/dep/ - Depression

>>286761

Through watering down the media the avergae zoomer consumes, they've managed to stripe this generation of would-be-nerds of critical thinking.

>>294467
>critical thinking
Zoomers, and it's *not entirely* their fault, got z-lib fucked because blasted it across social media.

>>294578
*because they blasted it

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>I forgot to add though, it's probably quite easy to lose yourself in your own otaku world if you can mentally blockout normalfags in Japan. There is so much in the way of anime, manga, figurines, puzzles, gunpla, games, etc and a solid second hand market for these things. Almost unbelievable since all our second hand markets got destroyed by ebay and every normalfag thinking their garbage is worth 1000s.

>I guess all you'd have to do is survive japanese school, though I don't know if Japan is better or worse for outcasts in the school system.

One thing japanese outcasts have over western ones, that and the proper ability to go full hikki.

>>285432
You talk like wizarddom is the logical superior yet youre clearly trying to create a new hierarchy in which you are at the top. It isnt a bad thing for creating cukture with other people but ur literally hypocritical and half as smart as a dumb normalfag lol. Go suck some cock faggot.

The temporary discourse around a certain film release and then watching the film itself, and all I can say is "wow".

I'd never thought I'd see a studio/director burn through at least $200 million to burn down a billion dollar franchise solely because it didn't like a specific demographic of the audience.

It's obviously a little deeper than that, but not by much. There's at least a couple of ways to look at this film.

The film itself is well-made, well-shot, well-acted, I can't find many faults in this regard. The musical aspect isn't too bad in a certain light. And if the story was actually leading to something meaningful, the first 2/3rd seems decent if a little overlong. It's essentially a court room drama to see if Fleck/Joker is culpable for the murders he committed in the last film.

However once it gets to the pivotal scene where Fleck is raped by the prison guards and consequently takes full responsibility for the murders and renounces his Joker persona, it's clear that there's no deeper meaning beyond "fuck you virgins/outcasts/crabs/etc you are inherently bad" and all the prior scenes *were* just a setup drive that point home, every character that was still alive or had sympathy for the Joker in the original was brought back to rescind that sympathy. Literally at one point they highlight that Fleck may be a virgin as if it was a cardinal sin. Fleck gets stabbed to death at the end for "doing the right thing".

I honestly think it's to perpetuate the idea of the would-be nerd as an inherently malevolent being to be used as a scapegoat for all of society's ills. And I honestly think that the would-be nerds have revolutionary potential too that they needed to negate.

The other way to look at this which isn't too different from the first way, is that the joker accidentally became a symbol of the downtrodden, that the idea that maybe our superiors won't come to save us or actually have our best interests at heart. I remember when both wings of the mainstream media started attacking the original film before it came out, as a "dangerous" movie, "crab" movie, that shouldn't be seen by anyone. Watching the original film you understand why that probably was the case, it's not a particularly subtle movie and has themes of class warfare running through it and a sympathetic view of why a person would become a "villain" in our dogshit system and ends in an uprising.

Somehow this derivative work of Taxi Driver and King of Comedy frightened the powers that be just enough for the initial media backlash and for a sequel to be greenlit to mar the original. Why a fucking comic book movie got them this worried, I don't really know.

After the Joker renounces his persona and is back in prison, he gets stabbed to death by the "real Joker" so not only does the message seem to be "do not fuck with the system or we will fuck you" but "we have a corporate stand-in to replace you".

Those are my 2 rusty pence.

>>295737
Is Todd Philips jewish?

>>295759
is there even a need to ask? lol

>>285561
Very astute. Don't go live in a cabin in the woods and hoard gunpowder and steel pipes now…

Am I the only one who finds it strange that the nerd/outcast/geek/etc has become, metaphorically speaking, the enemy of the state, over the last 12 years?

Not the corrupt politicians, the crooks on wall street, the CEOs or whatever but some dudes playing videogames, reading comic books, indulging in niche hobbies and crafts?

