The sissification and emasculation of the American male

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jvol1 said:
russia wants the war. They invaded ukraine. I dont think it's clear at this point that russia ambition is global, but using conventional military in this way, as opposed to rigging elections as they've done in the past, is a big step up in their operations.

If you want to go to the weird zone, I would point out that this is likely the end game for a chess like gambit that was put in motion when the Berlin wall fell in the 80s. The curious, sudden fall of the wall was questioned "The creature from Jekyll island" Apparently the ploy is something like strategically ceding the states of eastern europe to the west in the hope of creating a battle front on their home turf on Russia's western border in a larger war.

As far as I go, I'm all in favor of peace and I like the russians. Unfortunately, the scope of what's happening in ukraine indicates that people are being manipulated towards an end that will leave many dead on both sides. But if people would wake to how they're being manipulated (on both sides) that fate might be avoided.
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I have NO IDEA what your point is here--and I'm not sure you do, either.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Exactly... they are economically more capitalist than we are.
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lol. no they aren't.

they dictate how much each industry creates, how much they charge, and where they can do business. They dictate who can hire/fire and how much. they have built multiple ghost cities just to give their industries something to do.

its straight up communism with a layer of "private/party" ownership in the way.
 
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AM64 said:
If at some point you have children of your own, you are going to find out all about peer pressure ... other kids, their parents, teachers, and now media of all kinds. Everything changes and people with conservative values can't hold it back. So while you and Ras say "our generation" raised these kids; you are probably right - the generation as a society but not we ourselves provided much of the input. The best parents can do is protect, teach, nurture, transfer values, set limits, be role models, and so on; but you are going to turn your kids over to teachers and schoolmates for at least 8 hours a day and media on phones and computers all day, and you will never undo that exposure. You'll also find that you become really dumb when kids become teens (maybe younger now), but somehow you'll regain some intelligence once your kids are on their own and figure out their teachers and friends didn't know as much as they thought they did. It's easy to criticize and assess blame/credit until you are in someone else's shoes and you figure out that you only control a small amount of the input.
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what percentage of parents are even doing that small amount? of course they have little influence when they don't spend any times on the kids themselves. they are just as distracted, the original big social media Facebook has become a retirement home, too devoted to their jobs, always on a phone call, or responding to an email. can't live in the moment and be happy. you can't take them away from their shows.

and of course in parenting you have to be the bad guy sometimes who goes against society, that's the whole point. You don't have to hold it back, you are supposed to be there to give context, set values, and lead by example, so that when kids are influenced by something, whether as a kid or an adult, they have the best foundation.

as part of "the problem" generation I can look back and not think of a single major thing I reference a friend/teacher/or society over my parents. because my parent's were active in my life, they chose and sacrificed to be. while most of their/your generation just sat on the side lines and took the easy way.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
China is also proof of communisms failures. To believe they’re economically communist is laughable.
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Wasn’t Albania the only’Marxist’ country that actually had a Communist economic model? The rest said they were in the Socialist transition phase to Communism during USSR days.
 
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EasternVol said:
Wasn’t Albania the only’Marxist’ country that actually had a Communist economic model? The rest said they were in the Socialist transition phase to Communism during USSR days.
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Communism as Marx describes is stateless, so it’s never existed at scale. It never will, either. That would require the dictators to relinquish power.
 
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