Comments by "worn down" (@worndown8280) on "Better Bachelor" channel.

  1. There was a time when a woman looked at a man who was frugal as someone who would be a great husband and provider. Wow how times have changed.
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  2. Had a friend who worked at salesforce. They had a class that was known as diversity hires and then the actual workers. I have to assume that most of the tech industry is like this. There are a huge subset of men that just love working in tech. That makes them wealthy, but that always draws locusts. But no matter how big the swarm, locusts always die.
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  3. The worst part of this video is that only 2.6% will reject a woman who drinks. I am 48. I have yet to have an even semi decent relationship with ANY woman who drinks. Drinking typically leads to all sorts of behaviors that men dislike. It is typically the cause of it. And yet men dont understand that. And on top of that, alcohol is a mutagenic compound and will effect her ovum when she does have children. Do not date women who drink, your future children will thank you for it.
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  4. In the time I got divorced, in 2014, until the time i had completed saving enough to get me through the rest of my life and my 3 sons out of the house, was in 2021. Now I am a gentleman farmer sipping sweet tea and watch my animals and garden grow. Its amazing how quiet, non stressed and happy we all are.
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  5. it aint humbling thats going to happen. A lot of people are gonna die when checks stop going out.
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  6. I use to live in California. I left in 2021. In 2014 I broke my back at work and 6 months later my wife left me. She tried to take my house, my sons, and everything that I worked for. She failed. I kept everything except her car and half our possessions. I cut her a check for 50% of the equity of our home at the time, that was a 20k check to her. I told her lawyer she need to agree to this or I would split everything, literally in half. My ex wife new me, and knew I would. So she agreed. After the Camp Fire my family at large lost everything and most moved in with me. I told them we were leaving the state and headed, to Tennessee. One of the only two states that met the majority of my 10 points. It beat out Idaho by one because it had water. I dont live to far from Joker and I have to say its beautiful. Its what California claimed to be. At the local high school my kids take robotics classes from a professor at UT and have choices of 6 different languages to learn. The only downside is housing prices are exploding for locals. When I checked the moving truck in at the local Penske truck rental place I was met with a Tennessee local who was a manager, a woman who left upstate New York and a black man who fled the insanity of what was going on in Minnesota. This place is literally what the left had cried they wanted for generations. Its just conservative. The locals are scared that outsiders will change things, but every outsider I have met has been conservatives or libertarian. Leftists and progressives dont seem to last long.
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  7. In the span of 5 months, I broke my back, was medically discharged from the Marine Corps, my wife left me, I had to put my 16 year old dog down, then had the first of three back surgeries to repair the damage. Post surgery they made made me see a head shrink. Apparently I had significant severe depression. I went through more than a few docs before I found a guy who was prior service and I asked him if it was a red flag if I had no really close friends. He said, do you want friends or do you think having friends will make you look or feel normal? I shockingly, to myself at least, I said no. He said then dont worry about it. I think a lot of us feel this way. Maybe its to much damage, maybe its a form of emotional self preservation, or maybe its the result of a dysfunctional childhood from divorced parents who were never home. But in todays age, its not unnormal. But one should be careful not to become antisocial in your solace. We are still social animals.
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  8. They need to raise rates. They are lying about how low inflation is. The reason why is if they raise rates any higher, more and more banks will implode. So we have have a depression or moderate inflation. The government chose inflation. But come 2033 that all ends. There wont be enough money to pay SSI and service the debt. So SSI will be cut 20%. That alone will cause a depression.
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  9. This was a problem in the long long ago in the age of the AOL chat rooms. I am pretty sure that this has always been a thing. I think its about social interaction. A lot of people are very lonely. I go to my sons schools and it makes me want to cry. I feel socially, we are at a crisis point. Add to this body positivity and a lack of drive to be physically active almost all male and female interaction stops. At this rate we are going to end up like the Zentraedi.
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  10. Hell when I was in the Marine Corps, about half the women I slept with i regretted, but I never stooped so low as to sleep with a female Marine. So I still have my honor. Also this article sounds like cope.
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  11. Women, like auto dealerships, have a floor plan. Women dont know they have a floor plan until the costs bite them in the ass and have to markup their offerings so high, no one can afford it. Then they have to close their doors and buy a cat and die alone.
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  12.  @curlyhairdudeify  nah you really need to go back to title IX. To most young men, they just look at post title IX as normal. But it was a holocaust to mens athletics. And its also why physical education has devolved to what it is today. Boy Scouts already died before women/girls joined it when it was all but forced to allow homosexual scoutmasters. Which again, has been normalized. Destruction of mens spaces has been going on for well over 70 years. Almost every man post war was in some sort of male club. Now its no more than one in 50, and those were 2015 numbers. God knows what numbers they are now.
