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I am still kinda skeptical about that. Just because you practice something consistently for years doesn't automatically mean that you're going to be good. For example, there are people who've consistently practice singing or drawing for years, but are still not great singers or drawers. How about those who practice a sport like soccer or basketball for many years but still suck at it? Gorgeous models such as Kendall Jenner are known for being quite boring even though they have constantly talked to countless people including having had tons of guys chatting them up and dating them. As for the idea of acquiring high pain tolerance and tougher skin from massive social experience 24/7 most girls, including many attractive girls, still can't handle rejection well. Kendall Jenner herself still has some amount of social anxiety and suffers from occasional panic attacks.

Up to a point....

Yeah, of course a lot of times it's the case that she wasn't interested in me. But sometimes there have been moments were an attractive girl who was into me was making out with me and having sex with me but came off as nervous and awkward when doing all of that with me. I get that hot girls don't have a problem having a lot people wanting to socialize with them and a lot of guys obviously wanting to date and sleep with them. Yet, if they don't have a good personality because they have no charm/charisma, have a stank attitude, don't carry themselves with enough confidence or self-esteem, or what have you then those hot girls will not know how to keep the kind of people they want in their life. Furthermore, if they don't know how to act feminine then they are not going to be able to keep an guy who is an alpha male or a highly attractive high quality man.

Well, how come there are a lot of hot girls who have boring personalities, don't know how to communicate well, or don't know how to flirt even though they have been very socially outgoing? I've interacted with a number of attractive girls who have dull personalities or get a little awkward with flirting.

Yeah, but just because she gets massive amounts of automatic opportunities to socialize with many others doesn't automatically mean that she would learn how to become a social butterfly. In fact, because she doesn't have to work as hard as other girls to have a lot of friends and a lot of guys wanting to date and have sex with her and what have you she may just easily feel like she doesn't have to work on improving her personality around others. Also, hot girls are on their phones and computers way more than they used to be. Not to mention that most girls, including a lot of hot girls, aren't relationship material because they don't know how to act in an appealing feminine way.

I guess that means that girls, including hot girls, are also turning into nerds.

You know, according to history, the trickle down economics idea is actually such an old idea that it goes way back to around the 1920s. During the "roaring 20s" America was run by Republican fools including Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, and they were really the originals one that promoted the same kind of laissez faire economics that Reagan and the GOP brought in the 1980s and onwards. The trickle down economics in the 1920s was largely responsible for causing the Great Depression.

Hopefully Bidenomics will finally put an end to the zombie Reagonomics that has already had too much of an influence on our country for far too long. I don't even think that Reaganomics is really popular anymore in America. Considering that Neoliberalism/Reaganism has lasted for over 4 decades now, and the failures of that economic philosophy have now become apparent to enough people in America, do you think we are now on our way to going back to the kind of regimented capitalism or social democracy we had throughout the entire extended New Deal era during the mid 1900s?

So then why isn't having a muscular physique and combat skills enough to become socially successful with people and get laid with any kind of woman you want?

Not entirely true. In fact.... Arizona which used to be a red for decades has become purple and increasingly turning blue. Former confederates including which used to be deep red states including Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina are either on their way towards being purple states or have now become purple and are now on there way towards becoming blue states. Even with Florida, which has been heavily influenced by Trump and DeSantis for a long while, I don't think that state will continue to be solid red forever. Several years from now, extreme right-wingers such as those two will eventually lose their great influence over Floridians given how radical Republican leaders like them have become. Furthermore, while it still is surprising in some ways that Florida has become a solid red state, look at its demographics. Florida has one of the most racially/ethnically diverse states in the country. It is one of the wealthiest states in the country. It is one of the largest and one of the most densely populated states in the country. It's state has an above average educated/forward-thinking population per capita compared to most other states. It also doesn't have nearly as large of a percentage of socially conservative christians as almost every other southern and midwestern state in the entire Bible belt region of the country does (except to a very small portion of Illinois). Therefore, Florida already has had most of the characteristics of what makes a blue state.

I don't think that CBT itself will completely treat any psychological you have, but practicing it absolutely makes a significant positive difference in your mental health and well-being and overall wellness. I've used it a number of times before and it really helped me to manage my anxiety and depression much better and even desensitized a lot of the irrational fears I used to have with talking to other people socially, getting rejected by others including girls, possibly failing at something I deemed important, etc.

Well, it has been tried, but didn't you say that going to war only makes conflict or gridlock worse and further divides people?

I do believe in the need in fighting the good fight and the need for a benevolent monopoly of force, but what about some diplomacy?

Thank God the US Supreme Court ruled solidly against the idea that state legislatures have the absolute power to decide who wins each of their own states for the electoral college in a presidential election and who wins any congressional election held in each of their own states! If SCOTUS ruled in favor of this argument then they would've essentially terminated any form of real democracy in the USA.

