Hardkill

I believe that at this point either Newsom or Josh Shapiro or Gretchen Whitmer or Andy Beshear or Wes Moore will become president within the next decade, unless someone else we haven't heard of before comes from out of nowhere and really tops them all as a candidate. Then again, it's not 100% clear or certain that Newsom or any of the abovementioned potential presidential candidates will end up doing well in the democratic primaries for president until they have been tested under the white heat of a presidential campaign. A lot of people thought that Kamala Harris or Corey Booker would be strong top tier presidential candidates in the 2020 democratic primaries but surprisingly did not do well at all.

President Biden and a growing number of Democrats have now called for a humanitarian pause. I hope Israel eventually agrees to that.

Should they do a temporary ceasefire?

It looks like Israel has agreed to allow at least 100 aid trucks per day to enter into the Gaza: https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-30-23/h_df02b46639b41f5ebd0e6b1b5330ffe6

Obama recently said that cutting off cutting off food, water, and electricity to Gaza could backfire. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/24/obama-israel-food-water-gaza

I've lately been rejected by a number of girls at school. For instance, there is this one attractive outgoing girl, who is single and whom I've been working in one of main class groups for weeks now. We've gotten a long really well since the beginning of the program and she was giving me mixed messages in term of her level of interest. The school program I am is a hybrid type of program whereby we meet virtually through zoom for most of the program and once every few months we meet in person for a 1 to 2 week long in-person lab immersion. So, a couple of weeks ago, she offered to pick me up from the airport after flying into another state to meet with all of our classmates for the one week in-person lab immersion. However, I respectfully declined by telling here how much I appreciated that, but that she didn't have to go out of her way to doing that. I then made a counteroffer by asking to just have some dinner with me after I fly in the city she's in. She seemed interested in that and said that she would let me know what time she would be available for it after meeting up with her brother. After flying in to the city and letting her know that I made it around early evening on that day, I asked her if she had ate dinner yet. She said "I did!" So, I was like "Oh okay, then we meetup tomorrow for dinner instead." However, I got no text message response to that. She never even responded to that the next day or even bring it up to me during the rest of the week of our lab immersion. People in my family have already said to me "don't take it personally. You don't know what she's got going on in her life" or "she's much younger than you are and so she probably doesn't know what she wants or know how to respond to you in a mature manner." Yet, I feel so disheartened. Meeting significant others in school is supposed one of the easiest ways of dating, but I am sucking at it. It seems like as the days go by the harder and harder dating keeps getting, especially for men when it comes to the initial stages of dating. Yes, there's "plenty of fish in the sea," I shouldn't let rejection get to me as a person, and if I work on my game then I might have a better chance at succeeding with women. However, I've been working hard at improving my social and seduction skills for several years now and I am still struggling to get the girls that I want or even past the novice level of game. Now, you might say "well, then you should hire a social or dating coach who can see in person what you're doing wrong in person." That all sounds good except the fact that there's NO WAY that I could ever affording any kind of in-person from a social or dating expert for even a few days. Besides, getting in-person coaching for a few days wouldn't be enough to give me any real results. I would probably have to get in-person coaching for at least 2 days a week every week every month for at least 1 to 2 years to really see any real improvements with skills. That of course is never gonna happen considering as I have little money of my own. Hell, I don't see that most guys can afford to do that unless they are rich. I really thought that going through tons of rejections, trying all kinds of ways to meet and date women, learning to have realistic expectations with dating and sex, focusing more on my life purpose, improving my perspective on my self and life in general, getting countless advice on improving my game from others online and in real life, getting emotional support from family and a few close friends, getting some dates and lays with some girls, getting a long-term girlfriend, and what have you that I would finally be able to tolerate any kind of rejection that happens to me. I actually thought last year that I finally had the ability to easily deal with rejection. However, ever since tried asking out some girls at a community college several months ago, I've been having a hard time psychologically getting over the pain of rejection. I now just feel like this pain of rejection will never go away in the long run and I don't know how I can get any girlfriend or even get another girl to sleep with me without going through the agony of hundreds or thousands of more rejections. I sometimes actually think that it may be possible that I might end up having the worst luck ever that I may never even get another girl even if I approached and asked out thousands or even new million different new girls.

IDF already killed a top Hamas commander: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/israel-says-they-killed-top-hamas-commander-in-airstrike-196496453713

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N022xsuk1Yo

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/house-republicans-speaker-vote-johnson.html

I don't know how to accept such an outcome or outcomes.

