@jess_ann_pin I haven't heard someone try to portray that obviously moderate, milquetoast man as a hardcore right winger in a decade. Love it. Vintage!
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Cyrillic Feline
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There are so many posts claiming women were “radicalized.”
Switching sides does not mean “radicalized.” As an example, my mom was a lifelong Republican driven to switch sides by misogyny on the Right and attacks on abortion rights. It was Romney who lost her.
A more accurate appraisal is that women were driven left by the backlash politics that intensified during Obama’s reelection campaign.
The Romney campaign damaged the Republican trajectory with women, and the GOP never recovered — because instead of becoming more women-friendly, Republicans became increasingly regressive.
2012 was the inflection point: Republicans became the party threatening women’s autonomy, while Obama proved the anti-backlash coalition could win.
Before that, many young women could treat politics as abstract: taxes, spending, foreign policy, general “liberal vs. conservative” arguments.
But in 2012, politics became personal. The GOP became associated with contraception fights, Planned Parenthood attacks, hardline abortion politics, Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment, Richard Mourdock’s rape-pregnancy comment, and Romney’s “binders full of women” / “47 percent” image.
That let Democrats frame the election as a choice between autonomy and backlash.
Obama’s reelection proved that a coalition of young people, women, minorities, educated liberals, and socially liberal voters could win national power.
So young women absorbed a durable political lesson:
Democrats = autonomy, inclusion, modernity, the future.
Republicans = control, hierarchy, backlash, the past.
That is why the leftward shift became sticky.
Women were not “radicalized.” They were politically sorted by self-protection.
The Left has now become so extreme that there is real opportunity for the Right to win back female voters, but they’d have to compromise and be more friendly to women’s rights.
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@jakozloski Ironically, gay men seem to have great success meeting long-term partners on Tinder. I have never met a gay couple who met on Grindr, several who met on Tinder. It's almost as if the dating apps want you to fail so that you stay on the apps.
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The "women only want the top 10-15% of men" claim conflates two things.
Female selectivity exceeds male selectivity, which is real and well-documented. In speed-dating, women say yes to ~25-50% of men, men say yes to ~50-75% of women.
About 2x more selective, not 6-7x.
The Tinder version of female selectivity is a dating app artifact of photo-based selection, not the natural rate.
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A lot of talking points on heterosexual dating are based on Tinder. If Tinder actually did what it said on the tin and effectively set people up for happy, long term relationships, Tinder wouldn't have a business model.
Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
The "women only want the top 10-15% of men" claim conflates two things. Female selectivity exceeds male selectivity, which is real and well-documented. In speed-dating, women say yes to ~25-50% of men, men say yes to ~50-75% of women. About 2x more selective, not 6-7x. The Tinder version of female selectivity is a dating app artifact of photo-based selection, not the natural rate.
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@RichardHanania Amazon was also a thinly veiled excuse to mock poor people. That was a key part of the appeal. For this reason, the anti-Amazon rhetoric simply didn't have the same zing.
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Every generation of leftists seems to just hate whatever new thing most represents capitalism and is making life better.
Then they forget and move on to the next one.
First they obsessed over Walmart. Its crime was a wider range of goods and lower prices.
Then Amazon was the issue, because it also gave low prices but also brought unimagined variety and convenience. One click order to get anything in the world overnight, sane people would've been singing its praises, but they specifically targeted them.
Now it's data centers, the main engine of economic growth. Populist rightoids are joining them.
Good thing about the American system is that it's too deadlocked and too subject to special interest influence to wipe out whatever is new. So data centers will make life better, and then they'll hate the next thing.
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A lot of middle class people think of these civilisation destroying ideas as just fun thought experiments and they expect their kids to go to university and have these fun thought experiments. It was never meant to be taken seriously.
Elizabeth Grace Matthew@ElizabethGMat
Yes. The elites talk “lifestyle choices” but they raise their sons to know full well that social status looks like marriage, kids, and a traditional job. The working-class boys raised in the same culture but without intact families and their subtextual adherence to 1950s norms are left with zero uniform guidance from the wider society.
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@JasonGa41360873 Hi, so I was responding to this tweet - you have to read it first, that’s how quote tweets work
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Someone needs to revive Ayn Rand in small doses just for arguments like this. You actually shouldn't be experiencing love as a "sacrifice", and neither party should play the martyr. Start there.
