Corporate democrats and republicans both exist to propagate and entrench the power of the oligarchy. Epstein was a nexus of power for the oligarchy. He wanted everyone in power to owe him.

I think we all need to do the work to understand the problems faced by different groups. Women need to be doing this too. This isn’t a thread about problems men face, however.

I wish Americans would show more horror at the Iranian schoolgirls that we killed last week. But then again, republicans lack empathy as a rule. It’s too much to ask for these people to care about those dead kids, or the dead kids the Trump raped and murdered to hide the evidence. Or the thousands upon thousands of dead kids Trump killed by cutting USAID. That’s all too abstract. Prices at the pump, that’s what does it.

We need to completely rebuild our society and values system.

You answered your own question. The task for men is to trust women when they describe their experiences, even if it’s completely invisible and alien to their own experiences. Reading detailed firsthand accounts is a good way to build understanding.

Serial child rapist and murderer Donald just killed over 150 Iranian girls to distract us.

Step 1: rebuild all the infrastructure

Republicans were okay with him raping and murdering American children. Why would they take issue with him murdering Iranian children?

How do we make that happen?

It was legally limited but he immediately imposed new tariffs anyway.

Does this ghoul go out in public? Does he expect to continue to be able to live in society, go into restaurants, rent cars, go for a walk?

This is the piece I don’t understand. Do these people not have a notion of the social contract? Do unto others? How could a person knowingly be associated with something like project 2025 and just keep on trying to exist in the public sphere?

yeah. status quo bias

What is the lemmy equivalent for discord?