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On Neville Chamberlain, shortly after the infamous 'appeasement' of Hitler, 29th September 1938, Munich: “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.”

@hell_line0 You haven't heard of MGTOW then. There is a male strategy that goes like this. Save tons of money by not spending a dime on dating, invest it all in retirement funds, and retire by 50 (or earlier depending on how successful you are financially).

The funniest part of the “Manosphere” is that their entire definition of success is still…women. Every metric - money, status, power - is just a strategy to ‘get’ more women to be around them. In total contrast, the female flex is independence: building a life so great that a man has to actually add something of legitimate value to be there…if he is welcomed at all.

@okay_youreright @FrankLuntz Risk is anathema to marriage and child rearing. The more risky relationships appear, the less people will engage in mating.

@okay_youreright @FrankLuntz Common things I see in men are: Never build a relationship that threatens a man's peace. Don't take risks with marriage as marriage can end in divorce and cause a man to lose everything he built. Less drama in relationships might help, but that requires people to do better.

How can we incentivize more Americans to have children?

@okay_youreright @FrankLuntz A high quality population with low neuroticism and low drama might encourage marriage and child rearing. But the narratives I'm seeing suggest that neuroticism is massively rising, making every relationship much riskier.

@Panagio3309288 @therealmissjo Nope, even the bears were like, nah.

@therealmissjo We sent the bears, instead. You said you prefer them. Didn't they attend?

I have friends who go to dating events - speed dating, mixes, etc. They tell me that it is almost always women who attend. Virtually no men. So where are all the men?

@pppeee122 @Greatly_Aware @_nomadic_soul @Gabriel91351906 Teach your kids how to cook and maybe they can help.

When a man gets home from work, the expectation is that he gets to relax, he’s not doing laundry or cleaning or even cooking. When a woman is home, the expectation is the house is clean, kids are cared for, food is made, she never gets to check out. When does the woman relax?

@_nomadic_soul @Gabriel91351906 Yes, and couples often share workloads. Wife might cook while the husband mows the lawn. Individuals need to negotiate with their partner as to how to arrange chores. And if you want an easier lifestyle go low maintenance and get a microwave.

@Gabriel91351906 Most women also work

Imagine if modern journalism was done back in the 1960's. We'd get headlines like this. This is absolutely hilarious, but sad at the same time to see that this is how much journalism has fallen.

Wow, the journalistic unforced errors just keep on coming. Good lord this is bad.

@WhiskeyMD247365 @nytimes @TheAthletic By your logic the Seahawks must have been widely outplayed by the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Reality disagrees however.

@nytimes @TheAthletic Dominance how? They were widely outplayed by Canada.

From @TheAthletic: "The U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the 'Miracle on Ice' 46 years ago, and for a time, the joy belonged to everyone," our columnist writes. "By the next day, it didn’t." nyti.ms/3ZQQALI

@c2209199 @Mad_Macs @Rothmus Until you have your first real world experience encountering a woke idiot that says and or does crazy things, you might think this. I have first hand experience of an encounter in the real world. These types of people exist.

Modern left wingers speak so weird these days that actual Karl Marx writings start to sound normal.

@RealJakeBroe Demand for housing will decrease and prices will have to come down as well. It's the same logic for deportations. Less people to rent, means less demand, and hopefully more affordable rents.

Hey, what do you think will happen to the housing market when tens of millions of upper middle class white collar workers lose their high paying jobs and can no longer afford to pay their mortgages anymore?

I mean, when the Mongol Hordes came, they weren't exactly insiders to the lands they conquered, they were almost certainly outsiders. The barbarians at the gate is a real historical phenomenon, and often the barbarians won.

Entire peoples vanished not because of outsiders, but because stronger neighbors took their land is an interesting take when you consider the fact that in many cases the stronger neighbors were also outsiders.

This is a classic example of a desperate gold digger mentality. Looking for love, nah. She wants a tall, rich, person. Love is not important to her.

Trust is easy to lose and hard to gain back. Committing a crime violates trust and harms others. Would I trust a murderer, a rapist, a robber? No. Should I be expected to. Also, No.

