"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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US Soldier films what's really going on in Afghanistan

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You won't see this type of footage on MSM news.

Cultural enrichment incoming.....

 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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They are leaving because they aren't stupid and know the war by proxy that is about to unfold for the resources in the region, they are all well aware their lives are like tertiary to first world country collecting resources, China has already recognized the Taliban as an official government lol this is going to get disastrously messy quick
 

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Thanks Xeno.
 

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The problem isn't that we're leaving, it's the way we've done it. We should have gotten the civilians and Afghan aides out first, while we still controlled our zones, instead of pulling out the soldiers and winging it from there.
 

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The problem isn't that we're leaving, it's the way we've done it. We should have gotten the civilians and Afghan aides out first, while we still controlled our zones, instead of pulling out the soldiers and winging it from there.
Exactly. Whoever engineered this debacle made the US look like amateurs …
The main problem now is the question of what kind of and how much effort is takes to undo this mess. If we don’t act, we likely have the biggest hostage crisis in history.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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The problem isn't that we're leaving, it's the way we've done it. We should have gotten the civilians and Afghan aides out first, while we still controlled our zones, instead of pulling out the soldiers and winging it from there.
Yes, the allies put on their shoes before their socks on this one. To leave behind thousands of Afghan collaborators to be slaughtered by the Taliban would be totally unacceptable. Everyone who helped allied forces over the past 20years should be airlifted out pronto.
 

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Yes, the allies put on their shoes before their socks on this one. To leave behind thousands of Afghan collaborators to be slaughtered by the Taliban would be totally unacceptable. Everyone who helped allied forces over the past 20years should be airlifted out pronto.
Yes, it’s a sad situation in Kabul. US troops inside airport now at 6K, but no authorization to go beyond gates. Basically the Taliban control the perimeter unless the US makes a move.
Two other countries troops, French and British I believe actively physically helping their own in country citizens to mobilize to airport and get out.
A sad day when the most powerful country on earth gives up the high ground and basically surrenders to 70K guerrillas, without a prior plan in place for citizens and friendly evacuations…
Makes me wonder what kind of mentally compromised individuals are in charge.
 

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A sad day when the most powerful country on earth gives up the high ground and basically surrenders to 70K guerrillas, without a prior plan in place for citizens and friendly evacuations…
Makes me wonder what kind of mentally compromised individuals are in charge.
They're more concerned with pushing their woke ideology than anything resembling military strategy.
 

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They're more concerned with pushing their woke ideology than anything resembling military strategy.
Yes, but I don’t understand how our unevacuated citizens in country over there can be both woke and dead simultaneously. Sounds like the mother of all contradictions …
Will be a very bad omen if we have to wait too long for their personal unanswered opinion about our country.
 

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They're more concerned with pushing their woke ideology than anything resembling military strategy.
To be fair, it was the anti wokesters who made the immigration requirements so difficult as to be impossible. Thousands of these people would already be here if we hadn't made the paperwork intentionally too difficult for most of them. They are supposed to get employment documentation from contractors who have long ago left the country. These are the papers that the taliban execute you over if they find them on you, so you can understand the reluctance to carry them around for years.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Yes, it’s a sad situation in Kabul. US troops inside airport now at 6K, but no authorization to go beyond gates. Basically the Taliban control the perimeter unless the US makes a move.
Two other countries troops, French and British I believe actively physically helping their own in country citizens to mobilize to airport and get out.
A sad day when the most powerful country on earth gives up the high ground and basically surrenders to 70K guerrillas, without a prior plan in place for citizens and friendly evacuations…
Makes me wonder what kind of mentally compromised individuals are in charge.
Well maybe the “most powerful country on earth” tag was just sweet propaganda and pure Hollywood hype. Powerful countries with top notch militaries dont surrender to just 70k guerillas on donkey-back after 20 years of battle
 
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