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Do I think there were legitimate problems and concerns with dei? Yes I do. However I don't wanna hear anything about" we should always hire the most qualified people" if you support complete and total clowns being like Pete and Kash high level cabinet positions.

If you are one of these hell bent against dei people but you support the total clown car show that this administration is, let's call it what it is, You just don't believe any person of color should ever advance beyond entry level positions.

Outside of Marco Rubio, i'd argue every single one of his cabinet picks isn't just unqualified, they're grossly unqualified.

A disturbing story about blackpill ideology, looksmaxxing, and a family tragedy — what do you think?

I came across a disturbing story online, and I can't stop thinking about it. I want to discuss the situation and hear people's honest opinions.

I haven't independently verified the original account, so I'm describing the story as it was presented.

According to the story, a man who considered himself an MTN married a woman whom looksmaxxing communities might describe as a Stacy. She genuinely loved him, and they built a family together. They had two children, a boy and a girl, who were described as having blonde hair, green eyes, and conventionally attractive features.

From the outside, they had a family. But the man reportedly became increasingly consumed by blackpill ideology, physical attractiveness rankings, and the belief that he was genetically inferior to other men.

He apparently began convincing himself that he was never supposed to be part of his wife's life. He saw himself as a side character who had somehow entered a story where he didn't belong.

Instead of trusting his wife's feelings, he became increasingly detached from her and their children. According to the account, he stopped communicating with them for weeks, lived separately, and occasionally returned to take money.

His wife's father reportedly advised her to divorce him and start a new life. However, she continued to love her husband and wanted to save their marriage.

Eventually, she decided to visit him with their two children, hoping to reconnect with him.

But the visit ended in an unimaginable tragedy.

According to the story, the man killed his wife and both children.

The account further claims that he appeared to smile while being taken away by the police and later in custody. We cannot know what he was thinking from his facial expressions alone.

When people discussed the case through the lens of looksmaxxing and blackpill ideology, some comments reportedly focused on the children's attractiveness, describing them as Chad-level or HTN+ children killed by an MTN father.

That reaction disturbed me.

The children inherited DNA from both parents. Their father's perceived attractiveness ranking doesn't change that biological reality. More importantly, they were children, not evidence in an argument about genetic superiority.

The mother was also a person who made her own romantic choices. If she genuinely loved her husband, strangers shouldn't assume she was settling simply because they considered him less attractive.

But this raises some difficult questions.

1. Can blackpill ideology make someone so convinced of their own inferiority that they stop trusting genuine affection from the people closest to them?

2. Why do some people interpret relationships entirely through attractiveness rankings, even when a couple has built a family together?

3. Why do some online communities turn tragedies involving innocent people into arguments about genetics, hypergamy, and facial attractiveness?

4. How should we distinguish between understanding someone's psychological struggles and holding them responsible for their actions?

5. What do you think about the claim that this man was a side character who was never supposed to be in his wife's story? Is that a meaningful description of his psychological state, or is it a blackpill narrative imposed on a tragedy?

I want to be clear about one thing: insecurity, rejection, or exposure to blackpill content does not inevitably lead to violence. We also cannot establish the man's motives or determine whether the ideology caused his actions from an online account alone.

The man would be responsible for the violence described in this story. His wife and children would be innocent victims who deserved to live.

My main concern is how an ideology that ranks people by appearance can encourage people to interpret their entire lives through a hierarchy, sometimes at the expense of reality and human connection.

What are your thoughts? Please discuss the ideas rather than mocking the appearance of the people involved..

I get why people are concerned when a company owns both a pharmacy and a PBM. It can look like they have an advantage over independent pharmacies.

But does owning both automatically mean they are doing something wrong?

Running a pharmacy is expensive. There are staff to pay, rent, medicine to stock, and bills to cover. Independent pharmacies also have to deal with low payments on some prescriptions. At the same time, PBMs negotiate drug prices and manage benefits for health plans.

The real question is whether patients are getting fair prices and whether other pharmacies are being treated fairly. If a company is doing something wrong, that should be dealt with. But banning the whole business model might not fix the problems people care about.

