You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?
Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.
One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.
Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Why would you try to suggest that someone who has a negative opinion of socialism to be delusional simply because it's a different point of view from yours?
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.
Don't you see how your own definition of socialism is internally contradictory?
There is nothing contradictory about what I wrote:
Now you're trying to change the goal posts. You said that "The super wealthy love socialism because it's a trojan horse for an economic caste system that protects their comfortable position and wealth....". So did the super wealthy people in Russia love the Soviet Union or not?
Then please allow me to present you the current champion of socialism: Bernie Sanders, a millionaire that owns 3 houses who wants to tax everyone else into the poor house....
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.
He and his wife inherited a home that they then sold to buy another one. He also, like all senators, has a home in DC. Then he had his own home. He owes mortgage debt and financed the homes largely through his authorship. And as a social democrat, Bernie doesn't even have it as a goal to abolish private house ownership. I know you were never interested in what the facts are, but I won't let you twist and smear them so egregiously.
Your fact checking confirmed that Bernie owns 3 homes and is part of the wealthy class, so how did I smear him? What you refer to as a "smear" are just facts inconvenient to your narrative....
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.
Bernie is worth about 3 mil. It takes a net worth of over 10 mil to crack the top 1% in the US and about 5 mil to make the top 5%.
There's really no need to do damage control for Bernie anymore, his time has passed and he'll fade into irrelevancy.
What does it tell you when donations pour in from everywhere, just to oppose trump? He is so widely hated that they don't need a platform. Their platform is that they are not him...and boom, that gets 60% of the vote immediately.
But 60% of the popular vote doesnt matter.... As we saw in 2016 and 2000....