I turned a tiktok misandrist into a meme

I think she answered her own question.

I'm Gen Z, and I find it hilarious when the media claims that my generation is very liberal.

The hell we are. Maybe it's because I'm in a very conservative state, but I've only met maybe a couple of people my age who have liberal views. Moreover, they all switched to the right by the time the 2024 election rolled around, and not just because of this.

That's happening in EU countries too

A lot of women are turning to the right because they want a real man. Many are going to Home Depot because they figure that they might find a man who actually knows how to do things. That's what I have been hearing anyway.

So if you're a man and you want to attract a real woman, at least learn how to change a flat tire. Extra points if you can change a flat, in the dark, on a cold winter night. If you can rebuild a transmission, install an air conditioner, repair drywall (or hang drywall), unclog a toilet (or install toilet) or any other skill like that, then you might be as valuable or more so to a woman than a rich guy.

Because right-wing men are real. They don't live in a fantasy world.

Women are getting tired of left-wing men who don't even know how to change a tire and have a safe space they can run to if something hurts their feelings.

Despite all of the social engineering the left has been doing to manipulate society, when it comes down to it, basic human nature stands opposed to all of that manipulation. Women want a real man who can take care of them and keep them safe. Not some baby who wants a woman to be his mommy.

Dude, I'm 66 years old and I've been married for 34 years. I don't give a flying crap about my masculinity. I'm getting too old for that crap.

I'm just watching a bunch of spoiled children running around pretending to be men or women or some other fantasy gender.

I read and hear news stories about how women are going to Home Depot to find a man. I didn't make this up. And it just makes sense.

So are insults part of your "trying to figure out the root cause of [my] anger"? I love my wife very much and she loves me. We have a very good marriage. We're looking forward to my retirement when can spend more time together. She is and always has been my best friend and the love of my life. If you want to figure me out then stop trying to turn me into someone I am not. I am not your straw man.

My frustration (not anger) is that the left is (or was until Trump got elected) destroying the future of America. They have been systematically dismantling the US Constitution over the last century. Only using it when they can advance their cause, the rest of the time they use it as toilet paper

The left hates this country and everyone in this country. They hate they ideals this country was founded on. And no, I am not talking about slavery and it really bugs me that I have to make this statement because the left only looks at slavery when talking about the founding of this nation and nothing else.

They hate freedom. They have invalidating the Bill of Rights. Free speech is called mis-, dis- or mal-information.

The real frustration is when you try to explain how our freedoms are being taken from us we get some lunatic song and dance from the left about the right hates everyone. We get called racist, sexist, homophobes or a few other standard insults from the left. We are called fascists and nazis.

First off, I don't hate anyone and it doesn't matter if they look just like me or nothing like me. To hate someone you have to know them first. Hating someone just because of an external feature, like skin color, is just stupid. I love getting to know people who are different than me because that is how I learn about other cultures and opinions. I love that. And no, I am not trying to learn that to use it against them. I'm not a liberal, for goodness sake.

Second off, fascists and nazis, along with communism are all variations of socialism. They are all far left ideologies. In other words if the left wants to find fascists and nazis all they need is a mirror and, unlike the left, I am saying that based on the left's ideology compared to that of the nazis, fascists, communists and socialists. Facts are facts. And considering that prior to Germany invading Poland, the American left used to hold rallies supporting Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. The American left called them the "men of the future".

"why has the left only became a problem since trump got elected? because the left hasn't really changed and was never a serious problem before"

If that is how my comment sounded then I apologize. The left has been a serious threat to the US since President Woodrow Wilson (and a little before but they didn't have much power until Wilson) took office from 1913 to 1921. Wilson hated the fact that he had very little power as president so he came up with the idea of creating non-elected agencies and investing them with certain powers that he could make happen without congressional approval.

He created the IRS (I can't remember what they were called back then but they became the Internal Revenue Service) and the Federal Reserve.

