Hardkill

Well, I know that red states like Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, and Florida already passed a bunch of voting laws a couple years ago in each of their states that made it harder for black and brown people to vote. There's also the racial gerrymandering that's been going in the red states over the past 10 years and SCOTUS said that such matters should be left to the states to decide.

I hope you're right. Everyday it feels hard to stay optimistic about it when I keep getting stuck in a plateau. I don't see how I can solve #1 and #2 anytime soon when the cost of even renting my own place is ridiculously expensive these days.

But the sex shown in advertisements, magazines like cosmopolitans, movies/tv shows, porn, art, etc. is not creepy, pathetic, and needy?

Very sad. I hope the people of that country one day sorely regret this....

What's creepy about that, especially when sex has become more widespread all over the media than ever before and we are living a more sexually liberated society than ever before? Besides, I am not naturally a party person. That's never been a part of a core of my personality. I tried being that way for years, but too many people thought I came off as a too much of a try hard.

1) and 2) are definitely two of my top problems, but I don't have enough money of my own to move near or into a large city. I have to first get my DPT degree before I can finally make enough of a decent living to move out of my parent's home. However, I feel like even if I had the chance to be in the right city, right location to cold approach at least 30-40 girls new girls per week, I am not optimistic about being able to fix problems 3), 5), and 6) even after all of the coaching, knowledge, and advice I've gotten and the amount of trial and error I've done.

I tried that to and that still wasn't enough to help me succeed with women.

Wasn't life easier for minorities in the 1980s and 1990s, than it has been since the 2010s because of the 2008 financial 2008 followed by the historic levels of economic inequality we have had for years now? Also, what about the fact that minorities have been losing more and more of their voting rights for decades for now because of the radical right in the courts and in pretty much every red state? Not to mention that the MAGA Republicans and the right-wing megadonors have been destroying our democracy and freedoms for decades now to the point where we may literally be living in a nation taken over by the KKK and corporate tyrants.

I also studied a lot of theory and tried diagnosing my own sticking points for years as well but that didn't work either. It ultimately took me a number of years cold and warm approaching and online dating to finally get one girlfriend.

I tried getting help from a skilled wingman and from a coach, but neither of them really worked for me.

I know that women are very interested in erotic novels like 50 shades of grey. Is there a way to bring that into a conversation with a girl you just met?

This is very dismaying.

My parents say that it's not worth trying to start a business because most fail anyways and if you bother trying then you will just end up with a massive amount of financial debt for the rest of your life after failing at it.

How can any aspiring entrepreneur successfully start a new business when there are just way too many huge corporations and monopolies out there that will easily takeover or outcompete any small business? Also, don't you have to have a lot of name recognition or be uniquely gifted at something or have a tremendous amount of luck in order to even have a real shot of running a successful business?

It's not just about my personal life. Most young people are not even demanding the government to give them a great life. They just want the government to protect their individual rights and freedoms and to provide them enough of the basic needs just to survive without ever having to worry about whether or not they are going to make it. How do you tell what you're saying to black or hispanic people living in the ghettos who are still angry about not being able to get out of generational poverty no matter what they do and the fact that they have lately been losing more and more of their losing voting rights?

Then, why aren't young people not seeing that? Why are they still suffering from not being able to afford to rent or buy even a basic home like their parents could in the mid to late 1900s? What about for black and brown people and the working class who believe that things haven't gotten any better ever since the 2008 financial crisis? Why are more than 30 million Americans still suffering from not have any basic health insurance at all or the kind of the drugs and treatment they desperately need?

Have you also thought about joining a movement or organization devoted to taking down corporate greed and eating the rich?

It isn't just progressives who are complaining about the government not having done enough for the people. Black and brown people in the US are upset with the government including the Democrats for not fulfilling enough of the promises they made in 2020. That's why they may decide to just not vote at all for anyone in 2024.

So, what you do think can be done about this? Or do you feel like there is no hope for racial minorities and social justice anymore?

