Men now comprise only 40.5% of college students and are failing in high school at much higher rates. There’s a crisis among American boys and men that is too often ignored and is definitely going unaddressed.

— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022

Boys are more than 2-3x as likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD, five times more likely to spend time in juvenile detention, and are far less likely to finish high school. In many places being good at school is now considered feminine. 70% of US valedictorians were girls in ‘12.

— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022

It doesn’t get any better when men become adults. Average male wages have declined since 1990 in real terms. At least one-sixth of prime working age men 25-54 are either unemployed or out of the workforce. More men aged 18-34 are living with parents than with romantic partners.

— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022

Economic transformation hasn’t helped. Almost three-quarters of manufacturing workers are – were – men; the sector has lost about 5 million jobs since 2000. That’s a lot of unemployed men.

— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022

The sidelining of this many boys and men has massive social, political and economic consequences. Tyler Cowen calls it “the bad men problem.” It’s getting tougher and tougher to not fall into this category. Addressing or at least reducing this is crucial to any positive future.

— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022

The fact that this isn’t front and center of any policy agenda is a massive failure of our media institutions and public leadership that struggle to frame boys and/or men as sympathetic figures despite very clear data indicating the need.

— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022

This is a huge problem.

Some of the comments talk about the need for more trade schools.  That is true, but that won’t fix the problem.

Other talk about the shift in the economy away from more “masculine” jobs.  That’s only sort of true.  Yes, there are more HR and DE&I officers than ever, but we still need people to actually build and make things.

The problem is as a society we have approached the gender equality issue as a zero sum game, and for one gender to win the other must lose.

That is a product of the Marxist thinking that took over the Left in the 1960s.

Going all the way back to antiquity, philosophers and thinkers understood people need a purpose.

We need something to motivate us.

People without a purpose are indolent and self destructive.

Since the dawn of civilization, the purpose of men has been to be the provider and protector.

The goal of a man was to make himself desirable to marry, get married, have children, and take care of his family.  Men were encouraged to do this and were lauded for it.

The ancient Greek and Roman philosophers wrote about this, so did the ancient Jewish sages.

In modern times that has be abandoned and denounced.

The message of society has be men are unnecessary and unwanted.

Women can enter the corporate world and don’t need a husband to support financially.

Women can be single mothers and raise children without a father.

Men who want to be providers and protectors are sexist pigs who just want women to be oppressed, barefoot, and pregnant in the kitchen.

Men who do the things men have traditionally done to build great civilizations are toxic.

And boys got that message.

They have no purpose.

If a woman doesn’t need you, why work hard to make yourself marriage material and get married.  There is porn and OnlyFans when your horny.

Why go out and try to contribute positively when that’s just makes you a toxic knuckle-dragger.

And so men have checked out of society to play video games, watch porn, drink beer, and smoke pot.

Men have been stripped of their purpose and so no longer have the intrinsic motivation to build themselves up or build up society.

As a result both men and society are crumbling.

The only way to fix this is to change the culture and tell me that they are needed, wanted, and the things men have traditionally done for society are good and valuable.

If you read the comments to Yang’s thread, so many of them are “men have had it good for a long time, it’s women’s time now.”

We must get away from zero sum thinking. We must recognize that we can build up men without diminishing women and that building up women by diminishing men was how we created this crisis in the first place.

And let me be clear, I’m not blaming women for this.  Many are just as much victims as men.  I’m blaming the Marxists who pushed this garbage on society.

If we can’t get past zero sum thinking and restore purpose to men, we are doomed to failure.

In case you missed it, Neil Young’s music is no longer available on the internet music streaming service Spotify.

In a nutshell, Neil Young vastly overestimated his worth and told Spotify that they either drop Joe Rogan’s podcast because he has been pushing COVID misinformation or he (Young) pulls his music from Spotify.

The CEO looked at the numbers.

Joe Rogan draws about 11 million listeners per episode, with some episodes reaching as high as 40 million listeners.

Neil Young gets about 6 million listeners in a month.

At which point the CEO of Spotify told that old, irrelevant hippie to go fuck himself.

Spotify man don’t need him around, anyhow.

Neil Young pulled his music and the reaction from most people was: “Neil Young is still alive?”

Neil Young then floundered that the CEO of Spotify would call his bluff, and in doing so became a magnet of other old, irrelevant Leftists.

Howard Stern says Neil Young’s threat to pull music from Spotify over Joe Rogan using the platform to spread “fake information about vaccines” is not about censorship because it’s “about life or death.” pic.twitter.com/uBayuzHwaR

— The Recount (@therecount) January 26, 2022

Howard Stern.

The famous “King of All Media.”  The shock jock who made his name testing the limits of the First Amendment on the airwaves.

Turns out he’s a 68 year old pussy who’s afraid of the air and will lick the boot to uphold the Coof security theater.

