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The hero's journey (for women):

1. Be born awesome and amazing

2. Horrible men/the patriarchy hold you back from realizing how awesome and amazing you are

3. Push back against the barriers that those horrible and oppressive men have imposed on you and discover that you were amazing all along without having to put any real work in.

See how bad that type of story is? That is why so many female main character stories suck.

I really hate articles that use the "you're doing X wrong" phrasing, because it makes the blanket assumption that everyone is stupid and wrong. Yes, many people are, but how about not stating it like it applies to everyone?

Two odds cases I see in the 2022 elections, the Governor's race in Nevada and the Senate race in Wisconsin. I find it odd that these two races went Republican, considering the likely other shenanigans. Did they decide to let those ones be, or did they figure they did not have enough emergency votes to change those results?

My theory on the Brazil election with Lula "winning." While there is likely to be CIA fuckery about, I think there is more to it than just wanting to have a leftist puppet. Brazil is currently part of BRICS, which is a threat to the current American-Euro-faggot empire. Brazil itself is not a huge threat, but banded with Russia, China, and India, it is a threat.

Perhaps the deal the CIA has for fortifying the election is having Lula turning BRICS into RICS, thus lessening the overall threat.

Barack Obama provides a good litmus test for figuring out if someone is on the left when it comes to jokes.

Take this recent XKCD comic from that faggot Randall Monroe. Notice how Obama is used as a prop for the "joke" but never really made fun of? If it happens once, not a big deal. But him NEVER actually being made fun of? This shows that you do not have any real substance with your Obama "joke." Might as well have someone else, because his insertion is just pointless.

Times like these do not mean that people should give up on figuring out their finances because they think they do not have a chance, but rather that they now more than ever need to figure out how to manage their money.

This is not to say that this will fix the terrible polices of printing more and more money, but you should do all that you can to make your own situation better. I am also not blaming anyone for struggling at this time. But you should be looking out for your best interests.

While I am well aware of all the financial difficulties others are having, I cannot say that struggle applies to myself. At our household, we are doing far better off financially than we have ever been doing. Not because things are going great economically, but rather that my wife and I were determined to get our ducks in a row and get rid of our non-mortgage debt and maintain the rate of surplus every month. So we can currently manage paying more for things such as groceries without fear.