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@sickburnbro I get a strong feeling the military industrial complex got far too complacent with all the years of the US being unchallenged by other countries militarily. The people in the military and the defense contractors must have been thinking that they could just coast on being number 1 and milk the government for more money while not caring about delivering results.

Not anymore. We have challengers now. If they do not fix things quick, then the US will not be a "superpower" anymore.

@Engineer I see him as an expert regurgitator of other people's ideas. Although he is not an expert at picking out which ones are good to use.

For example, this opinion is just taking what someone on 4chan posted quite a while ago (I mean a good number of years ago). And given that it was on 4chan, you cannot know for sure if the poster was serious or not. I cannot give Andrew as much benefit of the doubt.

@smugumin What will fix birth rates is reverting back all feminist policies that are causing the issues with women not having children.

Subsidizing invasions is making native birth rates worse, yes. But it is not the only factor. Also, the same people supporting feminism support this replacement migration. I also find it asinine that immigration "solves" birth rate issues, when it clearly doesn't.

@smugumin >its our fault for not having kids when our money is stolen for this while we can barely sustain ourselves

You are not wrong about this being a major issue. No country should be subsidizing invasions, especially not with the money taken from their own people.

However, reversing this alone will not in itself solve the birth rate issue. So if/when the practice of replacement migration ends, it will not be the last step in fixing birth rates.

@justnormalkorean For the guy, he should not date a woman with that many red flags (if they are indeed red flags). He may just he joking and she is too dense to get that. In that case, she is stupid (also a bad prospect).

For the girl, this guy does not appear to have much respect for her. Maybe she did not deserve or earn that respect, but why have a relationship then? Respect is needed for a relationship to work, (both for the other and self respect).

@justnormalkorean Why is this "relationship" even still continuing? Clearly they do not have a strong case for a lasting relationship, no matter who is right or wrong here. Only one side of the story, so not enough details to conclude who is correct.

But relationships should not exist without a clear long term goal in mind. It seems neither of them are in the right mindset if both are still agreeing to be in a relationship.

@Tfmonkey Why would they come back if they suspect that they might just do it again? All it takes is one "pandemic" and the whole thing starts over again. At least that is how I would see things if I were in the position of those who were kicked out.

Though I will not discount that other factors would be at play too. It is just that nobody in their right mind would accept the government never trying the same shit again.

@DW2 Saw that one too, and I am uncertain if I will bother to watch it. Any channel that gets views in the 100K+ range and is allowed fine on the platform is going to be far too normie-friendly to give any real answers.

The sooner people can accept that some groups or individuals are less intelligent than others, the sooner we can have better solutions for how to deal with these differences. Pretending they do not exist just causes the problems we see today (e.g. CHIPS act and DEI).

@Tfmonkey I think every time you talk about how the reason that military recruitment is down is not due to the Covid "vaccine" requirement, I think that there is a mistake there. Yes, the other factors are also good reasons, but I don't think that the clot shot requirements cannot be factored out because it is not as if they cannot just bring it back again or bring it back in some other form.

In this case, the cat is out of the bag and everyone knows that mRNA shots can be compelled at any time

@WashedOutGundamPilot >justice involved individuals

The mental gymnastics that leftists will go through in creating new useless euphemisms is really astounding. Even if the article did not state it outright, it would eventually become common knowledge and the euphemisms would not mask the truth.

If you ever have to wonder who is lying and who is telling the truth, those that resort to word game magic are the ones that are lying.

@LCCMV @sardonicsmile Consider the age of the women and the age of the men. Women who show up to these events would not be those in their 20s unless they are single moms, and ever other woman would be at the age where men would be less inspired to show up.

Men who are the "ugly losers" are far more likely to see such an event as pointless when they know that they will still get rejected regardless.

@perfect_brains @ButtWorldsMan If he was capable of doing that he would not be a literal cuck.

Article for reference:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-agrees-to-sign-bill-that-could-ban-tiktok-if-congress-passes-it-5603880?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=top-news-top-stories-0-large-1

I get that many at the Epoch Times would be concerned about China and the CCP, though I will have to say as far as my interests go, my own government is a far greater threat to my freedom and wellbeing than the Chinese government. Perhaps this is all part of the groundwork for war against China. Who knows though?

I get a very strong feeling that all the talk about banning TikTok has nothing to do with national security in the slightest. Or perhaps you could say it is "national security" in the sense that they want to keep their power secure by making sure they can remove any platforms getting too big outside of the mainstream ones they already control.

I give very few shits about "misinformation" or censorship concerns when our own government is doing all of that already to a worse extent.

@MasterSimper "Hang out?" What does this mean exactly? And what do you want out of a relationship with this woman?

I doubt you want just friendship. You need to set the terms of what you want right away. No "hanging out" that makes it seems like you are just wanting friendship if you want more. It wastes less time and gives you answers earlier.