Turns out that for all the porn stars he’s interviewed, his favorite is Anthony Fauci and his brand of fear porn.

But of course Howard Stern would end his career the way Neil Young and so many other old Leftists would, as mouthpieces for state enforcement.

Making millions from a career of “fight the man” wasn’t about principles but money.

Now that they are old and rich they want the man to protect them from the Coof.

And for Howard Stern, there is delicious irony on this.

He’s been rendered irrelevant and obsolete by guys like Rogan.

Stern was the “King of All Media” when “all media” was FCC licensed broadcast corporations and he still had to play by their rules.

In the world of podcasts, 4G/5G, and Bluetooth, anyone can listen to anything on any topic without restrictions.

Howard Stern is an irrelevant old Leftist on defending another irrelevant old Leftist, both trying to hang onto relevancy radically overestimating their value.

Fuck ’em.

First they sent me a message asking if I was all right and if I needed to talk to somebody. next, I got the photo removed.

I guess some ugly fat communist college girl may feel triggered about the reality of communism. Her fantasy should not be challenged.

UPDATE: I appealed just because and they actually reversed the decision. Color me amazed.

From CNN:

US Navy wants to get crashed stealth fighter back — before China can

The United States Navy is trying to retrieve its most advanced fighter jet from the depths of the South China Sea, an extremely complex operation that analysts say will be closely monitored by Beijing.

The $100 million warplane impacted the flight deck of the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier and then fell into the sea as its pilot ejected, Navy officials said. The pilot and six sailors aboard the Vinson were injured.

While damage to the Vinson was only superficial, and it and the carrier’s air wing have resumed normal operations, the Navy faces the daunting task of attempting to pull the F-35 off the ocean floor in some of the most contested waters on the planet.

I get it, carrier landings can go very badly.

You need to keep the flight deck clear so letting the pilot ditch and letting the plane slide off the end of the runway or pushing the wreckage over the side has been procedure in one way or another since WWII.

The Navy helped lead the development of zero-zero ejection seats precisely because they needed pilots to be able to ditch off a carrier flight deck just before the plane went into the water.

So here is my question, knowing that a flight deck ditch is a predictable outcome of a carrier prang, and carrier groups operate in and around the waters of enemy nations, why is there not a team that immediately goes into the water after the aircraft?

One crew immediately gets dispatched to rescue the pilot the other to recover the aircraft?

It seems like a better solution than racing the enemy to pick the plane up 3,700 feet off the sea floor.

Maybe I’m wrong and the navy already does that, but why should we even be in this situation.

It’s not like we don’t know where the place crashed and we have to look for it.  It literally hit the flight deck and went over the end.

Why should it take that long to recover the aircraft?

From the AP:

Florida could shield whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past

A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval Tuesday.

“This bill’s not for Blacks, this bill was not for any other race. This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago,” said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, who is Black. “At no point did anyone say white people should be held responsible for what happened, but what I would ask my white counterparts is, are you an enabler of what happened or are you going to say we must talk about history?”

The AP doesn’t even tell you the name of the bill so you can go look at it yourself.

Vanity Fair has probably the worst headline on this bill:

Florida Advances Bill That Would Ban Making White People Feel Bad About Racism, and No, That’s Not a Joke

CCN’s headline is almost as bad:

Florida bill to shield people from feeling ‘discomfort’ over historic actions by their race, nationality or gender approved by Senate committee

This is all red meat for the white fragility crowd.

Ron DeSantis is a white supremacist who must censor free speech to keep delicate white people from having their feelings hurt.

Except thats not true.

The bill is SB148 and this is what is says:

So the bill says aabsolutely nothing about not making white people uncomfortable.

It if fact says nothing at all about white people.

What it does say is that you cannot discriminate based on race, make people feel guilty about their race, or assign moral value to people because of their race.

The bill also explicitly requires teaching about slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Holocaust.  It just cannot be done in a way that states or implies people living today bear and collective guilt for past atrocities they did not participate in because of their race.

All of this strikes right at the heart of what Critical Race Theory teaches, i.e., that white people today have a collective blood guilt for past grievances and should be forced to pay recompense because of it.

That’s why the media must slander this bill.

Any normal person who reads it, including traditional moderate Liberals, would have no objection to it and really wonder at the motives of those who did object to it.

What sort of monster doesn’t want to ban making people feel guilty because of their race?

The media can’t let people know what’s actually in the bill and they have to hang it like an Albatros  around the neck of Ron DeSantis because they are scared absolutely shitless of him.

You have the text of the bill now.

It is your duty to use it and counter the narrative whenever you see it on social media.

If you have normie friends who are aghast at what DeSantis is doing, show them the text of the bill and ask what’s so objectionable about it.

This bill needs to pass in Florida then the Republicans need to pass it again at the Federal level nationwide.

Because you end up with a fully grown bear in the battlefield outperforming the officers.

Hat Tip JoshA