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Without wishing to defend men who follow Manosphere influencers, all the grousing about how young people don't want to take responsibility, and that's why their prospects are bad, is really tiresome rhetoric, utterly disconnected from the financial reality of our times. Try a different line of argument.

This is the first time I've seen someone make the cost of living into a gender issue. I am a 27 year old man and I know lots of women in my age group who also have problems with the cost of living crisis and failure to launch, including my own sister. But hey, I guess our entire collective demographic must be a bunch of losers with no drive. Until this kind of thinking abates, don't hope to see an end to the Manosphere influencers, or any other group of snake oil salesmen selling false solutions to angry, vulnerable groups. This kind of thinking keeps perpetuating this crisis, and will continue to do so until older folk wake up to the reality of the financial mountain of shit the younger generations have been handed. This is populist politicking 101 - the easiest way to manipulate people to do what you want is to take a disenfranchised group that feels like they have been thrown overboard by the system, make them feel like they are being listened to, and present solutions, even if those solutions are batshit insane.

No amount of telling young men to pull themselves up by the bootstraps is going to pull us out of this mess.
 
T3G said:
Without wishing to defend men who follow Manosphere influencers, all the grousing about how young people don't want to take responsibility, and that's why their prospects are bad, is really tiresome rhetoric, utterly disconnected from the financial reality of our times. Try a different line of argument.

This is the first time I've seen someone make the cost of living into a gender issue. I am a 27 year old man and I know lots of women in my age group who also have problems with the cost of living crisis and failure to launch, including my own sister. But hey, I guess our entire collective demographic must be a bunch of losers with no drive. Until this kind of thinking abates, don't hope to see an end to the Manosphere influencers, or any other group of snake oil salesmen selling false solutions to angry, vulnerable groups. This kind of thinking keeps perpetuating this crisis, and will continue to do so until older folk wake up to the reality of the financial mountain of shit the younger generations have been handed. This is populist politicking 101 - the easiest way to manipulate people to do what you want is to take a disenfranchised group that feels like they have been thrown overboard by the system, make them feel like they are being listened to, and present solutions, even if those solutions are batshit insane.

No amount of telling young men to pull themselves up by the bootstraps is going to pull us out of this mess.
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Of course, one could "both sides" the gender issue by highlighting, among females, not the educational-overachiever element but the shallow-influencer element--the kind of thing that could analogously bankrupt and ruin *them* unless they had sugar daddies on hand. But I guess the stereotype *there* might be that those types are too shallow to even bother voting. (Which might, in its way, fulfil and compliment a manospheric ideal)
 
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afransen said:
The difficult thing for young men is that with catastrophically expensive housing, to have a hope of being able to buy a home requires more than just a decent job but good financial management and not to waste money on drinking, cars, gambling, eating out/doordash etc. It feels like financial education has only gotten worse.
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I'm destined to be a life long renter because I've made the choice that I value travelling the world more than having a mortgage. Being in my late 30's, I have no desire to take on a mortgage after the age of 40 and potentially screw over my ability to retire early.

Back in my late 20's/ early 30's the high cost of housing in this country caused me a considerable level of distress and anger. Now I've just come to terms with it. All the years I spent working long hours my job in order to save up for a down payment, I'm going to keep the money in the stock market and use to travel across Europe and Asia.

When I champion making housing affordable in this country, I'm thinking of the younger generations. Even if housing does become affordable, I'll probably still continue to rent with the hope that rent will go down as well.
 
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Since we're on this topic...


...from two years ago. But much of the context is still very much relevant, IMO.

Also, trigger warning: Andrew Tate. >.<
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
Since we're on this topic...


...from two years ago. But much of the context is still very much relevant, IMO.

Also, trigger warning: Andrew Tate. >.<
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And I've said this before, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those young males vulnerable to Tate's influence themselves come from Tate-like parentage--absentee fathers and doormat mothers; almost like "rape babies" themselves, a lot of the time. (Remember: we're dealing with a lot of young males for whom Tate is old enough to be their *father*.)
 
My voting locations (for both voting day and advanced voting) are further away than normal. Anyone else finding this to be the case for themselves too?
 
stanko said:
My voting locations (for both voting day and advanced voting) are further away than normal. Anyone else finding this to be the case for themselves too?
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Yes!

My Advance Poll is in an awkwardly far location. The E-Day Poll is a bit of a trek from my house. Normally, they are directly across the street from me at a school.
 
stanko said:
My voting locations (for both voting day and advanced voting) are further away than normal. Anyone else finding this to be the case for themselves too?
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My voting day location is close, but the advanced voting spot is pretty far away. I've never had to walk 30 minutes before.
 
My election day voting location isn't even accessible without a car and their parking lot is small from what I can tell. Not to mention ongoing construction on that stretch of Dundas St. in Oakville. It'll be a shitshow

And yes, I live in the 905 but this will be my 4th time participating in a federal election and I've always either walked or biked to a voting location
 
stanko said:
My voting locations (for both voting day and advanced voting) are further away than normal. Anyone else finding this to be the case for themselves too?
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Mine is closer than the last federal election.
 
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