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I think applying pressure to Trump during his midterms make sense. Carney doesn't seem one to levy insults for no reason, unlike Doug Ford, which would only serve to worsen the trade relations. Decoupling from the US is a nice ideal but it's not something based in reality anytime soon. Supply chains on that level take a decade of massive capital investment to reroute, not just a few nice phone calls with European and south american leaders and 2 years later we don't need the US anymore. I hope that the Carney administration will reestablish a bridge to Washington and will pick a time where Trump's narcissism is triggered by another source and he needs a quick win to secure a great deal between the US and Canada. The asymmetry of exports make it quite hard for Canada to negotiate with a lot of bargaining power with 75% of ours going to the US and only like 18% of the US going to Canada.

Boss: Cool, you're fired Worker: If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine

I think If the person you're pairing up with is serious, it works great. Me and Deepak had a call last week and we're having another one tonight, whoever wants to join lmk! You have a good point Yeti, I already track my habits daily so having someone to talk to weekly about my progress just makes the process of self-accountability less lonely for me.

Everything in life is hard, it's just about having the right goals so your suffering is worth it and also strategies to lower your feedback loop so you get your wins often and ideally weekly and daily instead of having to wait months and years for them. It's why I'm a fan of posting content daily, you get to have an idea, edit it and post it within an hour or 2 and you get to push it to the market for feedback that same day. I've started a challenge where I post daily for Legend of the Abyss, I'm gonna film the content for day 9 a bit later today. Me and this guy here have been doing accountability calls, you're welcome to join. I'll hold you accountable!

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@Joshe This is a high quality post. It's a key insight to separate the dating strategy from the self-esteem strategies. It's important to develop self-awareness and identify what you actually want in life and not just react to your formative trauma. A lot of guys don't care about getting women, they just want to feel okay with themselves. The average man is not ambitious at all. To me I used to sort of hate popular people and think they had the best life while I was not doing much. The more I experience life and level up the more I realize a lot of popular people are mostly extroverts that like to socialize a lot which makes them popular. A lot of them are genuinely fun people to be around and they offer a lot of value so people wanna be around them. Some of these popular women have pure golden retriever energy not a single evil bone in their body but people hate on them due to sour grapes. For me I find the quest for status to be like a video game in real life. The more you understand how the world works and climb the more bonus items you unlock as well. Getting hotter and more girls and more money is like the cherry on top. It's also very cool to increase your ability to impact other's lives, I've started to become a community leader and genuinely solving people's problems for them is also maybe not intoxicating but very deeply grounding and rewarding.

@Raze Good find seems like a high quality rebuttal. I don't have time to watch it either but when I ran both videos through Gemini here is what it said I'm more of a fan of discussing practical strategy to get good results in our lives in the short and medium term than discussing other people's thoughts. I've studied red pill frameworks and found them worthwhile. I've studied feminist literature like the book on Leo's book list and read through the female dating strategies subreddit when it was active and also read the sugar dating subreddit and all of it gave me some useful insights. Overall it's all about finding ways that are particularly powerful to get your wants and needs met. In terms of dating from the male perspective I've found that studying photography for online dating, learning social circle game to throw events and personal branding have given me the biggest upside.

@UpperMaster Feel free to bring up some exact points and we can debate them, I don't like watching random videos. I think in general most red pillers tend to regurgitate very vague claims like "women with high body counts are bad!" and "become an alpha male or it's over for you!" Those points end up becoming more like talking points that shape their debates vs actual truths based on data. I think the alpha male claim is the one I most strongly believe in but that can mean so many things. They turn it into if you don't have $1,000,000+ net worth and aren't 6'4 and above you will never meet a woman in your entire life but that's obviously not true. I believe in increasing the value that you provide to women and the world as a whole; I think that overall leads to the best life possible as a human. There are many ways to twist that axiom though and if you just want a basic everyday relationship you certainly don't need to become superman to get into one. To have a very high quality relationship with particularly in demand women though you start to need to rank higher in the male tier list. Vilar's point was more to highlight the ways that men are getting the short end of the stick. Not that men have it worse overall, but rather that mainstream narratives always cast them as default villains. Her work highlights the overlooked half of that social contract. Game definitely works, sometimes it's overhyped as the holy grail of all human dating dynamics but it's only one part of it on top of having your life together and understanding psychology enough to be able to screen your potential partners.

What do you mean by true? Like reflects accurate trends in the real world? Or studies made using proper methodology? Some studies are manipulated to fit an agenda but you can look most of them up for free online and double check them yourself for accuracy. Usually one of the main blunders people make is confusing correlation for causation but there are other cognitive biases that shapes people's views.