Meg | The Feminist Motherhood@_nomadic_soul
It’s actually estimated a husband adds multiple hours to a woman’s housework and when my kids and husband leave the house, it’s suddenly very obvious how much work they create vs just me.
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@StefanFSchubert The only way to end 7 party politics and go back to two parties (and these may well be two different parties) is by sticking with FPTP
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Yes, the UK ought to adopt proportional representation instead
Financial Times@FT
Britain enters the era of seven-party politics ft.trib.al/2ExxKPK
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Many people try to intellectualise this statement. This is very rarely the case - but sometimes it's better to psychologise. This is a man who could never keep his trousers zipped and he always experienced children as a problem.
Boris Johnson@BorisJohnson
Falling birth rates aren’t a disaster, they’re the best bit of global news in a long time mol.im/a/15782963
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@codetalkio Denmark doesn't have 15.05% employer national insurance contributions.
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Dumbass take, we have higher minimum wage in Denmark, comparable price for coffee, and manage just fine here
If you cannot figure out how to run your business while paying a livable wage, then you should go back to business school again
These takes are so self serving
Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack
A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.
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@Chnge2Wrld @darbysaxbe Of course it does. The dads doing the most around the house are unemployed lol.
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@darbysaxbe I personally think dads should do more, but at least one study shows that it leads to a higher divorce rate.
themarkslawfirm.com/study-couples-…
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My lab asked pregnant couples to discuss their plans for sharing infant care.
After birth, we brought them back to the lab.
We discovered that couples do not accurately predict their division of baby care, and parents fare better when dads do more.
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@james_xond They deserve the same respect as a four year degree in accounting or nursing, perhaps. They actually deserve far more than a four year degree in gender studies.
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Most people won’t admit this, but it’s true anyway: trade schools for plumbers, electricians, mechanics, carpenters, chefs and more deserve the SAME respect as any four-year degree.
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@QuetzalPhoenix He just sounds lazy and like a b***s**tter.
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I think the lesson of this story is that University is not actually about learning things.
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I had a buddy in university who was genuinely smart, never missed a class, and would always be the first to participate. He never graduated because he was incapable of handing in any assignment. Could talk for hours on a reading, but would not write a single page and turn it in.
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@Angle__wix Kids like that should just be expelled. We shouldn't be celebrating teachers for being able to deal with them. The teachers shouldn't have to be dealing with them.
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@ostrachan It is a fact universally known to all that babies raised by heterosexual couples never cry.
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"No, there is no Mama."
This is the precious face that is going to end surrogacy in this country.
Owen Strachan@ostrachan
CHILDREN ARE NOT FOR SALE. The Christian church *must* tackle surrogacy. We can't ignore it. We have to fight it. We must ban it. It should be illegal to buy babies. Every child is a bearer of God's image. Every child needs a father and mother. CHILDREN ARE NOT FOR SALE.
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@hollowearthterf Pets are often a good test run for how children will go. She told him not to open the window. He did anyway. Not a good sign.
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Average experience dating a male. He’s Careless, callous, doesn’t listen, doesn’t care about anything that isn’t of personal interest to him, and everyone will tell you this is just how men are and you need to accept it
rosey🌹@thechosenberg
Lol “he didn’t notice until I got home”
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Since @InezFeltscher is going viral and a lot of the replies are something along the lines of "this phenomenon of fake jobs isn't real", I would like to remind people of this trend from three years ago where women openly said they wanted fake jobs.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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@HuntressofCrete @InezFeltscher I think you're arguing against a claim no one made.
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@JasonGa41360873 @InezFeltscher Outliers are by definition, not the norm. You don't fight bias with more bias by assuming women in those positions aren't qualified. I also think it's tone deaf and counterproductive to dunk on working women if you're trying to persuade them on a more traditional lifestyle.
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I don't think anyone is suggesting corporations hire women (and politically favored minorities) disproportionately in make-work positions for "no reason."
They do it 1) because the laws punish them for not appropriately "diversifying" their workforce and 2) sometimes but not all the time because of their own ideological commitment to the same principle.
FuriaDiDonna@furiadidonna
If there are too many HR jobs, it’s because corporations (most of them with male CEOs) find it useful to employ an internal hit squad to squash employee dissent. Corporate America does not hire a bunch of do-nothings for no reason.
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