The Fixerpunk Podcast: DIY Tactics, Gnarly Civics, and Reality

This episode is specifically designed for those of us who have done well through the pandemic era, have money saved up, and want to protect it. I will cover those currently facing hardships in a future installment.

This is NOT financial advice.

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– Don’t gaslight yourself. Don’t feel bad. This is not your fault and this is not just nature. These are systems designed to do what they do and stick the burden on working class, middle class, disadvantaged populations, or even just those who those in power don’t like in the name of “saving the economy.”
– Recessions are a policy/economic choice
– We can choose to protect workers, families, and vulnerable people. This was proven during the pandemic.
– Policymakers’ choice to “bail out’ Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
– It was the right choice to ensure market confidence and protect payroll that workers were owed
– FDIC/NCUA limit is $250,000 per bank per person – most people will be more than fine!
– Review details on FDIC Insurance limits, including how certain accounts (like some retirement accounts) may be counted separately, allowing you to have more than $250k insured in one bank if eligible: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/financial-products-insured/
– Short-term access may be an issue though
– Potential dangers of banking with “app-based” FinTech banking services that are not banks themselves
– These are often tech startups subject to the current increased risk of failing, pull-back of VC funds
– If they are depositing your money in an FDIC insured bank, you’ll be covered, but the app/platform being unavailable, customer service being unavailable can be an issue for access if your FinTech provider goes out of business
– Maybe don’t use a FinTech/app-based banking service as your sole bank, diversify
– Consider putting your money in multiple institutions for higher rates, easier access, and behavioral reasons/impulse control.
– Keeping an emergency fund at another bank makes it less likely for you to spend it impulsively
– I considered First Republic for a business account but their fees are too much in my opinion.
– CDs can be a great option for those who have savings over and above an emergency fund that they won’t need to spend in the next 6-12 months+. Locks in your rate but withdrawals have penalties. Read the fine print.
– Some Institutions offering higher CD rates on shorter rather than longer durations
– Will the Fed start dropping rates?
– Small increase in rates rumored in the very short-term
– Extended Sweep Deposit Accounts from brokerage firms that allow $1 million or more in FDIC insurance on one account
– Brex applying this to business banking
– I prefer credit unions for lower fees, better rates, and investing in communities
– IntraFi deposit program for banks: https://hub.intrafi.com/rethink-uninsured-deposits
– The vital role of credit unions and community banks in helping communities thrive
– Avoiding investment fraud and “safe money” scams when markets decline, a cautionary tale from my real life
– Regulation D/private placement investments are the highest risk – AVOID unless you are okay with losing your money.
– Financial advisors should be “fiduciaries”
– Covering tips for when recessions “hit” and cause job losses on a future episode.

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This will be a bit different from my normal Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes, as I am largely discussing the issue of “working harder” and working exceptionally long hours being touted as the panacea to economic hardships and debt by conservatives, why the approach of just having people work more ultimately helps nobody, how overworking people results in less, not more, productivity, while shorter work weeks are proven to create improved productivity and overall outcomes for workers and the economy. 

 

– My #1 most viewed video on TikTok: the infamous student loan forgiveness video and the now long-running storyline resulting therefrom – please help me out and leave supportive comments!: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRW28eAb/