The left talks about expanding constitutional rights to marginalized groups but it's just talk. There were groups who were marginalized but it was both parties who got legislation passed to help those people. In many cases the Republicans had to take the lead because there were so many racists in the Democrat party.

The Republican Party was actually started to end slavery and they had a war with the the rich power elite Democrats who wanted to keep slavery.

"I completely agree with free speech, but you can't say the right don't silence a lot of it, just look at all the left-wing content on X that has been removed,"

I can very much say that the right does NOT silence anyone. Musk did not silence speech on X, he expanded it and allowed conservative and libertarians a voice once again. Like Twitter used to be when it first started. The left hasn't been silenced, they ran away. They fear opposing viewpoints and they just left and ran to BlueSky.

Conservatives and libertarians were getting kicked off of Twitter all the time. The tweets were removed and they were threatened.

I've never liked Twitter/X anyway. I just don't like the format. Facebook is better in my opinion. But Facebook was just as evil for a very long time. If you said anything slightly positive about Trump starting in 2016 then you were banned from posting for few days or a month. If they really didn't like you they would kick you off also. Facebook has essentially gone back to the way they used to be prior to 2016. Probably because of the competition with X. Whatever the reason conservatives and libertarians now seem to have a voice again.

And that leads us to YouTube. They haven't changed.

All of that straight out censorship of conservatives and libertarians came from the left. I almost forgot, Christians and Jews got the same treatment. You could be pro-Islam all day long but the moment you posted a Christian or Jewish comment you were thrown out.

I guess you didn't know about this because it didn't affect you. And perhaps you heard about people getting censored but felt it was the right thing to do. I don't know because I don't know you and I don't know how much of this you knew about. Maybe you're one of those people who thought we were lying.

But if you want talk censorship whatever you think the right has done is flat out wrong.

When Biden was in office he was setting agencies to be on the look out for mis-, dis- and mal-information. They were going to push very hard to protect the American people from this. There was no bad information, there was just opposing opinions to the left and that is what they were planning on censoring.

Obama tried 3 times to set up a report-your-neighbor-to-the-gestapo website if you heard someone saying something different than Obama. He never got them setup because that was wrong and unethical.

"you seem like a pretty closed-minded guy"

Yup. Another insult. Have I ever insulted you? No. I have said a lot about the left because, like I said already, I hate ideologies, not people. I don't hate you.

"who doesn't have any actual points"

Do you mean points that you agree with? If you're looking for "actual points" they are there, you just don't like them.

"and didn't even answer my initial question as how to masculinity relates to right wing"

I answered several times. Apparently you just don't like what I said or you just dismissed it as nothing.

"And again, you're misconfusing the majority of left-wingers with a small percentage of extremists"

I know that but it is the extremists you keep electing. I don't know if you (and I don't specifically mean you, just your party) even realizes the damage the extremists you put in office cause. Biden was a puppet of the World Economic Forum. The WEF's goal is to collapse the global economy. This is not conjecture that Biden was in league with the WEF, it is a fact. Right after Biden was elected, John Kerry went to Davos to the WEF and assured, on video (I know because I saw it), WEF president, Klaus Schwab, that Biden was fully onboard.

The destruction of the global economy, I would pretty much say that this is extremely extreme.

If you want a more succinct point to what my complaint is then it's freedom.

We are less free than when England owned us and it is all because of the policies of the Democrat party (and a few Republicans) over the last century.

Democrats just don't understand that because they still think of themselves as the party of Thomas Jefferson. They're not. Jefferson was a liberal, a classical liberal. Classical liberals today are found partially in the Republican party. But much more so in the Libertarian and Constitution Parties.

The Democrats are classical conservatives. They believe in a strong controlling government that takes all or most of the political power away from the individual.

This is evidenced in so many places. Speech is a big one. Democrats believe in controlled speech so that only their narrative is the accepted narrative. Any deviation from that narrative is considered misinformation, disinformation and/or mal-information.

