Related to my post below, yep yep:

(I’m not shy at all, but people misinterpret being quiet as “shy,” when I am actually pretty bold and brash when I want to be.)

As usual, Nicholas Kristof identifies the problem but is wrong about its cause and solutions.

The upshot, polling suggests, is that men are becoming grumpier and more resentful of women’s success, and more drawn to conservative authoritarian populists, from Donald Trump to misogynist internet personalities like Andrew Tate.

This evolution in mens’ views has absolutely nothing to do with being “resentful of women’s success.” Just not the first thing. It does, however, have to do with a few changes in society and the decline of feminism. When feminism was about equality, a lot of men were on board. When it became about proclaiming how all men were just horrendous sex beasts who only wanted to harm women, most men rightly left that behind and positioned themselves against such nonsense. You don’t have to be an Andrew Tate fan to see that the “hate all men and attempt to destroy them” brand of feminism is harmful to you.

Increasingly, men are told that we only want sex, that all flirting of any kind anywhere in any context is wrong, that we don’t do enough around the house (even though outside work, yard maintenance, any work on cars, etc., is never counted in “housework”*) and that since we are just useless sex beasts anyway, we should be grateful when even meth-infested unemployed orungatan-ass women pay us the slightest bit of attention.

That is not exactly a good deal for men, really. No wonder many dudes overreact and become conserva-clowns. It’s understandable. I sympathize, even, though I don’t want anything to do with that sort of brain damage, either.

*In fact, a lot of women believe we do this “for fun” so it shouldn’t be counted. Not we fucking the fuck do not.

Pentagon Opens Ammunition Factory to Keep Arms Flowing to Ukraine.

This is a drop in the bucket for when we’re fighting China in ~2032. But at least it’s a start. We need about 25x this production and we need more fast attack subs fucking pronto. Drones, missiles, too. The 2020s and 2030s are gonna be no picnic.

U.S. concerned about Ukraine strikes on Russian nuclear early-warning radar stations. Washington conveyed to Kyiv that attacks on Russian early-warning systems could be destabilizing.

Oh, as destabilizing as invading, unprovoked, a neighboring nation and killing thousands of its people? Destabilizing like that? That is cringeworthy to read.

Also, it looks like France is going to send some troops to Ukraine. Good. Let the Ian Welsh fucking idiots cry about it.

Men of Reddit, what is a dating piece of advice you’d give women?

Most of the top comments are the same thing I was going to say: Women are so absurdly, extremely, ridiculously passive in dating and then wonder why they get bad results. It’s because only the most brash, “confident” (really, don’t care what women think or feel, sociopathic-leaning) guys are going to be the ones interacting with you. And no one else because you’ve told good men not to flirt, interact, bother women, and to always take “no” as “no.”

So, women, this is an equilibrium you’ve created. And you can change it! You actually 95% control the dating market so in fact, only you can change it.

Just like anywhere else if you want better results, you have to fucking do something. But I know you won’t.

We have. Gen Z and younger millennials view any form of in-person flirting as completely taboo and verboten. It’s such an oddball thing. They are so afraid of the world. Just terrified. Smartphones and social media are largely responsible. Haidt-haters can put that in their fucking useless Excel spreadsheets and smoke it.

When you view the world through the lens of an algorithm or an Excel spreadsheet, you understand little.

We should be spending 2-3x more on defense than we do now; the world is getting more dangerous and we can’t just go isolationist. It’s not realistic and it wouldn’t work. The world is just not that way anymore. The need to heavily ramp up defense is becoming urgent and hardly anyone sees it.

But they will. The hard way, as usual.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Weird clock every old person I knew had.

Can confirm. My grandmother had one of those. Why exactly did every woman born between 1920-1945 seem to have that clock?

People are surprised when I tell them what I am gonna do and then I do it. Why are they surprised? I just told them how it was. Like anyone could stop me.

Having no capability for embarrassment and since I’ve already endured worse than most, can’t nobody touch me. Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

Smog check shop in California just tried to scam me. LOL. Good luck with that. I will leave without paying.

And in fact did.

Inflation as the average person actually experiences it (not the BS government numbers) the last few years has been 20-30% per year. This is why there is so much malaise and so many people who think the economy is doing poorly. For them, it absolutely is.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

What do dominant men want to hear during sex ?

“I can provide scores of solar systems to add to your vast and timeless empire, my lord.”

“Are 800 additional FTL laser cannons enough, or should I build twice that?”

“Should the starships I’m constructing for you have enough room for a herd of reincarnated dinosaurs?”

“We should figure out how to make armor from neutronium before we destroy the Tironian Empire. I will get started right away.”

Those are some suggestions from me, anyway. 😉

Can I go out without a bra in this crazy summer heat?

You’re an adult; you can do whatever the fuck you want. Who cares who is judging? Anyway, in the 1980s and up until the late 1990s, it was more common than not for women not to wear bras except to work and to semi-formal and above occasions. No one gave a shit.

Times are far more puritanical now, though.