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It's okay to be the way you are.
▲ 2 r/men

It's okay to be the way you are.

Everyone seems to be "50" now.

Here's a video. Yes, the images are AI-generated. I usually just automatically skip these and ask to not be shown videos from that channel anymore, but I noticed that it had some views, and some engagement. So I watched it.

This is addressed to Gen Xers, but I think this applies just as equally to men overall. The carrot isn't working anymore. We don't find anything about society to be worthwhile, or even enjoyable. They use the word "anhedonia". That is the inability to feel pleasure. It's stated as if it's our fault and our problem.

I don't. I think it's society.

Anyway, don't look at this topic as if it is symptoms of a sickness. It's signs of a quiet revolution.

You are not strange or weird. Life is normally quiet and contemplative and insular. They are the weird ones.

Sorry, but I just had to say this today.

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u/ClevelandSpigot — 9 days ago
▲ 4 r/cluespodcast

Glen Engleman. Serial killer who was a dentist.

This story is crazy. I just came across it by looking up old episodes of FBI files. This guy, Glen Engleman, was born in the 1920s, and lived until the late 90s. He was the main dentist in a small town outside of St. Louis, Missouri. Starting in the 1950s, he started getting hired by his female patients to kill their husbands and share in the life insurance money. But that's not all. The story only gets crazier from there, and I wanted to suggest it as a possible topic for an episode.

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u/ClevelandSpigot — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/crimesofpod

Okay. So, I did it. I created the subreddit r/ihatecrimesofpod.

I mean, Sabrina and Alexis asked us to create a subreddit called "I hate Crimes Of", so I took the initiative and did it. It's here:

www.reddit.com/r/ihatecrimesof

I don't plan on maintaining it, so we need mods for it.

u/ClevelandSpigot — 1 month ago
▲ 37 r/Ask_Lawyers

How does someone representing themselves cross-examine themselves?

As the title states, if someone chooses to represent themselves, what happens if they are called to the witness stand? Do they just get a chance to proselytize?

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u/ClevelandSpigot — 1 month ago
▲ 21 r/AskTrumpSupporters

Trump supporters, do you agree that you are fascist?

Non-supporters are very quick to accuse Trump and his supporters of being, among many things, fascist. Do you agree with these accusations? If not, why not?

To you, what does fascism mean, or how does it operate or function? Does the definition of the word fascism hold any weight with you?

fascism noun ˈfæˌʃɪzəm 

1 often Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition

2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

What is your opinion when non-supporters use things like Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of fascism to prove that Trump and his supporters are fascists?

The 14 characteristics are:

Cult of Tradition: A syncretic belief in ancient truths and rejection of modern interpretation. 

Rejection of Modernism: Viewing the Enlightenment and rationalism as the source of moral decline. 

Action for Action’s Sake: Valuing action over reflection, leading to anti-intellectualism. 

Disagreement is Treason: Suppressing dissent and critical thinking as threats to unity. 

Fear of Difference: Exploiting xenophobia and racism to unify the in-group against outsiders.

Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class: Mobilizing those feeling economically or socially displaced.

Obsession with a Plot: Promoting conspiracy theories to justify aggression against perceived enemies.

Enemies are Both Too Strong and Too Weak: Portraying adversaries as simultaneously formidable and feeble.

Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy: Viewing life as perpetual warfare and dismissing peace efforts as betrayal. 

Contempt for the Weak: Glorifying strength and dismissing compassion as weakness. 

Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero: Promoting a cult of death and martyrdom. 

Machismo: Elevating aggressive masculinity and denigrating non-conforming sexual behaviors. 

Selective Populism: Claiming to represent the unified will of the people, dismissing individual rights. 

Newspeak: Employing an impoverished vocabulary to limit critical thought. 
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u/ClevelandSpigot — 1 month ago
▲ 71 r/trump

If Democrats didn't have double-standards, they would have no standards at all.

u/ClevelandSpigot — 1 month ago
▲ 0 r/PurplePillDebate

Opposite sex look-a-like is what we should be striving for - both sexes.

There is much debate about each sex being satisfied with their equivalent of the opposite sex. I forget what it's called, so I'll just call it your look-a-like. I think "looks-matching"? I dunno.

