BlueOak

The Economy killed Trump. The Dems are terrible, at almost everything except fund raising.

Its okay to want anything. Getting all these wants is another matter. People are real and messy. Not data on a profile. Or a bunch of words in our heads.

Outside of your 20's or when men mature past image. Truth Loyalty and trust are infinitely more sought-after traits universally in partners. Which by the way are considerably higher standards in the modern day 'convenient' approach to dating. Ditch convenience, its the solution to it all.

As I see it mentioned. Get off the dating scene. Approach girls in real life, talk to them. If you can find a girl not on apps, its a good start. Put the work in, don't take the easy convenient approach, build things irl. Convenience is not a place to start off for the long term in my opinion. I had more women approach me this last year, approach me, because I just talk to anyone now. I couldn't care less. I picked one of the ones interested and we are happy. But i'd known her for months. Its not like i'm the most handsome guy around either, I just talk to a lot of women. I also hate 'game', I just ask them how they are show interest, sometimes make them laugh when a chance comes with something harmless but unexpected. (But i'm naturally also protective of people which many find attractive when they see that side of me).

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it but you can listen to a girl without being a wet noodle or caving in to everything she says. You can give her hard advice without sounding like an ass. You can buy her gifts without overdoing it and simping. You can have your own boundaries without being a control freak. You can argue without breaking apart. I think the world overthinks these things.

Hmm. I have low ego-ID with anything. But I go back to it because the feelings are nice. Sentiment for example. Or a protective feeling for something These are two I enjoy.

This the only real key for consistency. If what you are doing is close to YOU. As in, its what you do day to day anyway, then you'll just be doing it anyway. The closer your job is to who you are, the easier life is. So understanding yourself is the first step. Its what all parents should be doing, its what all education systems should be doing, the entire first 18 years of people's lives should be based around this concept (and much time in the years after also)

This ones been good to me.

Previous thread: The peace plan has collapsed, and now the two sides are intent on war. If I had to guess, its because America is no longer backing the region strongly and China is pushing its influence outward. More things change, the more they stay the same. Are we happy with this 'heroically masculine' 'multipolar' (Chinese) world yet? Or do we all need another year or two of war to make a better pattern? 2026 to 2027 is meant to be the big one.

Rosetta stones approach was great here's a summary from duckduckgo: Rosetta Stone's language teaching method, known as Dynamic Immersion, uses real-world images, audio from native speakers, and interactive activities to help learners acquire a new language naturally, similar to how children learn their first language. To be honest it helped me a great deal learning languages as it appeals to and uses different parts of the brain.

Oh and if you want some tips to get to this point. Be the one who sets the space for things to be more than surface convos. Take the chance on strangers. Some will ignore you, some will talk, and some will share interesting things that'll shape you. But in my experience, you need to be the ones to go there first with people, and be known as the chatty one, or personable person as everyone else's head is in the screen, and with the current generation, their social image is more important than who they actually are. - Its the 80s all over again. So be the guy who ain't judging, supports strangers, asks how their lifes going and learn a few things. From the young and old. But it'll start by appreciating the everyday details a bit more. (And BTW what triggers you, about listening to an ideology. That should be an easy segway into anything, its like they've given you a door and easy navigation into their inner world)

Everyone on the street has 1 second of interaction with you, and is shaped by their culture, society and shared interactions so there is crossover. Jobs are rarely entertaining. People don't often go into deep conversations with strangers, women especially, unless you create a safe space they can. If originality is uniqueness to you, travel, but don't settle else you'll be in the same pattern. Advice: The mundane small moments with the right people are more precious than anything that can interest your mind intellecually. Don't look skin deep. People's personal story is rarely simple and often full of nuance if you take the time.

Thought this was an interesting video. I think we've had them before but this was worth a watch. One poster had a good comment, prison is better than this. One of the people there said: There are people that have never seen the light of day and never will, they were born there. But its when the water hits and goes into the tunnel it kills people. A place where anything can happen at any time, all out of sight. Almost like a sci fi fantasy novel this one, seven or eight levels deep.

Homelessness is in every country on the planet. Did you just see that video I posted on the mole people of Las Vegas? They are in Brazil, Europe, China, Russia, America, Africa, Asia everywhere. America's insane way of dealing with it is to throw them in jail, as if that gives anything a solution. Its bad because the economy is garbage at the minute, because people are ripping the world order apart, the thing that gave everyone wealth through specialisation of their economies, to build some multipolar disney dream. Wherever everyone works together in lala land, or you know, in reality just bombs each other because they look different, and decides their nations can do it all alone.

Yes. I think people need to understand trade more. At the moment few appreciate or grasp it. I wonder if this is part of the vilification of stage orange in many. As you say, diversity is what causes trade and countries to work together; without it opportunities are sort out via the gun. China is an excellent example of this due to the fact they have two strong halves to their government: one focused on economic expansion via trade and one on their military. Sadly, both are expansionist, however. People have to pick the world they want. Armed exchanges. Economic exchanges. Then build from there.

