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I know this won’t be well-received but our social, economic, and institutional systems are organized around male comfort, credibility, and success.

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Super vague statement, and I know I'm jumping in in the middle of this. I'm not sure you can say "male comfort," is at the center when men taking a exponentially higher proportion of "low comfort" jobs than women. Like significantly so.

Additionally, throwing terms like "credibility" and "success" out there without strict definition is haphazard. There are two spheres that you are talking about here: 1) Work Outside the House and 2) Work Inside The House.

On the second point, how do you measure "credibility," and "success," in a way that is publicly relevant or shown? Like I get the point, but the whole thing with Home life is that it is private. You, and many progressives, devalue what women can do in the home because you overvalue what happens outside of the home. And because "success" in the home isn't as monetarily rewarding as success outside of the home (but you know, it actually is, but that's a longer discussion and more esoteric), this is the way you've decided to frame the entire marriage and "human excellence" idea or whatever you want to call achievement.

The only thing that matters is "achievement" whatever that definition is. And that is only measured by earnings, "credibility," and influence. And nothing more.

It's the wrong measuring stick for marriage.

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Women are delaying or forgoing marriage because marriage has not reliably delivered safety, equity, or partnership for them. Framing this as men bravely refusing to “play the game” ignores the actual data and just lazily blames women for one more thing.

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You do realize that a large part of how we frame safety, equity and partnership is driven by culture's need to upend marriage?

This is less the fault of men, and more the fault of a culture that really wants one of two things:

1) Completely single, and isolated loners who will be easy to manipulate consumers. And that's all they will do, make and spend money

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2) 2-Working Parent households with unstable children with a complex home environment


Culture, and progressives, are completely uninterested in what marriage really is. This is why when you get to some of the studies above about happiness in marriages, especially in single working parents messages or conservative families, that ALL of the data is in the positive direction. People are happier, they live longer, kids are more well adjusted. The data is SUPER clear on stable, 2-parent traditional marriages.

The problem is you aren't looking at the collective success of the family, and you aren't looking at things like male heart disease, stress, etc. You simply isolate this to "women do more household chores and don't get public recognition for it," and that's why marriages are bad.

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Maybe this guy should learn not to stand in front of vehicles

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You want to boil this whole thing down to this decision point? And ignore the amount of choices people made to get here?

How about the poor choice of illegal aliens to enter the country? How about the poor choice of the left and media to deride law enforcement? How about the poor choice of allowing illegals to run amok? How about the poor choice of this women to cross state lines to protect people who make poor choices? How about the poor choice of interfering with law enforcement? How about the poor choice of putting the car in reverse then accelerating toward an officer?

Could see him as Dent, Black Mask or Hush pretty easily.

Leaks are all starting to be true, including the storyline.

It does feel like a classic big multi-year building comic book cross-over, so there's that.

I just don't get it.

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What was the biggest mistake of each of Louisiana's 5 biggest cities?

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Long term vision.

In general, Louisiana politics do a terrible job at that, always have, always will.

It's somewhat cultural as well. Breeds ideas like NIMBYs, chaotic political swings, and a more friendly welfare culture.

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It's not about intelligence as much as risk tolerance.

How much tolerance do you have to risk going to jail for several years (up to decades), losing everything, shaming yourself and your family, etc.?

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Which is exactly why the whole political sham works. We all value safety and comfort more than right or wrong, which might be an ok gamble. Therefore, we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of, for the political class to run rufshod over law, decency and fairness.

It is what it is. We can all sit here and complain, but without actually taking a risk - it is what it is.

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Catholics worship Mary

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Look, I'll say it. I love my Protestant brothers and sisters. No matter what, they are still Christian. They are still close to me as a Catholic and close to the truth.

But the fact that this is still a belief and an "argument" to this day makes it really difficult to take anything they say seriously.

We have explained this thing ad nauseum, and they still repeat it. Its ridiculous.

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Democrats care about political power. Nothing else.

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This is correct.

Power comes from an extremely dependent class of people who will do anything, and take any amount of money, to vote for them. Immigrants, welfare recipients, students and, classically, unions.

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no comprehension of the enormity of the universe.

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There's a reason for this.

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Income tax sucks. Once a man reaches the point at which he is valuable in his industry, he should start a company that he can sell one day and pay capital gains. And in the mean time he can take advantage of R&D tax credits or whatever the applicable scam is for his industry. For my career, I probably paid a blended tax rate - state and federal - of 28%.

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Not really available to me, but I'm sure there is a loophole I missed somewhere. With the amount I had to work to do it - I never really had the time to find it.

It was mainly tech startups - so lots of stock, PE, VC acquisitions and options trading hands.