It's really crazy how the left can even think they are being censored. Their message is pounded down our throats in movies, TV shows, the mainstream media, colleges and universities, K through 12 public education. No where is the left censored. They have been in control of pushing their agenda on us since before WWII.

When Reagan ended the fairness doctrine for broadcasting, that's when Rush Limbaugh changed America. Before that, I watched shows like Phil Donahue and he would have 1 conservative guest and 3 to 5 liberals to shout the conservative down. That was the Democrats fairness doctrine that caused that.

There were rare moments when he just had guests like Milton Friedman or Ayn Rand on by themselves but he would have a Q&A afterwards and his audience was stacked with liberals.

Now some cities are levying heavy fines if you don't use a person's made up pronouns. How is that free speech. There is no obligation for me to change my speech patterns for someone else. That is narcissistic to force other people to change for someone else. Especially when anything after 2 genders is fabricated out of some fantasy. I do not want to live in a fantasy world, reality works very well for me.

When you learn what freedom really means and how freedom is guaranteed under the Constitution for all citizens of this great country then all of this other nonsense about this group or that group rights is meaningless. They already have the same freedom as everyone else. Anything above that is a privilege.

"This idea that we're somehow less free now than when England was in charge, and that it's all down to the Democrats and their policies over the last century. It's a pretty strong claim, isn't it?"

Mostly Democrats and there were also many Republicans on that journey into slavery to the Federal Government. The difference is core ideology. Progressivism is 100% Marxism with some modifications over time but the core remains the same. The Democrat party adopted the Progressive movement early. However, the very first Progressive president was Teddy Roosevelt. He was a Republican who changed to Bull Moose (Progressive) party.

"First off, the whole "less free than under England" thing... well, that's a pretty bold statement, isn't it?"

It should not be a surprise to anyone who understand what our founding fathers gave us. They wouldn't recognize our government even with the slashing that Trump as done. There were no agencies under the Executive branch who create regulations on the people without congressional approval. There was no federal income tax, nor any of the other taxes that have mostly come about since the Progressive era (starting in the 1890's).

"the whole reason for the American Revolution was because people wanted more freedom, the right to govern themselves"

Yes, that is what it is all about. We don't have that anymore. We have taxation without representation. When was the last time you saw Congress pass a bill to remove the federal income tax or any of the other 100's of taxes. I didn't ask for those taxes. I vote for candidates who seems to care about the burden the government has placed on us but nothing happens. Perhaps because they are just one voice or perhaps they lied to me. Certain no Democrat would ever vote to reduce taxes. What the Dems have done is crafted a bill that says they are lower taxes on the poor. If you read the bill it is always a tax increase on everyone.

Then there's the trillions of wasted money on projects that no one supports. We were giving billions to Planned Parenthood. About half of America abhors murdering baby.

"To say we're less free now seems to completely ignore that core desire for independence and the ability to shape your own destiny."

That is what I am on about. The Dems have completely lost that desire. The ones who show the most desire for self-determination are in the right and the farther right you go the stronger that desire is.

"Things change, society evolves, and a whole bunch of different factors – economic shifts, social movements, technological advancements – all play a part in how things end up looking"

Freedom of choice, the Bill of Rights, the concept of free agency and self-determination have never changed. There are people who are still fully committed to all of that, they're just not in the Democrat party.

"It's not like the Democrats have been the only ones making decisions for the last hundred years, right?"

Like I said before, there have been a whole lot of Republicans screwing us over as well. I am not happy with them. As much as I liked Reagan, he never talked about eliminating the IRS and the federal income tax. Instead he looked for the lowest amount to tax people without causing too much harm to the economy. Dems don't think that. They just tell you that you have to "pay your fair share" as they keep raising and raising taxes. I want to know why I must pay it? What is fair about it? Since when is it my obligation to (can't use the word "share" because that implies it is voluntary) have the money I worked for taken from me by the government? Well, I know when, 1913, I just don't know why it was allowed. Taxation without representation.

