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.
Large states should bully small states. California’s economy as about 100 times larger than Kentucky. In New Jersey we pay more Federal taxes relative to what we receive than any state in the country. Stop mooching off us.
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.
What does a “pure democracy” have to do with this conversation?
I'm Los Angeles born and raised....
....so rare that the last two Republican Presidents each lost the popular vote and won the electoral college.
Quote my two prior posts and present your arguments to what i wrote....
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
You want minority rule, I get it. You want the few to govern the many. You’re anti-democratic.
Read my two prior posts, the EC doesnt guarantee minority rule, it merely gives small states a fighting chance against large states. 91% of US Presidents have won both the popular vite and the electoral vote... Only 5 times have a president won the EC while losing the popular vote...
I'm glad the Founding Fathers didnt share your view....
Population gap is widening. 2 of the last 4 Presidents have lost the popular vote and won the EC. Small states shouldn’t have a “fighting chance.”
Well.. I don’t have a thing for owning other human beings.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
But you do seem to believe in mob rule tyranny because you stated you dont believe small states deserve a fighting chance at having their voices heard...
Democracy is better than the alternative - minority rule.
How are we a minority rule when 91% of the time the electoral vote aligns with the popular vote?
It hasn’t for two of the last 4 winners. Losing by 3 million votes but winning by EC is minority rule.
But look at the historical trend, 91% of the time the EV aligns with the PV.... More often the US is a majority rule...
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
The historical trend is divergent. That’s why 2 of the last 4 Presidents have lost the popular vote, most recently by an even larger margin.
Then i hope that the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact never works out....fortunately Nevada's Governor vetoed letting NV join in 2018 because he knew it would be one step closer to the tyranny of 51%.... That's one less state we have to worry about trying to circumvent the EC....
It's not about "minority rule" it's about "minority equality."
It circumvents the will of the majority.
Minority “equality” is counter majoritarian. Small states have augmented power and large states are weakened. Wyoming does not have equal economic, cultural, or demographic power as California and has nearly 100 times less people. why should it get equal say?
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.