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What if he just had bad luck? He approached only 8 girls. Also, cold/warm approach and the initial stages of dating these days has become rigged against men more than ever before.

We are now in the middle of a housing affordability crisis. The baby boomers during the mid to late 1900s had it much easier with being able to afford some basic housing. How do you reconcile the idea that no one is entitled to free healthcare with the fact that you've already talked many times before about how abhorrent it is that the US is still the only advanced country in the world that still doesn't have a universal healthcare system due to the corruption of the healthcare cartel and unchecked capitalism in America? Also, what about the fact that the poor, the working class, and the middle class have increasingly become victims of the growing economic inequality in the US due to neoliberalism? Most of these people are either barely able to live paycheck to paycheck or are not gonna make it due to a number of factors outside of their control. I don't see how all of these people out there in America who absolutely deserve better can ever live a comfortable happy life these days so long as neoliberalism continues to exist. Furthermore, it's getting harder and harder and harder for men to even get a mediocre gf or wife let alone get laid with or even date an attractive woman for most men than it was back before both the boom of the internet/media technology and the waves of feminism. Women are naturally pickier than men in the dating world. Online dating/dating apps, instagram/facebook, the third or fourth waves of feminism, etc. have all made women incredibly more picky than ever before. The fertility rates in western countries might very well decline to such unprecedented low levels that would seriously threaten both the national security and advanced economy of each and every first world country in the world. Moreover the violence from incels and aggrieved men could rise to such untold horrific levels. How about so many of the other kinds of crises that are still going on out there in the US that most Americans have tragically become victims of through no fault of their own? I fear that dark days may be ahead for Gen X, Millenials, Gen Z, and younger.

MTG just did Biden a solid by accidentally advertising Biden's achievements as being on par with many of greatest and most popular programs initiated and signed into by FDR and LBJ.

All he would need to do now to put Twitter out of business is to put two more Xs next to the first X.

The Biden administration, including his FTC team, has been implementing the most aggressive trustbusting and merger busting policies ever since the mid 1900s in order to try to reverse so much of the growing amount of excessive monopolies that have been occurring since the late 1970s to early 1980s. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-20/summers-says-tougher-us-m-a-rules-seem-like-war-on-business https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188353064/ftc-doj-merger-competition-guidelines https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/ftc-justice-dept-mergers-antitrust.html

Yeah! Lmao I mean I get that the point she was trying to make was that both FDR and LBJ were major "Democratic Socialist" presidents who immensely expanded the government with all of their major social and economic programs. However, she compared Biden to FDR, who was truly one of the 3 greatest presidents our country ever had, and LBJ whose Great Society domestic agenda was undoubtedly on the order of FDR's New Deal domestic agenda. Furthermore, EVERYTHING that Biden, LBJ, and FDR all did have ALWAYS been very popular policies. So, thanks a lot MTG!

It's the conservative boomers in America who make up the bulk of all of the true racists in this country. I can't wait until they all pass away into another world. Once they are all gone about 20 years from now, then I believe that progress for our country will happen at a much faster rate. That's what happen right after America transitioned from the Gilded Age into the early 1900s progressive era.

There's no doubt that the social/flirting skills of most guys, from about the latter half of the Millenial generation and Generation Z, these days have considerably atrophied in recent years. Girls from about the latter half of the millenial generation and Generation Z, have also had their social/flirting skills suffer significantly since about the early 2000s. This is due the rise of dating apps, video call technology, other online technology, and what have you.

Yeah, I like him too. He's definitely a very sensible kind of progressive.

Oh, I see. Have you tried an approach anxiety program before?

@PurpleTree Did you talk to them at all? I would've said something like "Hey ladies. I see you both have been checking me out. I get it. I mean what's not to like...." with a cheeky smile. Even if they lie about by being like "Oh, no sorry, we weren't......" Then right away say "Oh no, you don't have to apologize. Come on, I know you both have already been looking at me like a piece of meat and are right now trying to come up with a game plan on what's the best way to hit on me." You definitely want to say all of this in a cocky/funny manner. At the very least it will makes things fun for all of you in the interaction.

I am still kinda skeptical about that. Just because you practice something consistently for years doesn't automatically mean that you're going to be good. For example, there are people who've consistently practice singing or drawing for years, but are still not great singers or drawers. How about those who practice a sport like soccer or basketball for many years but still suck at it? Gorgeous models such as Kendall Jenner are known for being quite boring even though they have constantly talked to countless people including having had tons of guys chatting them up and dating them. As for the idea of acquiring high pain tolerance and tougher skin from massive social experience 24/7 most girls, including many attractive girls, still can't handle rejection well. Kendall Jenner herself still has some amount of social anxiety and suffers from occasional panic attacks.

