@Vermillion-Rx This

The famous Pavlov's Dog experiment, part two: they rang the bell, then alternated between beating the dog and giving it food. The dogs entered neurosis and many broke down. This is what happens to men nowadays: women send subtle ambiguous signals of interest, then when a man approaches he sometimes gets praised for his "confidence" and "initiative", but other times gets shamed and reprimanded for being a "creep." Do not allow women to ring the bell of Female Sexual Signals and then Beat the Men that respond to it. • Men being overly confused and careful about female sexuality serves one purpose: it raises the value of female sexuality, and thus enhances women's power in society.

I was reading your guide and listened to Nuclear Caudillo's the "dance scene" podcast and I kind of kick myself that I cant force myself for more interactions with ppl that I have mentally excluded. And I exclude rather a lot.

Then I read that and I think that my model is not that bad.

@adam-l

The first, that he's pursuing policies that won't work

Says who? I'm confident that they will.

Our national-level government was never supposed to be this large, bloated, and wasteful. He's eliminating much of the fraud, waste, and abuse.

This is a good thing.

The same people who are screeching about it while he's doing it have been paying lip service to doing this for years. They're just shrieking because it's him, and "orange man bad!"

The second, more general problem, is the tendency towards a "revolution by representative". Even if Trumpism was positive, when people place their hopes on "the leader" instead of common action, it doesn't work.

Nah, for most of us, this is based on a desire for common actions. For my part, I've always voted for smaller government. This is just the first time someone has followed through, and done so this effectively.

It's hilariously ironic to me, too, because one of the many reasons I voted against Trump in the 2016 primary was because I thought he wasn't a small-government conservative. He really isn't, but here he is shrinking the size of government better than anyone else I've seen in my lifetime.

And I'm not even touching on the big thing Mento is underlining, his leading with emotion.

Do you two own stock in IMAX or something?

Classic leftist "I'm going to accuse you of doing what I'm actually doing so that when you point out that I am, you look like an unoriginal dolt just saying 'no, u!'"