• – Commenters keep saying just work harder to pay off debt
• – One said they’re working 93 hours a week and that’s what’s needed to pay off debt
• – Exceptional claims of 6 figure salaries
• – Answering claims about working harder being a panacea is a stumbling block for progressive messaging
• – My struggles with work endurance and trying to improve it
• – Traumatic workplace experience
• – Interview on the Job Jumpers Podcast with Connor Mac on the subject of bad workplaces, their negative impacts on society, and building a better society through worker power: https://redcircle.com/shows/4fc5fde2-19ed-428c-b0c4-a3a30f30ba1f/episodes/55c4d331-e8b4-4cc4-9315-12e6178a1dca
• – Student loan borrowers are already working very hard to pay loans and high costs of living
• – Comments stung me on a personal level 
• – Claims that liberal/progressive policies don’t help the working class because they only help people who don’t want to work
• – My scary visual of conservative commenters who say “just work harder” and who claim they’re wealthy because they work 90+ hours a week
• – the definition of working class 
• – Methods of improving work performance that I’ve tried: therapy, workouts, electrodes on my head
• – Ashamed I can’t do manual labor, “tough guy stuff”
• – Genetic differences in work performance 
• – Most high performers with high levels of wealth are not working at the extremely high levels people on the Internet preach 
• – Efficiency (and exploitation of labor) create wealth 
• – The gains of efficiency go to capital, not labor
• – Working fewer hours and doing more work is punished, not rewarded
• – How to answer these comments with the efficiency & productivity argument 
• – Productivity and value produced is stolen, basic labor theory of value 
• – Having people work less hours can produce more peak performance 
• – Study from Japan: more overtime resulted in less productivity, removing overtime hours caused more productivity, this was discovered by “accident” after cost-cutting measures were implemented. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/teams-become-more-productive-when-their-hours-are-shorter
• – World Economic Forum discussion 
• – Well established that after 50 hours a week productivity is not improved at all by adding hours, 35 hours believed to be optimal
• – Iceland study: across numerous types of work, 2,500 workers, hours reduced from 40 to 35-36, no declines in productivity and increases seen for multiple departments, accountancy department saw 6.5% improvement. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210819-the-case-for-a-shorter-workweek
• – performance strategies in athletics, entrepreneurship, and employment 
• – methods of training endurance, for work endurance we don’t have good research vs. athletic endurance
• – non-linear response to endurance training for complex work 
• – we often don’t expect peak performance every day for hours on end from even elite athletes (eg. starting pitchers only throw once every 4-5 days)
• – Telling people to “just work more hours” is not a strategy for peak performance or improving productivity and hence doesn’t actually benefit society 
• – Increasing work endurance will take time, but conservatives want those in hardship to increase output from 40 to 60 hours a week immediately, a 50% improvement 
• – It’s almost as bad as telling someone to go from doing a half marathon to a full marathon with little time to train 
• – Distance runners who conserve energy at the beginning aren’t “quiet quitting” a race 
• – Hypervigilance for longer periods of time may be needed in certain areas of work but it needs to be trained up over time, like training for a race
• – More a matter of mental control and punishment than improving the productivity of the economy, if there is not a true need
• – Why I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur: you can earn money based on being more efficient in delivering value versus trading time for money 
• – Everyone has a different capacity for productivity, these are averages
•  – Everyone should have the chance be rewarded for delivering value, not 
• – Gaining ownership over the means of production means workers get rewarded for the gains in productivity 
• – People who tell you to work harder may be well-intentioned and trying to be motivational 
• – they don’t get that systems are not calibrated to achieve better productivity or performance for all of us, just to be punitive to workers
• – Back to the personal: why do I have a low tolerance for work and stress or look angry with low levels of work? Still looking for answers. 
• – Untethering from the idea of longer hours being the answer, but we all must live in a society that measures value in the number of hours you work
• – Kicking out of negativity and getting knocked down by random bad things happening to me  
• – Don’t take COVID lightly. Talk to your doctor and get a booster now, if you haven’t already: http://www.vaccines.gov 
• – Work endurance training episode: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/12/20/ftfp-5-work-stress-tolerance-endurance-training-and-vyvanse/
• – my psychologists say work endurance is more a matter of emotional coping skills than endurance training itself 
• – the hammer and nail effect with CBT psychologists who do not look at the whole picture of mental health and performance 
• – how does fitness training translate over to stress tolerance in the workplace? 
• – Flow states and trying Wim Hof breathing a little
• – Flow state episode: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/02/15/manufacturing-stoke-using-anxiety-and-negative-emotions-positively/
• – easier to move from a 5k to 10k than moving from 40 to 60 hours a week of work
• – scared about the future post-COVID
• – society disowns people with disabilities, especially neurodivergence 
• – if you can’t do a 40 hour work week due to disability or another reason, society doesn’t think your contributions to society have any real value 
• – You can do the greatest work in the world, but if you aren’t a M-F, 8-5 worker, they often won’t even give you the time of day
• – People in leadership who can contribute in a unique way and not work a conventional schedule and get paid well, maybe too well, for it
• – Bad workplaces mean a worse society with less innovation
• – The Young Bucks’ motto of Killing The Business encapsulates my philosophy of creating social change in the workplace and economic sphere

