my most conservative-coded trait these days is that i honestly think that the worst possible thing that can happen for young men is for the entire society to coddle them. what they need to hear is that they have one life to live and they have to take responsibility for it.
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Mark Cuban
Young men don't open bank accounts. They are too expensive. They download coin base or Robinhood app and buy crypto. That's their savings
If one party pushes that number higher. They vote for em. Gensler/Biden caused those savings to go down. The demo with the biggest change was young men
If one party pushes that number higher. They vote for em. Gensler/Biden caused those savings to go down. The demo with the biggest change was young men
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They don't appear out of nowhere.
Try being a woman. Or POC. Or LGBTQ+. The world is still tilted towards straight white men, and when it gets difficult *for them*...
But, because they don’t use their anger and hopeless as an excuse to commit violence, their unhappiness doesn’t matter.
How dare women pretend like they are people!!!!
Happiness is often about perspective, attitude & gratitude
To me a large part of the growth is just how easy it is to place bets on random crap on your phone
But when I see some of the maladjusted behaviors that come with gambling, it is sad and pitiful.
Call it The Great American Homebuild Challenge and refashion it as American Ninja Warrior but with hardhats and plumbing.
Sponsored by Tough Mudder and Lennar.
--Robert Heinlein, via Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
pick a lane. if you really value ye olde masculine virtues then embody them. hint: they include taking responsibility for your own fuckups and being a provider.
you know. in theory.
If you do not regulate it the value will skyrocket and then collapse into nothing or it might just get stolen from you with zero ways to get it back.
But full agreement with Bouie, there isn't a solution where we should have propped to crypto because young men were sucked in
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
This is *exactly* how they want it to work.
I've met like three people in my entire life who set up any kind of paycheck-to-crypto thing
& at least one took a massive bath on it
Or - when the treasury decides to invest a bunch of tax dollars into crypto. We all then have a stake.
and. man, the stories i could tell you about how this goes over when you do.
https://www.fdu.edu/news/fdu-poll-finds-online-betting-leads-to-problems-for-young-men/
https://bsky.app/profile/healthyalgo.bsky.social/post/3ll7mzkdya52s
NFTs, rug pulls, sites like https://pump.fun, parlay bets; it is an entire ecosystem looking to scam people.
The helpless, needy expectation to be given everything is ugly.
It's always sucked.
There are very few times in history when it has sucked less than it does now.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/trump-pardon-pam-hemphill-interview-rejected-january-6-insurrectionist/
"does your king deserve a crown or a pair of handcuffs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6CGhfaPng4
I will say that the influencers and grifters that prey on them via social media and gaming circles are the root of the issue here — if you think gambling addiction is bad, wait until you see a 15 year old gambling addict. Apps and websites designed for it
We can’t ignore the elephant in the room. They wouldn’t spend the money on advertising relentlessly if it didn’t pay off in spades
we don't.
We make our own society, with feminists and DEI and blackjack, and if they don't like it they can bloody well go galt, or figure out how to deal.
On a more serious note, warmth and empathy might be what young men need, but it is *not* what teens who fall into the manosphere are looking for.
Have you ever listened to how any of them speak? They degrade and berate their audience constantly. These teens respond to authoritarians
yeh it's a matter of both deprogramming cult expertise and stop enabling this desperate clawing onto privilege bc it's only hurting them more.
and oh yeah, THE REST OF US. A LOT.
Look, kid, the world is full of scammers and grifters trying to pitch you deals that sound like a quick path to riches. Those are scams 100% of the time and those people are predators.
Don’t be prey.
Technically true but kind of ignores well established social and psychological science.
*source: mother of an Elder gen z who currently has professors battling over who gets to be his thesis proctor and who spends too much money on... fossils
Not fossil brand merchandise.
So yeah, I don't get it.
not joking
American women
Time to revive that for white boys.
6 months ago he also thought Nikki Haley was the best available option for president
He generally seems like an okay dude but he probably has more in common with Larry Ellison than anyone reading his posts here.
Our job isn’t to coddle them or their regressive ideology- it’s to tell them to grow the fuck up or get left in the dust.
