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I hope he is not really an antisemite.

Even the Dalai Lama is a moron?!

I need to see proof that he donated that much money to charity. Otherwise, he probably is lying. Donald Trump himself has lied several times about having given tons of money to charities before.

I just found two articles that together I think helps explain more as to why the Republican Party as a whole can't move towards the middle of the political spectrum: https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/8/30/12697920/race-dividing-american-politics https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2017/9/22/16345194/republican-party-pathological https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-there-are-so-few-moderate-republicans-left/ Basically, these articles together say that it's because the Republican elites have had a serious political dilemma ever since around 2008. The first article mentioned that ever since the late 60s to early 70s, the Republican party for decades had been inspiring racism amongst the majority of white christian in the US (especially those in the south) by using the southern strategy and promoting racist law and order messages in a subtle manner. Then, ever since Reagan first rose to the power in the early 80s, the party came to the idea of invoking the fear of communism/socialism by saying that big government intervention on the economy prevents prosperity, the welfare system enables too many black and brown people to take too much advantage of too many entitlements provided by the government, public education undermines religious freedom, mention enables racial minorities to take too much advantage of the welfare system, the government has no right to grant hospitals the choice to terminate the life of unborn children, etc. This of course really worked out so well for them that it lead to the growing political dominance of the Republican party from the early 70s to the middle of the 2000s decade. However, America has also for decades steadily become more diverse, more highly educated, and the younger generation has become much more culturally and socially liberal than the previous generation. Therefore, even though the Republicans might have been converting more Democrats to Republicans than vice versa, the Democrats were making greater gains among new voters, and also doing better and better among increasingly cosmopolitan wealthy Americans. So, while the demographics had increasingly favored the Republicans from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the demographics eventually began to favor the Democrats nationally from 2008 and since then has continually increased in favor of the Democratic party even still to this day. The article then said that by 2008, the Republican party really had two choices. One was to acknowledge that the GOP had now been representing the middle class voters and offer a set of economic policies that would support the growing struggles of middle class people. The other choice was to continue pushing very economically conservative policies that was preferred now only by the now minority-within-the-party wealthy establishment Republicans by promoting the idea of "big government is bad" to such an extreme, pathological degree. So, instead of saying the same kind of messages that Reagan used, they now would come up with messages that had outlandish conspiracy theories such as "the federal budget has actually been siphoning off all of the taxpayer money of all of the middle-class (mostly white) to poor criminal welfare recipients and illegal immigrants (almost entirely black and Hispanic)." Trump and the MAGA Republican would say false dark statements such as "our country is dying" and "the level of crime in our country is the worst it has ever been." They would also make extremely xenophobic messages such as saying that muslim immigrants must be banned from entering the country, Haiti and African countries are "shithole" countries, and that Mexican immigrants are bringing drugs, crime, and rapists. They also kept propagating the racist narrative that Obama was not born in America and that he has been running a secret plan involving black Muslims taking over the country one day. Moreover, Trump would present himself as a populist by saying how the entire system has been rigged by the government and the establishment. One reason the GOP leaders decided to push their party to the extreme right instead of promoting more moderate economic policies that would improve the lives of the middle class was because according to the second article, their party's donor-class have had too much of influence over them, especially ever since the conservative rulings of SCOTUS since the 70s have been increasingly allowing the wealthy and corporations to use more and more money to legally bribe the GOP politicians into pushing for more economic policy that unfairly benefit the rich and corporations. Therefore, the donor class for the Republican party will never let the Republican politicians promote more popular economic policies that would benefit middle class or working class people. The other reason the party chose to move to the far right is because of the racial backlash and nativist backlash from both their base and many swing voters. Trump shrewdly capitalized on this the best in 2016. The third reason for this was because of the partisan gerrymandering, which has made many congressional and state legislative seats throughout the US safe for each party respectively. Therefore, candidates running for each of those seats have no incentive to appear moderate and actually are instead forced to come off more extreme in order to compete for the nomination of their party for such an office. Plus, the right-wing media since the 90s and other right-wing activists since the 70s including the evangelical groups, anti-immigration groups, and gun-rights groups have been major contributing factors to the party's continuing shift to the far right even still to this day. All of these power players have been using whatever means necessary to influence the GOP to constantly take very unpopular right-wing positions for their own selfish reasons.

Their base is shrinking rapidly according to changes in demographics, and for decades they've kept going further and further to the far-right. Plus, most their policies are unpopular amongst the vast majority of Americans. Their voter suppression tactics, constant gerrymandering, the 18th century structural advantages they have in national elections, the immense amount of financial support they get for their campaigns from the rich and their corporate donors, and the culture war distractions will not work for them forever. They've already lost too many big elections since 2018. They have become such a hateful party. So, don't they realize that they got to shift back a lot more to the center?

The sad reality for guys is that most girls you approach, talk to, ask out, and sexually escalate will reject you. Even if you have top game or have very high social status, most girls will still turn you down. Yet, if a girl offered a hundred guys to go out on a first date with her, most of them will say yes. I get that people are getting more and more selective these days with the rise of social media influencing the illusion of "endless options," but why do guys have to get rejected way more than women do, even if you ask a girl out on just a casual first date? I think that the amount of rejection that men have to suffer from these days has gotten much worse than it was for men in the 1900s. It's crazy!

We know that one of the biggest fears that women have is being judged as a slut. So, how do female sex workers including women who are pornstars, prostitutes, strippers, or what have you deal with being perceived as sluts? Do they just accept the fact that most people will believe them to be not relationship material?