>>296462
>Not the corrupt politicians,
The state cannot be the enemy of the state, and the people elect their politicians to do political things. Everyone talks about hating "politicians" because that is a way of saying that they hate all the people, the voter demographics, those politicians represent. Deep down inside people know they don't hate Donald Trump or George Bush or Obama or Biden. They hate white trash or christians or blacks or Jews. Politicians are probably on an individual level less corrupt and less prone to lying than the average American voter. It's just that the voter doesn't have the opportunity to defraud billions.
>the crooks on wall street,
It is funny how Occupy failed so hard that current tiktok feminism literally involves succubi singing songs about initiating a sexual relationship with "a man who works in finance."
>the CEOs or whatever but some dudes playing videogames,
I am not sure the dudes playing video games are considered a social threat vector nowadays since the "problem" I see is generally that these dudes are not spending enough money to keep major AAA studios afloat and this is a big social problem since those multibillion dollar companies can't keep their development teams employed without taking all of your money for every project you don't even like playing forever.
>reading comic books,
Nobody does this anymore, and the whole satanic indie comics underground thing was tapped out by 1995.
>indulging in niche hobbies and crafts?
Linux users are legitimately an existential threat to the entire global economy given the risks in a Jia Tan event and it is entirely understandable why the US Department of Defense would intervene in kernel contributor lists to excise Russian state actors the way they have.

>>296463
What are you trying to say?

>>296464
That to the extent this phenomenon exists, it was entirely predictable and not at all strange. And that there are other places where this phenomenon is attributed but does not exist, specifically comic book readers.

>>296462
Why would it be strange? Within living memory, when has it not been the case? Hip hop culture was into reading conspiracy theories like Upon a Pale Horse back in the 80s. Picking on weirdos is a lot easier than hating on someone like Musk or Bezos.

>>296463
In this day and age, "The Geek", is the ultimate scapegoat.

>>296471
This is 100% right. It's also what normgroids do when you're in school. They shit on the weak, ugly kid because it's easy and because it's a way to let off steam and increase their status.

>>296472
No. "The Geek" is barely a scapegoat at all now that it has finalized its divorce from "the virgin." This divorce was formally filed with the public acknowledgement of "Nerd Culture." The Geek doesn't want anything to do with us and I see no reason to offer any form of social or financial support to people who despise us and spend their blog and vlog time sending derision and violent retributive fantasies our way because some decades old association with virgins made them personally slightly less sexually attractive to succubi.

I will particularly offer no social sympathies to the breeds of consumption media geeks, comic books and videogames in particular, who formalized Nerd Culture as a cultural arts thing instead of a matter of personality disposition. They're a distinctly lesser species compared with Computer and Electronics geeks who, by focusing on crafts that require active pursuit, were less likely to participate in social displays intended to create sociosexual hierarchies by insulting me for associating my mere presence with their product. These were two very different creatures all along. For the comic book geek what mattered was showing up, it matters who shows up, but for the electronics geek what mattered was craft and it matters what is being crafted. Almost all of the harm that has befallen the active craft type of "geek" happened because that space was entered by status seeking passive entertainment consumption geeks who brought their I Listen To Alternative Music To Bang Alternative Chicks attitude with them.

as you said, geeks don't want to associate with losers like wizards. geeks and nerds have become normalfags these days and don't want to be associated with losers. they have wives and kids and friends and are proud to be geeks/nerds. as for weeaboo and otaku, i feel like there's still a not-so-positive connotation for those categories of people, what do you think of weeaboo and otaku?

>>296477
>i feel like there's still a not-so-positive connotation for those categories of people, what do you think of weeaboo and otaku?
I feel that the negative connotation for those people is intensely sexual in nature and therefore temporary. The main problem that people have with eroticism in anime is in the perception of a serious problem of that eroticism being spent on erotically disfavored demographics.

It is not just that otaku are men who masturbate, since most men masturbate. Nor is it that they are men who use pornographic subforms of their preferred art form to aid in their masturbation. I could compare the treatment of film, even grindhouse film, to anime on that front.