Biden yesterday announced that he will be forgiving up to $20,000 for millions of borrowers and extending the payment freeze one final time until the end of the year. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/student-loans-joe-biden-white-house/index.html https://www.npr.org/2022/08/25/1119343754/what-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-student-loan-announcement https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-qualify/index.html Some top economists say that this will increase inflation to some extent. https://fortune.com/2022/08/25/jason-furman-blasts-joe-biden-rekless-student-loan-forgiveness/ https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3610940-larry-summers-says-white-house-shouldnt-extend-student-loan-payment-pause/ Other top economists say that it won't. https://thehill.com/policy/3614573-how-will-bidens-student-loan-plan-impact-inflation/ What are your thoughts?

Yeah, like that's ever going to happen sometime in the foreseeable future.... For decades, Congress has had way too much gridlock, too many Republicans, too many right wing corporate Democrats who have gotten too deep into the pockets of greedy megadonors. Sadly, all of these problems with Congress are only going to continue to get increasingly worse for God know how long. Also, because of how incredibly balkanized America has gotten, I don't see how we will be able to elect a supermajority of Democrats and/or liberals/progressives into Congress. Perhaps calling the mounting student debt situation in the country a crisis is hyperbolic. However, as far as I can tell, it looks like we're doomed to fail in solving this major issue, unless we have a powerful enough liberal/progressive movement and if both neoliberalism and the culture war we are in finally come to an end.

You sound a lot like my parents now, even though they are liberal democrats. lol I mean, I get that, but Americans owe $1.78 trillion and it's only going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. So, how will we ever be able to solve the student loan crisis in our country if the government will never step in to help solve this in anyway?

I am actually with you on this personally. I just hope that this doesn't become a precedent for the courts to eventually rollback any serious LGBTQ+ rights in the future. I understand that argument, but it was popular and most people with large student debt have been unable to pay off student from no fault of their own despite their best efforts. So, if all of these rulings were actually reasonable, then how does all of this improve the optics for Biden and make the right-wing look even worse than before?

Okay, I see the point there, but why are voters so evenly divided on the ruling of the LGBTQ+ rights case? Why do even a narrow majority of voters agree with the ruling on the student debt cancellation, despite Biden's student debt forgiveness having been quite popular?

Most of the federal courts, including SCOTUS, have undoubtedly become corrupt partisan right-wing partisan hacks. So, why does this poll show that some majority of Americans actually agreed with all 3 of those SCOTUS rulings? https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/americans-split-recent-supreme-court-decisions

But many true geniuses such as Einstein, Socrates, Noam Chomsky, Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Picasso, etc. all went to and taught at top universities including MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Princeton, and many other prestigious colleges/universities. So, did all of them become grossly corrupt?

Well, I hope this doesn't sound presumptuous, but I think that the Public Ivies have truly become the best colleges/universities in the entire USA. This is further going to come off as me being rather boastful, but I myself graduated from UCLA, which has become arguably become tied with UC Berkeley for being the best public university in America and is now undoubtedly equally as hard to get accepted into as virtually any of original Ivy League schools. The Public Ivies offer the very same level of top collegiate experience as that of any of the OG Ivy League schools. However, because Public Ivies are public and more down to earth, I think that they are better than the OG Ivy League schools, because the former are not nearly expensive and probably not as corrupt as the latter. Plus, schools such as UCLA, Cal, and other UC schools have much better connections to the visual and performing arts industries and entertainment industries than any of the original Ivies do.I think that other UC schools such as UCI and UC san Diego seem to be on there way to one day becoming as hard to get into as UCLA, Berkeley, or any of the other top Ivies are. the US Military Academy at West Point, US Naval Academy, United States Air Force Academy, are the three top undergraduate military institutions that are equally as hard to get into as any of the original Ivies, and in some ways deserve much more respect than any Ivy. While US Coast Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy are not quite as hard to get into as the Army, Navy, and Air Force academies are, they are still highly competitive and also deserve tremendous respect. There are many other public colleges/universities out there in the US that are rising to the top with regard to both prestige and difficulty of getting accepted into. As for MIT and Caltech, I don't think that they are as pretentious as any of the original Ivies and they are extremely respectable, but the collegiate experiences there are pretty boring, and most people in those school are of course nerdy. USC, another school, I graduated from for my Master's degree, is a private university that of course rivals UCLA in almost every way. Furthermore, there are also many other private universities such as Tufts University, that are about as reputable and as hard to get into as any Ivy school in the country.

These bad rulings, on top of the other ruling that ended affirmative action in college rulings, have resulted in a very sad week for many people in this country including many college students, a number of black and brown people, and some members of the LGBTQ+ members.

Yeah that's true. That's also why there must be and will be a profound liberal backlash to all of this right-wing authoritarianism happening in our country. It may not happen tomorrow or next year or in the next few years but IT WILL HAPPEN sometime in future......mark my words.

But as I mentioned in one of my latest threads, liberals and progressives MUST still combat all of the extreme right-wing media out there by growing their media ecosystem until it one day is able to rival and then surpass the right wing media. Centrist mainstream media new channels such as CNN and ABC are no longer enough to stave off the threat of all of the right-wing disinformation that’s been out there for far too long. We can’t no longer just let the far right continue eroding our country’s democracy and trust in the right institutions and the right leaders of our country.