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The Russian National Guard and Police

“The National Guard is separate from the Russian Armed Forces.[3] A law signed by President of Russia Vladimir Putin established the federal executive body in 2016. The National Guard has the stated mission of securing Russia’s borders, taking charge of gun control, combating terrorism and organized crime, protecting public order and guarding important state facilities.[4]” source

Reminder: Putin sent about 10% of the Russian National Guard to the Ukraine in January source

I wonder if the effectiveness of Russian National Guard in protecting Moscow was affected Putin sending many of them to Ukraine.

“God works in mysterious ways”

‘god’s will is that Trump lose re-election bids. As it was before, as it will be again. Who are we to question the will of god?’

This lockup period prevents him from selling for 6 months to prevent the share price from tanking just after the merger from insider selling, but the board could decide to remove that restriction so he could start offloading shares.

I can’t see why the board would remove the restriction when they likely have stock too. They likely understand the grift and know that they need to get theirs sold off before Trump tanks whatever is left.

“The hand of God is on him and he cannot be stopped.”

So in the 2020 election where Trump lost was the ‘hand of god’ not on Trump and that’s why he lost or was ‘hand of god’, all-powerful, beaten by the electorate?

Which is it? Was the ‘hand of god’ on Biden in 2020 instead, or was the all-powerful god powerless to stop Biden getting elected?

The law and its premise is nuts, lets just get that out of the way first.

“The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

So on one hand this is a reading about banning any efforts of geoengineering. But modern day airplanes already dump “chemical compounds” into Tennessee airspace today as part of jet engine exhaust. The argument would be “oh, planes are okay because they’re not dumping to affect weather even though those gases are affecting the weather via climate change.” Doesn’t that argument open up license for anyone to dump whatever they want (including geoengineering materials) if they can claim that isn’t their primary purpose?

If you really mean that then you don’t need to pretend. There’s a “block user” lemmy feature. If you’re agreeing with @Jax@sh.itjust.works and think I’m disingenuous, you’ll do us both a favor.

You’re choosing barbs then? See ya.

I think the fact that you’re instantly declaring that this needs to be addressed indicates a clear bias.

Of course I’m biased. Everyone is biased in some direction at some level. I’m even waving giant flags saying I have bias, but that I’m interested in having my positions challenged because if I’m wrong, I want to be corrected, but that requires exchange of facts and ideas. I’m completely transparent about that. Are you claiming to be 100% impartial?

You can determine bias through discourse, there is quite literally no need for adversarial behavior

I’ve asked people to explain their positions instead of making assumptions about them and putting words in their mouths. I don’t know any other way to give those I’m talking to any more benefit of doubt or clear space to make their positions known. I have been trying very hard to avoid adversarial behavior. I’ve been met by almost nothing but adversarial responses, strawmanning, and posters making nefarious assumptions about my motives. Look at your own post. I agreed with your assertion that Loneliness ≠ not getting affection, and for that agreement with you you respond to me with vitriol.

Furthermore, people like you are a big part of the reason men have a difficult time conducting reasonable discourse on these topics.

I have not yet seen one reply to my posts that is offering ideas about a pathway to address these issues with young men. Its as though discourse has stopped simply at “awareness”, which I acknowledge is important, but zero pathways for the young men experience where to go afterward at an individual level. I’m discussing with reasonable discourse. I welcome you to join the conversation on the subject in your following reply about how these young men can be helped going forward.

You like to act as if you’re arguing in good faith but the reality is you’re just as prejudiced as the next bigot.

There is an enormous amount of irony in your accusations of me when the one of the perspectives I’ve been introducing to this conversation has been attempting to show that others have experienced much of the same issues, and it looks like you’re handwaving all of that away. Women have faced some of this already, and you call me a bigot for pointing that out. Should I then accuse you of misogyny as you have accused me of bigotry? Is it possible your experience is so poisoned you can’t recognize my own personal acknowledgements about my imperfections I bring and my engagement good faith discussion?

If you’re interested in discussing the topic, I’m still open to it. If you just want to exchange barbs, that doesn’t help either of us or the young men in question. What’s your choice?

Loneliness ≠ not getting affection.

I completely agree, however some people make that mistake. I wanted to make sure that wasn’t what we were talking about here.

My guess is that Supermicro makes lots of CHEAP servers. Supermicro makes tons of white labeled servers in addition to selling under their own brand name. If you’re looking to rack dozens or hundreds of disposable commodity servers each stuffed with GPUs it doesn’t make sense to pay a premium for Dell Enterprise grade servers with all the features, services, and support that gets bundled into that price.

What?

“Have they tried rejecting their depression? what, are they stupid?”