Nobody despises succubi who read "literature" or practice "writing" just because 50 Shades of Gray dominated fem lit sales figures and embodies the purpose and social utility of literature for and by succubi and every succubus who writes or reads in public is probably applying the subtler motions succubi use to perform public gooning and edging, not even when they are shamelessly declarative about their public gooning sessions. If you are unfortunate enough to have a generally positive relationship with a socially active highly articulate sister you will be well acquainted with their bold discussions of public edging habits incl. on public transport with their female friends. And how often they deny the role of their own motions and choices in their arousal and eventual public orgasm, "I was just reading my favorite highly charged erotic novel on the bus and rubbing and clamping my thighs together, you know to take up less space and for no other reason, when I guess the vibrations got me…" But, again, not only does nobody look down on books, there is also nobody who looks down on book-associated public gooning. Once you realize that it is happening and have a sister who will brazenly point out other succubi who are doing it by identifying their bodylanguage you will start to see it occurring every day, and normalfags are all fine with it. Reddit is the official pillar of normalfaggotry online, and there are public bullying mostly-female reddits for public photographs of poor fashion but none for shaming photographs of caught in the act femgooning. And right now at this very moment the response you personally are thinking of to this is "lmao why did you spend so much time writing about that stupid shit imagine caring about that." It's natural and normal to not care about it at all, and it is pervasive within society to not care about it. But people do start to care when it's male otaku privately purchasing eroges to play on their desktop at home.

And erotically charged literature (not just erotica) was once deeply, deeply stigmatized. When the majority of pulpwood readers were men, and when photographic publications were newer and more expensive. I think the last, most recently published piece where I encountered in the wild any of that classification of stigma was when I read Stephen King's The Stand. Harold Lauder wasn't a weeb, furry, cartoonfag, Trekkie, disney adult, starwars marveldrone - he was a pulp reader who represented the problematic badperson nature of ugly men whose penises get hard when they imagine suddenly being not ugly and doing the sex with fantasy heroines.

Sometimes this sudden concern with other people's sexuality is justifiable–pedophiles are real and do really spend real money on pedophilic things, and other real people often like getting money enough to sell such things in exchange, and anyone can point to such things in weebtrash. But other media that also infamously catered to that demographic, such as older non-theatrical film productions, were generally treated as being separate from their "worst element." There are documentaries on youtube about established older European film production studios that legally distributed actual hard cheese pizza in the middle to mid-late 20th century. Film did not have to shake off any stigma from that, at all. Nor did theater goers, and you're more likely to see grindhouse skin flicks celebrated in major Hollywood productions than to see any nods to eroge made in animes that were specifically adapted from eroge. No, that justifiability is a dishonest pretense. People don't hate abusers for being abusive, otherwise in addition to seeing occasional bursts of people losing their minds at otaku you would see those same individual people in a constant state of rage against enthusiastic fans of r&b or hip hop. The people who hate hip hop fans are a separate demographic from the people who hate otaku.

I think we are going to see the same divorce in otaku/weeb subcultures that was seen earlier with "geek," because it is economically and socially beneficial to the majority of the people in that market to do so. At first it will hold up the pretense of only concerning itself with potential predators, but since predation is not the problem and has not overturned the world of hip hop this will extend to an attack on het-male-targeted erotizication in general, and then to simple direct attacks on the character of all the remaining sexually abject men who were not removed earlier. Since that remainder neither had perverse nor even basic erotic interests in the medium, and also did not recognize the social signals around them, we can assume that such attacks will be through a vector of criticizing them for insufficient masculine function, insufficient social function, or for insufficient economic function, thereby creating a sexual hierarchy in which the good otaku stand shoulder to shoulder with the good geeks and the good media literacy moviefags and spend their years defending Roman Polanski and Ruroni Kenshin as better than their worst moments while also gaining status by castigating insufficiently sexual losers for being bad people and Harold Lauders.

>>296477
>geeks and nerds have become normalfags these days
lol no, normalfags just claimed it for themselves. Theoretically, I suppose now that there is a common ground between normalfags and the people who used to be called geeks and/or nerds, they could use it to lift themselves into normalfagdom. I suspect that what actually happens is that normalfags appoint themselves as experts and leaders and actual geeks/nerds carry water for them trying to climb the social ladder.

Just a theory though, only a zoomer could tell me if that's the case and even then, it will take while for it to click for the zoomer outcast, like it did for us millennials. It was only around the early 10s when it was undeniable that the normalfags had taken over.

>>296485
its all mainstream now https://youtu.be/jGGI1_dcoiE?si=u65Rl6sMJF63Hvfh
there's no more reason to call yourself a geek nerd or oraku. everyone in the world is a bit of it

>>296486
>mainstream
No, it's been rendered meaningless. Normalniggers consume trends, normalniggers like ready made, easy use things.