Conservativism demands coddling but only for men and boys. They just relish brandishing the rod for everybody else in the name of their comfort.
Even when we have a positive Tom Walz-style example of positive masculinity, he's stiffled.
Gives you bank card......visa/debit card
Gives you cheques/checks free as well
I know ....Tangerine bank is free and good
Largely women have leapfrogged where men are at in terms of maturity, responsibility, and all types of intelligence.
Why is this a problem for the dudebro generation?
Honestly, someone educate me if I’m misguided (something maga would never say)
If being rich is so fabulous, why are the rich such miserable pricks? Maybe they should'a lived a little.
Can't get a date? Women's fault.
Can't get a job? Dem's fault.
Leaked war plans? Didn't happen, also journalist's fault.
Deny or blame it on others. It's never YOUR fault, it's those liberals!
10000%
A lot of these dudes are weenies and losers whose main goal is to play the victim.
But sometimes he completely reads the room way off wrong- he seems to forget that knowing how to run businesses that serve people is not the same thing as knowing human behavior of avg people unrelated to those businesses
And what was Mark Cuban saying when fraudster Sam Bankman Fried incinerated $ billions of crypto money at his FTX crypto exchange?
The obsessive online presence, the porn addictions, crypto - they're all variations on a theme, which is to drop out from leading a normal life where you work hard at a normal job, save your money, get married, start a family etc. IOW be a responsible citizen.
Girls, society often teaches responsibility as a care group member. that one should not be so stuck on themselves.
Better balance is needed for all, but girls seem to be flourishing more with that ideal
Girls do better in school, end up less in prison, homeless, or dead by suicide or other harmful behaviors.
There is tons we can learn from that.
Where there really isn't anything to learn from the patriarchy that works only for a few except getting rid of it.
He scaled it back to 'well, they're putting $100 into it when they can'.
Boys are sheep, they go with the herd, and the herd is only looking out for the interests of the farmer, who will slaughter them when their use runs out.
Also that media (ahem, NYT, WAPO…), police, and politicians are complicit in bias and dis/misinformation. That tracks, too.
Guns? Drugs? Sex Trafficking? Child ST?
Cuban seems terribly silly about this subject (and AI)
Really tired of how men keep getting excuses for their worst behaviors.
@warren.senate.gov pushes idea of really free banking via post offices (revival of historical practice), but guess who hates it
BofA has ~15k ATMs. Allpoint has 55k.
Credit unions: they’re great!
a bank, on a street, in the town i live in--that's "what bank"...
That’s not conservative. This is what my brother and I were taught at home.
Cuban's bought in, obviously.
Seems we have that backwards these days.
Super vague comment from him with no references. What study or poll is this from? How many people were interviewed?
Post the receipts or it’s just an opinion.
I left Wells Fargo years ago due to fees, but I've banked at 3 others since with none.
I think coddling kids makes them into adult shitlords.
I truly believe that.
They got burned on a climate killing, money laundering, Ponzi scheme?
Boo f’ing who
It is a commodity that is solely based on the robustness of the cryptography in the coin itself which with every increase in technology and processor speed diminishes and commodity value
“don’t want to harm their future by holding them accountable”
“Affluenza”
“Boys will be boys”
“Mistake”
@warren.senate.gov
pushes idea of really free banking via post offices (revival of historical practice), but guess who hates it
Even if you are generous to this segment, The idea that it's a majority who are using that in Robinhood for their banking is patently absurd.
Cuban is way out of touch
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/24/majority-of-americans-arent-confident-in-the-safety-and-reliability-of-cryptocurrency/
FDIC only covered what FDIC is required to cover. There was no government bailout. This was well reported at the time.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/best/banking/free-checking-accounts
I’m not sure on the Chimes and other “online” banks.
We’re at the point where we can’t even expect people to be able to type “no fee checking” into their phones? We’re all that stupid now?
https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/checking-account-minimum-balance-by-bank-210951454.html
I know I was hit with this in my early 20s—left a small amount of money in an old account with a regional bank & ended up with a negative balance.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
And you ain't gonna live forever.