Sohan Lalwani

According to the "Cams-Care" site which is designated for such issues like suicide, it states women are 1.5 times more than men not 4, also there are 3.3 deaths for men relative to one women in suicide However, men are considered to have a 3.5-4x higher death rate, perhaps you misread the statistics? https://cams-care.com/resources/educational-content/the-gender-paradox-of-suicide/ Again, I need some reasoning with this.

Who says men are not also considering this? Also, please provide statistics that men have a higher access to guns than women in America. You are aware that there is more to America globally yes? Saying society as a whole has historically always been run by men is blatantly incorrect. Holy generalization are you saying that men with mental health issues resort to beating their wives the majority of the time ☠️ Fascist ideologies often appeal to individuals, especially men, who feel powerless, humiliated, or dislocated in society. Poor mental health, including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and identity crises, can make people more susceptible to extremist worldviews that offer. Fascism ALSO, often glorifies a hypermasculine ideal: aggression, dominance, discipline, and strength. Men who feel emasculated by modern societal changes (like feminism, economic shifts, or declining traditional male roles) may gravitate toward fascism as a way to reclaim a lost sense of power or pride. Poor mental health can exacerbate this yearning for control or structure.

It’s fine, thanks for the offer. It’s a combination of both

I need statistics or a proper counterclaim to say such is misleading. Men are not just more successful at suicide due to method, they are also significantly more likely to die by suicide overall. That pattern cannot be fully explained by method alone. It reflects deeper systemic problems in how society handles men's mental health. Men are less likely to seek help, less likely to be diagnosed with depression, and more likely to be socially isolated. Focusing only on the method distracts from these root causes and can obscure the urgent need for better outreach, support, and de-stigmatization of mental health care for men In my opinion as well utilizing toxic masculinity as the sole reason of why this occurs is not very nuanced, such things such as ‘toxic femininity’ also contribute to such decline. Anyway to get back on track, here are some screenshots given in what I am talking about In case you don’t know what the “88” means it’s a reference to Nazi germany

Hey it’s ok lol. Some words Gen Z uses is very convenient

Mental health issues yes, generally speaking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) consistently report that men die by suicide at over 3.5 times the rate of women in the U.S. This is quite common knowledge, I don’t want to get into a fully fledged arguement on abortion either please. Suicide PreventionFacts About SuicideThis page provides facts about suicide. It’s not just adults, it’s teenagers as well. The common factor is political brainwashing

That’s the point of what I said, you can’t take it literally, you can take it morally. Also, some other verse such as Isaiah 40:22 mention that “He (The Lord) sits above the circle of the Earth,” this is scientifically incompatible my friend. Also I think the term you are looking for is “ancient” as the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia occurred roughly 6000 years ago, prehistoric refers to something before the invention of modern writing systems.

It’s generally not in my interpretation on whether they act immature or not, some of the shit they spew out is largely socially unacceptable for someone that young with no life experience. =) Agreed, it does occur with a larger population of people. Again, I’m not saying this is a teenager specific issue, it’s just that in most of the instances I have seen it is a group of juveniles attempting to sound tough, I will try to broaden my scope =) I’ve seen 14 year olds say the things I’m mentioning

Speaking emotionally and generally, men are not as well supported as women. In many societies men are expected to be tough and bread - winners, it’s rather an issue of societal pressures and expectations rather than self induced isolation. That, I fundamentally agree with. However, I do agree, some people if they are constantly lonely attempt to find others with a common interests, hence likely why you came to this forum in the first place. Anyway let’s return to the main topic

I never claimed it was, the examples are giving though are that of teenagers. The examples that I have given though are that of teenagers*

It says in “2 Peter 3:8 ESV But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” It then says in “Exodus 20:11 ESV For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” Is this not fundamentally incorrect with the modern estimate for the Earths age? IMO religion is to be used only with a moral sense, it serves as an excellent moral compass and as Carl Sagan said, “deals with great literature, poetry” and such.

I don’t think they are powerless, but I sure as hell think they could pick up a book and learn how to converse kindly with others instead of insisting on a racial superior complex I feel that they are doing it because generally men are not as supported as women in areas such as mental health and such, though there are much better ways to express you need help rather than shitposting dank memes about how the ‘crusades were awesome.’