I mean, it's only explanation for things like OnlyFans got popular (that or massive money laundering). Nobody in the 90s or 00s would think it be anything other than sad to pay money to some random whore for a couple of pictures.

Now everything is behind a single tap of the screen.

Normalfags invading geek/nerd culture reveals that morality/dignity for them is actually based on groupthink rather than any sort of innate concept of it.

Their need to own everything that is not theirs, including the unsavoury parts that they themselves have denounced or mocked, supersedes their personal tastes.

So you get strange shit like this image.

>>296863
I agree that normalfags follow the rest of the herd without wondering where it takes them.
But I don't get the part about about owning what is not theirs. Do you mean they lack individuality?

>>296865
>But I don't get the part about about owning what is not theirs.
Once something is en vogue or 'cool' they need to claim ownership of it, some way to prove their "authenticity".

What pisses you off the most in this regard? For me it's the amount of niggers that have poured in. It's not the outcast blacks that used to make up this demographic but jist your regular gold toothed nigger.

>>297242
People wearing anime t-shirts, especially faux-hentai ones. I wonder when normalfags start wearing furry porn t-shirts because social media trends told them to.

>>297381
>the surprising number of normalfags wearing eva shirts
I wouldn't be surprised if Legend of the Overfiend starts appearing on their fucking shirts.

>>296865
>>296866
Interesting. Wherever the wind blows, seems like that's more or less the conclusion.
https://wizchan.org/wiz/res/220340.html

>>297242
Pretty much what you said along with seeing normies who have anime-themed profiles on various different parts of the internet punching down on losers, nerds, and outcasts, to make it even worse, they start shitting up the discussions about any loser-themed anime/manga as well. A few months back I was looking at the youtube comment section for the anime adaptation trailer for the My Wife Has No Emotion manga and it was filled with normgroids calling the MC pathetic for dating a robot succubus.

>>297442
>appropriating crab (and wizard to an extent)
I don't understand, they create or use words to *specifically* insult you for your status and EVEN THEN they want to steal it for their use?

>>297602
>youtube comment section for the anime adaptation trailer for the My Wife Has No Emotion manga and it was filled with normgroids calling the MC pathetic for dating a robot succubus.

Like even if, SOMEHOW (which it won't) anime/geek stuff falls out of favour with the normalfaggots, it will be returned permanently damaged.

Every time I see this thread on the front page I'm reminded that I really, really need to read Baudrillard. One day, hopefully soon enough, I will conquer my ADHD and get to it. It's been a while since I've watched or played any modern form of media, but it definitely feels weird watching from the sidelines. Watching rather normal people care so much about what they not long ago used to diss and then watching people who you'd think were once the actual target audience simply sink into passivity and acceptance. Aren't things becoming worse for pretty much everyone in almost every aspect? Shouldn't media broadly reflect that? Or maybe I'm just that out of touch, I don't know. I wish I could magically teleport inside the heads of the billions of outcasts around the world and distill their reality into some audiovisual or literary work, it sure has more in common with my basic reality than the "reality" being relentlessly pushed in the name of profit and propaganda. Imagine what a hypothetical virgin college professor or lifelong factory worker whose life gradually went to hell and now does fent in some forgotten, ex industrial powerhouse town would have to say, as an outcast, as he struggles to navigate the modern world in the face of it all. I'd watch that!

>>297683
>I really, really need to read Baudrillard.
which of his works will you read first?

>>297687
Simulacra and Simulation is generally considered his most important work so that, I've seen it referenced over the years in different context and always seemed relevant and to-date, nowadays with AI running out of real-world data training sets and moving into self-referencing sets even moreso! He seems to have other worthy reads tho, but I don't have much brain horsepower left.

>>297688
I am going to download it to my ereader now and try to read it too

>>297683
His works are kinda prose-heavy, *sometimes* in my opinion needlessly so, however in it's entirety you can sort of see why it's written that way given the subjects.

>>297683
Baudrillard is gnostic philosophy applied to modern day news media. Briefly, in Gnosticism, a demiurge (false creator god, or artificer) made the world as a lesser image of true formal reality, which is locally and perceptively outside our own and completely immaterial. He further made this world with the intention of tricking, deceiving, and torturing human souls, with the final purpose of causing all of us to perpetually reincarnate so as to start the painful process over again. He gave us false rules (duality), created hylics (what we call “normies”), and stripped us of our original immortal godhood.