@freebird359 @VladVexler Vlad was very much onto something. It takes a special kind of narcissistic crazy to be a leader of a major country (let alone the US) and have the gall (lets go with gall) to threaten war because you didn't get a peace prize.

@VladVexler I have to say, I thought you were psychologizing too much with your focus on Trump's narcissism, but this letter is clear proof that it's out of control.

BREAKDOWN: Trump's unhinged letter, line by line “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize....” This is Trump stewing in his narcissistic anger. The denial of the Nobel Prize functions as a narcissistic injury, under the stress of which Trump’s psychic organisation regresses to primitive defences. He cannot tolerate loss, accept ambivalence, or take responsibility. A healthy adult might respond to disappointment with contextualisation and re-establishment of proportion. Trump cannot do this. He fixates, replaying and enlarging the narcissistic injury. Moreover, Trump has difficulty with disengaging attention, emotional impulsivity, and poor inhibitory control under stress (It’s worth considering that ADHD can magnify narcissistic loops) “... for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS” Reality-testing has collapsed for Trump, in favour of fantasy achievement. Exaggeration to ward off feelings of inadequacy. “I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace” Trump is expelling responsibility for aggression outward. He frames himself as forced into domination because others failed to reward him: if you are not good to me, I am freed from being good to anyone. “... although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.” Trump is relocating private rage into an institutional role. The psychic mechanism is three-fold - (1) an intolerable affect arises (e.g. rage) (2) that affect is expelled to an external object (3) the external object is then pressured to carry and enact the affect “Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China…” Trump is engaging in post-truth manipulation. His desired acquisition of Greenland has more to do with it’s size than any geopolitical concern about Russia or China. “and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway?” This is an attack on a container that limits desire: how can me wanting something very much not be a sufficient reason for having it? The ideological correlate of this psychology is “might is right” monarchism. “There are no written documents…” Trump reduces the question of sovereignty to a childlike original story. “… it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.” This is arguably the most embarrassing line in the letter. Think of this analogy: A child is told: “That toy belongs to your friend Susan because her parents bought it for her two years ago.” The child replies: “That doesn’t count. I walked into the same shop two years ago too. So it isn’t really hers.” The child’s response, like Trump’s, reduces ownership to immediate desire and declares frustration of desire illegitimate. “I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding…” Trump is veiling his attainment of “getting the Europeans to pay up” in grandiose self-idealisation. “… and now, NATO should do something for the United States.” Again, as discussed above, this is externalisation of desire onto an external object. There is no America for Trump - there is only Trump and his desire, generated by the atrocity of his own mind. "The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland." “Complete and Total Control” is not adult strategy. It is magical repair of narcissistic injury through imagined mastery. Political absurdities, from the absence of Greenland acquisition in the latest National Security Strategy to fantasies about the price of Greenland, are secondary to the stunning psychic regression on display. "Thank you! President DJT" “Thank you!” seals the letter with monarchist magical thinking. Like Putin, Trump assumes that if something happens in country X, the government must be behind it. Brief analytical takeaways: (1) Reject strategic normalisation. Those who label Trump’s foreign policy as belonging to a recognisable school - for example a form of realism - are operating in the realm of farce. (2) Reject cognitive-decline narratives. There is little evidence that Trump is experiencing significant dementia or Biden-style cognitive decline. What we are seeing instead is severe narcissistic degeneration under increasingly unchecked power. Age and neurodiversity may amplify this degeneration, but it is not cognitive decline. So: this is neither strategy nor dementia. (3) Recognise the institutional danger. If the U.S. political system cannot check Trump’s behaviour, shared trust in institutions will erode catastrophically. No mentally sound future President will be able to undo the damage.

@VladVexler This is almost a psychotic level of disconnection from reality. Fighting a war because you didn't get a peace prize is deeply disconnected from the norms of everyday reality. This is crossing into narcissistic psychosis territory.

Depends on what you define as a good man. To expand the pool of good men to choose from, she might need to look for a good man that doesn't turn her on, arouse her, or is attractive. By good man, I mean is a good person, doesn't commit crime, stable job, etc.