The American government is unrecognizable now.

We are talking about millions of people integrating successfully as a society together, or not. Not some fringe group that eat people unrelated to any of the countries in question. Racism has been empowered. Its a sickness and it's destabilizing the world. Its been linked to masculinity successfully by those pushing for a multipolar world, where each country is a homogenous single race, and represented somehow in harmony on the world stage. So what does this disney-like view of the world look like in practice. Borders fought over. Minorities persecuted. Genocide. Its led to Trump turning on Europe to cut it up, and trying to ethnically cleanse America bit by bit. Its led to israel genociding Palestinians. Its led to Russia killing off its ethnic population in Ukraine. Chinese butchering Uyghers and their culture, other countries trying to align borders based on ethnicity or crush those that are not part of their dominant state culture etc If I hated the 20's. I am going to loathe the 30's.

The political compass does this better because its not trying to cram it all into one axis. Where do status quo or radical centrists sit? In between the two? Honestly, even if you disagree with it, try using 4 it'll read easier. Respect though for mapping you ideology or opinion out. (Or you could split this off into two lines)

I'm afraid, Elliot, you 1, Don't get to dictate the conversation. Especially when you didn't start the topic which is: Capitalism is objectively superior to any other form of governance. If you want to spin off a thread specifically on the cold war i'll debate you all day. Start one. 2, Dictate how others reply to you. 3, Brought Bernie Sanders and the western view into this not me. So you get to make points of reference and I don't is that it? Convenient eh. 4, Decided to focus on expansion when I never mentioned it. Shall I reply with. Stop addings Elliot, its bad. Or is that in fact the point of a conversation? To link things together, make connections and relevant points? How can I possibly answer you, when you can bring the west into it and Bernie Sanders and I cannot reply. Absurd.

A few things here. 1, Communism is too authoritarian for me yes. But then so is almost every country on earth right now after the attempted social and economic alignment of east/west. You would say to a greater degree, I would say in some respects yes but the gap is closing because of this integration. 2, Socialism generally in western nations is not the same as in eastern ones. Apples to Oranges in that respect. You are almost reinforcing my greater point for me about capitalism. Socialist influences and institutions would arise and form very differently in Europe or America compared to Africa, Asia or Russia 3, There was a lot of reasons for a cold war, primarily ideology. If those had been two capitalist states reaching germany, I doubt a cold war would have happened. Its important to note expansionism is not 1, related to communism or any ideology, and 2, practiced by those in most ideologies.

I'm amazed that you think the COLD WAR. Was internally fought inside Russia only. Or for some reason don't link the cold war to the fall of communism. If you are seriously telling me that I can discuss it with you.

We are in techno feudalism right now. Scandinavia too yes. Will it devolve into kleptocracy? It depends how much money Elon and others like him accumulate. Will countries have any agency if he gets enough? Some don't already

Oh come on Elliott. Do we need to go through the history of the Cold War and all the moves and countermoves? Everything is global in scope you know that, more so each year. Capitalism won. Communism was collapsed, and that's one of the reasons any attempt at reviving it meets with an unsurprising amount of arms delivered to the other side.

So i've noticed many things. Regarding this during my life. I 'm not going to call myself a vegan anymore, because nobody else calls themselves a carnivore do they, and if people call me it I'm going to laugh at them. Vegans are quite preachy generally speaking as its part of their indentity. Many are also not, but to them its not a huge part of their lives. There are of course a large number of preachy non vegans. You see them every day on social media, very wrapped up in their identity. Its so bad its an epidemic that reminds me of the 80s materialism and image concerns. Non vegans can be absurd about veganism. You can't eat an egg sandwich after being without food a shift lasting an entire day! Your a vegan! Your not a real vegan if you eat honey. Its like a religion to them too, what I put in my own stomach and seeingly of great concern to them. So it goes both ways. Do you get people categorizing what you put in your sandwich? Would that be annoying if it happened at work often? The level of religious zeal that its taken on is absurd. It really is. From both sides - I'm going to show you how absurd sides are here now. I've had carnivores, see how having your identity labelled by your diet is absurd, tell me straight that vegan's can't tell their kids not to eat meat. I'm like, Well, can I dictate to your kids what their breakfast is going to be? No? Oh? Surprising that isn't it. I've had people out of the blue, unsolicited, tell me they don't believe in veganism, thank you that's great, and I shrug what, do you think its a fairytale-like myth going on? Everyone just needs to stop. By all means show pictures of slaughterhouses or the cages they keep the animals in, factory farmed like rats to the fast food joints, but don't tell anyone what to do with that information. They either care or don't. They either don't mind what anyone jabs into animals, just to smell slightly more like vanilla-cakes or some synthetic form of paint thinner when they go out or they don't. But show them it sure. Show the reality so it either improves or doesn't.

As we enter tiktok politics its just about soundbytes. Get some good ones.