Maybe we should all email sony and ask for permission

Yeah, 0% chance this happens, but a man can dream, and vent online about our political situation.

I think my best case scenario is that Jagmeet Singh steps down, the NDP quickly select a leader that relates to the working class (something like a Tim Walz type) and they sweep the election on a workers rights grassroots push.

I've voted Liberal the last few elections, but the last one I was saying I wish Trudeau would step aside because he's too vulnerable and not drawing out any voters. I was only voting against the Conservatives.

I'm not looking forward to this election, because once again I don't want to vote for any of the candidates. This might be my first NDP vote in a long time, but the NDP needs to make changes too and I don't want to give them my support.

But at the end of the day I truly feel Polievre will be Canada's worst prime minister, he has all the characteristics I hate in a politician and none of the leadership skills I'd want, so I have to make a pick from two bad options.

ETA: the strategy of "well they hate me, but I think they'll hate the other guys more" is such an insult to Canadians. If you don't in earnest think Canadians want you to lead them, you should not be a party leader.

I don't think by-elections really gauge true opinion, they usually don't change the balance of power so it's about local candidates and protest votes.

Good for her, and also damn I’m jealous.

She makes what an average person makes in their life each year on that.

I have two minds on this

The decade I was too poor to see the dentist gave me a lot of anxiety. I didn't have any real issues but any random pain was met with worries about cavities, and I had to get my wisdom teeth removed years after it would have been ideal. It's great that poor people are finally being looked after.

On the other hand, I hate that I pay a high marginal tax rate and I don't qualify for this. I can afford to see a dentist, I just wish this program was for everyone.

Same with pharmacare, I just want a full rollout for everyone as part of healthcare. My wife needs medicine that costs thousands a year and if she didn't get benefits through work it would be over $10k out of pocket annually. Most families could not afford that.

We're fortunate and I acknowledge that, I just want a simpler system with better coverage.

Which is quite different than a social medium, where you die and they still try talking to you.

She must make a killing on the residuals from that one song

It's a good song but it's so overplayed that I don't enjoy it anymore.

Why won't you approve me giving the Teplan Blight to a human patient?

There's evidence the blight cures lupus. I'll cure him right after, unlike that hack Bashir.

You can try out the art share community !artshare@lemmy.world

But I've enjoyed this too (though I've been too busy to regularly participate)

Is he going to start claiming the election is rigged next?

This guy isn’t even in power and I’m already tired of his shit.

After Khan and his augments, I can see how the rest of humanity deemed hum drum.

I haven’t run into that yet

We don’t have kids and don’t plan to, I imagine with kids this becomes much more of an issue

Commander, please refrain from making such crude queries on the ship computer. My most recent security review of the ships logs resulted in a short circuit in my modesty routines and 3 hours 17 minutes and 4 seconds of system downtime.

I think you would have to physically fight my wife to make her relearn her signature with a new name.

I bought a house in a suburb for the middle of my possible price range. I had worked out pricing options with a fee based financial advisor.

My wife and I make good money and I do not understand who is spending $1M-2M on housing, that was well above our top budget scenario.

The math doesn’t make sense to me. Someone is lying in the qualifying process.

I switched my stim pistol for the grenade pistol, and I went to stim a teammate when he slowed down while running to keep the pace.

Oops.

I apologized profusely and he laughed his ass off about it

That second link is actually great

It’s really easy, on the left and just in politics generally, to think of things as being zero-sum. So there’s this fear that if we start helping men, then we’ll just have forgotten about women and there won’t be space or time for women anymore. I think that’s a mistake. We should be able to do two things at once. We can recognize that both women and men are members of our society and we should want to help everyone.

100% this is how I see it.

There’s also the fact that because progressives in the mainstream have not really taken up the masculinity question, the people who have taken it up tend to be on the right and often they tend to be problematic figures. You see incels and men’s rights activists and Ben Shapiro burning Barbies, and there’s a fear that if you speak up for men, everyone’s going to be like, You seem too interested in this. Are you one of them? It’s a branding problem.

I really hate that “men’s rights activist” is automatically a bad thing, and is even written here as bad. When you push that it’s sexist to put forward men’s issues, it feels inevitable it will turn men away. We have issues, we suck at building community lately, but we need to be able to talk about them without being shamed or chastised or branded. To the point above, it does not take away from women, at all, to let men have a space too.

We kind of created this space where the good men were too scared to talk, and the ones who did are Andrew Tate types pushing the most vapid interpretation of masculinity.

i.e. Tate exists because he’s such a piece of shit he wasn’t worried about speaking out. Tate thinks his counter culture is good and truthfully it’s why he’s been successful. He’s effectively a voice in an empty space which gets him lots of ears.

With Tate, unlike Peterson, there’s no pretension to anything virtuous. It’s just, Hey, the world hates you. The world wants to make you weak, wants to make you soft, so take what you can get, crush your enemies, abuse women, double down on everything they hate about you. It’s the weak person’s vision of a strong person. It’s the 19-year-old Nietzsche reader who didn’t make it past the preface.

That’s exactly how I feel. It’s empty junk food masculinity.

Masculinity to me is to build and mold yourself, to care about the right things and people, to be confident in your own inner strength, and to be supportive to those around me. It’s a perspective rooted in archetypes yes, and also Augustan stoic philosophy.

It’s okay to want fast cars and hot girls, but I think it’s pretty weak to make those outward rewards the core of yourself.

I also call myself an egalitarian for the reason that I believe all people are created equal, and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

I was in high school when things like making boys take anti-rape pledges and saying “not all men” would get you in trouble. It really felt like I was reduced by my gender to a rapist and an abuser by default.

There were also men’s rights groups that got massively shutdown and harassed, which upset me as a man who has issues. It felt like there wasn’t and still isn’t a place to discuss things like men’s mental health, suicide rates, declining male education rates, societal double standards, and how family law can be biased and where it can be improved. Specifically issues like how men get punished for taking parental leave to a much higher degree than women, or that my single-father brother wasn’t able to take his son to curricular activities because they were run by “mommy groups”, and being a single dad isn’t being a mom (sure there’s a place for mom focused groups, but they were the default).

The people pushing the “kill all men” aren’t feminists, they’re just sexists/supremacists. If they were in the position of men for the last X hundred years they’d be exactly like the patriarchy.