Trust I haven't become radicalised. Yesterday my return to Crusader Kings III as Leon Phokas saw me have an affair with the emperor's wife, then legitimise our bastard daughter.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
Yes, it's a theme that I find interesting.
The political Gender divide amongst the young becomes ever more stark. Germany is the latest to show it.
I think it explains a lot about declining fertility rates. What young woman wants to have a family with a radicalised product of the #manosphere?
Trust I haven't become radicalised. Yesterday my return to Crusader Kings III as Leon Phokas saw me have an affair with the emperor's wife, then legitimise our bastard daughter.
It remains to be seen iMerz can get Germany back to being a serious nation,
His big disadvantage is he is 69 so looks more like a one term Chancellor when Germany needs a two term chancellor to get it back on its feet.
Trust I haven't become radicalised. Yesterday my return to Crusader Kings III as Leon Phokas saw me have an affair with the emperor's wife, then legitimise our bastard daughter.
It remains to be seen iMerz can get Germany back to being a serious nation,
His big disadvantage is he is 69 so looks more like a one term Chancellor when Germany needs a two term chancellor to get it back on its feet.
A mere baby compared with the American Gerontocracy!
It is fascinating, and (I suspect) is behind Thiel's comments about how the expansion of the franchise to women has contributed to the "decline of democracy".
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
Men have been told they're latent rapists and neatherdals and their only role in future is to act as "allies" in a future which is female, who are both equal and better than them?
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
If this were reversed, there'd be calls for action to support women and, likely, denouncements of an inherently pro-male bias in the system.
We saw this with book prize competitions. When they were male-dominated, it was a problem to be solved. Now they're even more female-dominated, nobody gives a shit.
Trust I haven't become radicalised. Yesterday my return to Crusader Kings III as Leon Phokas saw me have an affair with the emperor's wife, then legitimise our bastard daughter.
It remains to be seen iMerz can get Germany back to being a serious nation,
His big disadvantage is he is 69 so looks more like a one term Chancellor when Germany needs a two term chancellor to get it back on its feet.
A mere baby compared with the American Gerontocracy!
Of course. But Trump\Biden\Pelosi\McConnell has been a complete screw up for the States
Maybe Soder will step in to the gap post Merz he's 58. However he'll be facing off to Alice Weidel - 46 - and maybe Heidi Reichinnek - 37 - so maybe the CDU need to skip a generation
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
I think that's perhaps exaggerating it, but certainly an element of truth. I see the same trend with our medical students.
I think online gaming radicalised a lot of young men, as well as affecting their concentration. There's pretty good evidence that young women are more harmed by social media, and I think the effect of violent online games on young men needs attention too.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
Men have been told they're latent rapists and neatherdals and their only role in future is to act as "allies" in a future which is female, who are both equal and better than them?
Is it any wonder?
Unless they watch Andrew Tate, in which case they are told that they should grab any woman they like.
Or unless they are a member of a protestant evangelical church in the US.
Or unless they listen to Kendrick or Dr Dre or Drake or Travis Scott or King Von.
Personally, having teenage kids, I notice no meaningful difference between their upbringing and mine, except alcohol is less available, cannabis more, and the music today involves a lot more swearing.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
It's not that women are scrounging, it's that feckless men have left them literally holding the baby.
@Gerashchenko_en Ukraine's allies are arriving in Kyiv on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Council António Costa, PM of Canada Justin Trudeau, PM of Estonia Kristen Michal, PM of Spain Pedro Sánchez, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda and President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs have arrived in Kyiv.
13 leaders are scheduled to be in Kyiv today, and 24 more will join an online meeting to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine and collective security.
That's a much abused graph. But young men tend more radical right and young men more radical left.
I do wonder if the divide is somewhat contrived. They both have similar interests: mass disillusionment in common and a disengagement with mainstream politics. To the extent that division has arisen it's hugely fuelled by language and identity politics, which is to some extent artificial.
Note the divergence post the rise in social media in 2010.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
Are you a man?
Your link also says 94% of child benefit goes to women the scrounging bitches
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
The whole way we talk about sex and gender in Western countries is destructive, IMHO.
Women tend to be more conservative than men. The leading parties of the right are explicitly not conservative but radical wanting sharp, drastic changes on how society is run and very willing to risk the status quo to implement them.
The parties of the left tend not be particularly liberal either. We need better terminology.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
I think that's perhaps exaggerating it, but certainly an element of truth. I see the same trend with our medical students.
