You’ve explained the mentality - people don’t particularly care to know.

Why would people put in the effort to solve a problem they’re barely aware of, and don’t understand - particularly if putting the effort in to understand and address won’t even solve that problem? If you want to add problems to people’s lives, you need to tone it all the way down.

Don’t get me wrong though - you’re fighting the good fight - and meeting people where they’re at helps, so I guess this is a decent place to start.

I’d imagine if you set fire to the places you spend time in, you’d know a bit about homelessness - but something tells me you’re more interested in kicking people when they’re down for giggles.

If they’re definitionally wrong, why call “no true Scotsman”?

and…?

What part of “authoritarian state capitalism” is left wing to you?

Supporters of autocratic state capitalist regimes like China and Russia also aren’t left-leaning.

I’m not familiar with the detail of that one - was he always a lunatic, or did that come with the money following the buyout?

I personally think it’s more about manufacturing an ‘other’ to blame everything on and unite people in hate.

There’s little benefit to targeting women for oppression in the modern economy - they’re just more undifferentiated labour to be exploited (though it remains possible to pay them less). I think this was meaningfully different when living off a single income was a realistic proposition.

I’m not necessarily recommending it (I’m sure different people will have completely different outcomes, and it’s a trade-off), I’m just saying it’s what I’ve done. I agree it’s a pretty dark choice to be motivated to make though.

I wound up the same after picking up a weed habit as an adult - very mild persistent brain fog, and my memory has been affected, but I’m happier, and my wife is happier as a consequence. It’s not ideal, but I value happiness over peak mental performance.