It's zoning and transportation policy that pump housing prices to the moon, not onlyfans.
What prevents ownership? It's tax policy that rests heavily on capital-labor interactions and barely at all on capital-capital interactions. Monetary policy that deflates wages but not asset values. Trade policy that pumps assets and dumps exports.
Trans people did not do this. The self-serving policies of asset owners did this.
Agreed. It's hard to confront the fact that your sweet, old neighbor lady across the street shows up to screech at city council meetings every week because someone wants to build an apartment building. Multiply this times 40 million, and you get our current predicament.
I have seen people go to truly insane lengths to prevent buildings from going up in prosperous downtown cores in middle America. But what do you expect? Everyone wants housing to be an investment, and for it to appreciate, the supply has to go down. Eventually, something has to give, and it's going to be ugly.
> They convinced young women that it’s a sign of independence to have an OF, the Europeans that Russia is an enemy, and half the western population that men can be women.
The latter has absolutely zero to do with the former, it's just a grab bag of reactionary culture complaints (and the Russia one is just straightforwardly true).
Which, ironically, is exactly what the global elites really want people to do: divide themselves over cultural issues and spend all of their time arguing with each other rather than come together and examine the financial system we all live under.
As in you loose agains „the elites“. IMO the current dopamine and consumption driven culture only benefits a very small slice of the society. While externalized costs ruin many lives. Mental and physical health is going down the drain and nobody cares. E.g. obesity pandemic, drugs abuse and so on. People don't abuse junk food because of happiness and content. And yet we all end up paying, at least in countries with state health insurance :)
We as a society are at a loss when people think OnlyFans is a viable career path. Or a hobby, which is even worse. OF is the same as prostitution. Vast majority (if not all) people end up there for very sad reasons and we as a society should strive to eliminate it. Normalizing such abuse of the vulnerable is even worse.
Many cases of gender „change“ are similar symptoms of long running abuse we as a society normalize. E.g. trans athletes. Or over-sexualized display of how some people envision what it is to be a woman.
> In some jurisdictions, women's prisons have been incarcerating males who say they are women. Some of these males have then subsequently raped, sexually assaulted and even impregnated female inmates who have been forced to cohabit with them.
Do you have any citations? I’d be fascinated to read.
Statistically it barely registers against a backdrop of male guards raping and impregnating women in womens prison.
ie. While technically 'true' it's a massive amplification of an anti trans talking point at the expense a mauch larger real issue that's ignored .. because the propogators don't actually care about women in prison, that's just a mask of concern for the sake of the pretence.
As stated, trans prisoners pose significantly less threat than male prison guards:
> This is why in women's prisons that prioritise safeguarding of inmates, sex-based staffing ratios are implemented so that there are sufficient female prison guards to keep a watchful eye on any male guards that may be present.
I see some fringe russophiles on both left and right wing, both here in europe and in US. But in 99% of cases it's „I hate my government, so I just believe in opposite if what they say“. The only sincere love for actual Russia is Stalin-adoring tankies. But that's what.. the 0.00001%?
Sure, but tankies miiiight be 1% of the left while the Russophilia is pretty strong in the entire alt-right, which is like 40% of the right. The problems are similar in nature but different in scale.
The thing is tankies love the real Russia as it is. Some in alt-right like the propaganda image that has nothing to do with reality. And some just follow „enemy of the enemy is my friend“ for better or worse. So the nature of the problem is widely different too. The whole BS surrounding Tucker interview is a good example IMO.
Here in Lithuania alt-right is very anti-Russian since we have both pretty good on-the-ground information as well as, let's say, historical experience. It's funny watching our alt-right meeting West alt-right.