100% the case with A-Level students. The boys generally aren't as organised or committed. I've noticed the decline in the 10+ years I've been doing it. I probably won't take on any male students next year as there is a decent chance they'll drag my batting average down. This what the woke left want. It's me. I'm the woke left.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
If this were reversed, there'd be calls for action to support women and, likely, denouncements of an inherently pro-male bias in the system.
We saw this with book prize competitions. When they were male-dominated, it was a problem to be solved. Now they're even more female-dominated, nobody gives a shit.
As it happens I agree that there have to be interventions to support boys. If it were up to me it would start by delaying when they start school by a year or two. The outcome is path dependent from that moment on. Guys lack the maturity at 5-6 (not the intelligence) as conpared with girls and they spend ten years of primary education just catching up to the girls - that is 10 years with few academic victories to shape their identity. Secondly I would seriously circumscribe gaming and social media/phones for as long as humanly possible.
So, I am an associate dean at a major business school and I can tell you my attention is directed at young struggling men and their progression. The notion that women get all the attention is just not correct where I am. Women largely take responsibility for their degrees and do very well. Guys are the ones that struggle most and we work hard to create interventions and provide support. And it is not just that we want to do it. OfS requires us to identify and support these struggling students.
The crazy thing is we get the high performing guys and while a small groups of guys do very well, especially in quantitative modules, I am aware that there is a vast group of young men that drop out of basic schooling and upper secondary... that huge group need to be addressed. That is where the politics of resentment takes hold.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
Men have been told they're latent rapists and neatherdals and their only role in future is to act as "allies" in a future which is female, who are both equal and better than them?
Is it any wonder?
Unless they watch Andrew Tate, in which case they are told that they should grab any woman they like.
Or unless they are a member of a protestant evangelical church in the US.
Or unless they listen to Kendrick or Dr Dre or Drake or Travis Scott or King Von.
Personally, having teenage kids, I notice no meaningful difference between their upbringing and mine, except alcohol is less available, cannabis more, and the music today involves a lot more swearing.
You must be younger than I thought if you grew up with Switch and Fortnite
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
I think that's perhaps exaggerating it, but certainly an element of truth. I see the same trend with our medical students.
100% the case with A-Level students. The boys generally aren't as organised or committed. I've noticed the decline in the 10+ years I've been doing it. I probably won't take on any male students next year as there is a decent chance they'll drag my batting average down. This what the woke left want. It's me. I'm the woke left.
Boys/men mature later on average. Perhaps a school and uni system which pushes people to take exams at 16/18/21 is poorly designed for young men? Particularly since nowadays qualifications and credentials are seen as so jmportant...
That's a much abused graph. But young men tend more radical right and young men more radical left.
I do wonder if the divide is somewhat contrived. They both have similar interests: mass disillusionment in common and a disengagement with mainstream politics. To the extent that division has arisen it's hugely fuelled by language and identity politics, which is to some extent artificial.
Note the divergence post the rise in social media in 2010.
Not just Social Media but online gaming too since 2010.
I was a keen boardgames in my teens, but have deliberately steered clear of electronic gaming. In part it's because so many online games are moronically violent but also because I have seen how addictive they are for young men. Fortunately my boys have grown past that stage.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
Are you a man?
Your link also says 94% of child benefit goes to women the scrounging bitches
That might be because men hardly ever stick around to take care of the kids if there is a split
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
If this were reversed, there'd be calls for action to support women and, likely, denouncements of an inherently pro-male bias in the system.
We saw this with book prize competitions. When they were male-dominated, it was a problem to be solved. Now they're even more female-dominated, nobody gives a shit.
As it happens I agree that there have to be interventions to support boys. If it were up to me it would start by delaying when they start school by a year or two. The outcome is path dependent from that moment on. Guys lack the maturity at 5-6 (not the intelligence) as conpared with girls and they spend ten years of primary education just catching up to the girls - that is 10 years with few academic victories to shape their identity. Secondly I would seriously circumscribe gaming and social media/phones for as long as humanly possible.
So, I am an associate dean at a major business school and I can tell you my attention is directed at young struggling men and their progression. The notion that women get all the attention is just not correct where I am. Women largely take responsibility for their degrees and do very well. Guys are the ones that struggle most and we work hard to create interventions and provide support. And it is not just that we want to do it. OfS requires us to identify and support these struggling students.