 

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This episode was inspired by a video on my TikTok about the Biden student loan forgiveness plan and the many comments therefrom, where ordinary people (I presume) fought so hard against the idea of a policy that helps others like them: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRW28eAb/

 

• Student loan debt forgiveness
• Supreme Court saying “it’s not fair” and has to be done by Congress
• Government effectively forgives hundreds of billions in taxes owed by the wealthy every single year: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for-a-robust-attack-on-the-tax-gap
• Why working-class people go against their own interests:
• People decide against their best interests based on a false sense of morality and desiring superiority in any way possible
• Concepts like “responsibility and character”
• People want to say “I Am Better Than You” and “you can’t take this from me!”
• Conservative commentators use this contrived sense of morality to talk you out of doing what you know is right
• The conservatives pitching these ideas know they have gotten assistance, PPP loans, filed bankruptcy, etc.
• The wealthy are working you into believing that you are better than other people and are a temporarily embarrassed millionaire
• Dave Ramsey is a top perpetrator of these oppressive ideas
• The morality of conservative rhetoric seeks to subvert what you know is right
• Would you tell a family member who filed for bankruptcy these things? Would you hate on them or would you want them to get the help they need?
• Everyone is flawed, there is no perfection on this side of heaven
• The words “I Earned It” are a double-edged sword
• People think that assistance is coming from earnings/taxes
• The “home budget analogy” theory of political economy is wrong – learn modern monetary theory
• Student loan debt forgiveness does not mean increased taxes!
• People thinking “I’ve got mine, nobody can take it from me.”
• Not wanting to help others or make the system fair just because you had to go through tribulations to gain what everyone deserves to have is a sign of a fragile ego
• Fixing the system doesn’t negate your accomplishments
• Why working-class people oppose minimum wage increases  – they think they may be a business owner at some point
• Minimum wage increases statistically don’t hurt small business owners
• It’s hard to accept that “I have a job, I have a boss, and that boss is against me”
• Employers collude to keep wages down
• Class consciousness hurts, but you can fight back against what is hurting you
• Take the pressure off yourself!
• The value to society of professionals and even “worthless” degrees
• The next great scientist or artist is performing below their peak because of the weight of student loan debt
• We are not taking anything from you. We are proud of your accomplishments.
• Make sure the ladder is wide enough so others can come up – Rick Smith
• Fear instilled by the upper class that anything we do to help others can hurt you
• Automatic response driven by the rhetoric you have heard your whole life
• The power of conservative talk radio causing citizens to be repeatedly exposed to these ideas
• Abstraction – it’s a big number, a specific program, I will never need this
• Always make your arguments personal, bring it to the individual or family level
• Lots of possibilities open up when we help others to reach their full potential
• Fear vs turning it into creative flow and abundance toward others
• People who want to stay on top are putting that fear in you
• Turn that fear and feeling weird about changes in how things are done into thinking about the possibilities for a better world

 

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– Homelessness and housing was a clear narrative throughout the whole issue of the LA Times this past Sunday

– Article on heat deaths of unhoused people: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-19/la-me-homeless-heat-deaths

– Other short-term solutions like cooling centers

– 5 in 12 heat deaths are homeless people

– Impact of climate change on homeless people

– Heat is leading cause of weather-related deaths

– Fluctuations in the housing market, problems for home buyers, not making things better on net

– Extreme variability in prices, games home sellers played during a better market

– Sellers starting to accept FHA and down payment assistance

– Having houses for ownership rather than rental is far more protective against homelessness and protecting wealth for the working class long-term

– Article on large-scale housing development, builder’s remedy, and zoning/NIMBY issues: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-02-19/california-housing-developers-los-angeles

– Zoning laws advocated by NIMBYs preventing housing from being built is the main cause of the shortage and lack of affordable housing per authors

– Are large-scale developments by big, for-profit companies really the answer?