Your identity survives conflict with reality and the lies disappear. Plenty of people have great ideas that once confronted with reality fall apart, they were most likely delusions or they didn't make sense to exist in reality.

So why do no girls want to date you? You're bad at escalation and leading the interaction?

Who are you popular with? There are different crowds in which you could have high status like being popular in your pokemon card trading community. If there are also girls in your group, have you tried hitting on them and asking them out? From the outside it looks like popularity has women throwing themselves at you and sending you nudes 24/7 but often it's mostly them being open to your advances. Most women like being hit on vs hitting on men so even if you're popular in my experience the women that make moves on you are not the best options that you have access to. It's always better to know how to hunt. Being a bad boy is a trope, not a dating strategy. For example being a coke dealer is a famous way to get laid but they usually are integrated in the nightlife scene and give girls hundreds of dollars of free coke in exchange for some kitty. Same with promoters that do the same thing with free shots from a $500 bottle in which every shot is $30. It's all about value exchanges or appearance of value and status. If you are a bad boy like you're failing out of school or you're stealing from stores around your city that will not increase your SMV.

I think porn really shows how far mankind has come that we don't shame people for their sexual wants and needs now. Can you elaborate on what you mean by increase ojas? You basically try to transmute your libido into willpower and productivity? I've been doing something similar since I think a lot of my energy comes from my libido so if I look at naked women early in the day but don't masturbate then it gives me that drive to conquer the day.

The red pill movement and content was started on forums like SoSuave and the red pill subreddit. I'm not familiar with sosuave but the subreddit had a lot of great stuff that I read for years. There is a lot of truth to the concept of the medium is the message. When people had to write in depth forum posts about their ideas some of them were well thought out and quite genius. Turning it into videos and especially with the viral algorithm that we are under it allowed for the stupidest and most extreme takes to take a hold as opposed to the best quality content. So now we get clavicular bone smashing instead of actual dating strategy.

Well there are a few ways to answer this question, perhaps an angle would be separating desires from needs or cravings or compulsions. I'll answer in terms of a duality angle, if we accept that we are the whole universe experiencing itself locally through us then, desires are really our relationship to time and space itself. Time for wanting to create things in your life that will take years and decades to accomplish like a life purpose and space because for me to be sitting in my room now I miss out on the rest of the universe both in terms of what's going on in my city but also the planet and universe as a whole. So your desires allow you to experience the universe on your terms and create an individualized experienced of infinity just for you.

@AION It's good for women to be selective with who they date. Getting impregnated by a loser will ruin her life while having a baby with a high-value man will be a blessing for her and her family. It's really quite a harsh contrast. I dislike useless men just because they come to my events, don't bring much value and ruin the ratio. For a woman the consequences of having low standards are much more drastic.

It's a good attitude to have. A lot of men get bitter that they have to fight an uphill battle to get women. I think women are quite desperate to have high quality partners in their lives, they just have a lot of negative consequences happen when they compromise on their standards and boundaries. When you say something dumb and a girl cringes, she was really hoping you wouldn't say that so she could sleep with you.

One aspect of world building I would really like to flesh out for the game is the different paths to power that were present in the early modern period. Machiavelli was alive in Italy during the 15th century but his legacy is what I want to portray. In the 17th century we have Cardinal Richelieu, Thomas Hobbes and Oliver Cromwell that are interesting figures that play more behind the scenes and achieve upward mobility though their intellect as opposed to being born a powerful noble able to raise an army to conquer their foes. I came up with a new economic system that will change the world called pretty simply the Blood Law. Since at that time duels were pretty popular and that makes for the foundation of a PvP system, the whole legal system of the new society under the Kaylan Empire will be the Blood Law. It removes the ability for people to hold onto property beyond 30 days apart from having Imperial approval. Anyone can challenge any noble for their manors and all of their assets and take it from them legally if they win the duel. The main idea is to create 5 main social classes that will also be gameplay types in the game Path of Blood is the standard gladiator and military warrior fighting under the empire, what the basis of the PvP will revolve around. 1v1 duels and maybe 2v2 as well if I can figure that out. Path of Coin is particularly interesting to me as I want to flesh out the economy and jobs of the game quite in depth. Will be the backbone of the trade system of the game. Path of Genius will fit directly on top of the scientific revolution and age of enlightenment theme of the game. It will thematically be present in the magical academies that the players start off in. Path of the Courtier will be talking and maneuvering your way into the orbit of the powerful. That one will fit the political backbone of the game à la Game of Thrones. Path of the Artist is one of the coolest ones as it'll allow players to make their own songs and dances in the game that will also double as real world media that they can own and use to build their real artist career. It'll tie into my music events and creatives community I manage in real life. League of Legends and Riot Games did that so well with their yearly songs for LoL and also KDA starting its own music universe for the game. It turned League of Legends into a cultural phenomenon more than just a game. I wanna achieve that as well for Legend of the Abyss and not really make it something you just play at home but something that becomes part of your life. That's why I'm already thinking about how to make the in game assets web 3 assets so that through collecting them you can pay your real life bills and mortgage with them but I also want to create culture outside of the game like dances and songs.