The crazy thing is we get the high performing guys and while a small groups of guys do very well, especially in quantitative modules, I am aware that there is a vast group of young men that drop out of basic schooling and upper secondary... that huge group need to be addressed. That is where the politics of resentment takes hold.
How do young struggling men end up in a major business school? There must be some selection effects you're ignoring.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
It's not that women are scrounging, it's that feckless men have left them literally holding the baby.
Aren't most divorces and break-ups initiated by women?
That's a much abused graph. But young men tend more radical right and young men more radical left.
I do wonder if the divide is somewhat contrived. They both have similar interests: mass disillusionment in common and a disengagement with mainstream politics. To the extent that division has arisen it's hugely fuelled by language and identity politics, which is to some extent artificial.
Note the divergence post the rise in social media in 2010.
Not just Social Media but online gaming too since 2010.
I was a keen boardgames in my teens, but have deliberately steered clear of electronic gaming. In part it's because so many online games are moronically violent but also because I have seen how addictive they are for young men. Fortunately my boys have grown past that stage.
It's not entirely new. In the 1990s, when I was growing up, "sex education" was basically designed to turn teenagers off sex, delay sex, or wear so many contraceptives that it was pointless. The spectre of AIDS, in particular, and other venereal diseases was ever present.
Essentially, we were taught it was dangerous. And that women would respect us much more - and we'd eventually get better sex, in a loving relationship - if we showed ourselves undriven by it.
It basically took until I was 20 to unlearn that propaganda.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
I think that's perhaps exaggerating it, but certainly an element of truth. I see the same trend with our medical students.
I think online gaming radicalised a lot of young men, as well as affecting their concentration. There's pretty good evidence that young women are more harmed by social media, and I think the effect of violent online games on young men needs attention too.
I've been playing games like Duke Nukem, Quake and Doom since the mid 1990s. Plus lots of strategy games. GTA etc.
I heard the same crap about violent games back then too.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
It's not that women are scrounging, it's that feckless men have left them literally holding the baby.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
Men have been told they're latent rapists and neatherdals and their only role in future is to act as "allies" in a future which is female, who are both equal and better than them?
Is it any wonder?
Unless they watch Andrew Tate, in which case they are told that they should grab any woman they like.
Or unless they are a member of a protestant evangelical church in the US.
Or unless they listen to Kendrick or Dr Dre or Drake or Travis Scott or King Von.
Personally, having teenage kids, I notice no meaningful difference between their upbringing and mine, except alcohol is less available, cannabis more, and the music today involves a lot more swearing.
Swearing was filtered out by Radio 1 - not at all on youtube.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
It's not that women are scrounging, it's that feckless men have left them literally holding the baby.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
Men have been told they're latent rapists and neatherdals and their only role in future is to act as "allies" in a future which is female, who are both equal and better than them?
Is it any wonder?
Unless they watch Andrew Tate, in which case they are told that they should grab any woman they like.
Or unless they are a member of a protestant evangelical church in the US.
Or unless they listen to Kendrick or Dr Dre or Drake or Travis Scott or King Von.
Personally, having teenage kids, I notice no meaningful difference between their upbringing and mine, except alcohol is less available, cannabis more, and the music today involves a lot more swearing.
But that's precisely my point.
It drives a polarisation where both sides feed off each other.
CDU/CSU 28.6% AFD 20.8% SPD 16.4% Green 11.6% Linke 8.8%
Total of above = 86.2%
CDU/CSU + SPD has 45% - well over half of the 86.2%.
They're held up by older voters.
We are at very high risk of getting a radical right or radical left government in several European countries in the next 10-20 years.
Neither will be pleasant.
It looks as if a Grand Coalition (CDU/CSU + SPD) will be possible now that the final results of this German federal election are in; it will have just 45% of the vote share and have 328/630 seats in the Bundestag. By contrast, the first post-WW2 German Grand Coalition in 1966-9 represented over 80% of voters and had 447/496 seats, with the FDP forming the sole opposition.
The opposition parties in the new Bundestag all appear to be from the radical left or right (apart from the sole seat for the Danish regional party), unless the German Green party is more moderate than its British equivalent, which seems now to be a home for some of the Corbynite left wing. Comparisons with the UK are not always appropriate; with a similar GE result in the UK, the most likely coalition would be between the Tories and Reform.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
Yes, it's a theme that I find interesting.
