Basman

Why do you need drugs outside of addiction, conformity and shit-life syndrome?

He's mad that he's not in the Epstein files.

Hipsters are people who trendchase in a way which make it feel like it is not trendchasing.

Christiania was overrun by gangs due to a lack of rules and police until they made a deal with the Danish government to sell the buildings in exchange for police enforcement. These kind of communes always tend to turn into a shit show or become semi-cults in the long-run because they don't appreciate what it takes to maintain order.

I no longer really use ChatGPT. What's the point when it doesn't know anything? It's sicophancy breeds false confidence and you can't trust that what it says isn't just regurgitated Reddit. It's a waste of time when I can just do my own thinking.

Women not being dependent on relationships anymore means that general availability is higher. You're more likely to meet someone who has been in a previous relationship/married today. In a previous age those women would have stayed in those relationships and not been available to you in the first place. It's cope to complain about women being too independent. A relationship is about more than just resources.

Tragedy of the commons. When there is dysfunction in the system, they'll vote in populists who are only there for self-serving reasons and are going to make things worse. Then they'll repeat that pattern ad naseum till we no longer have a democracy. If the issue is a sense of agency in the electorate then the solution is to somehow find a way to make the electorate feel a sense of agency again within the democratic system. That would involve reinventing our way of centrist technocracy.

Conspiratorial thinking is a kind of magical thinking where you outsource responsibility for society to an mystical group of elites. It's characteristic of people who suffered tragedy and survival difficulties to cope with hardship. In my opinion, you can speculate in moderation with knowledge that it is to a certain degree unsubstantiated, but ideally with a degree of understanding of how politics and society works. Like, no one completely controls society. Or understand that elites have a psychology of their own and are thenselves subject to human weakness, like peer pressure, mental illness, etc. They are not these mystical beings who are essentially evil, like a krampus hiding under your bed.

I don't buy the narrative that "dating is impossible". I see a lot guys not socializing enough to really warrant the bitterness. If you really wanted it you'd prioritize it, even if the sky was falling. You could maybe complain about the effort-reward ratio all depending but you will get a girlfriend if you earnestly decided to act on it. I think a lot of this male resentment is more about a lack of belonging and feeling culturally rejected rather than dating necessarily being too hard, in large part due to feminism. To be fair, that is a serious political and cultural issue which will and has fed into authoritarianism.

They've exhanged rationality for an illusory sense of agency.

Uh oh. Shit like this makes me think Epstein's deal was essentially being a pimp for elites. It's sure is a way to network. Elite society is small and every one knows each other more or less. It's totally imaginable how a swanky sex trafficker can get you any girl you desire spreads just through word of mouth and connections.

Sounds like it is primarily a communication issue. Communication is how you deal with the frictions of living together for the most part. That is something both parties ideally strive for in a relationship. Like, he doesn't seem to communicate his wants before he is already pent up and resentful. Maybe he is scared or something but gets too emotional. You'll have to talk about it. If your both on the same page about working on your relationship then you can try iron out the issues of the relationship. At least you'll learn some valuable interpersonal skills. I agree with the recommendation of couples therapy as an avenue for dialogue since you both seem to have your grievances and an experienced neutral third party could help facilitate that in a safe environment. Best of luck.

This topic gets co-opted a lot by culture warriors with an axe to grind as well an algorithmically driven need for drama.

Most of the discourse on this topic is very algorithmically driven, but it's true that men overall approach less now. I think it's a combination of technology use, a lack of education on how to be a man since feminism and simply not prioritizing socialization. At least in my experience, I have to actively make an effort to socialize.

Why do you think Leo is bald?

Now we know for sure that Iran is getting invaded.

Australia is a psy-op to turn Iran white.

Traditional Japanese martial arts very conformist. Meditating and bowing at a portrait of the founder in a neat row or having to speak certain phrases in Japanese like "osu" whenever you receive instructions or bowing when you enter the dojo is cringey. The whole enterprise of Japanese martial is more about "building character" in the Japanese image than functional martial arts in my opinion. It's why I bounced off traditional martial arts in favor of more "western" stuff like kickboxing. Even when it comes to swordplay, HEMA is much more practically functional than Kendo. They tend to be semi-mystical, especially Aikido. In aikido you are trained to not resist your partner when they practice their moves, so you get stuff where someone a bit more experience can "throw" their partner over their shoulder like a rag, but it's more like a choreographed dance because the one being thrown is not only not resisting but actively moving with the motion. A lot of traditional martial arts, especially aikido, are glorified dance schools. Kata is literally memorizing a dance. Actual martial arts require strength. At least half of martial arts is just being strong, which traditional martial tend to sidestep in favor of largely unrealistic technical minutia and philosophy. All the instructors I've had in kickboxing have all been taller and stronger than average and in their physical prime.

I already knew who made this thread before clicking on it LMAO

I guess his speech check failed on me. To me it came off as trying to weasel out of hard questions. Like justifying a criminal enterprise because you donate to sick and poor people. It's the rich man's praying to god for forgiveness. The fact that he went into abstraction at all is weaselly and should ring alarm bells. It's like if you asked Putin why he invaded Ukraine and he starts explaining his version of 500 years of history. It's rhetorical smoke.

Bro, who cares? I engage because I have something to say.

What do you mean? He was obviously deflecting away from the question and bullshiting. Very manipulative.

If you stare hard enough into the abyss eventually you'll see the state of Israel.

Bro's excuse is that he donates to sick and poor people. That's only like a couple of steps above going to church and praying for forgiveness. Epstein himself was definitely pedomaxxing, but I'm not as sure of his associates necessarily, like Trump. It seemed to be more about opportunity and the victims that Epstein was already providing for sex. Bill Gates is implicated to have serviced "married women" of Epstein, whatever that means 🤨 It's hard to say for sure without definitive proof, but it seems like Epstein was the center of a sex trafficking and networking ring while working for intelligence. Probably Mossad. Secretly recording elites having sex with minors is prime blackmail material for one.

What makes them different from you on a fundamental level? That is what makes them evil.