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Oh come on, I mean what about Trump and Reagan who dumb celebrity tv/hollywood actors turned politicians? What about Tom Cruise and his really moronic take on psychiatry and drugs? You really think that the Kardashians and their extended family really know how to start or run a business all by themselves like you did yourself? Either way, most of them don't have an impressive intellect. I am not a genius, but at least I graduated from top universities for both my bachelor's, Master's, currently getting my doctorate in physical therapy, took many other outside college courses to fully round out my education, have been a deep critical thinker about the world ever since I was in my mid-teens, have talents in real Fine Arts, read up on books on philosophy, have a greater understanding about the politics and the world than most people do. My parents who are highly sophisticated, intelligent, very well educated, well read, successful individuals who have lived very long lives look down upon most celebrities as being highly overrated simpletons who never bothered to develop their brains. Most celebrity musicians quickly run out new original kinds of songs that aren't really all that new. Many of them ruin their own relationships/marriages/families, drug addicts, alcoholics, high school/college dropouts, smoke cigarettes/weed regularly, get into a lot of times attempted or have to committed suicide, have stupid opinions and ideas about how to positively influence or help the world. Moreover, they eventually become fads. Same thing with most celebrity actors. Celebrity athletes are perhaps an exception. I actually respect the immense amount of real work they put into training and competing in their sport every single day. Bodybuilding/physique/fitness competition, CrossFit, strongman competition, long-distance events, combat sports are particularly some of the most demanding and challenging kinds of activities in the world. Besides, most celebrities eventually destroy themselves by the time the reach their 50s to 60s. I mean what happened to Mel Gibson after around 2006? He used to be this extremely popular and handsome actor in his prime and his acting was actually not bad at all back. Then, he blew it with his entire career because of his alcoholism, anti-semitism, and sexist abuse. There are tons of other examples of other famous actors/actresses like him.

Could someone please delete this thread? I accidentally put it in the wrong section of the forum.

The Republican Party has become more unpopular than the Democratic party on the national level. Regarding presidential elections, they've only won the popular vote once since 1988 and actually haven't ever won a majority of moderate voters since 1984. The GOP senators have overrepresented their constituents way too much. The Democratic senators represent about 40-something million more people than Republican senators do even when the US Senate has a 50-50 split. Republicans have also gotten away with having a 20-something seat advantage for US House elections, and state legislative elections due to the gerrymandering since 2010. Conservative judges on the federal level have also become really unpopular amongst the general population. Trump and the MAGA Republicans have been costing Republicans an extraordinary number of elections at both the national and state level with their right-wing extremism. Yet, Republicans actually won the popular vote for both the US Senate and US House elections in the 2022 midterms. They also won the popular vote in both the US Senate and US House elections in the 2016 general election. Why is that?

So, even if prostitution was made safe like porn is, why would it still worsen a woman's psyche if she already has been psychological problems to begin with that had nothing to do with sex work she's been doing?

Plus, there actually are a lot of celebrities and rich people who had it pretty easy to begin with like the Kardashians and the Jenner family. I mean I know that Kim K and her sisters have done some hard work to maintain their fame, success, and wealth, but like Trump they had it pretty easy to begin with. They never have had to face anywhere near as much adversity, risks, or other kinds of challenges as like Elon Musk did. Furthermore, most celebrities are not very intelligent and not very educated and have never been forced to use much brainpower to make it through the world or even bother to have enough of a deep understanding of the world. I don't like Musk as a person, but I at least gotta to give him real respect for being able to totally had to totally pull himself up by his own bootstraps and becoming a self-made man. Plus, he's way smarter, much more educated, and uses his brain way more for the good of society than most other celebrities out there who are just a bunch of dimwitted fools who haven't even got a clue about high intellectual matters. Most of them aren't even capable of being able to understand how the world works in a highly nuanced manner or even think in a deeply philosophical manner.

Oh, so are you more like an escort or a call girl who just goes out on dates and nothing more? How objectified have you ever felt as a working girl? The guy you married must've had good game to be able to make you his girlfriend then wife.

Oh wow. I've never talked to one before. How long did you do it for and did you get attached to any of the guys you had sex with?

You were a prostitute?

Why not? As long as the women working on set are not hurt in anyway and are getting well, then why wouldn't some healthy women not mind doing it as just a job?

You say it wouldn't be good enough because legal prostitution would still make the women feel violated or used as a sex toy? What about porn? Is that really no better for women in the industry?

So, then it's harder to date and sleep with older women than younger women?

You're saying more women these days are trying to outcompete men with higher body counts?

