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Having a good looking body and face definitely helps more with online dating than with IRL approaching and dating. Yet, having a handsome face and/or a hot body are still not the only factors that determine your success rate for online dating. In fact, your body and face are still the least important factors for success with online dating. These are the things that women are most interested in when it comes to being successful with any form of online game: - How good you dress in your photos - How cool and fashionable your haircut/hairstyle is in your photos - How interesting of a lifestyle you portray in your photos - How emotionally compelling your body language and facial expressions are in your photos - The image quality of your photos. That's why you definitely need to get most of your photos done by either a professional photographer or by some really skilled amateur photographer if you can. Though the best online dating experts say that you should still have about 1-2 photos of you in your online profile that have not been done professionally or with photography skill. That way, having a good mix of high quality images and regular quality images of you will make your online profile look not just impressive and appealing but also authentic.
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Another thing I'd like to mention here is that, I now realized another reason why the majority of those in Congress, including all of the Republican and some of the most right-wing corporate Democratic congressmen, aren't pushing seriously hard for any kind of tax raises at all, is perhaps because not there still isn't enough people in this country who have gotten angry about what the Trump Tax cuts did. The Trump tax cuts actually did somewhat provide tax relief for all the lower-middle class, the middle class, and the upper-middle people throughout the entire country. So because of that along with the fact most US citizens are sadly too uninformed, still too much favor of the status quo American capitalism, and probably got convinced by all of the anti-tax hike corporate lobbying advertisements out there, most Americans constituents perhaps still think to some extent that the tax cuts might not have been the worse that has happened.
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Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any of the Trump tax cuts will be reversed because of Sinema and Republicans. Biden and the Democrats in Congress might passed a tax law that closes the loopholes for corporate minimum tax. Other than that, we are going to have to wait for the tax cuts for the wealthy to expire in the next few years. Though that would be it. But right wing policies are always unpopular with the majority of Americans like Leo said “The simple fact is that right-wing policies are just not popular. Majority of Americans don't want far right policies enacted. And if they are ever enacted they will work so poorly that they will have to be revoked soon enough.” Even legitimate polls out there show that the Trump tax cuts turned out to be deeply unpopular. So why haven’t there been enough people and politicians who want to eliminate these disastrous tax cuts?
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That was a very informative and useful video@DocWatts . I mostly agree with everything the guy said in the vid and I thought he did a really good job of clarifying the differences between the kinds of the economic systems that have occurred throughout history. Every country around the world needs to improve their economic systems by finding a better balance for kind of economic system that works best for them depending upon the stage of development each country is at. For example, America still needs to have a lot more advanced socialistic policies mixed in with its current long-establish capitalistic policies. 2nd world countries which have less developed mix capitalistic/socialistic economies need to incorporate more capitalistic policies. 3rd world countries which are not yet ready for some kind of more developed capitalist/socialist mix economy will need to add more of a mix of socialistic and capitalistic policies to their feudal style economies.
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Given that the state's demographics have been shifting more towards liberalism for almost two decades now and that the last US general election was the closest the state ever got to becoming purple since the 1996 general election, I really hope that Texas will turn into a Green-leaning Orange state in about a decade from now.
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They are conservatives in disguise?! I am not saying that progressives have never told a lie, but to say that progressives are conservatives in disguise who are enjoying the benefits of the status quo themselves is something that a troll would say.
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It's a sad irony that most people say that they are tired of the status quo even though they keep voting for either establishment Republicans (who are obviously all about maintaining the status quo) right-wing populists (who ultimately become radical believers in maintaining the status quo of their society at all costs) or establishment Democrats (who are still much more for the status quo than progressives are). Are swing voters actually more uninformed than the MAGA zombies or uneducated Republican voters?
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Ah, so most people, especially the MAGA people stupidly believe that all liberals and progressives are the bad guys and that the left-wing ideology is the ultimate source of corruption?
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I understand that, but Trump brought political to a whole new level with his own kind of neoliberalism and conservatism during his presidency. Since Biden became presidency he has brought back some of the corruption coming from the neoliberal democratic platform. Given how much the people have already suffered greatly for several decades from the massive amounts of political and economic corruption in our country produced from both neoliberalism and conservatism, why aren't the vast majority of people in our society desperately wanting to have a progressive POTUS, a Congress dominated by progressives, who would undoubtedly fundamentally reduce the great amount of economic and political corruption that has already existed for far too long?
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Oh, okay. I see your point. So, you don't think that most people are not really getting that sick and tired of either corrupt Conservatives, corrupt Centrists, or even somewhat corrupt Liberals running the country?
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You meant more conservative or centrist minded folks, right? Yeah, I get what you're saying, but why don't they care more about eliminating the decades long corruption of the Republican and establishment Democratic political leaders if most people are clearly getting totally sick and tired of these same old type of politicians leading our country?
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No, in truth, of course not. In fact, one could argue that progressivism is inversely proportional to corruption. But I am wondering if the vast majority of the people out there, who are not progressives, wrongly fear that what the progressives are trying to push for will lead to more corruption in their society. For example, do most Americans mistakenly believe that something like Medicare for All will create more corruption in their nation?
