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I agree with all of that in every way.

Calling it toxic masculinity isn’t victim blaming. Men are victims to toxic masculinity every day and it isn’t because they have a “toxic personality”, it’s because the “masculine” image and roles in society they are expected to uphold are toxic.

The opinions of “neo feminists” are not what is typically held true either. Very few people think that way.

I feel like less of a helicopter parent now, thank you.

My kids have had to make me realize they should be independent in certain things a few times and I always feel bad for overstepping, but it’s hard not to when bad drivers, school shooters and random terrible shit are shoved in our faces all the time. We’ve been programmed to be afraid and it is really hard to not be in our current world of media, internet, and seemingly neverending hatred.

I get it, my sister and I ran away to go to Nanny’s as well.

If meta has any part of the fediverse. I don’t need another Facebook. Having profits be the priority will bring down the fediverse.

Probably both Lemmy and Mastodon, if they are a part of the fediverse it spells trouble all around.

And they should be allowed to. What else are they supposed to do? They don’t exactly have much to go back home to.

I’m sure there are some, there always are, but it will be overwhelmingly bots, and not the bots designed to garner engagement.

I will delete my account.

It won’t be just people, it will be bots mostly.

Lady Gaga…in SPACE!

I’m too poor to work less despite my psilocybin use.

But I don’t know anyone to be in a group chat with! That’s why I use social media 😭

That doesn’t mean he cares about the money.

I don’t think he actually cares about the money he blew on Twitter. Money is a construct and that is even more true for rich people. If he cared about the money, he wouldn’t have tossed Twitter down the shitter.

I think he cares more about the impression he is making, whether it be good or bad. People are talking about Elon and that’s all that matters.

I can’t be the only who is grateful we didn’t end up with a Ford company town.

I’m stupid, I don’t know how to use anything that isn’t an app on the play store.

Eta: thanks everyone, I’ll get my SO to translate after work lol.

To be fair, it’s corporations, lobbyists and governments that made us believe that we needed these things to be successful. Entire generations morals were bought with new technology that we were convinced we needed. And then the government’s created places to revolve and evolve around these technologies and put us all in a position where we’d have to give up everything in order to be able have a chance at a future. Commuters have been put in a position where they need their gas guzzlers, we can’t get jobs without consistent access to a mobile phone and internet- some won’t even hire you if you aren’t on socials.

Sure we can take steps to combat the problem, but the problem is still being shoved down our throats under the guise of success and happiness so most don’t even have a clear idea of what the problem is. The industries themselves are responsible, they created this problem and they pay off governments for the ability to continue this problem. We as consumers can have a small impact on this, but without rallying 8 billion people against it, it is useless- the industries only have to convince a handful of people that their way is the right way.

You make it sound as though personal responsibility and discipline will show us the way out of the darkness, but that is disingenuous at best.

Can you provide some links so we have a starting point? Simply googling Ethical Shampoo is going to bring about a disheartening and probably half fake onslaught of results that would be nearly impossible to sort through.