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I'm pretty well-versed in all things mgtow, but have always been extremely hesitant to agree with the lifestyle. I started listening to mgtow content perhaps in 2012 and found it extremely helpful in terms of framing male-female relationships. Speaking from personal experience, I've seen pretty much all of the men in my family consumed by parasitical women. That said, the men in my family were marrying women primarily based on looks, so they used women for their fertility and got used for their role as a capital-generating utility by women in return. I still think Stefan has a point about the inevitable loneliness that mgtow men will likely suffer through in their later years. I was thinking about this today: when I'm old, do I want to be by myself or with my adult children, grandchildren, and wife? Probably the only way around the scenario of loneliness for mgtow men is if some sort of mgtow colony forms somewhere. Who knows.

I'd posit that men have lower testosterone because we have fewer stressors. Everything's so convenient these days that we don't really have to work for much. That said, if you want a test boost, I think the best way to do it is by building muscle mass. You will notice marked psychological shifts which are beneficial in my opinion.

Teasing is a social stimulus, sort of like a spark. If you're going to use it, you need to be empathetic to make sure you get a controlled flame instead of a wildfire. The kind of "teasing" I think people think of as abuse is something totally different. That type of "tease" is usually something that induces a self-attack.

What a remarkable failure for liberal politics this is.

Funny how his final little snippet at the end of the conversation is Stewart admitting defeat. I'm a Middle Eastern dude who grew up in America during the height of the 9/11 era. At a time where my "people" were vilified in the media mercilessly and constantly to facilitate the neocon war agenda. I have never once in my life, subconsciously or otherwise, thought of myself as a "victim" or that I was being held back by some invisible social or cultural force. I can imagine nothing more humiliating than telling myself that I am an inferior product in society under any pretense. If there was anybody with an excuse to claim victimhood under the model presented by these leftist ideologues, it's me. Funny enough, none of the other Middle Eastern people I know do this either. I've never even thought about playing this as a 'card' until I started running across social justice ideologues in college and after graduating. Why is it that these Jewish people who talk about "white privilege" never seem to talk about the fact that their community came back from the brink of annihilation in Europe to become one of the most affluent and powerful ethnic groups in the United States?

Chomsky is a very old man. I seriously doubt he has the will, energy, or ability to be doing debates at this point.

Austin, it goes without saying that you're a talent. Looking forward to reading your ideas.

I find it incredible when people talk about conditions of Gaza independent of the Israeli siege there. If you do this, you have a political agenda, which it seems obvious the OP has.

The fact this passes for political discourse shows you how useless it is to engage with the political establishment. Why is somebody like coulter even up on stage? What does she bring?

I believe the term "coward" is used to describe a self-preservation behavior which bears within it a betrayal of values. So if I am in a town under attack by Mongols, and I am a military officer whose sworn duty is to defend the town and I flee for self-preservation, I am a coward. If I am just a merchant passing through the town and flee for the sake of self-preservation, I am not a coward as I hold no obligation to defend the city or its inhabitants, assuming my children or kin do not reside there.

Wesley, it is extremely important to listen to your instincts and first impression. The reason why you felt disgusted after breaking contact with those people is because within them exists something very scary that your subconscious is warning you against. It's punishing you with those negative feelings so that you do not re-engage them. Not that I need to tell you this, but let that be your compass.

Glad you're getting out of the environment you're currently in. Listened to your call last night and it sounds like you're around some astoundingly douchey assholes based on the spate of interruptions that came at the end of the call. Good luck.

For those interested, I recently appeared on the Scott Horton Show to talk about ISIS:

Overall a good presentation, and you nail the main ideas Stef, but there are a few mistakes you make: Al Qaeda translates to "the basis," not "the data." This is a reference to the ideological meme (called Salafism) practiced by al Qaeda and organizations like it whose adherents strive to emulate the lifestyle of the prophet Muhammad from 7th century Arabia. This is a movement of Western rejectionism and a return to the "pure" days of Islam. The claim that the name "al Qaeda" is a misnomer arbitrarily adapted from an American database of Mujahidin is incorrect. Salafism is a popular movement across the Middle East and central/South Asia and al Qaeda itself is an organization which is backed by decades of relatively "rigorous" jurisprudence amongst so-called Islamic scholars. The name "the basis," refers to the return to Islam's literal roots. The ideology that al Qaeda and organizations similar to it practice are organic outgrowths of robust Sunni Muslim jurisprudence. These organizations, at their core, derive their legitimacy within local populations from the fact that they are adepts in Islam. Saying that the CIA created this is like implying that Marx and Engels were American agents. However, it is true that America helped empower these Islamic ideologues to fight the Soviets. After the Soviets' departure, thousands of Arab ideologues poured into Afghanistan to create a Salafist/Jihadist colony, and it was in this power vacuum that al Qaeda came into being. Several organizations took root during this period alongside al Qaeda. I mention this because the primordial group that would later become ISIS circa 2011 was not al Qaeda. To avoid confusion, the Arab Jihadist group from which ISIS originates did later become an al Qaeda affiliate between 2004-11, so I can see why Stefan would make this association throughout the majority of the video. Stef states ~18:20 that ISIS was a former friend of the US, which is not true. They have been ardently antagonistic towards the USA since their arrival onto Iraqi soil from Afghanistan in late 2002 on the eve of the second Iraq war. Stef is correct when he mentions that several members of US-supported "rebels" have defected to ISIS in recent years, however. Hope this helps. Keep up the good work.

I've always thought the attraction of Westerners (and others) to ISIS is because there's this enormous power vacuum in the region, one which very rarely comes about in history. Men are willing to fight and die for a place in an unsettled hierarchy where they could very well be the masters of an emergent human farm.