Anytime my friend!

Nothing about them is adult like and that’s coming from me 💀 These teenagers are a bunch of spoiled brats who think Europe should be one, uniform ethnicity and that the immigrant population should be exterminated, they also believe that Out Of Africa “is the leftie way of severing their roots” and that Cheddar Man having dark skin “is eradicating their culture.” They also claim to face a white genocide and make comments such as “Hitler had the right ideas.” What I have seen from common media is it’s a bunch of teenagers with no real life experience who are brainwashed to the point where they believe they are a chosen race. I can put some screenshots if you like

I think I can help you understand it. For years, scientists knew that a large portion of the universe's normal matter was missing, we are not talking about dark matter, just the regular stuff that makes up stars, planets, and people. Based on what we know from the Big Bang, there should be more of this matter than we could actually find. Recently, astronomers solved this mystery using something called fast radio bursts, which are brief, powerful signals from distant galaxies. As these signals travel through space, they interact with matter and get slightly changed. By studying how the signals were affected, scientists realized that most of the missing matter is spread out as thin gas between galaxies, not gathered in stars or galaxies like we expected. So the matter was always there it was just really hard to detect until now.

The only time I’ve witnessed this is when the stupid wannabe Nazi commenters under the “Save Europe” media start chanting Aus###### R### which is a rude and anti immigrant slogan. Keep in mind most of these imbeciles are pissy teenagers with no lives. Comparative to Europe I say America has improved significantly when it comes to racially related issues, there are always going to be a few bad apples.

You are also right to say this particular moment feels steeper and darker than before. It does. The alliances forming against democratic values are not only more coordinated, they are unapologetic. They have figured out how to weaponize bureaucracy, cynicism, exhaustion, and even nostalgia. And while that may sound dramatic, I don’t think it is. It is simply the situation as it stands. But I also think your point about reforms cuts right to the core. Even if the worst is avoided in the next election, the underlying systems are still broken. The rot did not start with Trump, and it will not end with him either. And yes, you are right — the most critical reform of all, removing financial power from the electoral process, is almost impossible to even discuss at scale here. Too many people do not see it as a problem, and too many who do feel it is simply untouchable. It is not just about campaign finance — it is about the role of money in shaping who gets heard, who gets dismissed, and who never even gets to show up. Still, I do not believe that the impossibility of complete reform means total surrender is the only path. It may be that the best we can do in the short term is create enough friction to slow the collapse — and sometimes, that is enough to buy the time needed to build something stronger. But I agree with you — the fight ahead is not about winning once. It is about changing No, I enjoy this dialouge. You are a very pleasant person to talk to =)

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In my opinion no country should have any form of nuclear weapons, it’s a game of Russian roulette but instead of a slug you can’t see what kills you. May I remind you that Israel exists in one of the most volatile and antagonistic regions on the planet, surrounded by states and factions that have repeatedly declared intent to wipe it off the map. Israel has never started a war for conquest, and in most cases, it has been forced into defensive wars for sheer survival. If any nation has cause to live in a posture of cautious deterrence, it is Israel. And yet, even with the perceived ambiguity surrounding Israel’s nuclear posture, it has never used such weapons, never tested them openly, never threatened a neighbor with them as a first strike. Compare that to authoritarian regimes that parade their weapons, threaten annihilation, and use nuclear capability as leverage to destabilize entire regions. Israel, by contrast, has pursued a doctrine of deliberate restraint—seeking balance and deterrence rather than domination. So while I dream of a world free of nuclear arms—a planet where no child has to grow up under the threat of radioactive fire—we cannot ignore the realities of the present. Disarmament must be global, not selective. Israel did not invent the nuclear age. But in a world where genocidal threats still echo across borders, can you truly argue that it should disarm first and alone? Again with the gross oversimplifications and poor historical comparison. Does Israel #### children at all? Let alone to the same extent the Nazis did. Do they participate in ethnic cleansing? No, in fact within Israel various ethnic groups have their own specialized quarters and in more condensed cities, have “mixed” zones. These people interact relatively frequently. Are we serious? I question who attempted to attack Israel multiple times.

