist on being cringe? It’s a rotten cherry on top. This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror, one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for.

Quote:Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder.
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Colibri
Jan 18 2025, 4:18 PM #1

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

Quote:Climate crises keep coming, genocides continue, women keep getting murdered, art is being strangled to death by AI, bigotry is on the rise, social progress is being rolled back … AND these men insist on being cringe? It’s a rotten cherry on top. This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror, one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for.

Quote:Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder.

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Jan 19 2025, 10:03 AM
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They're not leaders of any kind. I don't know how anyone manages to be impressed by them. Maybe that's their superpower; they seem so unimpressive that other men think "I too can be JUST LIKE THEM!" Because if losers like the people in power managed to make it to the top, your average everyday loser might feel like they have a shot.
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Jan 19 2025, 10:03 AM #2

They're not leaders of any kind. I don't know how anyone manages to be impressed by them. Maybe that's their superpower; they seem so unimpressive that other men think "I too can be JUST LIKE THEM!" Because if losers like the people in power managed to make it to the top, your average everyday loser might feel like they have a shot.

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Jan 20 2025, 9:30 PM
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I saw the article title a few days ago and it cracked me up. Mainly because if I don't laugh I'll cry. Shitshow clownworld. :catcry:

And I also wonder. Why are we surprised? The patriarchy has been in operation for thousands and thousands of years, women have had to reproduce with repulsive loser men, either for survival or by literal force, for a long, long time. People think humanity is so "advanced" because of stupid technological doodads like Playstations and iPhones and tap-to-pay and Meta Quest VR headsets in order to dull us from the realization of how brutally savage our core society chooses to operate. Women have been keeping this society afloat not through their own free will, but through force. Coercive or actual force. It doesn't matter. Women as a class have never asked for the society we are forced to live in. Society has attempted to dissociate from how misogynistic our world is, partially through pretending all this electronic shit is intelligent, so much so that we can forget how disgusting it all is at its core. Men are too ashamed to look in the mirror to see what they have created, women are too afraid to hold up the mirror lest the man bash her in the head with it. And lo and behold, finally, the loseriest of loser men have accumulated vast wealth at the expense of the rest of humanity and are now destroying government institutions and the planet quite plainly, out in the open. Real mask off moment.
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Jan 20 2025, 9:30 PM #3

I saw the article title a few days ago and it cracked me up. Mainly because if I don't laugh I'll cry. Shitshow clownworld. :catcry:

And I also wonder. Why are we surprised? The patriarchy has been in operation for thousands and thousands of years, women have had to reproduce with repulsive loser men, either for survival or by literal force, for a long, long time. People think humanity is so "advanced" because of stupid technological doodads like Playstations and iPhones and tap-to-pay and Meta Quest VR headsets in order to dull us from the realization of how brutally savage our core society chooses to operate. Women have been keeping this society afloat not through their own free will, but through force. Coercive or actual force. It doesn't matter. Women as a class have never asked for the society we are forced to live in. Society has attempted to dissociate from how misogynistic our world is, partially through pretending all this electronic shit is intelligent, so much so that we can forget how disgusting it all is at its core. Men are too ashamed to look in the mirror to see what they have created, women are too afraid to hold up the mirror lest the man bash her in the head with it. And lo and behold, finally, the loseriest of loser men have accumulated vast wealth at the expense of the rest of humanity and are now destroying government institutions and the planet quite plainly, out in the open. Real mask off moment.

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