The political Gender divide amongst the young becomes ever more stark. Germany is the latest to show it.
I think it explains a lot about declining fertility rates. What young woman wants to have a family with a radicalised product of the #manosphere?
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
It's not that women are scrounging, it's that feckless men have left them literally holding the baby.
And there we have it.
Dumb language.
I’d say there as many awful women as there are awful men, in our society.
A lawyer tends to see human nature at its most dark.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
I think that's perhaps exaggerating it, but certainly an element of truth. I see the same trend with our medical students.
I think online gaming radicalised a lot of young men, as well as affecting their concentration. There's pretty good evidence that young women are more harmed by social media, and I think the effect of violent online games on young men needs attention too.
I've been playing games like Duke Nukem, Quake and Doom since the mid 1990s. Plus lots of strategy games. GTA etc.
I heard the same crap about violent games back then too.
Don't think that is it.
You also (I guess!) had a life outside of games.
I fear issues become prominent when all someone has is computer games and online chat, with little or no balanced life outside games. And I know of at least one guy in his early twenties like that.
I mean, I was into computers and games in my teens and twenties. Obviously. But I still went out with mates, volunteered at a preserved railway, and did loads of other 'life' things outside computers.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
Men have been told they're latent rapists and neatherdals and their only role in future is to act as "allies" in a future which is female, who are both equal and better than them?
Is it any wonder?
Unless they watch Andrew Tate, in which case they are told that they should grab any woman they like.
Or unless they are a member of a protestant evangelical church in the US.
Or unless they listen to Kendrick or Dr Dre or Drake or Travis Scott or King Von.
Personally, having teenage kids, I notice no meaningful difference between their upbringing and mine, except alcohol is less available, cannabis more, and the music today involves a lot more swearing.
Swearing was filtered out by Radio 1 - not at all on youtube.
Not quite imo - Youtube demonetises and slugs-in-the-algorithm in a large range of circumstances, both for soundtrack and for what's in the images.
I've never heard so many circumlocutions. They are trying to recreate the Mickey Mouse Club - it's like a Usonian residents association's Karen-Force.
I don't think they are on to regional or Shakespearean swear words yet - "futtock", "wazzock", "fustilugs", "fopdoodle".
It is notable how many Ukraine focused channels have created their own platforms - either via Patreon (who also censor, but less), Discord , Rumble, or completely independent.
Your comment on Bluesky is a bit more opinionated:
There's a massive divide in many countries between empathetic young women and incel men radicalised in the online manosphere and through violent gaming.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
It's not that women are scrounging, it's that feckless men have left them literally holding the baby.
And there we have it.
Dumb language.
Try reading the post foxy was replying to!
I did. It was a general comment.
None of profit from geeing up a gender war, except Meta and TikTok.
Germany’s Merz calls for ‘independence’ from US after election win
Calls from Macron, Merz and von der Leyen for a Gaullist-style independent EU-based defence and foreign policy will leave the UK and Turkiye (the 2 large countries on the fringes of Europe that are within NATO but outwith the EU) out in the cold. It would leave the UK with little choice other than to throw in its lot with the USA; Starmer will need to be very careful in his imminent meeting with Trump.
CDU/CSU 28.6% AFD 20.8% SPD 16.4% Green 11.6% Linke 8.8%
Total of above = 86.2%
CDU/CSU + SPD has 45% - well over half of the 86.2%.
They're held up by older voters.
We are at very high risk of getting a radical right or radical left government in several European countries in the next 10-20 years.
Neither will be pleasant.
It looks as if a Grand Coalition (CDU/CSU + SPD) will be possible now that the final results of this German federal election are in; it will have just 45% of the vote share and have 328/630 seats in the Bundestag. By contrast, the first post-WW2 German Grand Coalition in 1966-9 represented over 80% of voters and had 447/496 seats, with the FDP forming the sole opposition.
The opposition parties in the new Bundestag all appear to be from the radical left or right (apart from the sole seat for the Danish regional party), unless the German Green party is more moderate than its British equivalent, which seems now to be a home for some of the Corbynite left wing. Comparisons with the UK are not always appropriate; with a similar GE result in the UK, the most likely coalition would be between the Tories and Reform.
The Greens are center-left if anything. The AfD are more Britain First/EDL than Reform
Boys/men mature later on average. Perhaps a school and uni system which pushes people to take exams at 16/18/21 is poorly designed for young men? Particularly since nowadays qualifications and credentials are seen as so jmportant...
