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I’m thinking NZ or AUS

Not a headline I expected to see.

Walter, I’m not talking about someone who built the Spaceroads…

Yeah no, that’s a good boy

Let me just hold my breath real quick

That kid is scarred. For. Life.

Was it over when Iraq did a 9\11??

I fear we will get used to such madness as we drift toward chaos and war.

I mean literal payment, with money.

I agree with what you and @Azzu @Azzu@lemm.ee are saying, in the vein that traditional gender roles have done more harm than good.

I think the culture is shifting but there’s also a weird backlash to the change, like the toxic Masculinity of Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson, or the Trad Wife movement, or the rise of Only Fans and other pay-to-play parasitic economies.

I think a certain subgroup of men are willing to give money in exchange for intimacy as a way to exercise power in that dynamic, as if it lessens their vulnerability.

Relationships should of course be mutually beneficial, and therefore are inherently transactional. But I also find it ironic that whether men paying for online dating apps to meet women, paying for drinks, paying for sex, or paying for therapy, it’s all hitting their wallets.