you are right, it has never stopped bleeding. That contradiction became structural. It shaped the way power was distributed, how citizenship was defined, and who was allowed to be visible, let alone heard. Your description of the immigrant waves, each carrying their own histories, beliefs, languages, and scars, becoming isolated "lumps of otherness," is not just metaphorically true — it describes how American identity was never singular, but always fragmented and conditional. The divisions were never healed, only managed, and often poorly. The religious aspect matters too. There has never been much room in the American mainstream for true pluralism, even though the rhetoric suggests otherwise. Suspicion and hierarchy were often the norm, not the exception. I also see your point about Europe — that its post-colonial anxiety and now the discomfort with internal diversity have led to a familiar kind of backlash. But in America, this pressure has been woven into everything from the beginning. It’s not a shock here, like you said — it’s the air. Which makes it harder to dislodge. As for optimism, I get why it feels insufficient. You’re right that what usually gets people off the bench is not hope but threat. And we are deep into that phase now. What I think matters, and maybe this is where our perspectives differ slightly I don’t think it is solely the Europeans, I think it’s the result of a lack of communication and general cooperation. Pointing fingers gets us nowhere.

Some Indian foods are very healthy, though I HOPE FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART THAT YOU KNOW THAT THE STREET FOOD VIDEOS ARE NOT ACTUALLY WHAT WE EAT I come enough from both worlds so I can comment on this, some Indian foods are extremely fatty, likewise with Western cuisine. Diabetes rates of both nations are generally “high moderate” - to high within the majority population. It’s important to recognize though that not all Indian foods are unhealthy when in fact the majority are health, like what you stated, and that not all western food is unhealthy

I am partly Chinese, either I am not as relatively informed with it as regards to western medicine or I believe what @Wenbin Zhao Is mentioning isn’t really eastern medicine it’s more therapy that doesn’t fall into any specific category geographically. Just by looking at this sentence it is by definition incorrect, likely because it is impossible for a single therapy to work on every human to ever exist Holy victim mentality 😬 I’m sure some people here are partly Chinese like myself or are Chinese primarily Do you have links? I could spam report to help

Elaborate please Peterkin, I genuinely respect where you’re coming from. I know you're not being dramatic or unrealistic, and I did not mean to talk past you. When I said the tools still work, I did not mean they work easily or that they have not been badly damaged. I just meant that abandoning them altogether feels like giving up the last levers we still have. You are right that the system has always had deep cracks. The union was never some perfect, functional machine. But there have been moments — however flawed — when pressure from the public, from the courts, from the press, and from people just refusing to back down did change the course of things. Not enough, and not always fast enough, but it still mattered. If we walk away now, I do not think we are clearing a path to a better structure. I think we’re just letting the worst people finish what they started. You said resistance will now have to be radical and costly. I do not disagree with that. But I believe that kind of resistance can still be grounded in reality. I do not think lawsuits and journalism are enough — not anymore — but I do think they are still necessary. I know this is not about Weimar for you. You were making a broader point. I understand it overall now. My reference to it was just to push back against people who see any alarm as exaggeration. I do see parallels, but I also know history does not need to repeat itself in the same clothes. =)

Peterkin, I hear your frustration. Believe me, I’m not under any illusions that there’s a “cheap” or “easy” fix here. There isn’t. But to say flatly that the tools do not work — full stop — is not analysis, it’s surrender. They may be rusted, slow, and unevenly applied, but we are not at the point where they are all useless. If they were, we would not see state-level lawsuits against federal overreach, judges (including Trump appointees) ruling against unconstitutional actions, journalists still risking careers to publish investigations, or voters flipping elections in swing districts even under brutal gerrymanders. That is not fantasy — that is fact. It is incomplete and deeply fragile, but it is still real. You said, “okay, fix it.” That’s not how democratic crisis works. You do not get to hand someone a collapsed system and say, “if you think it is not over, then solve it now.” It takes pressure, persistence, and yes, sometimes years of clawing back power inch by inch. If people had said in 1974 that “the system is broken beyond repair,” Nixon would have walked. If people had said in 1965 that nothing would change, the Voting Rights Act would not exist. Those moments required an exhausting mix of litigation, protest, organizing, and moral clarity — and they only happened because people refused to say “the tools no longer work.” Now about your broader point — yes, America’s situation is different from 1930s Germany. I never argued otherwise. In fact, that’s exactly why the Weimar comparison is flawed if treated as a 1-to-1 parallel. Germany did not have a centuries-long democratic tradition, a powerful decentralized court system, or massive state-by-state bureaucracies. But to flip your own logic — the U.S. being more powerful and having more complex institutions means that if those are now eroding, the threat may be even more far-reaching. The fact that the U.S. has not been invaded, has no postwar ruins to rebuild, and is still succumbing to authoritarianism is not an argument for inevitability — it is a wake-up call. As for your remark about “genetic defects” in U.S. democracy, I agree there are deep structural flaws — racism, hypercapitalism, imperial inertia, the Senate, the Electoral College — you name it. But none of that means resistance is futile. It means resistance is hard. The answer to hard problems is not to throw out the blueprint, it’s to double down on pressure, information, coalition building, and legal recourse, even when those paths feel like slow torture. You are right about one thing — this won’t be fixed in a year. It may not be fixed in a decade. But if you write off every institution as dead, every mechanism as corrupted, and every action as useless, then you are not being radical. You are accelerating the decay by convincing others to sit out.