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  13.  @khanhnguyen-tt3ff  I had two Mexican nationals in my Marine Corps Boot Camp platoon in 1993. They joined the Corps from Mexico because they wanted to be US citizens. Both of them did 20 years. Both outstanding Marines. Many people still want to be US citizens. We need bodies for the military. Seems like and easy way to meet recruitment numbers if they p-ass background and security screening. Out in the Fleet I met Marines from Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Canada, Brazil, and South Korea. All of the good to go. All who got on board for their citizenship. If we want to import people, I am pretty sure those are the types of people Americans would want.
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  14. You are very correct. I have always said that history will look back on this period and see both the original event in 08 and whatever endpoint we are sprinting to as a single event. All we did is paper over it with government backed debt and zero percent interest rates. We never addressed the fundamental structural problems.
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  15. Technically a depression is what they use to call recessions. But because of the "Great Depression" they decided to make a new term, recession. Saying depression triggered way to many people who had been traumatized from the previous 15 years of hell.
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  16. Great comment. I think people forget the environmental pressures on men and women effect their actions and reactions. They just see the result and reeee. But we made our social environment this way. Its why the people who run social media dont let their kids use it. They know. Its the normies who are clueless.
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  17. Thats why you charge them for it.
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  18. One of the things a lot of men dont understand is the perspective that women have. Most men to them can utterly crush them and physically dominate them. That has to be terrifying to them. Just as terrifying as a man worrying about false sexual harassment of grape charges. Are both very unlikely, yes. But they can happen. To them it may very well look like a man is being rude if they dont find them attractive. This isnt an excuse for bad behavior, but if women are aping what they believe to be male traits, its always going to come through the window of their lived experience and most importantly, their perspective. Its something I became very aware of considering my size. That said, most women only see the outwardness of maleness. They dont see the internal self control and discipline to be a successful man. So they really only get half of it and come off as bitchy and bossy instead of confident and respectable.
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  19. To be real, this started under Trump, if you are talking about the period of inflation, while Trump was president close to 1 trillion in money was added into circulation. But neither Trump nor Biden are specifically at fault. Ok maybe more Biden but only because he has been in Congress for 50 years before being in the White House. This is what happens when you overspend for 80 years on war, social services and endless bailouts. Both parties did it. Both need to own it.
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  20. You cant really have proper bus stop shelters in California anymore. Homeless people would just take it over. That said, this thing is to small to provide any shade, especially considering the body positivity movement.
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  21. It would be interesting to see if this played out in the small tribal groups and towns that existed for the vast majority of human history or if this is purely a modern adaptation to modern life. Because if this was done in a small tribal unit, it would absolutely destroy family bonds and risk death for the whole group. Perhaps thats why women had their power taken from them by the patriarchy? But still I would like to see some sort of study on that.
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  22. I worked in a medical hospital from 2004 to 2020. Every day in the ED we had multiple girls who tried to suicide, I dont recall many men, except maybe those who used meth and self mutilated. I remember one girl in particular who took a bottle of Tylenol and then ran away from home. She was found a day later. But by then the liver damage was done. Overheard the MD telling the parents and the 13 year old girl she has maybe 2 days left. I dont think people really see whats going on. There still is a massive stigma about mental health in the US.
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  23.  @dermagnus8482  Yea except that story is a miss telling of the Sumerian myth of Enki in the garden. The Hebrews borrowed that story from the Babylonians during their enslavement there. And the Babylonians got it from the Sumerians. The snake, Enki, literally made "Adam and Eve" to replace the humans that were wiped out in the flood. Thats why Enki's brother, Enlil, viewed Enki as an adversary. Tell me do you know what Satan means?
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  24. Um sir, thats ignore grape.
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  25. I got a friend who did that. He just connected them with breezeways.
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  26. This works until the courts step in. But I wish you all luck. I ended up paying child support for kids I had full custody of. The courts dont care.
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  27. This is a side effect of title IX and the first generation of full internet. The problem is worse than most people understand. Growing up without falling down, getting knocked down, climbing trees etc etc has made these young men and women's bones so weak that the number of spiral fractures, the type you see in severe automobile accidents are now becoming common in boot camp/ basic training. This is a large problem than military service. This is a full blown public health crisis. These kids arent even going to make it to 50. In the 80s and 90s we had the delayed entry program to help get fat bodies or weak dudes into shape. I dont think a year of gym time will fix 2 decades of neglect.
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  28. A lot of women are noticing. I cant say if its because they care altruistically, but because this is limiting their ability to find a mate. My niece is going through this problem right now. 30, bio engineer, former model, zero dating prospects. I think its rough for everyone out there. Its even worse if you are sane. Such are the times.
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  29. Pine plays the Bard. The Bard is always a meme player. If you play d&d you know that.
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  30. As they use to say in the old days of sail, "The floggings will continue until morale improves." Perhaps the modern world needs more floggings to understand the error in their collective thinking. Its a shame, but honestly, its not you cant see this coming.
