• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    That you can grow up and be anything you want.

    Yeah, there are still people telling the lie, and still people believing it

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      11 months ago

      Chris Rock said it best and it has always stuck with me:

      “Stop telling kids they can be anything they want to be. You can be anything you’re good at, as long as they’re hiring.”

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      11 months ago

      That thing is more about collapsing options as time moves on though. When you’re a kid you really can be ‘anything’ ignoring social and economic stuff. The probability curve is pretty open to anything at that point though. Once you’re thirty it feels squarely like that is less true and my options are clearer but more limited.

      It’s scary but also awesome that you have so many open doors as a kid and adults that say this are mostly envying something they’ve lost and didn’t appreciate or see until later

    • ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Surely it’s like that line from Rattatuille, “not everybody can become a great chef, but a great chef can come from anywhere”

      So in a sense it’s true that you can grow up to become anything, but there’s an unspoken caveat that the above is only true if you can overcome your own personal economic/societal/mental/physical/geographical obstacles.

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    1 year ago

    that andrew tate is an “alpha male” and its a good way to live/behave.

    that chinless fuck is ruining a large disenfranchised group of men

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        1 year ago

        man who things being a misogynist is how you get women. incels love him. charges people for his “courses”

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          1 year ago

          Sounds like this is a subject I can happily be ignorant of.

          So is he one of those Mens Rights Activists? Or within that circle or so?

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          11 months ago

          Also had a course on how to get girls to become cam girls for you using the “lover boy” method. Currently under house arrest and awaiting trial in Romania for human trafficking.

          In recent years he’s been doing YT streams where he tells young men who are afraid about the state of the world that they’re pathetic and they just need to be more like him; and basically hate women because they caused all their problems.

          Essentially hems a criminal shitbag that thinks he’s a genius and everyone else is stupid and is convinced it’s true as evidenced by the fact that his scams made him rich.