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@lizisamused There should be a six-inch maximum height difference as a social norm.

The height requirement in dating is painfully stupid. If a woman wants a guy who's taller than her, fine. Plenty of guys also want a girl who's shorter than they are. But wanting 6'+ strikes me as a trophy thing for women. I don't buy it's an innate preference because older generations didn't focus on this nearly as much. It was *nice* if your boyfriend was tall; it wasn't a requirement. And I've heard some horror stories from men: a girl showing up to the date, saying he's too short, & RUNNING AWAY. Women asking how tall the guy is as the convo opener on an app. Women can't claim they're the less superficial sex & then reject the vast majority of their dating pool. What especially bugs me is women who say everyone's allowed preferences. Wanting a guy who treats you well? Fine. Rejecting anyone who doesn't tower over you, regardless of other positive traits? Odd. And the dehumanizing language toward short men is insane. Claiming tall guys have better personalities, short guys are dangerous or angry, etc. What's especially wild: data shows height doesn't strongly impact a man's # of sexual partners. But this may change if women won't even give the 5'9" (literally average) guy a chance. The 5'9" Gen X & millennial men I knew did just fine. But Gen Z men increasingly have to impress online as opposed to IRL, so height becomes a more important factor. Even IRL, if the trend among women is to view any guy under 6' or so as a "manlet," that impacts most men. It's odd to watch women complain about objectification...and then objectify men to the point only 15% of women would give a guy who's 5'8" a shot on a dating app. I feel for young people. It's a different world now...

@BlackBondPtv Uh, most of the banking families are Jewish not Catholic. Organized crime bosses are often Catholic but the church isn't running anything like this. I'd say this is a bit inverted. Catholicism is mostly a force for good, other than the harmful oppression of human nature.

C’est presque ça sauf que ce tableau a oublié les 13 familles de la Noblesse Noire Vénitienne qui sont juste en dessous de Satan. Le Pape noir est au dessus du Pape blanc et ils ont oublié le Pape Gris qui est au dessus des deux. Le Pape gris est issu des 13 familles. À part ça ce tableau décrit plutôt pas mal la pyramide de pouvoir qui contrôle(ait) le monde. Petite note: Vous entendez beaucoup parler des Rothschilds et des Rockfeller mais jamais des 13 familles, demandez-vous pourquoi. Parce qu’on entend jamais parler de ceux qui contrôlent vraiment le monde. Pouvoir et discrétion sont indissociables. Tout ça pour vous dire que oui les Rothschilds par exemple sont très puissants mais contrairement à l’imagerie populaire, ne sont pas les plus puissants.

@QueenAnticommie Not just Communism, but Marxism in its many forms including social.

Which has caused more human suffering in history?

@ywomendeservles There should be a six-inch maximum height difference as a social norm. Otherwise it's not fair to tall women and short men.

The audacity of short women

@redaction It's just genetics. In 10,000 years of civilization, women figured out a way to domesticate us. This way everybody compromises and gets what they need. This is the traditional marriage and family. Then feminism called this itself oppression, demonizing the hard-fought solution.

Most feminist literature seems utterly incapable of seriously addressing *why* men seek dominance They treat the drive for domination as a kind of defective communication tactic, born out of either incompetence, malice, or both That is a catastrophic logical oversight

@CryptoSala @TayTayTayT67373 @C_Kavanagh Never mind all the scientific studies about this.

@TayTayTayT67373 @element261 @C_Kavanagh That's because he/she made it up.

The Petersons are genuinely not well.

@SandyofCthulhu I have a story in a world with a magical mineral that's usually alloyed with gold or silver into amulets or weapon adornments. The character commissions a robe made with magical brocade.

Cloth of Gold is a real thing. It's made by first drawing gold out into threads. Then you weave the gold thread through silk (or sometimes linen). It is extremely heavy, as you might expect. You can recover the gold by burning the cloth. If you play tabletop roleplaying games, it's an awesome medieval treasure that's not much known today.

@Dreamer10384678 @dwarkesh_sp @fleroy1974 Yeah, and you know, women had us mostly tamed in the West. And then, well, they decided to adopt cultural Marxism and throw all that away. Now it's gone to hell and they blame men for what they did to themselves.

@dwarkesh_sp @fleroy1974 Why anyone has children in this sick world is beyond me. Men just go out slaughtering, raping and stealing and then the cycle perpetuates forever. Women need to really wake up and realise that's all this place ever is. A playground for the most violent, rapacious, greedy men.

About 5000 years ago, horse nomads from the steppes conquered Europe. Still today, almost every European language descends from the one they spoke, and as much as 90% of European DNA comes from them. What did this conquest actually look like on the ground?

@dwarkesh_sp Migrations/genes from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe also traveled Southward across the Caucasus into the Mid-East and beyond. Even long before the Yamnaya, this area was genetically prolific. A robust phenotype, abundant meat and dairy, advanced culture, perhaps.

@SCHIZO_FREQ There's no comparison.Thinking sex is about getting off, is entirely the wrong idea. People who use women as living fleshlights should be banned from sex entirely until they can learn better.

“Sex isn’t even good, you’re just bad at masturbating” may be my magnum opus

@LisaBritton It's the nadir fallacy: Judging an entire group by the worst examples.

Framing, blaming and shaming all men as “predators” doesn’t make the world a safer place. Actually, it does the opposite in the long run.

@newstart_2024 Lavender and Tea Tree oil are also feminizing.