– LA Times editorial authors, Edward Glaeser and Atta Tarki, call for large-scale development firms to lead, but we need to think about economic equity

– Versus small scale development with accessory dwelling units (ADUs) with fewer than 1 in 5 applications approved in LA

– We don’t want a situation like Invitation Homes, which used to be Blackstone, just building for rental homes only

– Homelessness and housing issues occur on a continuum – starts with a smaller issue, then you wind up in your car or on the street

– Landlords arbitrarily raising rent, bragging about it

– You can even die of heatstroke living in your car

– Capitalists’ development efforts can help the rent-squeezed upper middle class, but those who’ve fallen off the ladder need specific help and collective action

– Huntington Beach mayor says CA is losing population, 120,000 people lost, hence no new housing is needed

– There are kids of locals with good jobs priced out of housing market with 60% going to housing even if they have a higher-paying job, so they have to leave out of state after living in town their whole life. See Times OC letter to editor about Huntington Beach.

– The lack of housing is literally killing people. But how do we solve it?

– Regulation is what helps to make housing development a meaningful, possibly equitable solution

– These people who live on the streets often have jobs and work in the communities rejecting them from having housing

– The mechanics of buying a new construction home, including cross-qualification for mortgages or “mandatory” use of developer’s lender, agent issues, etc.

– Policy could ensure new housing is on the market for the public and specifically available to FHA, VA, and down payment assistance buyers, working-class people who stand to benefit the most from buying a house

– Homeownership creates generational strong protection from homelessness

– Builder’s Remedy in Manhattan Beach

– Affordable housing set-asides are great, but come with interesting caveats, like a minimum income

– More housing in richer neighborhoods would reduce inequality

– “A child who grew up in a low-income household in Los Angeles’ affluent Brentwood neighborhood earns on average nearly four times more at age 35 than someone who grew up in lower-income central L.A.” – Census Opportunity Atlas, LA Times

– Tell this argument to NIMBYs upset with the homeless: A nice public housing building looks way better than homeless in the streets

– The NIMBY attitude, not just the zoning policy, is killing people

– Homeless people are kicked out of places where they can get air conditioning and bathroom access, like coffee shops and fast food restaurants

– It’s all about who looks like they will spend money and Karens complaining

– Lack of third spaces that are not shopping and dining

– Homeless people create community just like you and I

– Letter from Flathead County, Montana Board of Commissioners upset with “networked community” of homeless people: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostgeneration/comments/10kofvr/homelessness_insight_from_kalispell_montana/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

– Structural inequality created by capitalism feels inescapable but the correct use of government power can help

– The future: non-profit, cooperative, mutual aid-style groups, and collective housing ownership powered with government funds

– Homeless communities’ resourcefulness shows they can reach self-sufficiency and self-governance with the right support

 

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Quick State of the Union analysis:

Biden did very well in handling heckling
Democrats delivering for middle America, doing in reality what Trump claimed he’d do
State of the Union shows the current political state of “extreme moderation”
We are fighting for the bare minimum, but it’s a worthy fight for sure
Moving the Overton window to more progressive ideas on policing and climate change
Gradual changes do really matter and do help

Impulse Politics:

People want to take quick action, especially in the face of a crisis
Making action such as signing a petition or donation easy is a good thing, but it can lead people to occasionally make bad decisions
California ballot measures and referendum process
In a referendum, a petition is circulated to get an already passed law to be blocked and then voted upon, and a minimum number of signatures must be gathered to get it on the ballot.
This is similar to a ballot initiative for a new law, which allows for some confusion since circulators can say it’s “to vote on” this issue
Article in LA Times about deceptive California ballot referendum petitions regarding AB 257 and AB 1137: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-02/inside-fast-foods-push-against-california-ab-257-higher-minimum-wages