Congrats! I never said that. First, Clinical Depression is a serious matter and shame on you for trying to suggest that any amount of just thinking differently would change the outcome. There are documented medical causes and treatments by qualified psychiatrists. Millions of people suffer from Clinical Depression and its a serious matter. For those in need, I highly recommend seeking help. There’s no shame it in. We’re all broken and need help sometimes.

However, we’re not talking about Clinical Depression. We’re talking about social and cultural norms about the role of men and the disillusion that arises when those old ideas don’t match today’s reality.

This is how it feels, and the reality of actually existing, Men are frequently valued based off of their potential(earning or otherwise) in the real world,

By who? Who’s opinion do you care about that is making that judgement of you? What is THEIR motive for judging you such?

just by saying you reject it isn’t going to make this suddenly not true and just clear everything up in your life.

Of course not. If you’re looking for a ‘silver bullet’ solution you’re not going to find one. Humans a irrational, greedy, hurt, self interested, and angry. Welcome to life. However, recognized what is important to you instead of seeking validation from others is the start.

The solution to a young mans worry about his potential and place in life is… acknowledging the contributions and strengths of women? that is an opinion.

The acknowledgement is that women have faced many of these same questions for hundreds or thousands of years. This isn’t new. Its just new to young men. That recognition should do a few things:

• Give you empathy that the women in your life you love have faced these struggles and you’ve been immune to them up to now. Talk to them. Ask them how they navigate life. While not all of it will, see if any of it can give you guidance too.
• Realize you are not alone. No, not just other young men are in it with you, but lots of women too.
• Start questioning where you derive your ‘worth’ from. Ask yourself why you’re letting other people define that for you. Ask if you agree with their definitions.

They like dog whistles on the other side. Locate a office of the Bureau of Land Management there.

Rename the building to: BLM Tower

You monster!

A simple search with the keywords “men” and “loneliness epidemic” should pull up plenty of resources on the topic.

Instead of me doing some rando search and assuming those were your views, I was asking for examples/articles on your views. I don’t think you want Joe Rogan or Tate talking for you, do you? Both of those assholes show up in those broad searches.

I’m on mobile right now and don’t feel like doing a whole deep-dive but here’s an article from NASW

'Gender roles appear to contribute to male adolescent loneliness. “In most cultures, men are expected to provide. Men are expected to lead,” says Romero. ’

I don’t disagree that these ideas exist. Some cultures far more than others. In most western cultures however, the embrace of acknowledging the contributions and strengths of women work to combat this. The recognition that they’ve had it bad for hundreds of years and this new problem with men is a short term whiplash.

Men should reject these ideas that men are the default providers or leaders. Believe those are true is an irrational trap. Men can be leaders or providers, but so can women.

I am, because many of the worst arguments I’ve seen revolve around men believe they are entitled to the affections of others no matter how toxic their own personality is. I want to make sure @PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 's argument isn’t that.

Why do you need to assign victimhood

I’m not doing that. @PP_BOY_@lemmy.world is. I generally disagree with that idea, but before I pass judgment I’m willing to listen to arguments. Thats exactly what I’m doing. Listening to arguments.

Why are you so quick to judgment when you don’t know what people think or believe?

I don’t have time at the moment for the whole 1h and 30 min, but I listened to the first 7 min and saw the topic titles for the remaining. So far its pretty agreeable ideas (Each person is responsible for their own happiness. Its not ‘owed’ to you by someone else. Seeking pure external validation is a path to ruin.) However, so far this doesn’t support the idea posted before of “young men are victims” yet. I will listen to the rest though before passing judgment.

After the internet fails, you’d quickly learn how valuable the public library is. They have lots of disc based games for Xbox and Playstation meaning no internet required. Lots of movies on DVD and Bluray, and still pretty good collections of music on CDs.

The smallest public library also probably has more books than you could read in your entire lifetime.

to the loneliness epidemic (of which young men are the most likely victims).

I read this statement of yours my initial reaction is not very complimentary. Instead of making assumptions on what you mean and assuming the worst, I’m interested in your view to see if I would find validity with it, or if my initial reaction was sound. Do you have any source you’d consider objective on this you’d recommend me reading to explain your position/definition on this?

“Your tribe? I’ve seen your tribe. There’s the guy that after years still won’t shut up about how the final goal in the finals should have been counted. The one that unsuccessfully tries to cover up his noxious farts by loudly yelling ‘What time is it?!’. Then there’s the one that was convicted of a minor felony and none of you will tell me what the crime was and you try to change the subject, but you refuse to ever go bowling with him again. Lastly there’s the one that looks and acts fairly normal, but is very reserved. Honestly he could do better than you guys and I’m not sure why he continues to put up with you all. He’s the only one of all of you I’ve ever heard utter the words ‘Thank you’ for anything, but even then he was talking to the cat. Yeah, I’ve seen your tribe. I think the animals are pretty safe from you all.”