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@GunnerBoys1 @MegEBrock @ChristinaPushaw @BeverlyHallberg Pretty much, we are STATISTICALLY unconvinced that she will remain interested in him and in prioritising her child

@MegEBrock @ChristinaPushaw @BeverlyHallberg No. Most men aren't going to be thrilled that a bad woman found some cuck to marry her.

At one point, I might have agreed wholeheartedly with this article. But after thinking about it some more, I have a bit different perspective. The reality is that most women in Alex Cooper's target audience (feminist, liberal, college-educated, upper middle-class Americans) WILL in fact follow the same path, get married at 30 or so after years of casual dating, and have 1 or 2 kids in their 30s. That's what the data says. In all likelihood, these women will not be rejected, punished in the market, or forever-alone (unless they choose to be). Because we live in a secular society, and they can marry secular/liberal men of the same socioeconomic status. This is absolutely the norm for that SES in 2026. It may be comforting on some level for social conservatives to imagine there is such a thing as a Karma that will deliver material consequences to them, but that is not reality. That's cope. At the same time, a lot of people (men and women) who live by socially conservative morality, do end up alone through no fault of their own... it's just that's how the world works. I say this as a social conservative, who completely disagrees with the content on Cooper's show, her decisions in her younger years, and hookup culture overall. I find it degrading to women and men alike. But, as one of my mutuals pointed out, social conservative values are not some kind of life-hack to guarantee happiness in relationships or in life. We live by certain values not because it will make us happy and successful in this world -- it might not -- but we have to live that way because that is *what God expects of us.*

@postsalot @MegEBrock @ChristinaPushaw @BeverlyHallberg Remembering that gen Z and more upcoming gen Alpha have had dopamine system restructuring or burnout via their content of choice not being a book or movie but 15 second video & not an album but tracks they don't buy but stream one by one. They aren't the same as us unfortunately

@MegEBrock @ChristinaPushaw @BeverlyHallberg I don't know any women with brains who decide it's time to have a baby based on influencers. Those people on both sides should not be parents.

@MegEBrock @ChristinaPushaw @BeverlyHallberg If PPL thought this would or could lead to a happy & healthy marriage where the couple are devoted to each other + very responsible & responsive towards their child that'd be great but people think they will remain focused on the flesh via mechanisms like busted oxytocin bonding

Also—if conservatives want to encourage women to get married and have children, you’d think they’d be thrilled with this. She has a wide audience that is would be completely turned off by the conservative traders messaging and her actions might actually persuade women who aren’t planning on marriage and family to reconsider.

@HasanabiProd @Asmongold Culture. It's why black kids adopted into Asian and White households don't have things like mortality differences & the usual educational disparities (USA for this example)

@Asmongold So your argument is that black people are not genetically inferior but every other possible socioeconomic explanation for a difference in statistics is cope? You try to dogwhistle that there is a genetic component but this time you accidentally let it out.

Asmongold responds to Hasan and claims Black people are genetically inferior, and socioeconomic conditions is just “cope” “They are, it’s a fact”

@mysteriouskat I don't think he is entirely wrong - they usually are some subsidiary of the studio that owns the rights to something old & beloved & know that it will have old audience probably baked in and they can try appeal to lefties in the non audience by a woke twist

Oh yes, people notoriously spend years and buckets of money bringing projects to life out of "pure resentment." What is this type of thinking, exactly.

@whereisheather @AutismCapital They imply that it might not be absolute or permanent by Maeve seeming to plummet to her death after a soldier boy blast and actually living through it

@AutismCapital They should have just let Homelander suffer by living without any powers… suffer every day as a common person. I was impressed with Ryan’s character arc. Maybe there’s a surprise spin off that he actually didn’t lose his powers because he was born with V.

[Spoilers ahead so don’t read on if you haven’t finished The Boys] Let’s start with the one silver lining. When Homelander lost his powers him turning into a sniveling whining pathetic coward willing to do anything to preserve himself was extremely realistic and actually very well done. Him saying that he would even blow Butcher, humiliate himself, is very on brand. They actually nailed that. Everything leading up to that moment, including how Kimiko took away his powers with the power of love and accepting herself was beyond absurdity in an already bottom tier expectation show. Hughie has sucked the entire series, he’s had zero redemption, he’s not even the heart of the show, he literally just sucks and gets in the way, and EVEN AT THE LAST MOMENT, not only does he NOT let Butcher complete the job and actually wipe out all the supes (Butcher was completely correct in his assessment that if they don’t wipe out the supes another Homelander will just rise again), he SHOOTS Butcher and then has the audacity to TRY TO CONSOLE HIM after he shot him LMAO. WTF? And then he gave a speech at his funeral like he wasn’t the one that just killed him. It’s the most absurd backwards ending ever. Of course you also had the obvious Homelander k**ling an Elon type character who “wants to talk about declining white fertility rates,” but that is to be expected for how low the show stoops. Overall the whole series was slop. The first season was good, MAYBE the second too? And then it’s just over the top perversion, degeneracy, hate, writing and plots that make no sense, and no reward whatsoever. Would not recommend. Glad it’s over. Did like how Homelander went out however. That was very well done. Hughie is the real villain of the show. He didn’t let Butcher finish the job. He invalidated all of his effort for good boy points. Hughie is the worst.

