We’ve definitely grown a lot more authoritarian recently, but are still mostly crony capitalism. Worse case scenario for our government i think will be Authoritarian Oligarchy, that’s what the GOP wants anyways.

To answer your question about what benefit for the US it would be, it wouldn’t be one, it would just be the fulfillment of the current iteration of the American dream “Fuck all of you as long as I get mine”. Sadly we cant vote our way out of it because every ballot is a vote for either “Slow death of America” or “Quick death of America”

I find it ironic that i don’t hear “taxation without representation” being mentioned more, its a defining phrase of our country’s history, and I haven’t been represented by the government since i was old enough to begin thinking about politics.

So you think the Dems suck because voters are dumb? I think the dems suck because your opinion is so widespread.

I think Dems suck because they know anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together knows they are the better choice, which means they never have to do anything to help us ever, just as long as they dont ruin the country as much as the GOP does. I believe this mindset of “vote blue or die” enables them. In fact if that mindset prevails America is doomed because if we dont force the Dems to completly change, or create enough left leaning anger against them to be replaced by another party, then the GOP will keep ruining the country every chance they get, and the Dems will continue doing nothing to undo it.

Regardless it doesn’t matter, America is already so horrifically fucked. The GOP are about to sell what little chance we had at a decent future away and then fuck off to other countries on golden parachutes. Nothing short of massive political uprising from the left has any chance of righting the ship before the entry country buckles under the weight of 50 years of crony capitalism.

People are just dumb, plain and simple. So when the vote forces you to choose between far right politics, and far right politics+racism+shaking up a broken system, I can sympathize with why they voted for a third party, or even why they voted for shake up the system.

What I don’t understand is the smaller group of dipshits, who don’t understand even the basics of causality. Who will shout to whoever will listen that Donald Trump is the fault of that small group of third party voters, and not ENTIRELY the responsibility of the Dems being ineffective, woe is me, deep right, billionaire agenda, pretend to care but do nothing, pieces of useless shit that they are, so much so that an orange conman won the election. Stop fucking pretending the that the choice between cutting off your dick, and cutting off your dick and eating it, are valid enough choices that your typical uninformed, heavily propagandized voter, should definitely have obviously chose cutting off their dick but not eating it.

Lets not even get into the fact that the GOP can only be this extremely far right because the Dems have themselves moved so far right that the rubber band between them doesn’t have to stretch barely at all.

But yeah lets blame the third party voters.

But going into those settings with the intention to find a date is a recipe for problems

Here is the disconnect. You are working in the context of the fumbling weirdo who doesn’t understand when the answer is no, or d-bag who thinks its just playing hard to get and he needs to pursue harder, the person that is just “on the hunt” all the time. First you are missing the context of the thread, they were never talking about them, and we cannot always be saying ideas and opinions with 20 disclaimers all the time (this message doesn’t mean go out and treat social groups like speed dating, etc…) However to avoid those people you are making a blanket statement to everyone that people shouldn’t go and socialize and attempt to find romantic partners because we might accidentally enable a group of people who were going to do that anyways.

Unfortunately there will always be clumsy/annoying/overly-aggressive pursuits, and i can appreciate how exhausting that must be; but at the same time, I have to deal with mindless assholes everywhere, men who for whatever reason let their ego steer every interaction of their whole life (small dick energy), while it might be their fault that they could recolor how i perceive socializing, it is my responsibility to accept this is a fact of life, that it is unavoidable without extreme anti-social costs on myself, and learn to deal with it the best way i can. We cannot change others, we can only change how we react and feel about others.

I am also guessing this might be a difference of social bubbles, id imagine you might be in your 20’s, or maybe in a place in the world where its more acceptable for men to be uncaring about a persons comfort with being approached, this kind of stuff is quite rare in my social groups. If one of my friends was being made uncomfortable in this type of situation they would only need to flash the “I’m uncomfortable eyes” to the group and someone would go calmly pull them out of it and back into the group, and if it was a person in the group doing that, and couldn’t move on, they would be removed from the group.

It’s also kind of shitty to make all extracurricular activities into dating events imo

You are telling me im not allowed to date. I personally hate going out to social events alone, its nerve racking, it makes my skin crawl. The ONLY reason I would consider it is because the alternative is I will never meet new people, and thus I will have a dating pool of 0 people. You don’t go out to social groups like some sort of creep hitting on every person, you go out to find people you enjoy spending time with, and maybe some of them are also people you consider pursuing romantically.

People should have a space away from that pressure.

Id argue that a social group is not and should never be that place, and that if you think it should be you should reflect on what responsibility a person has for their own emotions.

As someone who is overly worried about making myself an outcast for ever admitting my intentions with someone, but who knows this is just a fabrication of my own fear of rejection, it really upsets me to hear someone effectively confirming my own neurotic fabricated mindset. But again, this is my emotion, and is my own responsibility.

Honestly for me the best way to meet single is to have married friends who can play matchmaker

While this might work for you, id warn against externalizing the responsibility of finding you a date, because if they stop doing it, you stop dating.

So many mid responses to this question, so here is the actual answer.

Men are raised to be more overtly sexual and have the most income (yes yes… my culture, my country, not worldwide, stfu we all know…) , because of this advertising has been focused on men while bombarding us with their image of perfect feminine beauty (which tends to be youthful qualities) to get us to focus on their products, seeing this your entire life you adopt that framework of what beauty is.

Ultimately though its because the majority of the world are NPC’s following a script.

So on sites like these, the primary context inside of a specific thread is the thread itself, the secondary context is the post. Hope that helps.

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