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Don't get discouraged, engagement is the only weapon.

Supply and demand in dating social spaces, virtual or in person.

In person non-dating social interactions have been steadily declining.

When all the red pill shit first started coming out it was ironically more about self-improvement followed by pick up artist tacticts once you got your shit together.

Still misogynistic at the time and it just continues to get worse. Rather than put in the work to improve themselves, they'd rather go all handmaid's tale.

when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

The gateway to hate is contempt, and the gateway to contempt is grievance, and grievance comes from externalizing blame for things not going the way you want and not having the character to deal with that properly.

Jordan "Benzobus" Peterson who undermined mental healthcare (even as a formerly licensed professional!) to tell young disaffected alienated men to "clean their rooms" and then who went on to espouse hack carnivore eating habits and then require benzodiazepine detox (we don't shame people for that but we do shame them for...) going to Russia to receive it (because naturally no one in Canada ever has been treated for this in the entire history of Canadian medicine) and then fleeing to the US because Canada is "too woke" - yeah fuck that asshole and stay in Arizona.

A lot of incel culture stems from online influence, feelings of alienation, and resentment towards women since many of them have learned about sexuality through pornography and expect that women in real life will acquiesce to that - this exposure coupled with manosphere "influencers" telling them that they need to "take back control over women" means many of them not only harbour hatred towards women for perceived or real previous rejection but now think "give me the p now bish I'm a man" is somehow even vaguely normal. They have built communities online around this and here we are.

I won't even touch the layer of low self-esteem theatre that is the "chad" vs "soy boy" nonsense and mewing, chin and face architecture, and other manifestations of body dysmorphia that they blame for their lack of connection to women - funny that they never consider their personality or views on equality but hey - I hope the Therapy Fairy visits all of them and brings a psych to give them the good drugs to move past this nonsense.

This is brilliant bait, love it

Civilian Conservation Corps. FDR era plan to hire young men and build infrastructure.

Invest money in rebuilding powerlines, roads, and bridges. Give people well paying blue collar jobs. Teach teamwork and mutual responsibility

The point about third spaces feels very apt. The absence of these in the modern world has to be connected to this social isolation epidemic we all seem to be experiencing. They are the exact opposite of social media, imagine if we redirected our resources?

Its really tough if you're an attractive girl and can't get any friends. I am a guy but I haven't dated in more than a decade. Also I am a huge voluntary loner. Not an incel or a freak, but it would still feel strange for me if and when I go out on a date, and while I am not a virgin (far from it) if I get it on with another girl after all this time I might as well be.

I'm a hermit who lives in an off grid rural property behind a couple locked gates but I still manage to meet a half dozen new people every week.

Thank you

No one wants to gamble on a $17 (not including tax or tip) cocktail that a girl might want to talk

I would gamble on a $3, hell even a $5 cocktail if everything else was so relatively affordable. The problem is even fast food corps are speculative RE investors now, and they need you to pay $7 for a shitty combo deal to finance their gambling habits.

I think the root of it is really: existing outside of home is just too expensive.

He was using an SKS with stripper clips and no magazine. It has a wooden stock and was probably manufactured in the 70s. They were used in Korea and Vietnam. Patrol cops don't have armor that stops 7.62 either. Gun control was not going to stop this one.

It needs a cultural fix. Better role models, better life choices, and ending glorification of this shit.

Never going to happen for the majority. Need them to buy tokens for their AI girlfriend to funnel more money to the ultra wealthy.

I doubt it. Incels aren't rolling in dough, they have to save up for their sprees. And then, the choice is whether your $1000 will buy you one pretty good evening with a pretty good girl or a cheapo hipoint rifle, which will last the rest of your life...