CA AB 257 represents a major step forward in helping fast food, workers who are among the most vulnerable workers today
Restaurant industry wants to stop higher wages
Petition circulators are using tricks, claiming this petition to stop the law and take it to a vote is actually supporting higher wages
My easy rules:
The people spending the most money, and using the most effort to convince you are probably the ones who’s ideas you don’t agree with, so approach flashy and pushy campaigns with extreme caution
Know what you’re signing!
Online petitions, which are largely a symbolic gesture have condition people to believe that signing petitions is no big deal
These wet-ink signature paper petitions are actually super significant. They stop laws that legislators already agreed to from coming into effect.
Walmart and shopping malls are the public square, really, and there’s nothing they can do to stop petitions
Petition workers committing fraud, and being aggressive with voters
They must show you the petition itself and a list of major supporters
Know who’s supporting an initiative
CA Prop 30 situation – a good measure is supported by a big donor, but rejected partially because of it
Volunteers who live in your community and you know are (usually) more trustworthy than random petition gatherers
This is why long term community engagement matters! Have someone to ask when this happens

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This episode was born out of seemingly unrelated current events: the impending economic crisis and the tragic death of Tyre Nichols.  I’ve found that the oppression of the working class through layoffs and recessions and the oppression of racial minorities through police brutality have way more in common than you think in the subtle mechanism by they hijack our minds, change our political attitudes, and influence behavior. The episode is also a bit of a botch, since I recorded a much better take of it but my microphone was somehow not feeding audio into the software and I had to re-do the whole thing. 

Notes

• LA Times article on layoffs “The real aim of big tech’s layoffs: bringing workers to heel”: https://apple.news/AhbHrrkzxT3Kol0DQn4RL7Q

• The cruelty is the point
• How our minds internalize subtle cues
• Police give impossible, confusing

commands to justify excessive force

• Tech companies are using layoffs to keep workers in line and stop them from getting what they have earned through collective action and bargaining 
• How small groups get more power than they merit through random actions of oppression
• Talk of recession keeps workers in fear and erodes their gains
• How layoffs are executed without rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need

• How layoffs are executed without rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need to

• Making things look like a “force of nature” or just what happens on its own because of an external force

• How politicians and bosses make us blame ourselves for bad things
• Tech workers are starting to realize the benefits of unions
• Giving into petty tyrants and oppressive ideas will not keep you safe or leave you better off in the end.

• You must learn to think differently!
• Media programming people to only consider certain solutions

• Generational divide in views of alternatives to policing
• What actually works to keep communities safe

• Success with reduced police intervention
• Workers better off now and with more power than they’ve had in years
• Republicans’ debt ceiling threats and their non-specificity are deliberate
• Creative thinking driven by crisis: George Floyd and COVID economic crisis
• Flow states and political change
• Tyre Nichols was a great skater
• What skateboarding taught me

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I have noticed a troubling, growing trend of conservatives finding every way possible to take up space on broadcast television, just in the same way they have done with AM talk radio. This is partially being done with an interesting combination of Christian broadcasting and conservative political media, which opens up yet more avenues for funding right-wing media, while the left remains far behind.

– Discussion of left-wing media ecosystems and infrastructure versus the right
– How is the left really doing? Good on content, low on infrastructure
– Great examples in Means TV, Street Fight Radio, etc.

– Conservative talk radio’s prevalence
– Right-wing media taking over broadcast sub-channels
– Article on One America News Network entering over-the-air broadcast after being kicked off cable and satellite: https://www.nexttv.com/news/misinformation-finds-a-way-oan-goes-ota-re-invents-itself-as-broadcast-subchannel
– How OAN and NewsMax are staying in business
– Large Christian broadcast ownership groups buying up stations, first radio, now TV
– How conservatives seem to be using church monies to prop up right-wing media
– Christian evangelism shows funded by 501c3’s on right-wing TV networks
– Dangers of relying on digital and social media only
– Some direct response TV advertisers will buy almost any network/station with a conventional broadcast signal somewhat indiscriminately
– FCC rules are way less strict than social media platforms
– A televangelist organization that is worth almost a billion dollars
– Political content and endorsements from 501c3 televangelists
– TV channel leasing
– One example in Los Angeles of a station leasing out to conservatives is KFLA-LD channel 8. http://kfla.tv
– TikTok is a growth channel for progressive causes
– Communicating with your base and keeping them entrenched 24/7/365
– Media spend by churches on conservative stations is actually counter-productive
– How to protect your advocacy organization from social media bans
– The importance of minority-owned media and LPFMs

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Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process.

