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Let's face it, who do you think elected the Mr. President?
Musk's voting machines?
white boomers, incels, religious fundamentalists and petty tyrants?
Don't forget the overwhelming general apathy towards, and lack of participation in, politics the majority has.
well yeah, if we were organized in collectives and unions to actually push for better policy, it wouldn't be as much of a problem.
As a leftwing incel I find that offensive, the right wing incels give us a bad name
I'll bite, in what way are left wing incels different? Genuinely curious because I've never heard incels split into right vs left before.
I mean an incel is just some one who’s involuntarily celibate, it wasn’t a political thing it used to just be a bunch of awkward guys on the net the BS politics and the insane misogyny all came later.
Right wing incel is playing video games and acting shitty to women gamers
What’s even funnier is that often being a „good feminist“ can literally lead you to getting no pussy which often drives these people into even more misogyny. I have extreme anxiety talking to people I find attractive and have a very hard time reading people’s body language as to when they’re sexually interested, the only time I’ve ever managed to pick up a random person has been basically when I acted like a pick up artist. It sucks and I hate it but in cis dating (at least where i live) basically all the responsibility is put on the man and it fucking sucks.
The right wing incels don’t get a pass for their shitty politics but being starved of intimacy as an adult human is a form of torture imo and it fucking sucks. Not that men or any person has a right to other people’s bodies but I’m pretty sure if you deprived a bunch of men of any form of sexual intimacy 99% of them would go fucking insane. There is a reason why celibacy was considered a spiritual practice or sacrifice for humans it’s not an easy thing to do or be.
Edit: I mean I’m fine with downvotes but it’s telling that people just click the button instead of actually trying to positively contribute in some way. Cis dating sucks, and dating as a heterosexual man is miserable if you don’t fit into society’s expectations of what a „man“ is. I find it hilarious how leftists will literally have a systematic critique for everything, but when confronted with this issue they’ll just point and laugh at the loser incel men because they deserve what’s happening to them. I’ve met a couple of really nice incels who aren’t reactionary they just find it really difficult to date. Whatever some feminist completely agree with me on this point so I don’t really mind what random internet people say.
Just ask them, word for word, "do you want to go on a date sometime?" It's no more anxiety-inducing than anything else, and you don't have to do any weird pick up artist stuff.
If they are actually interested in you, they'll say yes.
I don’t like approaching strangers I fucking hate it in fact I’ve been forced to do it my whole life and it literally just feels like work,but I’ve done that plenty of times I always had to be fucking wasted to do it and I just can’t be fucked to drink anymore. There are also other factors that just make men unattractive like being very depressed and being unable to gain employment or hold steady employment. Anyways these are my personal issues other people will probably have different ones.
I’m aware all of this is just in my head but so fucking what lots of people have issues that are just in their heads and still get taken seriously whatever 🤷♂️
The 9-10 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn't bother voting in 2024.
edit: fixed date typo
"It's the voters who are wrong, not my genocidal policies"
"Hey why aren't people voting for me, wait, come back"
I think you got the wrong year there on the first one
oops thanks, fixed.
They should have voted for gore, could have swung the election