Now, if we take the concept of the demiurge and modernize it, no longer strictly thinking in theistic terms of a malicious deity, but rather in practical terms of a hidden group of controllers who seek to deceive the human herd, we will have come to Baudrillard. His book “The Gulf War Never Happened” is a good first instance of this position. Because the reporting on the Gulf War involved so much misdirection and deceit, he was accordingly compelled to adopt this title for an early published digest of his philosophy. Of course, the Gulf War did happen, but the common account made thereof was again so sharply embellished and errant from the truth, that he considered the whole popular history relating to that war to be a simulacrum or corrupted image of what actually occurred. And he was right in believing this, as nearly everything from the casus belli that legitimated the waging of that war, to the portrayal of the Iraqis as evil villains, was a puppet-show put on by the “demiurgic” media masters. However, Baudrillard, being a Marxist philosopher, omits the uniquely Jewish character of the modern day “main-stream” media, instead choosing (I would argue) very ineptly to impute the fault of the executing of the deception to the tired communistic enemy of capitalism. This omission of the true causal root of the hand of the (((deceiver))), in my opinion, is a major strike against the value of his philosophy.

In any case, this difficult state of affairs continues to this day: if you watch CNN, read the NYtimes, or listen to NPR, you are quite literally living in a dream-world that is being simulated for you by Jewish mystics. The puppet-masters who control the MSM can thus be thought of as a modern demiurge, as they project the images/simulacra of a manufactured reality into the minds of all stupid enough to stay mentally bound uncritically observing only the "shadows" projected on their TV screen. Like the Pythagorean/Platonic demiurge, they distort a purer reality, and then entrap the unwise goyim into mistaking the fake for the original. As the deception grows over time, the faithfulness or fidelity of the broadcast images only worsens, creating an even greater divergence from the truth, indeed to such a degree that the last stage of images prepared by the puppet-masters bears not even the least line of resemblance to the original and first likeness.

>>297701
Porphyry wrote thus: “αφ' ων οιμαι ορμωμενοι και οι Πυθαγορειοι και μετα τουτους Πλατων αντρον και σπηλαιον τον κοσμον απεφηναντο.” Literally: "from which persons I suppose the Pythagoreans having been urged and after these persons Plato declared the world an antron kai spelaion." The common people who lack philosophical education have foolishly taken this world for true reality, which it is not. Formal reality is intelligible/noetic and completely immaterial. Accessing formal reality requires the ingestion of certain psychogenic drugs, by which the mystics/philosophers of old were initiated into their beliefs. But in the case of escaping Baudrillard's analogously theorized cave of "hyper-reality", we do not need any mushrooms but only the knowledge that we are ruled by Jews who tell lies.

>>297701
> However, Baudrillard, being a Marxist philosopher, omits the uniquely Jewish character of the modern day “main-stream” media, instead choosing (I would argue) very ineptly to impute the fault of the executing of the deception to the tired communistic enemy of capitalism. This omission of the true causal root of the hand of the (((deceiver))), in my opinion, is a major strike against the value of his philosophy.
I guess this is where we diverge. But interesting post nevertheless.

>>286205
>One of the tookaways from reading into that was that the short, quick and low energy will always win over the elaborate, time and energy consuming
This is true of any self propagating system in general, actually. And the only systems which continue to exist across time are those that self propagate. Actually I have a favorite analogy relating to this principle. Imagine a small island, abundant in resources. There are two tribes each have a respective side. On the one side is a group of conservationists. They live in relative harmony with their surroundings. They self limit their consumption, their reproduction rates, they leave time for replenishment of resources in order to achieve long term sustainability. On the other side of the island is a tribe which does not engage in any sort of limitation. They use resources as fast as possible with no reservations, they rapidly breed and consume. Eventually this tribe will run out of resources on their own side, and expand into the other side. They will conquer the conservationists,due to sheer numbers and willingness to use any and all resources in an unsustainable manner. Then they will consume that side of the island too and like a logistics curve, run out of resources and population will rapidly decline.

This principle applies so widely I'd venture to state that it is universal, innate aspect of reality itself. K vs r selectors basically, but it applies in a more general sense too, such as the spread of memes. The low effort, low energy, high immediate return will always outcompete other approaches at least on short time scales. However as a necessity they will also absorb and assimilate everything else. It's inevitable.