There might be something in that but something has changed over time. When I think about the boys I was in Middle Sixth with, some of them (not me obviously) were like fucking A.E. Housman compared to the Balatro anesthetised golems I get now.
Germany’s Merz calls for ‘independence’ from US after election win
Calls from Macron, Merz and von der Leyen for a Gaullist-style independent EU-based defence and foreign policy will leave the UK and Turkiye (the 2 large countries on the fringes of Europe that are within NATO but outwith the EU) out in the cold. It would leave the UK with little choice other than to throw in its lot with the USA; Starmer will need to be very careful in his imminent meeting with Trump.
Odd given that 3 days ago Merz said "That we have to talk to the British and French whether their nuclear protection could also be extended to us is an issue that the French government has repeatedly raised with the German government,"
Boys/men mature later on average. Perhaps a school and uni system which pushes people to take exams at 16/18/21 is poorly designed for young men? Particularly since nowadays qualifications and credentials are seen as so jmportant...
There might be something in that but something has changed over time. When I think about the boys I was in Middle Sixth with, some of them (not me obviously) were like fucking A.E. Housman compared to the Balatro anesthetised golems I get now.
I teach at university and especially in the undergraduate programmes the best students are almost universally women. Young men are broadly unable to gather themselves around reading even short texts, they are often are not systematic or capable of critical thinking, the vast majority of absent or late comers are men. There is a deep deep crisis in young masculinity. And it has accelerated over the last 15-20 years. I suspect this is part of the story
If this were reversed, there'd be calls for action to support women and, likely, denouncements of an inherently pro-male bias in the system.
We saw this with book prize competitions. When they were male-dominated, it was a problem to be solved. Now they're even more female-dominated, nobody gives a shit.
As it happens I agree that there have to be interventions to support boys. If it were up to me it would start by delaying when they start school by a year or two. The outcome is path dependent from that moment on. Guys lack the maturity at 5-6 (not the intelligence) as conpared with girls and they spend ten years of primary education just catching up to the girls - that is 10 years with few academic victories to shape their identity. Secondly I would seriously circumscribe gaming and social media/phones for as long as humanly possible.
So, I am an associate dean at a major business school and I can tell you my attention is directed at young struggling men and their progression. The notion that women get all the attention is just not correct where I am. Women largely take responsibility for their degrees and do very well. Guys are the ones that struggle most and we work hard to create interventions and provide support. And it is not just that we want to do it. OfS requires us to identify and support these struggling students.
The crazy thing is we get the high performing guys and while a small groups of guys do very well, especially in quantitative modules, I am aware that there is a vast group of young men that drop out of basic schooling and upper secondary... that huge group need to be addressed. That is where the politics of resentment takes hold.
How do young struggling men end up in a major business school? There must be some selection effects you're ignoring.
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Im still waiting for her to be outed as a FSB operative
Fox News publishing diatician approved eggless breakfast recipes to give you a good start to the day.
- Protein-packed breakfast tacos
- Mini banana pancake bites
- Eggless banana muffin recipe with flax
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/dietitian-shares-simple-eggless-breakfast-recipes-egg-prices-soar
Somewhat concerning result from Germany.
Trust I haven't become radicalised. Yesterday my return to Crusader Kings III as Leon Phokas saw me have an affair with the emperor's wife, then legitimise our bastard daughter.
The political Gender divide amongst the young becomes ever more stark. Germany is the latest to show it.
I think it explains a lot about declining fertility rates. What young woman wants to have a family with a radicalised product of the #manosphere?
(Lefty men are in clover though!)
https://bsky.app/profile/foxinsoxuk.bsky.social/post/3livrecbjtk2b
His big disadvantage is he is 69 so looks more like a one term Chancellor when Germany needs a two term chancellor to get it back on its feet.
The Reich recommends delicious acorn coffee to start the day!
https://x.com/jameshawes2/status/1893903890875080809?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Is it any wonder?
We saw this with book prize competitions. When they were male-dominated, it was a problem to be solved. Now they're even more female-dominated, nobody gives a shit.
Maybe Soder will step in to the gap post Merz he's 58. However he'll be facing off to Alice Weidel - 46 - and maybe Heidi Reichinnek - 37 - so maybe the CDU need to skip a generation
We are at very high risk of getting a radical right or radical left government in several European countries in the next 10-20 years.