The Republican Party now gets that pushing for a total abortion at the federal level is not politically feasible. Now, the polls actually have shown that some majority of Americans support abortion only up to 15 weeks, which Mike Pence recently brought up in the first GOP presidential primary debate. Therefore, the Republicans have lately been propagating the idea that having a 15-week federal abortion ban is a moderate or reasonable compromise for all Americans. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/12/most-americans-support-abortion-poll But most people in the US have made it clear that they perceive the idea of the federal government controlling women's bodies in any way as an authoritarian and outdated measure. So, would the majority of voters in a general election actually support candidates who want to pass a 15-week federal abortion ban?

I've heard from many different successful people out there as to what time one should wake up in the morning to have the most productive day. Some have said that they wake up at 4 am, other say 5 am, and others say 6:30 to 7am. What do you guys think the best time wake up in the morning is?

I still don't get why men are cool with women getting paid for sex but less okay generally with women having casually sex for free?

Yeah, she is. Not only has she been promoting cryptocurrency scams. She is also another attractive looking young girl who is a far right-winger like Tomi Lahren. It's a shame that Layah happens to be Jewish.

Jerking off has actually been causing my hip muscles to get overly tight since about a few years ago.

Look at this really moronic post this girl made on twitter about Tate and Trump:

I actually found a vid that I did watch a few years ago on why women reject a lot men. I forgot about this video until now, but it does actually have a lot more reasons as to why women are generally way more picky than men are even when it comes to going on just a first date.

Oops! I put this in the wrong thread.

Any thoughts?

I wasn't trying to shame sex workers for what they do. I don't believe any women should be slut-shamed at all and I personally have no problem dating a woman who had slept with tons of guys as long as she doesn't have any STDs. But given that most people perceived female sex workers to be a sluts I just wonder how does that affect her social life and her ability to get into any relationship with a man?

It looks like Marijuana is on its way to being moved from schedule I to schedule III.

I don't think that's true. Men are naturally hardwired to want a woman to be pure enough in order to make sure that her child is also his own. Also, most men want to eventually be taken seriously as a responsible family man who is married to a woman whose reputation hasn't been tarnished.

So, then why does any woman these days have to worry anymore about being slut shamed?

There are a lot of guys who want to be in a relationship with them, but will a lot more guys reject a sex worker for an LTR than a girl who is not a sex worker?

Over the past year, TYT and Secular Talk have been very critical of the progressives in both the House and the Senate in Congress for not fighting hard enough and having succumbed to the "Washington group-think." They've recently slammed AOC, who is undoubtedly one of the most progressive and one of the most left-wing politicians in all of the country, for endorsing Biden for re-election more than year before the general election. I also saw many people in the comments section below each of these vids expressing their deep disappointment of her. One of them said "AOC is not progressive, she's totally addicted to the smell of committee chairs and that power." Another said "She sold out when she voted YES to avert the rail strike and force a bad contract on railworkers. I lost all respect and support for her. She’s just another democrat." Someone else said "AOC took some notes from the Obama book. She talks a good game, comes off as a fighter for the people, but in the end she’s a neoliberal." They've also been disappointed with Bernie Sander's full support of Biden: One person commented below that vid that "Bernie is a sellout." Cenk has called all of the progressives in Congress "theoretical progressives": Kyle has also called them on his own show "theoretical progressives." There are bunch of other videos of TYT and Secular Talk saying how the progressives in Congress had let them down.

Yeah, that what I think too. How do you know that she isn't spirituality? And what about the right with their extreme religious dogma?

After Biden and the Democrats in Congress passed the IRA last year, Medicare was granted the power to negotiate prescription drug prices for the first time ever in US history. This measure is undoubtedly considered to be a popular policy amongst the American people. However, Big Pharma and the US Chamber of Commerce are doing everything they can to try to convince the courts that allowing Medicare to "control prices" of drugs is unconstitutional. Yet, legal experts say that the arguments the challengers are making are thin. Medicare won't actually just set the prices of drugs unilaterally. It will instead engage in fair negotiation of the prices. Plus, "drugmakers don’t have to participate in the negotiations so the federal government is not forcing them to turn over their patented medications, said S. Sean Tu, a law professor at West Virginia University. Medicare is a market created by the federal government, and it doesn’t have to give drugmakers access, he continued." Moreover, Medicare will only be able to negotiate up to about 100 drugs over a period of several years starting around 2026. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits/index.html Will the business-friendly federal level courts kill this provision even though it was passed into law by both POTUS and Congress through a totally legitimate legislative process and is definitely constitutional?

A lot of people are moving away from California and New York not primarily because of the crime and homelessness. It's because those states are getting too expensive to live in, especially with regard to renting or owning a home. Also, neither of those articles you mentioned said that the reasons for exodus was because of the "crime problem" in those states. Crime and shootings are definitely worse in most red states including Texas, West Virginia, Alabama, Idaho, and Florida: https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-pundit-lisa-marie-boothe-falsely-claims-miami-is-safer-than-new-york-city https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/opinion/crime-and-political-punishment.html https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=50667000&city2=54835000 https://wallethub.com/edu/richest-and-poorest-states/7392 So tell me, what "common sense policies" have the officials in charge of the red states been using that have made their states much safer to live in? Furthermore, why is the uninsured and underinsured rates for healthcare generally much lower in red states than blue states? Also, why is the level of infrastructure and social safety nets usually much lower in red states than in blue states? Moreover, why is the level of education per capita much lower in virtually every red state than in almost every blue state?