In our life, we have a choice to Carry On, even as we are seen as Wayward Sons or Go To Sleep and tap out in the fight for our goals and the change we want to see in the world. I choose to Be Elite and Carry On. Hesitating in whatever you are doing can ruin both your experience and your success, but reluctance is often caused by relationships and material conditions of a punitive society without adequate social safety nets wherein minor failure results in catastrophic results one cannot recover from. We have a choice in how we structure systems, to allow failure and let people learn to fly or to force people to just give up and Go To Sleep. A progressive approach that includes systems that allow people to recover from failure enables greatness and maximizes the potential of individuals and the community as a whole. We must respect the Right To Fail.

In this episode:

– Attending AEW Dynamite in LA
– Get the best experience out of major events (like wrestling shows) by setting yourself up for a flow state.
– Lean into and use your anxiety to heighten excitement rather than pushing it down. Bonus tip: Choose the right music around the event to set the mood
– See also the Manufacturing Stoke episode: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/02/15/manufacturing-stoke-using-anxiety-and-negative-emotions-positively/
– Post-wrestling show motivation surge
– Social anxiety
– When your high-class parents disagree with your hobbies
– My family doesn’t want me around wrestling fans
– Getting on national TV for a brief moment, sort of
– My sign on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliteanxious/status/1616639451039686657?s=21&t=aQ-waef71RDdPhXasNO3LQ
– Fighting for a better life versus tapping out to your circumstances
– Getting the best quality of life with health issues or disabilities
– Playing it too safe
– Hesitation explains my whole life. Mike Bennett’s blog on this topic: https://therealmikebennett.com/blog/f/dont-hesitate
– Learning to stop hesitating is key to recovering from and preventing relapses in major mental health issues
– The right to fall down and get back up again is fundamental and should be a leftist or socialist ideal
– Tony Hawk’s philosophy: You must learn to fail in order to learn to fly.
– Bad doctors and concussions
– Recovery practices are important for peak performance
– Your intention in all things matters
– Feeling like I am going to lose my fitness progress by taking some time off
– Woke does not have to equal weak
– Progressive ideas allow people to achieve success by making it possible to overcome failure
– Overly reactionary wokeness
– Giving people grace
– Why skateboarding culture is what brought me to the left
– Narrative therapy as a possible ideal therapy theory for those who like pro wrestling redemption storylines

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The left has come up short in looking for answers to the likes of Andrew Tate, but pro wrestlers like Adam Page have found a way to empower young men and help them feel their strength and constructively use the warrior in them while advocating for a broad set of progressive policy ideas in a relatable way. Creating solidarity is possible and beneficial to society and to the young men that are being more harmed than helped by toxic masculinity influencers, and whose issues would be better helped by left-wing policies and workers’ rights.

More on Adam Page here:

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/07/28/can-a-millennial-cowboy-wrestlers-ways-save-our-social-and-political-discourse/

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/01/12/adam-page-for-president/

– The Power of “I Earned It”
– Contrasting the conventional mental health narratives
– Incorrect interpretations of the left by young men
– A candidate you can have a beer with
– Blending traditionalist aesthetics with progressive ideas
– Imperfection and vulnerability
– Taking a strong but grounded, moral, and ethical approach
– Lots of great progressive examples in wrestling
– Better storytelling
– Not repressing masculine desires
– Anxious masculinity – read my article here: https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/adam-page-shows-how-to-wrestle-with-anxious-masculinity
– I highly recommend Adam Page’s book Adam and the Golden Horseshoe if you are dealing with not feeling good enough
– Who people like Andrew Tate target and how they do it
– Intersectionality and Incels work together?
– A society where you are able to fall and get back up again
– Finding your peace

Adam Page’s Inspiring Entrance with Dark Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsfEiZ_IY2U

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