"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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California has had stricter emissions standards than the rest of the USA
Is your high environmental standards and leftist ideologies one of the reasons for all the tent cities popping up?
but well over 50% of new cars sold in Norway are already electric
Respectfully it’s funny how Norway is electrifying but accumulating great wealth from your oil and gas reserves in the North Sea.
Bit of a double standard isn’t it?

Not being argumentative, just trying to visualize the costs of compliance.
Lower standard of living or continued prosperity by tapping the thing we’re trying to avoid (or other natural resources)
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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You forgot we're talking about millennials here :)
Are we going to ignore all the jobs that depend on interstate travel? You disrupt the supply chain and it will have a domino affect.

Food doesn't just magically appear in the supermarket
 

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Are we going to ignore all the jobs that depend on interstate travel? You disrupt the supply chain and it will have a domino affect.
Hey, I'm just making a joke. I'm not the one trying to get rid of gas and oil. Which is mostly wishful thinking.
 

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Great in theory. Does not work in practice. People either won’t understand or don’t want to. That is the human condition.
Should have mentioned that this also isn't done over night, have to do better with the newer generations and wait for the older generations to die before this will take effect. Your solution eventually leads to authoritarianism, which we also know doesn't work. You have far too little faith in people.

Respectfully it’s funny how Norway is electrifying but accumulating great wealth from your oil and gas reserves in the North Sea.
Bit of a double standard isn’t it?
No Norwegian is going to deny that, but we try not to make it worse than it already is. We export the oil, our energy comes almost entirely from hydroelectric plants, it's very convenient to electrify our country. It still is a bit of a double standard, but hey, it's the greenest and most ethical oil on the planet, lol.
 

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Are we going to ignore all the jobs that depend on interstate travel? You disrupt the supply chain and it will have a domino affect.

Food doesn't just magically appear in the supermarket
This would be a strawman argument. Getting off oil does not prohibit interstate travel or the distribution of food.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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All those items make citizens more dependent on government ……
Coincidence?
I honestly think it's just incompetence. Most of these politicians can't see past their own nose, probably because they're too busy trying to remember all the lies they've told so they don't make clowns of themselves. All the political class needs to be removed from office, they don't have our best interests in mind, only theirs.

The only reason this is happening is because the united states collectively decided to virtue signal about this and throw a massive wrench into the machine of the global economy by cancelling Russia, and all tto cover up the giant pile of dirt that we have in Ukraine for a few more months thanks to our corrupt politicians and media.
 

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What is wishful thinking about getting rid of oil as a power source?
It's intrinsic to almost everything we do, and we don't have anything that can replace it that is as cheap and effective.
And even if we do, up and coming industrial countries are just going to take our place as users.
I'm all for finding clean and renewable energy sources, I just don't think anything I've seen suggested by the climate control crowd seems realistic. And it's hard to take their leaders serious when their own carbon footprint is bigger than mine.
 

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It's intrinsic to almost everything we do, and we don't have anything that can replace it that is as cheap and effective.
And even if we do, up and coming industrial countries are just going to take our place as users.
I'm all for finding clean and renewable energy sources, I just don't think anything I've seen suggested by the climate control crowd seems realistic. And it's hard to take their leaders serious when their own carbon footprint is bigger than mine.
There is not a single benefit to being a high carbon emitting country. I’m not sure why so many seem to have an emotional attachment to oil. Oil is a toxic dependency and its effectiveness is specific to the application. From a vehicle propulsion standpoint, an ICE is considerably less efficient than an electric drivetrain.
 

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There is not a single benefit to being a high carbon emitting country. I’m not sure why so many seem to have an emotional attachment to oil.
There's no emotional attachment to oil. Switching over is expensive, and disruptive.
 

"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.

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"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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I understand the sentiment, but this is not a logical argument for clinging to oil.
People use oil because it's practical, and relatively inexpensive. At least until recently - and the prices do not need to be this high. If they wanted to encourage more oil production, they could. Not many people can afford an electric car (if you can even find one).
 

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People use oil because it's practical, and relatively inexpensive. At least until recently - and the prices do not need to be this high. If they wanted to encourage more oil production, they could. Not many people can afford an electric car (if you can even find one).
Economy of scale my friend. There’s not much difference in price between an ICE vehicle and an EV. Over the life of the vehicle, the EV is significantly cheaper in total cost.
 

"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.

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