Yeah I read The Rational Male, its pretty good. He has 4 more in the series but haven't read those. You should read the game and the follow up The Truth by Neil Strauss, that dude is a gifted writer. Robert Greene books are also phenomenal. I've read 48 laws of power, mastery and now reading laws of huaman nature. He has the art of seduction as well, haven't read it yet I really want to. The manipulated man by Esther Vilar is get in terms of anthropology and sociology; it studies how men are oftentimes exploited by both society and women to do labor without credit. The red queen by Matt Ridley is good for evolutionary psychology Other good mentions are No More Mr Nice Guy by Robert Glover and The Way of The Superior Man by David Deida. I assume by red pill you mean books that will get to the core of the human dating experience and especially dating from the male perspective, with those books you'll have a pretty good foundation of knowledge to build off of.

I think women can experience the same thing but they have more criteria when evaluating men so it's rarely just by looking at a beautiful man, it's more by witnessing male greatness over time. Women usually get crushes on guys they know over time; even when it comes to celebrities. When women are really into an artist, she bonds with him over months by listening to his music when she feels down for example so it's also a function of how much value the man gives her. Most men don't give much value so there's not much to be in awe of.

No hollywood has been shit for the past 5-10 years. 2000-2015 had way better movies than we've had for the last 10 years. If you look at the top 10 grossing list each year most of the recent ones are sequels and reboots; very few new ideas are tried since the costs of production went up. Rehashed stuff that's written in a non offensive ways makes for very flat creation.

Always, guilty as charged. Female energy makes the world go round, plus I need high-tier muses for the empire. But you're definitely losing points here. No gaming? Never sat down and appreciated the cinematic greatness of Star Wars? Tragic. We might have to revoke your cool card for this one.

Lmao I hadn't even heard of the chicken nuggets

An unproven generalization is called an assumption or a claim, not psychological projection. Projection specifically means attributing one's own repressed psychological traits onto someone else. As for evidence: we literally have active threads on this forum full of users debating whether semen retention gives them superpowers, arguing that lust is lower-stage consciousness, and framing sexuality as something that must be "transcended." If you don't see the ambient sexual repression in spiritual subcultures, you haven't been paying attention. Polyamory is not a monolith with a single rigid ideology. The movement spans everything from relationship anarchy and completely open dating to closed polyfidelity. Includes setups like closed triads, quads, and polycules that establish their own internal boundaries and agreements. The entire foundational principle of ethical non-monogamy is relationship autonomy: consenting adults having the sovereignty to negotiate whatever structure works best for their shared lives. You’re referencing the modern progressive stigma around the one man many women type which some people like to call one penis policy. Gatekeeping relationship architecture and shaming people for choosing asymmetry or specific boundaries is just another group trying to enforce their own dogmatic relationship norms onto consenting adults. Besides, I’m bisexual; having other men involved in my dynamics down the line is something I’m completely open to. But if a polycule happens to be one man and multiple women for a period, whose business is that from the outside as long as it's built on transparency and enthusiastic consent from everyone involved?

I'm not trying to weasel my way out of it at all. A lot of spiritual people fall into stage green which demonizes materialism. Some of them are like hippie free love types who are more sexually open but a lot are more sexually repressed folks. I encounter this attitude a lot on this forum, haven't you? Come on now, I don't think I avoid arguments at all. Often times, people make bad points and their points are simply not valid. All opinions are not created equal. If we use wrong definitions then we can never have actually high quality intellectual debates. Both camps just throw their biases at each other without actually getting somewhere. Each proper debate should start with defining the terms of what we're actually talking about otherwise it devolves into nonsense quite quickly. She is still using the word projection incorrectly. Haha yeah it happens in mankind too, the good old origin meaning of being a cuck. Yes an alpha male with provider qualities is basically the dream for women. I call it a purple pill man, the beta qualities of a blue pill man and the alpha qualities of a red pill man. I discussed it many years ago with Rollo Tomassi on his show but he didn't really believe in the concept, his view is very jaded and he thinks this type of man is so rare that women inevitably either cheat with fuckboys or are stuck with beta males. I thought his view was a bit limited then and I still think so today. @something_else Silly man, don't push your limiting beliefs onto me. Dating multiple women at the same time is polyamory by definition.