You clearly care about the stakes here, and I respect that. But let’s slow down and separate emotion from fatalism. There is a difference between recognizing serious damage and declaring democracy already gone. The moment we cross that line and decide the fight is already lost, we stop using the few remaining tools that still work. That is not caution. That is surrender. Yes, things are bad. Yes, the second Trump term, especially one supported by loyalists and shaped by four years of strategy, is not the same as the first. I never said it was. The comparison to Weimar is powerful because it reminds us that erosion often comes before collapse. But the United States is not Weimar Germany, and acknowledging that is not naivety. It is precision. The U.S. has a deeper constitutional tradition, longer democratic history, and stronger legal infrastructure than Germany had after the fall of the Kaiser. That is not an argument for complacency. That is an argument for why the stakes are higher now. The fact that this country still has people suing, publishing, voting, and protesting while facing suppression is not proof that everything is fine — it is proof that all is not yet lost. You ask “how is accountability done and by whom” — and then dismiss every example I give. Courts are slow and imperfect. But Trump’s first travel bans were overturned. His efforts to overturn the 2020 election were blocked, including by judges he appointed. Voter turnout surged in 2018 and 2020 and again in 2022, even with massive disinformation campaigns. That is not nothing. It is not enough, but it is not nothing. You say the institutions are already broken because enforcement has failed, because media has been cowed, because the administration defies court orders. Those are all legitimate concerns. But the conclusion that this amounts to total collapse does not follow. Even under strain, lawsuits are still filed and sometimes won. Even with pressure, some local election officials still defy orders and threats. Even with censorship creeping in, reporters still break stories, and whistleblowers still leak. The fact that these things are harder now is exactly why they matter more. About the media — you are right that traditional outlets have lost both reach and revenue. But that is not the same as full state control. If we reach a point where murder, arrests, and mass deportations of journalists are happening in open daylight and no one publishes or protests it, then we are closer to the edge. But we are not there yet. Right now the press is divided, wounded, and under attack — and still working. Partially. Inconsistently. But still functioning enough to report, enough to make it dangerous to the people trying to shut it down. That matters. And you are also right that academic freedom is under threat, and that lawsuits alone will not restore it. But even there, we see universities pushing back, students organizing, and some courts ruling in their favor. That is not fantasy. That is fact. It is not as powerful or fast as what we wish for, but in a collapsing democracy, any resistance is meaningful. You say federal funds are drying up and rational policy is gone. That may be true, but that does not mean all avenues are closed. That means pressure and litigation and exposure are more important now than ever. The deeper issue with your response is the assumption that because the situation is bleak, the outcome is inevitable. That because Trump has more loyalists and fewer constraints, we already know how this ends. But we do not. And it is precisely because we do not that we must act. The fight is not over because the future is not written. If the only people still engaging are the ones who believe in the possibility of reversal, then abandoning that possibility becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is not handwaving to say democracy can be repaired. It is not fluff to say protests, lawsuits, and elections matter. It is reality. You say it sounds like I am still living in the past. I say it sounds like you have already written the ending. But history is not a script. It is a battleground. And we are standing in it right now.