>>286774
I agree with you that economic differences play a huge role in hobbies (or lack thereof) of the new generation, but I disagree with that as an explanation for rise in transgenderism. I think most would agree the predominant motive behind troons is them noticing succubi have an easier time. Going a step further, men who experienced social defeat from a young age have their brain actually rewired (this is not a hypothesis but rather well documented phenomenon). They tend to become shy, unconfrontational, etc.

They (correctly) discern that the very traits that make them unappealing or seen as "failed" males are precisely the same traits that are valued in the opposite sex, or at the very least not seen as negatives. There's also a huge media push, then public schools demonize any and all forms of natural male expression for the entirety of their most formative years. Masculinity in general was stamped out of any and all spaces in society and even subcultures, the succubus was worshiped and turned into the new God mostly due to them making better consumers for the soulless sociopaths that own everything. And so they encouraged this state of affairs rather than resisting it. Succubi spend more money on useless consumer goods. So they are elevated by society.

Meanwhile the rather large and growing population of defeated males seek catharsis. But all the subcultures were co-opted and destroyed, most falling victim to the same gynocratic mindset that pervades wider mainstream society (death of the uncool). Furthermore access to sex became scarcer even for guys who two or three generations ago would've had at least some success. The result is weird paraphillic obsessions, AGP, self hate, etc. Throw in easily accessible internet pornoography, the general vanity which has also become the norm, and you get this result. Tons of nerdy/outcast/unathletic guys becoming troons.

All that pent up sexual and male obsessive energy goes into their own physical appearance and "gooning". The more it spread as a meme the easier it became for them to go down the same hole with their compatriots.

Basically huge amount became prison gay and turned themselves into faries. Same shit happens in prisons since decades and decades. The weaker and defeated men, some just give up and become bitches.

That's the real conclusion to be honest. Modern society resembles a prison so much that we are seeing the exact same deeply dysfunctional dynamic arising even without the need for chains and barred doors.

>>297683
'Watching rather normal people care so much about what they not long ago used to diss and then watching people who you'd think were once the actual target audience simply sink into passivity and acceptance'

Never so perfect a response has there been made than in this probably common but most apt reply >>297985

I have my own interpretation, but 297985 has nailed it so very, very well. Destroy and exhaust one medium, and move into the other, all to repeat. The agents of entropy carrying as they do, here now and here after. Of course they'd care so much for this 'new' thing as they've tired of mutilating their 'old' one, and just the same, the original target audience is helpless for to begin with their numbers are typically small and sparse. What can they do against a veritable army seeking to rewrite and reorient, to usurp that land not so far away, an army seeking to transform their own green pastures into instead a foreign arid and diseased vegetation, the inevitable outcome as induced by their -this army's- illimitable appetite?
K vs r selectors.

Still, nothing enrages these people more than 'gated' communities, or 'gated' anything, and nothing likewise enrages them than in pointing out their doubtless antipathy to the subject as it were.
They want access to everything. They want all hierarchies destroyed. They want everything to be equal. They want to subvert, distort, and destroy, eradicating history and naturality through it all.

What the fuck is this if not for literally Gog and Magog!? Mortal foes as mentioned by the bible whose only remedying solution against their endless propagating degeneration was to conceal them, and essentially literally gatekeep humanity from their revolt!?
Fucking read that - their exists a people who only spread destruction and subversion, who destroy that which people enjoy, and in order to deal with the chaos they spread, a gate was manufactured to protect the people and keep Gog and Magog away.
Then there's the eschatological teachings, in which it's foretold that Gog and Magog will be unleashed, no longer gatekept, the barrier will collapse, and thus they'll drink of all waters in earth, consume all creation, again destroy and subvert, until everything on earth is no more, such that they'll try to challenge the heavens as well, whose recipient response shall ensue in their absolute death.

Even if you don't believe in anything regarding the bible, centuries and centuries past, gatekeeping was touted as a remedy to evil, or certainly an approach to its obstruction, and its lack thereof would spell annihilation.
Is that why they hate being called out? because Gog and Magog don't like their demonism being made transparent?

