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Poverty in the US is caused by things like lack of education, massive rent payments, health insurance costs and debt. Reducing taxes is not going to change any of that.

Most guys go into online dating thinking that they can stick a few random pics from their phone up and get some matches, but chances are those pics will be quite boring. If you’re gonna do online you should do it right. The next step up from random boring pics from your phone is a cohesive set of images that match specific aesthetics. A lot of guys who put effort into making a profile go for aesthetics like: - the part time Eastern European drug dealer - the gym bro - the tall skinny goth sad-boi - the thoughtfully stares off into distance bro And these are often what men think women want rather than what women really want. Some guys can pull these styles off but most can’t. The reason is because they make you look like you’re trying too hard and like you take yourself too seriously. That’s a turnoff for a lot of women. You need pictures where you look comfortable and natural, that match attractive aesthetics, and also match your own personality. This is quite tough to do well but if you get it right, even if you look average you can get matches. Obviously the better you look and the more you pay dating apps, the less effort required. For many guys the effort + money would be much better spent meeting women IRL, not even just because of how they look but because, as you mentioned, online dating doesn’t really grow you much at all. As a final point: the best pic you can put up on your profile if you want to meet good woman online is a high quality picture of you in comfy but stylish clothes, with a massive warm smile cuddling a big fluffy dog. Even better if it’s in a cool place. Picture that in your head. Everything about that image is appealing to a majority of woman.

Why are your desires for sex more important than a woman’s desire to feel safe? Women are smaller and weaker than men. A small minority of men will kidnap women and chain them to radiators. A much larger minority of men will spike a woman’s drink, take her home and rape her. If you were at risk of these things happening to you, do you not think you would be quite wary around men who were “creeping you out a little”? That feeling a woman has around creepy men is the same feeling you have when you walk by a rowdy gang of dudes alone at night. No one is teaming up to put you in a cage. It’s not like that. If you consistently creep out enough woman in the same area, the number of reports against you to the same authority gets high enough that they will tell you to stop doing what you are doing, and if you don’t then they will arrest you. If you find yourself in that situation it is not the worlds fault, it is your fault for being a public nuisance and not heeding the numerous signals you got that what you were doing was making lots of people uncomfortable. It’s absolutely possible to learn to navigate the social world without being creepy. That’s what you need to learn to do instead of getting hung up on what happens if you creep women out. I promise you it’s worth it.

This is a very reputable source of survey data. I think that any data they present will be accounting for biases like this.

Here is an example of this happening for reference, posting as it's one of my favourite infamous Tate clips where he admits to some BS while trying to show off:

It's really hard to do everything well. If you look at Twitch and YT as an example, in theory both should be able to do exactly what each other do successfully. But they can't. Why is that? Or YT and TikTok. YouTube has tried to enter the TikTok space with shorts but it failed pretty badly. Why is that? Massively scaled tech companies like this often need to specialise, it's very hard to do everything well at such a large scale. Let's say it's even possible to create a successful everything app; musk fired 80% of his staff. And on top of that, I expect a lot of his most experienced devs probably quit anyway. Musk's companies have a reputation for being a toxic place to work. These experienced devs would be the kind of people who could switch to any other big tech company and get a high paying job in a hearbeat so there is little incentive for them to stay at Twitter.

When Tesla and his previous endeavours gained success he seemed far more mentally stable and rational

It’s worth thinking about the difference between seriously harmful promiscuous behaviour and experimentation. Both can contribute to a higher body count but they mean different things. The first is lack of impulse control which is an indicator someone won’t make a good long term partner, and the second is a display of open-mindedness and introspection which are indicators that someone would make a good long term partner. And that applies to male or female. The reasons behind why someone has the body count they do are more important than the actual number. Ruling someone out specifically because of the number itself is silly.

I think Musk is dealing with some sort of sunken-cost situation where he’s spent such a mind-boggling amount of money on Twitter that he’s now incapable of making rational business decisions for the company

Being aesthetically pleasing helps. Being neutral looking is fine, you can make that work. Looking unkempt or unhygienic is a problem. Most guys can make it to that neutral category with good grooming and style. Acting creepy or coming across as unstable is a far bigger issue and will fuck you up no matter how you look. The energy you give off on this forum is erratic and chaotic and these are not helpful traits for making a woman feel safe around you. You are experiencing a strong desire for a woman which is natural but it is likely several steps away for you. That is also natural. It is meant to take some work to be attractive, you are not entitled to a woman just by existing. Work on your mental stability, social skills, friendships, style, grooming etc. and then you can start approaching girls in the mall. Or even better somewhere more naturally sociable like a bar or a club.

Well, he hurt, manipulated and scammed a lot of people. So it’s somewhat hard to feel sorry for him.

