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🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · Jul 16

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🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

...the weeds about where these people get lost along the way, and what we can do to stop it happening.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

I empathise. I'm not gonna refute your experience here, because frankly, it's fairly accurate to my own in a lot of ways.

But the conversation we're having now is a better and more productive conversation than just chalking it upto "fuck em, they deserve it." Because we're actually getting into...

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

I always take the opportunity to try and speak to and educate people in that position because it's really easy for people to fall prey to group think and go along with that "but the foreigners" sentiment because of peer acceptance.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

...in good faith, whereas the snake oil salesmen actually market to those people, and take advantage of it.

Good ideas don't win on the strength of being good ideas alone. We have to market to them. In a way they understand.

As a dad, the idea of my kid going anywhere near the internet scares me

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

Afterwards, yeah. When it's already too late.

"But the minorities!" Has always been the grift. What I hear from speaking to young men in my own community is that they're afraid to ask people on the left for information because when they do they patronised, shouted down, and vilified for asking...

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

...4 more years of Donald Trump.

If you ignore the voices of people who feel disenfranchised and write them off, the grifters on the other side of the fence love bomb them and make trump voters out of them.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

I dunno, it seems more to me like failing to understand how an entire generation of young men are left vulnerable and sucked into the manosphere algorithm vortex, instead of allowing them air to talk about the issues they're facing within intersectional leftist spaces, is actually how america got...

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 4h

You didn't read any of that article at all, did you.

It was recognised as innate problem by the World Health Organisation in 2023, but alright dude. I tried.

If you wanna keep on believing the whole problem is just butthurt crypto-bro's crying in mom's basement, who am I to stop you.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 7h

It's real, it exists, it affects both genders, it isn't about getting laid it's about not having close friends, and it disproportionately affects young men, who are 4x more likely to commit suicide as a result of it.

There are a variety of factors cited, 'incels existing' is only a small part.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 7h

Well which is it, does it not exist, or is it self inflicted? it can't be both.

It has a wikipedia page, which cites scientific data, from multiple countries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelin...

If you just google "Is there really a male loneliness epidemic", read the blurb google spits out about it.

Loneliness epidemic - Wikipedia

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🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 9h

Ok. I'm not denying your anecdote or lived experience.

That's not what I'm talking about. And it's not what mental health experts are talking about in regards to male loneliness, before 2 tribes of angry activists perverted the conversation beyond the point of being able to talk about it

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 9h

Well gee, I wonder why nobody talks about it, when whenever you mention it, 2 sides of people with completely different arguments over a different issue appear on either side of you and start having a pissing contest over it.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 9h

You responded to my position where I mentioned 'biggest killer of young men' in reference to that entire group, so forgive me for logically assuming from the context, that you meant that entire group.

What you articulated was that nobody deserves help for that issue, because they suck & deserve it.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 10h

1. Not saying there isn't, wasn't ever brought up.

2. It's not about getting laid.

Loneliness =/= horniness, Can we get past that part?

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 10h

My point, since I'm still getting tagged in here even though I've blocked and moved on, is that OP is determined to colour me as one of those Meninist types, and I'm not, at all.

We are on the same side here.

Stop putting words in my mouth.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 10h

There's no point in me continuing to argue about it. I already had to block the OP because he did a callout quote post on me over it.

Let people hear what they want to hear. Thanks for at least being the only person in this thread who engaged with me in good faith.

Hope you have a good day.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not going to sit and defend shitheels like the ones in comments above, that's not my view at all.

The idea of a loneliness epidemic is wider than 'why no get laid' it's arguably, more about men who don't have any friends.

But people have decided I'm talking about something else entirely.

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Team Thunderclash @thunderclashcomics.bsky.social · 14h

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🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 13h

Making sweeping statements that dehumanise and villify entire strata of humanity that you've never met is bad, actually.

I'm sure there's a word for that even.. begins with a P..

Pre... something.

🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 13h

Didn't say that either.

Is it that hard to believe that someone sees a problem with what you said without assuming they're one of a particular group?

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🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 13h

All I'm saying is just separate "All Men" from "These Misogynists" right here.

Stop hearing things I didn't say.

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🧟‍♂️ MRRRMPH!!! @memphisr56.bsky.social · 13h

All for the benefit of a company going 'Are we cool yet?'.