“Half my girlfriends had their tits cut off, half my guy friends have tits.” Whitney Cummings dropped that on Bill Maher’s Club Random while talking about soy milk. She drank it for 20 years because everyone said it was healthy. Now she looks around at the hormone chaos in her circle and wonders how they all got sold on it so hard. Bill was right there with her: “Soy? I always avoided it. Something felt fishy.” It spiraled into bigger questions — the food pyramid pushed by big companies, studies that feel shaky when you actually think about them, and how easily we accept “official” advice without asking who benefits. I never touched soy milk and always side-eyed those trends, but I totally get why people trusted it. The messaging was everywhere, backed by “science,” until it wasn’t. Stories like this are a reminder to stay skeptical of health fads sold as gospel. What seems harmless today can quietly reshape lives years later. What’s one mainstream health recommendation you once bought into completely?

@not__vee Definitely lying -> indeterminate -> definitely truthful. Only the definitely truthful should result in a conviction for the accused. The definitely lying should result in a conviction for the accuser. If someone is a repeat indeterminate, this bumps them one way or the other.

x.com/ywomendeservle… This is where people fail the retard-test. Yes in reality id love to punish false - accusers. But can you? If you implement such law many false accusers will never admit they lied, which means their victims rot in prisons more and you dont punish the false accuser either.

@Z4BTC_ Yeah, people's ratings have become so biased because of social media.

Not a single woman in this picture is remotely close to a 7/10. At best, they qualify for a 5’6”–5’10” male making $75k a year and who is a 5/10 in looks, and that’s being generous. The problem with modern dating can be summed up by the fact that the women in this picture would projectile vomit if you showed them their looks match.

@AstronomyVibes Yeah it's a very primitive material. We don't even use it much once we need a higher level of performance.

🚨 The young boy says that aliens would not want to destroy Earth because they actually need something that humans have — wood. A video shared by Billy Carson shows this young boy who believes aliens do not have wood on their planets, so they depend on humans and the Earth for it. Because of that, he insists that humans are not at war with aliens; instead, aliens need humans and Earth’s resources. He also says that aliens are very real and questions people who do not believe in them, asking, “If you don’t believe in aliens, then what are you?” Then he says that he himself might be an alien, adding that it feels normal to be one. He explains that humans are not the only living beings in the universe and that there must be life on many other planets because space is enormous and endless. The boy says space has been growing forever, without a real beginning or end. When asked how he knows all of this, he answers that it just feels natural, as if the knowledge comes from aliens or maybe from past lives. ✨🙌🏾💫

@Capito_Nihongo It's the same Marxism that has taken over most of Europe, unfortunately. Marxism always becomes an authoritarian dystopia. Germans just say, "Oh we're used to the authoritarianism so it doesn't bother us."

Egal ob ihr in Japan, Amerika oder sonst wo auf der Welt lebt, ich habe eine Frage an euch: Wie seht ihr Deutschland momentan? Was macht Deutschland falsch, eurer Ansicht nach? Egal was es auch ist, schreibt es mir gerne!

@soigomaa Humans are often abusive. Statistics are about split. society itself is to blame. Women control culture, men don't really care. They change it in ways that makes the problem worse and then blame men for it.

There is no "Gender war". Men have been abusive for generations and women are finally refusing to tolerate it anymore. That's all

@anishmoonka "Catching the Westbound" is fascinating symbolism. West is the direction of the setting sun, where it enters the underworld, symbolically dying before it is reborn the next day at dawn.

That bag has a name. It's a bindle. And in the 1930s, about 250,000 American teenagers actually packed one and walked out the door to ride freight trains, looking for work after the crash wiped out their families' savings. They were called boxcar boys and girls. Many were just 16 or 17. They left because there was no food at home, or because they didn't want to be another mouth their parents couldn't feed. One boy left home with the 72 cents his mother pulled from her purse, the last of her money. About 4 million Americans were on the road in those years. The cartoon image we know traces back to two artists. Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character, the little guy in baggy pants with a stick, debuted in 1914. He became a global icon. Walt Disney later said Chaplin was one of the inspirations for Mickey Mouse. Then in 1958, Norman Rockwell painted a runaway boy carrying a bindle for the Saturday Evening Post cover. That picture is the one that stuck in our heads. The actual life behind the bag was hard. People who lived it called themselves hobos, and they were strict about the word. A hobo was a worker who traveled. A tramp only worked when he had to. A bum didn't work at all. Hobos hated being mixed up with the other two. They followed the harvests. Strawberries in spring, hops in summer, apples in fall, potatoes in winter. Pay was a few dollars a day, sometimes less. Riding freight trains was illegal and could kill you. Railroad police, who they called bulls, beat them off the cars. You could slip and get crushed between cars. Or freeze to death sleeping in a boxcar in winter. A British poet named W.H. Davies, who wrote a memoir called The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, lost his foot trying to jump onto a moving train. So they built their own world. Their camps near rail yards were called jungles. They shared a stew called Mulligan, where everyone threw in a potato, or a piece of meat, or whatever they had. They left messages for each other on water tanks: a nickname, a date, and the direction they were heading, so the next person passing through could see who had been there. They had a phrase for someone who died on the road. He caught the Westbound. In 1900, a town in Iowa called Britt, with about 2,000 people, decided to host them. Every August since, hobos and rail riders show up to crown a Hobo King and Queen, with crowns made from coffee cans. The convention is still running. There's a Hobo Memorial Cemetery in Britt for the ones who caught the Westbound. The cartoon turned it into a childhood dream. For a quarter-million American kids in the 1930s, it was just the bag you grabbed before walking out the door.

@Tochka__26 This isn't the 80s? Yeah, the incidence of teen sex has significantly decreased since then.

Why are American movies always about teenagers having sex, being high and drinking a lot? Is it normal there?