Interesting Links for 28-09-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Reform party linked to Putin bribery

(tags:politics UK Russia viaDanielDWilliam )

2. Most US men want a return to traditional gender roles (particularly the evangelical Christians)

(tags:religion gender USA polls society )

3. Trump's NSPM-7 Labels "anti-Christian," "anti-American," and "anti-capitalism" Opinions As Terrorism "Indicators" (amongst others)

(tags:usa fascism )

4. The Dark Side of AI Companions: Emotional Manipulation

(tags:ai manipulation )

Comments

[dewline]

1. That last question: will the voters care?

That's the big one, isn't it? Pro-democracy people can explain what's wrong with electing a Putinist stooge until they're blue-faced, and it might not matter if a large enough chunk of voters decide that the evil is what they want.

2. I'm gonna die prematurely, and of that particular stupidity, I suspect.

3. Well, that's all of us reading this on their enemies list, then.

4. No arguments.

[calimac]

1. "electing a Putinist stooge" In the US, we've already done that.

[calimac]

2. What's most dismaying is the lack of provision for women who don't want to be stuck in gender roles. I wonder how many women out there don't like to cook, for instance. My mother didn't (but she did it anyway, because gender roles). My wife doesn't either (so I do it, which suits us fine - she takes on the traditional male role of washing up, which I'm not good at). Her mother didn't either (and since her father had a job where he was either away from home or not working, when he was home he did it).

[andrewducker]

But those men *want* the women to have traditional gender roles. They don't care if the women don't want to cook - *they* want the women to cook.