Hamas needs to be held accountable. The Palestinian authority should’ve enforced a checks and balance system to keep Hamas in check.

According to an article by the Hill, "There is a quiet revolution going on among the younger generation in this country, marked by a dramatic erosion of support for America’s constitutional democracy. The younger generation has good reason to be disillusioned with democracy. People in their 20s and 30s have grown up in an era marked by one crisis after another, including the attacks on 9/11, the global financial crisis of 2008, escalating climate disasters, growing economic inequality, and the COVID pandemic." "American government also has seemed paralyzed and/or unwilling to do the things necessary to respond to the everyday problems of ordinary Americans. While older Americans either lived through or knew well democracy’s triumphs, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the younger generation associates democracy with polarization and gridlock." https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4302113-young-americans-are-losing-faith-in-democracy-educators-must-act-now/ They have become very disillusioned by the US government, increasingly believing that democracy doesn't work anymore, and feel like there is not much hope for the future. Many are becoming open to the idea of having the country be governed by an authoritarian regime. This is very dismaying and frightening.

He could send a million more soldiers that suck and are very poorly trained. Either way, again, even if Putin and Russia win the fight in the conventional sense, they still totally lost a tremendous amount of economic power, military power, and geopolitical power. Not to mention, the immense amount of lives and military that they've already lost and will continue to lose. Russia will inevitably come out as much much weaker nation than it ever was before.

Except that the Russian soldiers don't have nearly as much morale as the Ukrainian soldiers do. Too many of Russia's well-trained and experienced soldiers have already been eliminated. I don't think Russia really has a lot of strong soldiers left. Also, the Russian military strategies and tactics are more primitive and more disorganized than Ukraine's military. Plus, the Russian military doesn't have weapons that are as good as the ones that NATO has provided to Ukraine. Besides even if Russia ends up winning the conventional war, it will ultimately become a very pyrrhic victory for Putin and his country.

Guys, I've tried taking your advice about not worrying about next year and it's not working. The news about the world just keeps getting worse. I've never felt this fearful or pessimistic about the future as I am now.

As Leo has mentioned before, Pod Save America is one the best independent media outlets on news and left-wing political analysis. It is a YT channel that promotes liberal/progressive activism, but it is much more reasonable and balanced than hyper populist left-wing channels like TYT are. Their other other channel, Pod the Save the World, provides excellent left-wing political analyses on military and international affairs. Also, stay away from Fox News, alt-right info on Facebook, Alex Jones, conservative talk radio, and other right-wing media outlets. Over the past about 3 decades, they brainwashed about a third of Americans throughout the whole country into believing that our country's democracy and freedoms should be replaced by neofascistic values such as ultranationalism, racial supremacy, right-wing populist extremism, authoritarianism, nativism, xenophobia, and anti-immigration sentiment. They have also in great part been responsible for causing the rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA republicans, who are the neofascists hellbent on destroying America. Don't listen to any right-winger or Republican who whines about how the mainstream media and big-tech platforms have been unfair in the way they cover conservatives or Republicans. It's total BS and actually has been such an old line of attack on real journalism that goes all the way back to Nixon in the 70s. The far right-wing media ecosystem as a whole has actually gained more attention, more viewers, and more popularity in American than NYT, CNN, NBC/CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, CBS, NPR, other corporate centrist media outlets, and independent left-wing outlets combined. Since the 1990s, the right-wing media has only been increasingly distorting facts and good-faith analyses. This is also why the left-wing and the Democratic party have in recent years been building up a liberal/progressive media ecosystem that will be able to totally combat all of the misinformation out there put out by the toxic right-wing media ecosystem. Otherwise, America may no longer become a free and fair country at all anymore. MeidasTouch, More Perfect Union, Brian Tyler Cohen, and others like those ones are also great to follow. In fact, all of these left-wing channels need as much support from as many American viewers as they can get for their fight against right-wing disinformation in our country.