"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.
Loser man is "tired of this sheet"
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"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.
Bible_Belt
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Your grandparents are the reason the U.S. isn't in a recession right now. That won't last forever | Fortune
"People aged 55 and over own 73% of the nation’s entire wealth, and 31% of U.S. wealth is owned by people aged 70 or older"
BillyPilgrim
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Epstein list? Here's a war with Iran. Just be happy you don't live someplace being bombed!
BillyPilgrim
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LOL check out the top comment in the video
Gamisch
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They got money for war
But can't feed the poor
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Travel memoir21
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See that’s the thing, crap might hit the fan real soon so ya gotta have a survival or bug out strategy in place. That would be smart these days, probably own a shotgun, an assault rifle and two months supply of food.
taiyuu_otoko
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The post WWII economic boom was a one-off event that was absolutely unsustainable.
It wasn't some forever guarantee that all you need to do is show up and study what they tell you in school and you're magically guaranteed an easy life working at the easiest job you can get.
Just the existence of a middle class is very rare and short lived.
Things are mean reverting to how they've always been.
Suck it up, buttercups.
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Luckily I'm not in either of those categories.
Bible_Belt
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Dammit they told us that it would be different this time.
What you're saying is actually fascinating. I've never heard that before, the idea of a middle class being antithetical to human nature and group behavior. Largely history does support that idea, but there have been so many lost civilizations with no historical record, so for them it's all conjecture. But it's an interesting thought, that there have always been the rich and the poor, but not much in between.