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So, could one say that most people are afraid that a progressive platform may foolishly lead to much greater corruption in their society than the amount of corruption led by either the Republican leadership or the establishment Democratic leadership?
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But that's not the question I am asking. What I am asking is why aren't most people these days a lot more interested in electing progressives if most people have already gotten so fed up with the long history of political corruption of both Republicans and establishment Democrats in power? Is that because most people may actually believe that progressives are the most corrupt people?
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ohhh.....okay, I think I see what you're saying. So, it's not just about how long a certain law has been established for that determines what the status quo should be in their minds. It's also about what traditional cultural beliefs they currently still have that make them believe that that should be the status quo of our society. It takes a very long time to have the minds of a conservative population believe in new forward thinking or new liberal views as the "status quo" in their opinion.
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Okay, but abortion has also been part of the status quo for almost 5 decades now. Yet, conservatives want to go back to the times when abortion was never legal in any part of the country.
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Maybe he has been living under a rock his whole life and has never even heard of some of the most beautiful and sexiest women in the world who are either black, Latina, or Asian such as Halle Berry, Tyra Banks, Jlo, Lucy Lui, Priyanka Chopra, and many more like them that exist around the whole world. Can’t forget all of those super hot Brazilian babes of different skin colors out there too. How about all of sexiest and most attractive looking black, Asian, Latina, Brazilian, and middle eastern pornstars? I am a white guy and I consider the pornstar Nyomi Banxxx (in her prime) to be one the most gorgeous and sexiest women to have ever existed.
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So, conservatism is not just about keeping the status quo. It is also about going back as much as possible to the way things were in beginning of America. You say that no conservative these days would ever wish for something unthinkably backwards to happen like having colored people enslaved again, but how do we know that’s true? How do we know that most white southerners these days don’t wish for something like that deep down inside them or in secret?
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So, you think that the conservatives justices and politicians don't care if overturning roe vs. wade causes such an electoral backlash against themselves?
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Not all conservatives are fascists, but most conservatives in the US have become fascists or are turning into them. I wonder if all of the right wing echo chambers will one day lose its grip on its viewers and voters.
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This sounds like a cliché. I agree with you to some extent; however, the idea that adversity will always make you stronger doesn't always work for everybody. Many people have either been permanently crippled or died from going through too much adversity. Look at what happens to soldiers after after a battle or war. Virtually all of them either get killed or survive but become permanently damaged psychologically and physically in some horrific way. The ones who do make it back home never ever become completely healed either on the inside or the outside or both no matter how much therapy, rehab, or medicine they receive. That's why almost all war veterans live the rest of their lives in such tragic misery. Furthermore, people like Bruce Lee, Leonardo Da Vinci, and great Olympic athletes only represent 1 and a million people that have ever existed in all of history. In fact, legendary figures in a lot of ways make me feel discouraged because I know that unlike them I was born to be a mere mortal for probably the rest of my life.
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It's already been close to a year and a half now since Trump first faced a flood of legal allegations made against him. No prosecutor or investigator throughout the entire country has ever been able to bring Trump to justice for any of the crimes he has ever committed throughout his entire life. Yet, more and more experts are saying that doesn't seem like he will ever be charged with, let alone be imprisoned for any of the crimes he has ever committed because of how challenging and complicated it these cases have been turning out to be and given how difficult it is in general to convict a high-profile individual of any crime. They also say that if none of these legal cases ever become successful at all, then it will embolden all of his followers and may even get more people to think that Trump was "right all along" about the entire system being corrupt and that all of these cases made against him were nothing but a major "witch-hunt." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/why-criminal-cases-against-trump-are-doomed/627113/ This is extremely disappointing and sad. We all thought that one big reason Trump didn't want to lose the 2020 election was because of how scared he was of being in massive legal jeopardy he would be after no longer being POTUS. What happened to the idea that "devilry loses in the end?" Will Trump's devilry never result in his comeuppance?
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Hardkill replied to Truth-Seeker's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
More education and greater intellect also makes you and a society as a whole more developed. Yet is it possible that the good majority of the American population could one day become about as educated and as smart as JP or Ben Shapiro but still end up being as conservative as them? Or it is impossible to have most people in any given society to be right-wing intellectuals? -
Manchin and Sinema don't want to eliminate or weaken the filibuster to pass a pro-abortion federal law. Sadly, those two heartless democrats won't change their minds about "protecting the filibuster." However, given both how underrepresented the majority of voters have already been in America for years, undemocratic our system has gotten, and the abuse of the filibuster by the senate Republicans along with Manchin and Sinema, don't you think it's time that the filibuster gets eliminated or at least significantly carved out in some way?
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You know, according to history, the right wing has actually has never had a supermajority filibuster proof Senate ever in all of America history, whereas the left wing has had that power several times in history. I believe that’s one reason why conservatives in the US haven’t been able to repeal most good liberal leaning laws that have ever been enacted since the beginning of our country.