@Bobby_2021 Fuckin amazing job compiling this all together btw, it's very useful to see it laid out in one place Idk how you could read all this and still think Tate is worthy of support.

This is such a silly vision IMO. In fact, it's so vague that it's barely even a vision. It's like a high 15 year old came up with it. "Listen bro, I want to make an app that does everything, it will be awesome bro trust me" I think it will end up being some weird "jack of all trades, master of none" kind of thing. And when it comes to online services people tend to like a specific service with a strong brand that does one thing well, instead of a service that does lots of things poorly.

That's an interesting stat! Though I do think it's important context that this stat is specifically for marriage, not relationships, see text below. Liberal people place slightly less overall importance on marriage and so are less likely to try hard to make it work. And it's quite well known that woman initiate most divorces, which implies they are the ones who are typically least satisfied in their marriage.

He really is a knob

The logo looks so dumb. This popup shows up when you try to view twitter without an account, so you would want this page to look as professional as possible. The logo looks like it was designed and added by a first year intern. It's so blurry! The padding is also awful and the text below it is uncentered! It might sound picky but it just looks so unprofessional. I feel like musk has lost a lot of his skilled developers.

I would say you should frame it as "have fun" instead of "don't be boring". "Don't be boring" is making it about trying to be entertaining for other people, which can be inauthentic sometimes. A lot of the time the most attractive mental states come from just doing what entertains you when you're out rather than trying to "not be boring" for other people. Another one is learning not to take rejection personally, be detached, and just move on when things aren't going well. I noticed when I went out a lot that there were many guys who were super persistent with girls who were clearly not interested, or were using them for drinks.

Physical beauty gets boring much quicker than intelligence which is a problem for long term relationships Maybe boring is the wrong word, but you become accustomed to it once you’ve been with a woman for a while and it stops mattering as much

The opening you are talking about is something that is relatively difficult to pull off, there's a lot that can go wrong. The HOW you say/do it is very difficult to get right because of WHAT you are saying/doing. But the HOW you say it is still more important. Does that make sense? It is like how an olympic diver can probably jump off a 100ft cliff into the ocean and survive, but if you try it you will die. So you should avoid it and stick to 10ft cliffs until you know what you are doing. Of course. But there are well documented things that the majority of women find creepy. Unusual, uncomfortable or awkward initial interactions are quite high on that list. So it's a good skill to be able to open conversations with new people and make them feel safe and comfortable.

It conveys pretty much all of the traits listed if you do it with the right energy in the right social environment. OP would do much better with that than what he is trying. OP wasn't really opening with a gender related opinion question, he was opening with a video on his phone about a man invalidating period claims. It's not really playful enough to be a good opener, and has the potential to be very clunky. There is lots of opportunity for awkwardness while a complete stranger is making her watch something on his phone. And then if you follow that up with trying to steer the conversation towards a sexual topic like OP said he was going to do, can you not see how that could very easily become creepy? I'm not saying you couldn't pull that off, but there is lots of opportunity for that to go quite wrong if you aren't very socially in-tune and you are running this opener against random women on the street. You would need to preface showing the video with some kind of more playful conversation and context as to why you care so much for her opinion on it.

It's still a bizarre thing to use as an opener. It doesn't give off any of the vibes you want an opener to give off. You want your opener to convey: intelligence humour confidence charm social awareness safety That can be as simple as "Hey, nice to meet you, I'm [name]" said with a smile and confidence, which can convey many of those attributes. Showing a tiktok about periods to a girl you haven't even introduced yourself to yet gives off none of these. In fact it gives off the opposite vibe in many cases.

Being a machiavellian psychopath might get you to the higher echelons of society but it probably won't make you fulfilled or happy. His presence and image here is soooo cringy The way he lights the cigar before he starts talking and sits there showing off his bulging biceps, talking about how he's too smart for the BBC, calling them an extremist organisation... and that beard lmao.... None of that screams mastery, it screams boy in a mans body desperately trying to compensate for his crippling insecurity. He may be right about the BBC interview being bad, it wouldn't surprise me, and I don't have enough information to know. The BBC is pretty shitty, but calling them an extremist organisation is borderline delusion. The way he talks and his whole image and style is just something I can't bring myself to watch or enjoy, even if I agree with him on certain topics about young men. Almost every sentence he says is silly, for example, one that stands out to me: "they are attempting to throw me in jail and ruin my life because I am helping young men" — no andrew, they are attempting to throw you in jail because you admittedly and proudly ran a sex trafficking organisation which scammed MEN out of millions.

I don't get it. Every time I watch him talk I almost can't watch it from cringe. What is it you see in him that you like so much? Like what content is available from him online that you have watched that made you fall in love with him in this way? Every time he is brought up I just think of this clip. The full version is even more cringy.

Why not just ignore that behaviour and move on with your life?

What consequences do you have in mind?