Why would anyone in their right mind fall in love with something like WWIII or nuclear war or tyranny growing the world?

But why don't they realize that this will backfire on them in the end?

What about having integrity and principles? You've talked a lot about how important that is for preventing devilry.

Has Israel tried to improve the infrastructure and level of education of the Palestinian people to help their society develop?

Two more hostages were released by Hamas: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hamas-gaza-releases-hostages-israel-nurit-yitzhak-yocheved-lifshitz-rcna121680

To me that's sounding like giving up fighting for what is right. You know, what's really frustrates me is that we haven't a serious liberal movement for like what happened with the abolition movement, early 1920s progressive movement, or mid 1900s civil rights movements. Why have the progressives today still not been able to generate a large enough on the ground kind of movement? Why haven't there been giant marches every single day? Where are the widespread sit-ins? Why haven't they organized the churches/synagogues and the unions together? Why hasn't someone like Obama continue to fight like hell for our democracy and rights like MLK did?

We may not be able to follow our own life purposes for long if WWIII happens, nuclear warfare happens, cataclysmic climate change disasters occur, or if Trump and the MAGA tragically win in 2024. Any of those scenarios would lead to such nightmarish dark days for this world. And yet it doesn't seem like enough people in the US or even in many other parts of the world are waking up to the dangers we are in. Most people in the US don't trust our government or our political system. Also, Democrats keep still getting outmessaged by the Republicans. It's like it still doesn't seem to matter how great of a job Biden and the Democratic party have been doing for this country or how much more fucked up Trump and the Republicans keep getting. Both parties are still mistakenly perceived by the public as being about equally bad by moderates, independents, and undecided voters. It's absolutely unbelievable and truly scary! Yes, the toxic right-wing media ecosystem is largely responsible for this, but the Democrats and liberals in this country really dropped the ball by not playing hardball enough like the Republicans do and by not having built a powerful liberal/left-wing media ecosystem in the 90s, 00s, and 2010s. Sometimes, I think that maybe a lot of the corporate Democrats actually want their party to lose or be weak in order to appease their corporate donors.

I've never been able to manage my worries about something that's out of control. It usually makes me feel hopeless and pessismistic when there is nothing I can do about a serious problem. So, how should we prepare for the worst?

So, if Trump became president again and the Republicans took control of the Senate again and held onto control of the US House, then how would things still be business usual, especially when you factor the fact that courts, including SCOTUS, have been stacked much more favor of the conservatives/Republicans, than when Trump first became president 2017? Have you even heard of the terrifying plans that many big conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation have already come up if they regain control of both chambers of Congress and the presidency? https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 How about the fact that they will continue to destabilize the US economy and much of the global economy by further deregulating the whole financial system and passing even larger tax cuts for the rich and corporations? We could have another Great Recession if not Great Depression if they were in power again. Plus, that if Trump and the Republicans control the entire government again by 2025, then they will undoubtedly bring us much closer to WWIII or a global nuclear warfare. Not to mention, that they continue decimating our natural environment and further worsen the climate change problem. They are so hell-bent on wanting to get their revenge even if it risks annihilating this country, if not the whole world!

I've tried that method before, but the problem is that I still have too much difficulty dealing with a worry or problem that is outside of my control. In fact, a lot of times, whenever it has to do with a problem or worry that I can't do anything about, then that makes me feels depressed or even more scared.

So, I recently went on a date with a girl and on the date we first just had a normal chat about her, about me, what we like to do for fun, making jokes and teasing each other, etc. I also physically escalated with her gradually while paying attention to her non-verbal cues to notice how receptive she is to me escalating the sexual vibe. Then, in the middle of the conversation I asked her if she watched porn. She then gave me a weird look while saying "uh, no." Then she asked me why I would ask that. I said I am just curious. Then she was like "Okay?....Well, are you obsessed with sex?" I said "Oh no, I just wanted to if you happen to be into that. I mean there's nothing wrong with porn." She then said "Well, no there isn't, but that is a weird question to ask someone you just barely met." The date ended with a kiss, but a few days later she said to me over text that she didn't want to date again due to "personal reasons." Do you think this chick was just being a prude?

So, do you deal with all of these crises?

Good question. I don't get it either. Maybe she just felt pressured into doing so?

So, most Arabs around the country still don't think that Hamas are terrorists?