or LA

My car payment and insurance is almost $1,000 a month

In fact, i'd go as far as to say it's not possible anywhere on the pacific coast or north east

but if you move to somewhere in the heartland

a small town

it's doable

yeah thats fair... its impossible on the West Coast

I have a friend in Texas that pays 400 a month for rent

Montana, Wyoming, doable

utilities included

Without overtime I make about 1300 a week and I feel like I need to make more

I can't imagine stretching one of those paychecks for an entire month

rural America would be the area hit hardest by automation, and is being hit hard right now by the trade deficit and trade wars

thats where Basic Income would do the most good

metropolitan areas have other problems

Humans are making themselves obsolete, and we don't even know what to do about it.

Okay, so let's set a new topic. Today's topic will be: what can we do to combat teachers and tutors who do stuff like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/b1bkfh/teacher_obligates_students_to_do_this_project_and/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I thinhk students need to talk to other students and see how many of their classmates agree. if the teacher doesnt let them present something else, they can make it a unified sort of "protest" which can make a statement

but as a student its tricky, you're in a position of automatic inferiority and subordinance

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/b17ro8/honey_badgers_being_left_of_center_politically_is/

There was a lot of discussion about this yesterday on the sub. What are people's thoughts?

I believe that perhaps there can be more constructive discussion here than what happened yesterday

I think you can be a mra regardless of political affiliation

Me too. What I'm personally interested in is why people develop the notion that you can't be. What inexorably, in their view, ties men's rights to the right wing?

If I were to take a guess, I would Thursday it has to do with the left being seen as the champion of feminism

I'm not so sure. It's just not enough for people to seem so committed to that idea. There has to be certain components of what ideas of left wing/liberal ideology they can point to as incompatible

I think it's left wing being for things like race and sex based quotas at school and work

You know how the left is always like a champion of "equality" for women ?

I think it's that

As far as I know none of the tenets by themselves, without extreme extrapolation, that would put you on the left wing side of a scale advocate for gender quotas

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-democrats-propose-bills-targeting-men-reproductive-health/1kaJMdLUDzZT7HIpVtKMDP/

Leftists or rightists doing x doesn't mean that x is a core belief of all leftists or rightists, because that action actually has to be tied to one of the beliefs that put you on that scale, instead of being tied to the actions of others who also happen to share that belief

Yeah I would say feminism puts you on the left

It's considered a left wing idealogoy

And or course that advocates for things like "more women in x field"

That's the same kind of logic though that assumes all men are rapists because some men rape

No not really

Guilt by association

I'm saying it's anleft wing idealogy not that all left wing people follow that ideology

Right, the left wing has, generally adopted feminism as a sub-ideology.