@Sonokokuren @JayFivekiller @DanFriedman81 That notion comes from the fact the old testament of the Christian Bible has the same laws and stories religious Jews base their theology & central principles of their culture on. You can focus on the differences but VS other religions & cultures Judeo-Christian are connected

@JayFivekiller @DanFriedman81 They're utter gutter-trash and everything wrong with the US can factually be led back to them or the neocons who keep being put into power because of them. Evangelical Christianity is literal shit. They're literally where the retarded notion of "Judeo-Christianity" came from.

This character exists because the writers hate conservative Evangelicals and want to mock them, but they know so little about them and have so little intellectual curiosity that they just made the Homelander church a black church, because they figured it was basically the same thing.

@MrAlanSchmidt They often have to do some awful and over the top stuff to get where they are though. Homelander has never really pondered vulnerability & it's why he wanted V1 , couldn't cope with the white hairs!

Strongmen are rarely cowards about death. Right or wrong their morality, they dont turn into pussies at deaths door.

@SlimthiccPeache @AaronRHolloway1 @adkeys22 We saw blood. Still possible he is alive in some state if they want to use him in the spinoffs

@AaronRHolloway1 @adkeys22 So you’re telling me an ocean animal that can squeeze both its body and arms in the smallest of holes and gaps, wouldn’t be able to kill him ? A human with multiple holes in his body…. Please educate yourself how what they can do before you make yourself look stupid.

Unless that’s a v1 octopus how can that penetrate his skin when he’s super strong and invulnerable and bullets bounce off him? #TheBoys

@AaronRHolloway1 @DiscoHoboCop @adkeys22 Isn't it The Boys being subtle as always and him getting payback for what he did to Annie?

@DiscoHoboCop @adkeys22 Its stupid. That's what i'm getting at. One easy tweak, one single scene added, or change in costume, would have made this more grounded in the shows realism. And the entire dialogue on the beach was painful. But whatever you do you.

@adkeys22 Thats it though,lots of V powered people have only half useful powers and get marketed as Gods Deep had the common enhanced strength and durability plus could breathe underwater and communicate with ocean life but he wasn't anything approaching invincible or a speedster

i never thought any water god could ever be killed by his fishes 😭

@adkeys22 It's some secret Kraken thing and I think it's mouth doing a mouth S.A. on him to reference what he did to Annie

@kirawontmiss Definitely not the only one. Great Kimiko,Butcher,Hughie moments and I thought Homelanders turbo inflicted self humiliation was brilliant

am i the only one who actually liked the ending….

@StefanFSchubert @clairlemon Such useful information, cheers!

@clairlemon Afaik the main mechanism is different

Another anecdote: my hairdresser says almost all her female clients are on them now & women are starting to lose large amounts of hair from malnutrition. x.com/Overlap_Tech/s…

@CAMOKAT6 @zoecabina Have a friend dating a girl there and he is a bit... The Seeing racism everywhere type Funny though cause she has overt racism about other tribal groups that used to come raid her family. She doesn't want to be around people descended from that ethnically closely related group

@zoecabina 😂 I have a friend from PNG. Think she's quite glad the rest of her family are still in PNG...

A friend of a friend was dating a girl from Papua New Guinea. He broke up with her, and now her mum is demanding he give her 2 pigs in compensation

@TheVsk_ I hated the clunky political garbage in the last couple of seasons immensely & ended up loving the finale. Great Hughie, Kimiko & Butcher stuff. I had imagined only years as a human would be fitting for Homelander but he managed to completely and utterly humiliate himself!

You know what’s crazy? People are ignoring the ending. Hughie and Annie, considered heroes and are free to live their lives, and they even have a baby on the way. Kimiko, who was tortured for years in a cage and then treated like a criminal, is now finally enjoying herself freely in France. Marvin got his family back without anyone chasing him, plus Ryan is now with him. the grandson of the man who destroyed MM’s childhood and shaped his entire trauma Then there’s Butcher who lost himself long before he died, that Dog was the only thing that brought out his humanity since S3 Vought no longer holds the same level of power over the world Calling all of this “trash” just because Homelander didn’t level cities or massacre thousands of people is crazy

@Widdershins321 @bungarsargon The BBC in the UK has been very left for 20+ years now

@bungarsargon What in the actual fuck does this have to do with the "left"??? Y'all's brains are broken.

This is just fucking disgusting. If you want to understand the moral rot at the heart of the Left today, watch this video portray a father selling his seven year old daughters into sex slavery as the real victim here.

@bungarsargon They want Kirk, Trump and Brian Thompson all shot dead but support these guys selling their children. Wild

@Mankosmash @Nerdrotics Yeah it's a shame. This one always had cheap shock elements, gore and genitals everywhere but Daredevil has done the same in its post Disney acquisition seasons after fantastic first 3 on Netflix

@Nerdrotics Liberals always ruin shows. They have to hide their crazy politics early on to trick you into watching so they can propagandize to you once they think they've got you locked in. You hate them, but they win by pushing their images into millions of heads & manipulating them.

"It’s super hard to do a finale. Fans will retroactively judge the show based on how they feel about the finale. If we stiff it, they will definitely say, “Well, that show wasn’t as good as we thought it was.” - Erik Kripke Prophetic words #TheBoys

@GoodOleJG @Nerdrotics I liked that notion but I think they kind of did the speedrun version & the second he DOESN'T have the immense advantages he had since birth he is a snivelling pathetic imitation of what he pretended to be. He utterly humiliated himself in the eyes of everyone in mere moments

@Nerdrotics Probably been said but a much more fitting end would have letting Homelander live as a normal person and have him have to get a 9-5 and pay bills and get splash on while waiting for a taxi. Seeing him in a mundane and otherwise boring lifestyle is worse than death I would assume