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This comment really takes you on a roller coaster. To mirror the title here, this comment is clear: this boy is not all right.

Domestic terrorists? Social justice warrior nursing home staff? Patriot Act? Incel-oriented divorce court angst? Epstein?

> And yet what is the national conversation about? It’s only about how all straight men of a particular “ethnic category” are racist and evil and they all need to focus on giving more to people in other “ethnic categories”.

I just am never convinced by this reactionary argument when I hear it.

The internet skews people’s perceptions of the world, and this comment is exemplary of it. These Twitter-fueled “culture war” distortions have not done us any favors. In the most polite way possible, I recommend you go outside once in a while.

There's clearly hyperbole in the gp post, but there's also truth. Per HN guidelines try to take his post in good faith instead of writing him off. Be part of the solution not the problem.

To be fair there’s some truth in even the most outlandish conspiracies. That poster is undeniably an incel with distorted views on women and social justice causes. I think it would serve the boy well if you could pitch in and save him from the conservative propaganda he’s been fed, not to mention his views on women and that common whining that echoes in the halls of the Joe Rogan sphere about divorce. Divorce court is a common trope amongst reactionaries. He has clearly never talked to a woman let alone heard of the concept of a prenup? Should we get the ball rolling on the wildly delusional nurses comment or the random Patriot Act comment or oddly enough the Epstein comment that he stitched in there for good measure? I’m sure they would make for good discussion, just not in the rambling context.

I think I did decently on the front of taking his post in good faith, that’s why I didn’t ask him if he listens to Jordan Peterson (hint: he probably does).

The guy is in pain, that much is clear.

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