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But what if I told you that, heading into my teen years, I was pretty nerdy and on the introverted side? And I also realized that I was kinda lonely, and was clearly on the “not what girls are interested in” list. i didn’t want to be there. So, I just gutted up, and went through some real trial-and-error shit, some of which was really uncomfortable. I developed most of my social skills, I sure as shit didn’t come by them naturally or early. it doesn’t mean you have to be “the life of the party.” Be who you are, because being authentic is the only absolute necessity. But…you can be who you are AND be just engaging enough. My son is the introvert in our family. He put himself out there and made himself develop some skills. He’s still the most introverted among us, but he also does just fine, and has actually developed some public speaking skill. if you like to eat well, you probably need to learn to cook a bit, even if it doesn’t come naturally. You don’t have to be a Michelin starred chef. Just develop some basic techniques. Making friends/meeting women is no different.
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The rare triple Christmas post. But I DO hate him that much.
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All of these. Every day, I wake up wishing that I’m greeted by a phone blowing up with that news. Whatever day it happens on will become a sacred holiday for me and mine. All of these. Every day, I wake up wishing that I’m greeted by a phone blowing up with that news. Whatever day it happens on will become a sacred holiday for me and mine.
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All of these. Every day, I wake up wishing that I’m greeted by a phone blowing up with that news. Whatever day it happens on will become a sacred holiday for me and mine.
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Follow me here: we should have nabbed him on the street, decided unilaterally that he was an illegal, and immediately shipped him to a shithole prison in an unnamed country. Give him all the due process he thinks other people deserve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Well, see, Brazil has a much more highly functioning democracy than we do. True fact. Zero sarcasm or exaggeration. Sigh.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
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“Next thing ya know, they’ll be teaching that colored fellas marrying white women isn’t an abomination against God’s law, and we can’t have that.” This state is such a bucket of runny shit.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
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The Economist regularly places end punctuation outside the quotation marks. It drives me nuts. Clearly, it’s an alternate convention, not an error (because it’s consistent). But I hate it. -
Making final preparations. Not too much left to do. Wife is helping preside at the 4:00 service, we’re all attending the 6:00 service tonight, I’ll be the reader for the passage from Matthew. Both kids are here. They couldn’t come home last year; the boy was stuck in Germany with visa challenges due to the backlog of applicants from the war. Yeah, our kid couldn’t come home “because of the war.” Odd phrase to be saying, but there we are. And it turned out to be our last Christmas with my father, who was gone a month later. So, we’re still digging through generations worth of their stuff. 1944. Probably somewhere in France. My grandfather spent a very cold Christmas tending to the P-47s of his unit, hoping they could get in the air to provide some much-needed air support to the troops on the ground holding off the German counteroffensive at the Bulge. A ranching man from deep South Texas, at war in Europe. A few months later, he would cross the Rhine at Worms. Today, his great-grand daughter lives and studies near the banks of the Rhine, downstream at Bonn. The world keeps turning, taking us to places, then back again. Some Christmases are peaceful reveries with family. Some are bitterly cold, in a tent (or worse), unsure of how a war will end. I’m not sure what to do with that truth. I’m glad grandpa Ted came home, and raised my mother, who had just been born in January of that year. I’m glad that our family has gone back to Germany, making friends, and a future. I don’t know what next Christmas will be like. But we have this one, right in front of us. I hope you can spend it with people you love. I hope your tent is warm, wherever it may be.
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Go on….
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My son put it more succinctly: “just treat women like human beings, and it all falls into place.” Seriously, all the dominoes fall once you do that. Have give-and-take conversations with women, treat them with respect, actually get to know them…and then it become super-easy to engage with and attract women you’re interested in because guess what? You’ve already run the drill. The boy has several female friends. They do things together, make each other laugh, trust and help each other. That’s the foundation for any healthy relationship, including an intimate one. I mean, does it frustrate me that he just thinks of that super-cute and smart Sarah from Manchester as just a friend? Sure. But the flip side of that is that she’s one of his biggest advocates, looks out for him, speaks well of him to other women, etc. The bigger umbrella problem here is what is pointed out above: these dudes have no social skills AT ALL. They can’t even engage in decent relationship with other guys.
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And....that's the part that Bozo etc. don't get. At the first sign of discomfort -- real or imagined, it doesn't matter, so your "empathy" and acknowledgement doesn't make a shit -- white america immediately looks for "others" to sacrifice into a volcano, throw under a bus, deport, imprison, whatever it takes.
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That's really all you need to know. Switch those names, and the right-wing news ecosystem would be non-stop, 24/7, in neon lights ZOMG HUNTER BIDEN!
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