Fantastic post!

Elite champagne socialists looking down on the actual desires of the poor and working class.

Helping men is possible in many ways that are totally independent of women. Better education from child level on how to process, express, and handle emotions. More spaces for boys and men to bond and do things as a group away from screens. Non commercial third spaces have almost vanished and are needed direly.

making women less biased against dating men that they “don’t need”?

Sounds like a typical incel meme. Almost all (hetero) women want a man as a partner. Even if they don’t necessarily need one to have a career, children, a bank account, live their own lives, and so on. The desire to share their life with a man is certainly there and strong. Maybe not in the basement you retreated to. The outside world is packed full of women looking for a suitable man as a partner.

Sexuality, procreation, and pair bonding are hardwired instincts in humans and still there.

Spend some time in places where actual real women are and listen to them to get a reality check.

There are so many mid 30s to early 40s women desperately looking for a husband to have a family with. That’s when those who thought they didn’t need a man, realize their deeper desire.

It’s a bit more complicated than feminists bad. What happened is that they were successful in many ways for example education is now dominated by women and girls have better grades and achieve higher than boys. Boys have fallen by the wayside. Boys only institutions that catered to their needs have shrunk, ceased to exist, or been replaced by mixed. Men’s issues like higher mental health issues, more homeless, more incarceration, more suicide, loneliness, addiction, etc. don’t get much attention. That’s not the feminists’ fault. Blaming men and patriarchy for every ill in society is of course an easy scapegoat and makes men feel guilty.

The far right caters to this feeling, telling men that they are okay, important, and accepted. They explicitly try to deepen the gap, not bridge it.

A better future and society is possible when we overcome the division.

Moral purity testing on the left has reached exhausting and reality defying levels.

All religions are not the same and they come in many flavors.

Some religions in some flavors cause immense suffering though.

They don’t need to be competent to be dangerous.

How many well organized have decades of experience organizing? Right wing militias are organized and equipped.

Yes, this is border agents filling their quota.

You get a minimum of 24 days paid vacation in Germany. Up 28 days are common.

The USA could use a new electoral system with proportional representation and a new constitution with a weaker president and stronger checks and balances. The two party system needs to end. Laws surrounding political advertising and public financing of political parties should be introduced to get some money out of politics.

Replace common law with civil law to no longer depend on precedent so much. Finally introduce the metric system while you’re at it.

If this Russian support structure isn’t recognized and dealt with, Trump just be replaced by the next Russian stooge.

Sodastream used to have a factory in the West Bank where they employed hundreds of Palestinians. Because of boycott pressure, they moved and hundreds of Palestinian workers lost their jobs.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/27/471885452/when-500-palestinians-lose-their-jobs-at-sodastream-whos-to-blame

BDS only cares about hurting Israel, no matter the consequences to Palestinians.

I do not celebrate genocide.

No, the borders to Egypt and Israel are closed. There are limited exceptions for medical treatment in Israel. Egypt let in people with the right paperwork (typically by paying a bribe) at the beginning of the war.

It’s very unusual for people not being able to flee from a warzone. Not giving them the option to leave is against the convention on refugees.

The Israeli navy makes it impossible to leave by boat.

Israel could allow Gazans to flee to the West Bank, but so far haven’t done so. Egypt also isn’t interested in opening the border so far, for fear of the refugees not being able to return at a later date. Egypt is afraid of another terrorist group in its country, especially one that threatens the peace with Israel.

I like that you’re theft and robbery as comparisons, because these have a major difference. Robbery always includes violence or the threat of violence.

You shoplift a candy bar from a Korean owned shop. Your fathers house was burgled by Koreans who killed your mother and stole all jewelry and the car.

Not the same.

How could I quote something that’s not in the linked article?

Your link doesn’t say what you claim it does.

Giving someone birth control (depo shot) for a short time so they don’t pregnant during a transitional refugee phase is a sensible precaution. Yes, the women didn’t fully understand what was happening. This was also caused by language and communication barriers.

Calling this chemical castration is outlandish.

The whole story is Antizionist slander.

https://thedispatch.com/article/assessing-claims-that-ethiopian-immigrants-to-israel-received-birth-control-shots-without-consent/

The threat needs to be credible though. One bomb is not enough because it could be destroyed in a first strike without fear of a second strike.

One bomb won’t make it to Moscow. Air defense will take down a single attacking missile or plane.

One won’t be enough. If they use it, Russia will at least hit the whole frontline with tactical nukes, maybe wipe out a city or two. That means Ukraine can’t use it, making it as valuable as a paperweight. For credible nuclear deterrence a country needs a few dozen nuclear weapons and more than one delivery method.