Trump at first talked about eliminating the IRS. I don't know what he has in mind because he keeps changing it. I do think, in the end, we'll pay less taxes. He is finally taking the tax off of social security. Retired people will no longer have to pay income tax on SS. Whoever put that tax on SS is evil.

"The whole bit about the Democrats not understanding they're not Jeffersonian liberals anymore... well, that's an interesting point. It's true that political ideologies shift and evolve over time. What Jefferson stood for in the late 18th century might look a bit different from what the Democratic Party stands for today."

I already talked about this. When it comes to freedom and liberty NOTHING should have changed. There is no reason for it to change other than a greedy and corrupt government.

"The claim that the left isn't censored because their message is "pounded down our throats" in media and education... that's a really interesting perspective."

I'm glad you find that interesting. I find it destructive.

"While it's true that progressive viewpoints might be more prevalent in certain areas, to say there's no censorship or that dissenting voices aren't heard at all... that's probably not entirely accurate."

Oh my goodness. You don't know any conservates at all do you? Let me say this, if Harris had won, free speech would be dead. That is about as plain and simple as it can be stated. It is a fact. She would have finished what Biden started with his fight against misinformation. He was changing the scope of several depts to focus on fighting conservative, libertarian, constitutional, Christian and Jewish speech. This is not supposition, I have seen the reports on what he was doing.

But all you need to do is just ask any conservative and/or the others I mentioned what it was like living between the beginning of Bush Jr to the end of Biden. I include Bush jr because he started the Patriot Act. Obama gave the NSA power to monitor and record all electronic communication. He also signed a bill that ended a law passed under FDR that the media was required to print or broadcast verifiable facts. The very next day the phrase "fake news" appeared in the national discourse.

Trump got kicked off of Twitter while he was president. If nothing else that should at least scream censorship.

"The media landscape is so diverse now, with so many different outlets and opinions out there,"

Not entirely true. There is Fox News and a few others on cable. But Fox has been drifting left for many years now. Hannity is still Hannity but the regular news shows are not much different than CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post and every other major and a whole lot of minor newspapers.

"This anti-fascism expressed itself in support for policies to aid those resisting fascist aggression in Europe."

That was the original Antifa. The new and the old Antifa are communists. It is the most absurd group of people to exist because there is virtually no difference between fascism and communist. It's like anarcho-communists. Some anarcho-communists just want to live in a commune without any government controlling them, and I have no problem with them. A larger set of people who call themselves that are solely interested in tearing down through anarchy and building back up with a communist regime and I have a huge problem with that.

"And it’s important to remember that a big chunk of the American public, on the left and right, was isolationist—wanted to stay out of European affairs"

This is a real damned if we do and damned if we don't situation. If we keep putting our nose into other countries businesses we get called colonialists. If we don't we get called isolationists. What I think is seeing that we are $36 trillion in debt we need to stop giving money away like there's no tomorrow.

Doing right for the country sometimes involves isolationism, sometimes it doesn't. I have more of a problem with getting involved where we don't belong than being accused of being isolationists. Because, seriously, other countries problems are there, not ours. And we just do not have the money to get involved in places we don't belong.

"The later rise of the popular front and the increasing understanding of fascism would further drive the American left away from these dictators, that is why they called them men of the future before they saw the true side of all of them, and never men of the present."

That's not correct. They may not have understood what the results of fascist, communist, nazi and socialist regimes cause because they had nothing to compare it with. It wasn't until 1928 when the NYT's first published an article about the atrocities of the Soviet Union. That is when the cracks begin to happen in the Progressive movement. But they were fully aware of Marxist ideology. After all the Progressive movement was born in European colleges and it spread here from American students in European colleges right at the turn of the 20th century.

Early free market economists, like F.A. Hayek, spoke out against Marx but had no country to point to to show how it fails. Now we have tons of examples of it's failures but idiots still follow it.