I truly believe that this is a major component to the problem today in the war between the sexes. The data shows that men's gauge of women's attractiveness forms a pretty perfect bell-curve, and that men tend to go for basically their equivalent of attractiveness in women.

Yes, the data also shows that men try to contact the top 20 percent of women - just how women do the same with men - but, realistically, what a man goes for in real life situations is pretty much his equal - within a step either way.

We also know that women find 80 percent of men to be unattractive. And, yes, the top 80 percent of women also go for the top 20 percent of men. This causes its own problems that we have gone over and over ad nauseum. We won't do that again here.

The only difference is the dreaded word "standards". This is also where the phrase "Alpha Widow" comes into play. A woman who is a 5 has sex with a man who is an 8, and so after that, since she was able to have sex with an 8, then she has an inflated sense of her own attractiveness.

This leads to that 5 woman ignoring any man below an 8 from that point forward. I mean, it would be a step backwards not to, right?

There are filters where you can see what your equivalent in the opposite sex would look like. I think that they should be used as a tool. Kind of a way to tare the scale. Just so you know where you should realistically be looking and pursuing.

When I have enough energy to do so, I scroll through the dating apps. Well, just "app" now. I just use Tinder. I used to use all of them, but that got too laborious, with very little results. So, I just stick with Tinder. Over the past three weeks, I had two matches on Tinder. I would put them both at 4s. But, they have both ghosted me.

Now, in my prime, I have been outright told by women that I was very handsome - not including my mother and grandmothers (because they think I'm ugly - just kidding). Not in a Henry Cavill way, but in an Andy Garcia way. Look, I'm just being forthright here. I had a lot of girls after me, and this is what some of them independently told me. I'm older now, so I'm not nearly as handsome as I apparently used to be.

Realistically, I put myself at a 6 - maybe 7 on a good day. And, you know what, that is also the level of woman that I also find to be most attractive. Most of the women that I have dated have been right about at that level. I just don't know why women refuse to do the same.

So, I was curious to know what my equivalent looked like. So, I used AI. Well, here I am, as a woman. I'm pretty hot. This is telling, because, as a woman, I look like Meghan Monaghan, which is, incidentally, the exact type of woman that I find to be most attractive. Coincidentally, I looked her up, and we were both born only 6 days apart. We're essentially the exact same age.

So, this is what I should be looking for. But, I have been ghosted by two 4s in the past three weeks.

Maybe a successful dating app should have such a tool on their app for people to use, and then that would help with the searching and filtering.

u/ClevelandSpigot — 2 months ago
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u/ClevelandSpigot — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/AskDemocrats

Why don't the Democrats in California take Chinese Communism as the serious threat that it is?

Eric Swalwell finally resigned, about a decade after he was caught having a sexual affair with a Chinese spy. He was allowed to stay on the Intelligence Committee, after the sexual affair had become known, for years.

Diane Feinstein had a maid for several years who turned out to be a Chinese spy.

Gavin Newsom cleaned up San Francisco - and moved the homeless to Oakland - removing all of the tents, and cleaning the feces off of the sidewalks, in preparation for Xi Jinping. People logically asked, if it was not okay for San Francisco to be in that condition for Xi Jinping's visit, then why is it okay to be in that condition the rest of the year - and it proved that such a clean-up is very possible.

Then, just a few months ago, the mayor of a city in California - Eileen Wang - the mayor of Arcadia, is set to be sentenced for being a Chinese spy.

Yet, you say that you do not like Socialism or Communism?

u/ClevelandSpigot — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/AskDemocrats

Why are no Democrats talking about the price of eggs anymore?

The currently wholesale price of a dozen eggs is $0.36. Why aren't Democrats talking about the price of eggs anymore? It seemed like a hot topic of conversation just a year ago. Honestly curious.

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u/ClevelandSpigot — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/trump

The UK Home Office had to put out a pamphlet of expectations for immigrants.

The UK Home Office had to put out a pamphlet telling immigrants to not rape women, abuse children, or harass people. My predication is that this will be taken down shortly, and an apology will be offered for suggesting such a heinous thing in an official piece of government literature.

u/ClevelandSpigot — 2 months ago