Neither will be pleasant.
I think online gaming radicalised a lot of young men, as well as affecting their concentration. There's pretty good evidence that young women are more harmed by social media, and I think the effect of violent online games on young men needs attention too.
It's hardly surprising that men are more likely to be conservative when men disproportionately earn money and are taxed to the absolute limit to pay for welfare benefits that disproportionately benefit women, and then are insulted as misogynists and potential rapists into the bargain.
The surprising thing is that the gender voting split was ever more balanced.
Or unless they are a member of a protestant evangelical church in the US.
Or unless they listen to Kendrick or Dr Dre or Drake or Travis Scott or King Von.
Personally, having teenage kids, I notice no meaningful difference between their upbringing and mine, except alcohol is less available, cannabis more, and the music today involves a lot more swearing.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1074494
Cornflakes
Egg on Top
Tea poured over
(That may be apocryphal - it was in a comic letters page when I was a youngling.)
Ukraine's allies are arriving in Kyiv on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Council António Costa, PM of Canada Justin Trudeau, PM of Estonia Kristen Michal, PM of Spain Pedro Sánchez, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda and President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs have arrived in Kyiv.
13 leaders are scheduled to be in Kyiv today, and 24 more will join an online meeting to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine and collective security.
Thank you for standing with Ukraine!
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1893917081952833814
I do wonder if the divide is somewhat contrived. They both have similar interests: mass disillusionment in common and a disengagement with mainstream politics. To the extent that division has arisen it's hugely fuelled by language and identity politics, which is to some extent artificial.
Note the divergence post the rise in social media in 2010.
Your link also says 94% of child benefit goes to women the scrounging bitches
The parties of the left tend not be particularly liberal either. We need better terminology.
Australia and New Zealand risk isolation.
So, I am an associate dean at a major business school and I can tell you my attention is directed at young struggling men and their progression. The notion that women get all the attention is just not correct where I am. Women largely take responsibility for their degrees and do very well. Guys are the ones that struggle most and we work hard to create interventions and provide support. And it is not just that we want to do it. OfS requires us to identify and support these struggling students.
The crazy thing is we get the high performing guys and while a small groups of guys do very well, especially in quantitative modules, I am aware that there is a vast group of young men that drop out of basic schooling and upper secondary... that huge group need to be addressed. That is where the politics of resentment takes hold.
I was a keen boardgames in my teens, but have deliberately steered clear of electronic gaming. In part it's because so many online games are moronically violent but also because I have seen how addictive they are for young men. Fortunately my boys have grown past that stage.
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Essentially, we were taught it was dangerous. And that women would respect us much more - and we'd eventually get better sex, in a loving relationship - if we showed ourselves undriven by it.
It basically took until I was 20 to unlearn that propaganda.
I heard the same crap about violent games back then too.
Don't think that is it.
Dumb language.
It drives a polarisation where both sides feed off each other.
So who will stop the madness?
The opposition parties in the new Bundestag all appear to be from the radical left or right (apart from the sole seat for the Danish regional party), unless the German Green party is more moderate than its British equivalent, which seems now to be a home for some of the Corbynite left wing. Comparisons with the UK are not always appropriate; with a similar GE result in the UK, the most likely coalition would be between the Tories and Reform.
All he has to do is switch to Tribune and join Bluesky.
A lawyer tends to see human nature at its most dark.
I fear issues become prominent when all someone has is computer games and online chat, with little or no balanced life outside games. And I know of at least one guy in his early twenties like that.
I mean, I was into computers and games in my teens and twenties. Obviously. But I still went out with mates, volunteered at a preserved railway, and did loads of other 'life' things outside computers.
I've never heard so many circumlocutions. They are trying to recreate the Mickey Mouse Club - it's like a Usonian residents association's Karen-Force.
I don't think they are on to regional or Shakespearean swear words yet - "futtock", "wazzock", "fustilugs", "fopdoodle".
It is notable how many Ukraine focused channels have created their own platforms - either via Patreon (who also censor, but less), Discord , Rumble, or completely independent.
None of profit from geeing up a gender war, except Meta and TikTok.
https://apnews.com/article/eggs-stolen-pennsylvania-100000-c1c260ca05b9f84612c61071cb504939
The AfD are more Britain First/EDL than Reform
"That we have to talk to the British and French whether their nuclear protection could also be extended to us is an issue that the French government has repeatedly raised with the German government,"