So, why are many women in today's hookup culture wanting and being okay with just having casual sex and not wanting to see the guy again even if the sex was good?

What happens if they are not selective with whom they are dating? Why is it harder for guys to get dates than it is for girls?

Ok I get that why they have to be more selective with sex, but why do they have to be more selective than men with going out on just going on a date or just giving a guy a phone number? A woman used to put up with enforced monogamy even if the man they are going to marry was the only guy they ever met in their whole life. Btw, how come a lot of girls end up having casual sex if they get very attached after sex?

It was only matter of time before he would die soon.

Here's an experiment of a guy who asked 100 random girls for their phone numbers and only got 5 girls to give their numbers to him: Yet, here's a video of a girl who asked 100 random guys for their numbers and about half of them gave their numbers to her. Don't tell me that's not a massive difference. And why don't women approach as much as men do? Wasn't feminism supposed to give women as much equal opportunity as men have with everything in the world?

That's not a practical strategy. A man rarely ever get Real IOIs, regardless of how attractive he is.

If conservatives tend to be more pragmatic, more fiscally responsible, more disciplined, and more successful than liberals are when it comes to doing a job, running a business, managing finances, etc. then why have conservatives in power in the US such as Trump almost always have made the economic worse if not much worse than it was before they entered into office? On the other hand, why have liberals in power such as FDR almost always made the economy so much better for the entire country than it was before they entered into office?

Interesting. I never thought you would say that Reaganomics had any positives. Yeah, the increase in the amount of free-trade and globalization of the economic did cause stores to sell products at a significantly cheaper rate. However, top economists on from both the left-wing and the center say that Reaganomics failed miserably. The major tax cuts passed by Reagan, Bush, and Trump didn't really do jack squat to boost the economy in any significant way. As you know, the fat cats at the top have been keep way too much of the wealth for themselves. We also know that decades of deregulation of the economy lead to banking crises in the 80s, 2008 financial crisis, and another kind of banking crisis this year. Furthermore, we don't need to go over how the influence of Reaganomics has destroyed labor unions over the past four decades, has continually increased economic inequality, increase in the excessive amount of monopolies, lead to greater amounts of corporate lobbying, more inside trading, and so on and so forth. Milton Friedman and all of those Chicago School economists were big fools. The only reason Reagan was perceived by most Americans in the 80s as having done such an amazing job of managing the economy was really because he actually inherited an economy that was already on its way out of the terrible period of stagflation and the early 80s recession. The Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Paul Volcker, during the early 80s was the one who finally saved the country from stagflation and then gradually got it out of the Volcker shock recession afterwards. I hope that Bidenomics really succeeds in causing the beginning of the end of neoliberalism.

Up to a certain point. Otherwise, Reaganomics would've worked in the long-run.

The utter hypocrisy..... Yes, conservatism is about maintaining the status quo, but why does that have to lead to a tendency to serve those in power? Why can't maintaining the status quo more often mean that you govern your society as a leader who exudes qualities of high-integrity according to traditional societal norms and religion?

Democrats in power have almost always caused much greater net job gains than Republicans have. The policies of Republicans have usually caused historic recessions. Also, Democrats do some kind of tax increase on the rich and corporations whereas Republicans do major tax cuts for their wealthy donors and corporations. Yes, both Democrats and Republicans have neglected the working-class for way too long. However, you can't say that Democrats haven't significantly improved the quality of the economy overall. Obamacare greatly improved the entire country's healthcare system. Biden and the Democrats last year were finally able to get Medicare to start to negotiate prescription drug prices and have passed laws that have been creating several million good paying jobs for the working class, while most Republicans in Congress opposed all of those measures. I can say more about how Democrats have always been significantly better for the economy than Republicans.

Right, but it's not just that. Conservatives' policies in the US have led to the worst recessions in US history including the Great Depression and the 2008 financial crises and so on. Their deregulation policies have cause several banking crises, housing market bubbles, more inside trading, and destabilize many other parts of the US economy. Furthermore, their tax cuts and excess spending on military warfare that cause ballooning deficits and have never helped out any one other than rich and corporations. Actually, the recessions they have caused have caused the rich and corporations to lose so much of their own money in the long-run. You've talked before about how conservative values include being responsible, dutiful, practical, getting your house in order, managing finances well, success, and having a strong and well functioning economy, preserving the survival of your society, and successful. Yet, why have conservatives virtually all the time have been so incompetent, irresponsible, and disastrous with managing the economy?

How many more weird alternative candidates will we keep getting and how much of a problem will this be for Biden and the Democrats in 2024?