"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Your thoughts on the latest abortion ruling

Billtx49

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What percentage of unplanned pregnancies would you say are when the man wants to keep the baby and woman does not as opposed to vice versa?
That is an unanswerable question. I don’t do guesses …
 

"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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Billtx49

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Right..

Do you think the ratio is slanted more towards men wanting to keep the baby or abort the baby?
Nice rephrase, still an unanswerable question.
I give my opinion based on facts.
 

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Facts do not support the position that abortion is denying men fatherhood.
Men are not victims here, abortion denies Both sexes the parenting opportunity for the sake of modern convenience …
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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What percentage of unplanned pregnancies would you say are when the man wants to keep the baby and woman does not as opposed to vice versa?
I honestly don't know the answer to this. Probably the reason why the answer is not readily available is that we've been told that the man's opinion is basically irrelevant.

Men are not victims here, abortion denies Both sexes the parenting opportunity for the sake of modern convenience …
To say nothing of denying the child a chance to have a life.
 

Billtx49

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Its not denying anyone the parenting opportunity. On the contrary. Criminalizing abortion just creates more illegitimate, messed up children.
Hate to break it to you, but abortion is still legal in a great number of states.
 

"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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Last time I heard States’ rights as a legitimate argument my own grandparents were nearly beaten to death for using “whites only” services in Alabama.
There was a strong centralized government in Eurasia that killed over 50 million of its own citizens. One in Asia as well (still exists actually).
 

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States rights is hogwash. We’ve gone through this as a country already.
State rights is fundamental to the country. Yes, you provided a bad example of it, a misuse of it, but that was the world at the time, and it was not unique to the United States. There's a lot of brutality in human history, medieval people were downright barbaric. Hopefully we learn from our mistakes.

Anyway, as divided as the country is, I think states rights are maybe the only way we're going to be able to live together. This way, people in some states can live they way they want, and people in other states can live the way they want. If it's a free for all for who can grab the Federal authority and then use that to browbeat everyone else into doing everything their way, that's going to get really ugly.
 

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State rights is fundamental to the country. Yes, you provided a bad example of it, a misuse of it, but that was the world at the time, and it was not unique to the United States.
The misuse of it in that example was for almost 200 years; a clear majority of the United States history. That indicates it was not an exception but the rule. States rights is malarkey. Don’t let history repeat itself.
 

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When you see the aspect of female nature throwing a hissy fit over murdering babies, 80% + divorce initiated by women, the stat of cuckoldry in the UK, and a number of things, you see how repugnant and repulsive modern women are.


It's less than 1% worth as damn outside busting a nut. The same women champion vaccine and now want talk their body after the promotion of government mandates. Gtfo!
I totally agree bro.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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That indicates it was not an exception but the rule. States rights is malarkey. Don’t let history repeat itself.
I'm not going to get into a drawn out argument with you over this, but I'll say this: Concentrating power in the central government is extremely dangerous IMO.

Also, you know as well as I that a person in Oregon does not want the same thing as a person in Iowa. Why shouldn't they be able to govern themselves to as great an extent as possible? You think the intellectually superior elite in NY will want to live by the same rules as us poor ignorant uneducated pig farmers? Or you think they should rule over us as our kings? Nope, states rights is the way to go.
 

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States rights is hogwash. We’ve gone through this as a country already.

"U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Bradley commented in the Civil Rights Cases that "individual invasion of individual rights is not the subject-matter of the [Fourteenth] Amendment. It has a deeper and broader scope. It nullifies and makes void all state legislation, and state action of every kind, which impairs the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, or which injures them in life, liberty or property without due process of law, or which denies to any of them the equal protection of the laws."
 

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I'm not going to get into a drawn out argument with you over this, but I'll say this: Concentrating power in the central government is extremely dangerous IMO.

Also, you know as well as I that a person in Oregon does not want the same thing as a person in Iowa. Why shouldn't they be able to govern themselves to as great an extent as possible? You think the intellectually superior elite in NY will want to live by the same rules as us poor ignorant uneducated pig farmers? Or you think they should rule over us as our kings? Nope, states rights is the way to go.
Sounds good and rational- until we look at how “states right” have been applied in United States history. Our first draft constitution failed entirely because the Federal government lacked any power over the states. History says that states rights will devolve into citizens of one state deciding they simply hate certain groups of people. The only recourse is the Federal government stepping in to protect those people.
 

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Sounds good and rational- until we look at how “states right” have been applied in United States history. Our first draft constitution failed entirely because the Federal government lacked any power over the states. History says that states rights will devolve into citizens of one state deciding they simply hate certain groups of people. The only recourse is the Federal government stepping in to protect those people.
Oh yeah? Well, what about when the states legalize marijuana, while it's still a crime at the federal level?

Drops mic. /end thread.
:)
 

"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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