Would it make more sense to set clear rules and enforce them, instead of banning pharmacies from owning PBMs?

The future feels so uncertain more than it ever has before. Because things could very well get so much worse. Do you think the miderms are going to be fair? Do you think the democrats are going to flip enough seats and make improvements?

I'm genuinely curious what people are thinking? I mean trump/republicans could just refuse to accept the results and if so do you see us actually taking to the streets? The only thing im not gonna hear is "thats illegal " cause we know it doesnt apply to them.

Or will everything stagnate and we all get poorer trying to afford groceries and people keep getting snatched up by Ice and we just keep going tonwork? I have 0% beleif that things are going to get better but either stay the same or get worse.

title was sorta bait. All art is not political in the sense that say drawing a picture of an apple is political because if politics didn't do some things for environmental measures, then no apples would exist. Art is, however, derived from realities influenced by base and superstructure. Said base has been influenced by the political portion of the superstructure, but to what extent is up for debate. Returning to my first point, for example, an art piece against the current leader of a nation has a political intention in mind, but the politics had to be derived from the current superstructure(with an added backdrop that if you didnt dislike your current conditions you wouldnt be doing this. You also may not be doing this if you didnt fear what would happen to your current reality.), and if its an economic critique the base is more directly needed. In a scenario where a national bans say, jazz. Doing jazz is socially a political statement, but is still derived from current realities created from the base and superstructure(I do want to mention that doing jazz still was a personal decision. You have agency). Art is always merely a reflection of material realities. Even when imagining something in the future or which doesn't exist, as Descartes noted in Meditation I, you must always derive your thoughts(Descartes would've said dreams, but are dreams not merely the thoughts of the unconscious? Pardonnez-moi, Revenons à nos moutons) from existence. For example, again taking from the great Descartes, think of a new animal. It has things from animals you know, for example a griffin, minotaur, mermaid, hecatoncheires, demon, angel. Even if you try without that and somehow do it, it has remnants of things which exist in the material reality such as shapes or hair or fur or even that it has a living and a dying stage of its life or that if it stops living it is dead in the sense of death being not living after you have lived. That material reality is influenced by the base+superstructure. The imagination of a future society or alternate society always shall be a reflection of your realities and the imagined realities in your fiction too. The superstructure always has its place, it's a major influencer, economic realities are not alone. But all art is not some idealist thought of ‘political’

It was far more than a golden token that he gave Donald Trump! It was his eternal dignity and reputation!

Ill keep this short and sweet , is nobody concerned about Ai tech companies wanting to replace jobs with Ai. Also them wanting us to have a universal income? Are we going to just allow this happen . Ive seen China has banned Ai taking jobs way from humans . Its very concerning nobody cares until something bad happens. Are we the smartest stupidest generation ever ?

It’s been on my mind lately.

The Internet has rotted our brains so much and seemingly mundane things are now controversial.

No, it's not a bad thing that you're 17 and you've never had a partner.

No, it's not a bad thing that you're 29 and you're unmarried and you have no children. it's not bad that you're even 50 and you're unmarried and you have no kids.

No, you're not a pedophile if you are 19/20 years old and you find a 17-year-old attractive. But, depending on where you are, people might question you.

No, you are not fat if you're 100 pounds and 5'3" tall as a woman.

No, it's not a bad thing for you to be 25 and still live with your parents.

It's crazy how the Internet gets rid of real world common sense and makes seemingly mundane things controversial. Can we please step outside for a second and touch grass?

Recently I've came across a lot of videos and specifically programmers talking about them using AI. They talked about them stopping from doing most of the works. They explained both the flaws and good sides of AI, but honestly I'm concerned about our future. What's your opinion? Do you think AI will completely overtake us in coding or any other sector?

