"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.
Civil War 2024 (trailer)
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"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
CornbreadFed
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Atlanta is basically Georgia lol
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Agreed.
United States enjoys exclusivity in this world. Victory in the second World War basically, first country to detonate nukes, and the most important thing is that U.S. Dollar is the world reserve currency. An American revolution is dumb, because it will rid the United States of this gold mine, the world reserve currency, and whatever is left will be on equal level with some 2nd world country at beast, something like Russia, or China. Secondly it is dumb because there is no need for revolution in the United States. Finally, the third reason is that combat footage shown is trash and this is not how wars are fought these days. This is how modern warfare looks like:
Furthermore, to win modern war you need a lot of resources. It is not enough to go buy guns at a store and dislike government because you received a tax bill. All those color revolutions all around the world are made by governments, three letter agencies, and is all lead for a cause, usually to rob people and reshape influences. Revolution is not something you just go out with like-minded individuals and start.
So I agree, dumb, cheap cinematics, retarded.
CornbreadFed
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There is no true cohesive side in any fighting party to even fight a civil war because it is essentially urban vs rural. Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas have more in common with Los Angeles and San Francisco then do with Fort Stockton or Lufkin.
Yeah, when people start shouting WW3, I give a side eye. The US is the only country in the world that can sustain a full-scale modern war outside its doorstep and that is stretching it. The resources & globalism that go into modern warfare make a modern warfare version of WW3 literally impossible. In addition, countries are much more unified and cohesive now than they were pre cold war era. In WW2, we were basically fighting a bunch of over expanded/decaying empires holding on to decentralized & under-developed territory. Look at Russia vs Ukraine for example. Back then you might have just fought partisans and whatever leaders that could scrounge up the strongest armies, but now you are fighting a whole country.
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No you don't. Special forces come in different flavors. Navy Seals for example are used for anti-terrorism and storming, while green berets are like archeologists with arms, they can go in and organize color revolutions. There is no such thing as Russia vs Ukraine, it is Russia vs United States, it's a hybrid war -- which at this point is either being lost, or bad command is just a pretense to involve something larger.
But I do regress.
Because the subject is civil war within the United States. What are you talking about? Why? I can see purpose for civil war within Russia, though not the possibility or will, but within United States? I see no purpose. Unless the purpose is to take something good and make it worst, or destroy.
"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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Alumni 1991 73 Easting...
Bible_Belt
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I did a tour of rotc in the 90s and was in constant combat with my cadre of supervising officers. I fought them to a draw for years, until one day a Colonel finally bested me by slamming me into a wall repeatedly until I agreed to quit the Army.
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Sorry to break it to ya, you were never in the Army brah.
Are Army ROTC Cadets in the Army?
Bible_Belt
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I signed an 11 year contract at the age of 19. They said they could put me in Leavenworth for quitting, but they didn't. My buddy who quit with me had a different scholarship and did end up in Leavenworth after they put a warrant out on him for desertion.
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If anyone else watches the movie, please feel to post your experience about it. In the meantime, I think I'll pass on this one.
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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CornbreadFed
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It's a fictional movie lol
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Not from independent film producers like A24.
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Having been a sucker for Post-Apocalyptic flicks since early adolescence, I'll give this a whirl
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Scaramouche
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Hi Mandalay,
There are some very good French movies around,check out "Jeanne du Barry"with Johny Depp.
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CornbreadFed
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They are not lol. Even if this was true, you have seen UK and France ally together and an Aryan Ethnonationalist Dictator ally with an Asian country and Italy, so this is extremely far-fetched to say that Texas and California would never ally together.
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Just like the movie Black Hawk Down came out on 2000....2-3 years later soldiers were being deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.