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The truth is these issues stem from AO largely being a community of gamma males. Gamma males gonna gamma male. You can't argue them out of it, and when you realize the implications of being part of a community largely comprised of gamma males, you eventually realize it's not sustainable and you leave. Emerald finally realized it. People are afraid to call them out because they want to maintain civility, but it's the elephant in the room that most people don't want to acknowledge. We all just converse like it isn't toxic af. When member's entire lives and identities are organized around compensatory superiority, how much good faith discussion can truly be had? If what I'm saying is accurate, how much good faith conversation should one expect from a community of gamma males? And of course, Leo is the top gamma male, which is why this place is doomed. People wonder why good people come and go. This is often the reason. Even @eos_nyxia's husband picked up on "incel vibes" from very limited data as an outsider. That's because incel is the closest term he could find to match the pattern. Had he known what a gamma male was, he could have called it right. So, keep ignoring the elephant in the room. Actually, it seems most people don't even perceive what I'm saying, so they can't even see the elephant. And people talking about Emerald being butt hurt. lol. Your entire life is organized around you being precisely that. It's a fucking joke and you need it smeared in your face if you're going to have any hope.

It's worse than that. The fact that a sizeable population of men have decided to meet women on this battlefield is a testament to how fragile their sense of manhood really is. Any man constantly talking about this shit is, for lack of a better term, a beta.

Definitely a waste if your goal was to move those grandstanding intellectual snobs, but your efforts weren't wasted on the rest of us. I very much appreciate your contributions and way of thinking, so thanks!

@Emerald is right to be annoyed. She's not the only one put off by the intellectual snobbery and positions born of psychological wounds.

@Leo Gura I don't see you posting self-deception examples of the type I'm pointing at. It seems most of your self-deception examples are about worldviews and ideology. I'm talking about self-deception mechanics in everyday life, direct experience and "try it for yourself". It was just a an idea. Also, I'm open to the idea the cleanse does something beneficial. I wasn't so much knocking the cleanse as I was the common inferences people draw from such experiments.

The more I look into the current state of affairs, the more it seems like some big shit is going to go down if Rs lose the midterms. Trump has been threatening election officials that they'll go to prison if their elections aren't clean, he's sending 1000+ monitors out on election day, which is 3x higher than any other election, and just all sorts of stuff like this. He even made his rally repeat after him and promise that no matter what, they'll go vote, even if they aren't registered, try it out anyway because the other side does it. If the Rs lose, I don't think Trump is just going to just roll over and become some lame duck. He's not going to let that happen without a big fight. What he does in response, IDK, but I don't think he's just going to roll over and let it happen. I feel like it's gonna be big. We'll see soon enough. People should brace for some potentially fucked up shit.

Project 2025.

If you say it 20 times a year, yeah, probably, lol.

I suspect we’re about to be in for many “the election was rigged” claims. It could get ugly.

I knew about him and Meg Kelly.

Trump admin tried to attain a voting machine to find potential exploits. Not to hack the machines, but to be able to bring the exploits to the courts when they inevitably claim the Dems rigged the elections.

If you were a woman who was horrible with kids, you might object to the claim because for such a woman the claim is just false, and maybe “sexist” is her best explanation for why you’re wrong.