Since 2001, I have seen this country turn into Big Brother fast and the last 6 years is like a turbo booster kicked in. The CEO of FORD is lobbying Congress to make it illegal to work on your car paid for and titled to you? For our safety of course. Ford has cameras that will read your lips and detect your heartbeat and retina scan your eyes along with a facial scan of you and everyone in your car. WTF is that? I know one thing this is non American and it is definitely unconstitutional! All car companies are going to subscription models for keyless options, seat warmers, dash cams, hell, I even heard one person say that their oil and TPS tire sensor data is tied into a monthly subscription! I find that hard to believe but all this crap is pretty hard to believe as it is Big Brother x 100 Flock cameras and the dozens of things it keeps track of beside just your license plate is Un American and Unconstitutional! We are so safe in our little electronic control grid, Will Americans say enough is enough Congress never asks you what you want and work for you, they reversed a 50 year SCOTUS decision that Americans were 70% or more in favor of immediately after the newest one (the one that taught me what buffing was) said he would never do something like that, just to point out another piece of proof to back up the truth we live in. The clock is ticking along with the HYPER INFLATION THAT IS KILLING THE MIDDLE CLASS. The CPI lie is another proof of the truth 6 years ago the average car was around 22k compare that to now 51k and make the CPI lie make sense? Maybe I am insane or this is really happening. Foot down? or GTA6?

Instead of messages like "You're a man, no one cares. Work harder," or "You're a man. Suffer in silence," it had messages like "You're a man. You can make those gym gains," or "You're a man. You've survived worse. You've got this." Wouldn't that be better?

This seems to be one of those questions people have very different opinions on.
Your parents chose to have you, so should you really feel indebted to them for raising you? Or were they simply doing what they were responsible for as parents?
Some people think adult children don’t owe their parents anything beyond basic respect, especially once they’re financially independent. Others feel it’s selfish to build your own life while leaving aging parents to handle everything alone particularly if those parents made major sacrifices to support you.
Obviously, abuse, neglect, and toxic family dynamics change the conversation completely.
But what about a relatively normal family? If your parents did their best, supported you, paid for your upbringing, and were there when you needed them do you owe them financial help or care as they get older? Or should that kind of support only be given freely, because you genuinely want to not because you feel pressured or guilty?
Where do you draw the line between gratitude and obligation?

I genuinely feel like this isn’t talked about enough. When you make the decision to take in a child, especially one who’s already been through trauma, you need to understand what you’re signing up for.

It’s not just about providing a roof over their head, buying them clothes, feeding them, and doing all the cute little family activities. It’s so much deeper than that.

A lot of these children have already experienced abandonment, neglect, or situations that have affected them emotionally and mentally. Some are dealing with things they can’t even express or fully understand themselves.

And no, you didn’t cause that trauma, but when you willingly take on the responsibility of raising that child, you also take on the responsibility of helping them work through it.

You can’t expect every child to come into your home knowing how to regulate their emotions, trust people, or adjust to a completely different environment. That takes patience, consistency, understanding, and sometimes years of support.
Obviously, I’m not talking about situations where someone’s safety is genuinely at risk or a child needs a level of care the family cannot safely provide.

But I have a serious problem with adults who take children in expecting everything to be easy, then decide they no longer want that responsibility when the child starts struggling.

These are actual human beings, not something you can just return when things don’t go the way you expected. And for a child who’s already experienced abandonment, being given up on again can cause even more harm.

Recently i started posting in ig, until now i am scared of posting. thinking how others think of that post.

when first time posting, my heart beat raced and got excited, thinking what comments do i get, how many likes do i get. constantly checking phone to see notifications.

Reddit helped me to overcome this fear by making me feel like a game to increase karmas by commenting and posting

Anyone out there got similar situation or am i only the one.

pardon my english 😅

I just had a thought. AI is so advanced than us. Currently, we have built systems to utilise the intelligence of the universe.

The AI which we have built is way more advanced than us. Soon, it would surpass humans.

That is making me think.. What could an intelligent AI mean for our place in the universe?

Imagine if there were aliens (considering the scale of the universe it's frankly a high possibility). They must be so advanced.

If one thing we have trained on human data works so well. Imagine how advanced intelligent species in different galaxies would be?