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  • This right here. This right here is why I fucking hate when ppl dismiss surveillance and data collection, eg. “idc if they want to know i went to work and then Starbucks” etc…

    They absolutely make assumptions about us based on statistical analysis of the data they have and then the systems they control treat us based on those assumptions, however wrong. Dynamic pricing is now a thing because they know enough to target subgroups of their customer base to price gauge more efficiently.

    Information is power and people are extremely fucking cavalier about empowering the most exploitative and cruel ppl in society, business leaders.





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    It isn’t permissible, they get criticised, threatened, criminalized and shamed for it, constantly, just less often directly. There is an abundance of shame for male anger.

    All other emotions get shaped in service others, or are dissuaded altogether. Often through some pretty harsh and abusive methods, used by both men and women.

    Anger is unique because attempting to suppress men, when angry, becomes a risk, especially the harsh, more cruel methods, which can provoke a genuine and extreme threat. I think it’s more that a majority of people are scared to attempt to directly control or manipulate a man when he is angry, the way they do his other emotions, so the social influences on men’s emotions are absent, making the prevalence of anger much higher because it’s actually given space to exist. It isn’t that men are permitted, it’s that people are less willing to risk dissuading it. If you’ve ever had to handle an angry person who could very seriously hurt you, you know how delicate and tense that can get and how few people would willingly attempt it.

    Men are then abandoned to their anger, to suffer it alone, because people don’t want to be around a threat. Men’s relationship with anger comes from societies failure to maintain controlling influences during moments of anger. The lack of fathers and male role models in boys lives causes the abandonment to start as soon as a boy becomes big enough to threaten people, particularly mothers. Unlike mothers, fathers can remain a control on male anger through early puberty, being unthreatened in those moments of pubescent anger, when boys should be taught a healthy relationship with anger.

    Unfortunately for conservatives, those fathers tend to respond to anger, with anger. Which doesn’t teach a healthy relationship, but one of power dynamics, instead.




  • Good do it. Let the states that still have a sense of sanity group up and implement a multistate unemployment assistance strategy. Seriously, perhaps its time blue states encourage the disempowerment of the federal government and transfer those programs to mutually aligned state initiatives. Leave out all the welfare red states and redirect that transfer of wealth from blue states to red states, back to their own ppl. Americas system of statehood and states rights is something dems should probably start proposing making more use of. If feds under Trump don’t want social programs then build multistate programs that serve that function, leaving out the Maga central states altogether.