Up to a point....

Yeah, of course a lot of times it's the case that she wasn't interested in me. But sometimes there have been moments were an attractive girl who was into me was making out with me and having sex with me but came off as nervous and awkward when doing all of that with me. I get that hot girls don't have a problem having a lot people wanting to socialize with them and a lot of guys obviously wanting to date and sleep with them. Yet, if they don't have a good personality because they have no charm/charisma, have a stank attitude, don't carry themselves with enough confidence or self-esteem, or what have you then those hot girls will not know how to keep the kind of people they want in their life. Furthermore, if they don't know how to act feminine then they are not going to be able to keep an guy who is an alpha male or a highly attractive high quality man.

Well, how come there are a lot of hot girls who have boring personalities, don't know how to communicate well, or don't know how to flirt even though they have been very socially outgoing? I've interacted with a number of attractive girls who have dull personalities or get a little awkward with flirting.

Yeah, but just because she gets massive amounts of automatic opportunities to socialize with many others doesn't automatically mean that she would learn how to become a social butterfly. In fact, because she doesn't have to work as hard as other girls to have a lot of friends and a lot of guys wanting to date and have sex with her and what have you she may just easily feel like she doesn't have to work on improving her personality around others. Also, hot girls are on their phones and computers way more than they used to be. Not to mention that most girls, including a lot of hot girls, aren't relationship material because they don't know how to act in an appealing feminine way.

I guess that means that girls, including hot girls, are also turning into nerds.

You know, according to history, the trickle down economics idea is actually such an old idea that it goes way back to around the 1920s. During the "roaring 20s" America was run by Republican fools including Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, and they were really the originals one that promoted the same kind of laissez faire economics that Reagan and the GOP brought in the 1980s and onwards. The trickle down economics in the 1920s was largely responsible for causing the Great Depression.

Hopefully Bidenomics will finally put an end to the zombie Reagonomics that has already had too much of an influence on our country for far too long. I don't even think that Reaganomics is really popular anymore in America. Considering that Neoliberalism/Reaganism has lasted for over 4 decades now, and the failures of that economic philosophy have now become apparent to enough people in America, do you think we are now on our way to going back to the kind of regimented capitalism or social democracy we had throughout the entire extended New Deal era during the mid 1900s?

So then why isn't having a muscular physique and combat skills enough to become socially successful with people and get laid with any kind of woman you want?

Not entirely true. In fact.... Arizona which used to be a red for decades has become purple and increasingly turning blue. Former confederates including which used to be deep red states including Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina are either on their way towards being purple states or have now become purple and are now on there way towards becoming blue states. Even with Florida, which has been heavily influenced by Trump and DeSantis for a long while, I don't think that state will continue to be solid red forever. Several years from now, extreme right-wingers such as those two will eventually lose their great influence over Floridians given how radical Republican leaders like them have become. Furthermore, while it still is surprising in some ways that Florida has become a solid red state, look at its demographics. Florida has one of the most racially/ethnically diverse states in the country. It is one of the wealthiest states in the country. It is one of the largest and one of the most densely populated states in the country. It's state has an above average educated/forward-thinking population per capita compared to most other states. It also doesn't have nearly as large of a percentage of socially conservative christians as almost every other southern and midwestern state in the entire Bible belt region of the country does (except to a very small portion of Illinois). Therefore, Florida already has had most of the characteristics of what makes a blue state.

I don't think that CBT itself will completely treat any psychological you have, but practicing it absolutely makes a significant positive difference in your mental health and well-being and overall wellness. I've used it a number of times before and it really helped me to manage my anxiety and depression much better and even desensitized a lot of the irrational fears I used to have with talking to other people socially, getting rejected by others including girls, possibly failing at something I deemed important, etc.

Well, it has been tried, but didn't you say that going to war only makes conflict or gridlock worse and further divides people?

I do believe in the need in fighting the good fight and the need for a benevolent monopoly of force, but what about some diplomacy?

Thank God the US Supreme Court ruled solidly against the idea that state legislatures have the absolute power to decide who wins each of their own states for the electoral college in a presidential election and who wins any congressional election held in each of their own states! If SCOTUS ruled in favor of this argument then they would've essentially terminated any form of real democracy in the USA.