>>297986
all true
I wholeheartedly agree with everything in this post
>I think most would agree the predominant motive behind troons is them noticing succubi have an easier time. Going a step further, men who experienced social defeat from a young age have their brain actually rewired (this is not a hypothesis but rather well documented phenomenon). They tend to become shy, unconfrontational, etc.
I can relate to this, I was also a shy, timid, and generally delicate teenager, and I remember feeling like my life would be so much better as a female. I met the social expectations for a succubus, but not for a man. And isn't gender a social role? As opposed to biological sex. Modern society seems to need a lot less of the "man" social role.

Which is why I believe technology made man obsolete. Not in the sense that the dildo replaced the dick, but in the sense that everything an adult man would provide, is now available as a service, or can be done with a device. Everything has been made so easy and accessible, that the average succubus no longer needs a man with his technical thinking and skill. Everything is also much cheaper, so if something breaks, she can just buy a new one instead of having a man fix it. Masculinity is no longer needed by the society.

The downside is that while succubi have other succubi to take care of their emotional needs, men have no one.

>>287842
Why does he keep insisting that gentrification is a "good" thing? Is he being facetious? He literally goes into detail about how awful it is and describes it as ultimately richer/more powerful/people of higher social capital performing a hostile takeover of the poor/weak/outcast/downtrodden, despite not even needing to, simply because they can.

He says it himself: "they could always go somewhere else, but the people they displace don't have anywhere else to go". Yet he calls it a net positive. What the hell? This is some serious doublethink going on.

I sincerely despise gentrification. I used to live in poverty and I'd wander on the old railroad tracks and old abandoned factories and warehouses because it was the only place to find seclusion. I had a dozen secret and forgotten places which were my soul, now its all lofts and yuppie restaurants. Gentrification is pure evil

>>297987
please stop giving a damn about normalfaggot judgements. Put those pants on.

>>297991
>Why does he keep insisting that gentrification is a "good" thing? Is he being facetious? He literally goes into detail about how awful it is and describes it as ultimately richer/more powerful/people of higher social capital performing a hostile takeover of the poor/weak/outcast/downtrodden, despite not even needing to, simply because they can.
According to their about page and if you read a couple of their articles, you'll sort of see why. But I don't want to turn this thread into a /pol/ thread, at least not until we're near the end.

>I sincerely despise gentrification. I used to live in poverty and I'd wander on the old railroad tracks and old abandoned factories and warehouses because it was the only place to find seclusion. I had a dozen secret and forgotten places which were my soul, now its all lofts and yuppie restaurants.
I used to live near blocks of flats in a run down part of the city, and to cut a long story short, basically most of the flats were knocked down for expensive luxury flats that the previous tenants couldn't afford and were forced moved to the far edges or even outside the city into ANOTHER deprived area. A few flats were saved as listed buildings but they still managed to kick all of the previous tenants out of those too. They refurbished the remaining flats as accommodation for wealthy hipster yuppies, complete with an indoor swimming pool, a garden rooftop and a floor for a cinema. What's funny that decades ago apparently that was the plan, to create nicer accommodation for working class people but for some reason that never transpired until years later when it became accommodation for rich fucks.

>Gentrification is pure evil
There's a distinct evil to the gentrifiers that's basically the same as the social gentrifiers of geek culture. I'll post about later.

>>298031
>There's a distinct evil to the gentrifiers that's basically the same as the social gentrifiers of geek culture. I'll post about later.
bump

>>297986
>easily accessible internet pornography
This barely related to the point you're making but I don't know where to post this. I've noticed a lot, A LOT of "indie" animated cartoon and hentai porn videos/games being voiced by actual (western) succubi. Just like how there was very little trap hentai (not futa hentai, that was always plentiful) way back in the 00s then a massive explosion of trap hentai (and IRL trap porn), there's been an explosion of western hentai/cartoon porn VAs (for indie projects). Like I remember when hentai came overseas it was dubbed by literal pornstars (or nobodies), they had their headshots on the VHS covers IIRC but other than that was mostly just subtitles. I don't remember many (or any) hentai games being dubbed but regardless even when people started making their own hentai/cartoon porn games they were hardly voiced, with them being mostly text. Now actual western succubi are voicing some of the most /d/egenerate shit.

It's like in the last decade everybody suddenly had a price tag and were willing to give up their dignity for money or minor fame/infamy/attention.

>>298033
Relax my man, this thread will keep and that anon will post.