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  31.  @rosenrotohh9627  Japans government is the problem. They have created such a debt burden that they have to push everyone to work to keep the GDP stable even as the population declines. But eventually that wont work and the Japanese central government will first have to cut spending and then, inevitably, default. But they are playing a game of kicking the can down the road. The Soviets did something similar, but it was largely to do social pressure to meet quotas, rather than the fault of central planners.
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  32. Yo ho yo ho, a pirates life for me.
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  33.  @eurosalamander  Thats why I included the key word "attempted". If you arent aware, suicides often go to the ED as well, depending on the method and how long they have been expired. They still have to be pronounced by a physician. But even then, the volume was not comparable. And yes way more males self delete, but the amount of young girls that attempt suicide is utterly staggering. The reasons males and females choose to end their lives are often much different. Its not a contest.
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  34. wait hold on, I thought NASA was a Muslim outreach program. Did they have to retool for women. That must have cost a pretty penny. I recall a mission where a female astronaut not only lost her tools but also one of the thermal blankets covering the station, I wonder if it was this chick.
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  35.  @Peglegkickboxer  11-14% of the Federal budget gets spent on military items. Over 60% for social services. I reject your claim.
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  36.  @mikosapps2476  I was specifically talking about teenagers, young teenages. But yes, men often use more definitive means to suicide. In high school I had a friend who put plastic all over his bathroom and then put a shotgun in his mouth. In his letter he said he didnt want his parents to have to clean up his mess. As I stated, this isnt a contest. Mental health, suicide threats included, are not taken very seriously, often until it is to late. At the same time we glamorize and enable people to wallow in their mental illness or depression. And im not sure what the answer is.
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  37.  @NerdlySquared  that they do. But the animals that produce the most are the last to get culled.
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  38.  @Rev-di1vl  that's a reason. But he still did it. Then Biden did the same thing. No my issue with Trump is in 2018, when he leaned on the Fed to reduce rates, which they did, because the economy started to show signs of failing. And I don't blame Trump except for the things he chose to do. Same with Biden. We either hold our leaders accountable, for both the good and ill the do or we aren't free people.
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  39. men who have contracted work just need to start putting a new clause in their contracts that state that they cannot be fired over allegations and must wait to be terminated only when found guilty. Issue solved. But the employer also has the option of not hiring that individual. Gentlemen. If you are one such man, make sure you have it in your contract when you negotiate it. At the end of the day one has the right to employment unless you have a contract.
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  40.  @mr.blonde7812  I dont think its about that. I think its more about living as frugally as possible. Why have more than you need? For many they have a large house, multiple cars and all the rest as status symbols. What happens if a section of the population decides to forgo all that and, for a lack of a better word, go their own way? For what it matters, its not just men doing this. I know several women who do they tiny house thing. Some people just want to return to enjoying their lives and things instead of being enslaved by them.
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  41. You really ought to look where the Californians who are feeling are leaving. Most are from the central valley. That has always been conservative. If you look at a Cali voter map you can see the change, which really started after the end of the Cold War. Conservative Californians have been leaving since then. There are a few exceptions though, places like Austin and the greater Seattle area attract the leftists that are leaving.
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  42. This can only happen in certain states. Here in Tennessee, if a LEO tried that they would probably end up with a couple of rounds in their vest at minimum. There was a time were LEO's were polite and civil. But in their attempt to deal with the large dangers they assault anyone at will "so they can go home safe". Meanwhile trust in law enforcement drops. This isnt so much an issue with female officers, though they are more prone to have to over react. But this is a problem with DA's not putting the truly violent in prison for ever or executing them so police feel they have to do things like this. But in the end, this is why you dont want to live in a city.
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  43.  @juniorleslie4804  we use to have some jokes for woman marines. What does a "WM" stand for, walking mattress. What do call a wm on deployment? Lonely. Ah good times. Some of them slept through barracks. So nasty. Glad I was never in a mixed unit. I can't imagine the issues.
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  44.  @RyanGannon-z7m  Yes the problem here is civic virtue or lack there of. But there is a reason for it. The government no longer serves the interest of the public at large, but for a tiny few.
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  45. You say loneliness, I say solitude.
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  46.  @ShaunHensley  it really is unfortunate all around, even for women. You can certainly tell they are even content with their lives. I know the meme is life of recruit difficulty, but the struggle is what makes things worth it. Even women know this. Nothing is better than a hard won victory. Nothing.
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  47.  @toxicmale2264  Thats what I tried to explain to her. But she loves science and wants both. Shes in the process of adjusting her world view now. But it also doesnt help that shes 6'2". No men line up to date her. Few even talk to her. She doesnt want that anything casual, even in school. She wants to be married and have kids. Its weird to see it. I think many men are so starved for affection that they have kind of turned off. Which is my point though. Women are starting to notice it. I also think it takes a few years after university for women to understand via real world experience that a lot of the crap they were taught in universities is just lies and projections.
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  48.  @jabbaweezy  some folks call the dog runs when they are enclosed. All in all just hallways.
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  49.  @Yarblocosifilitico  Japanese cops are. When I was in Japan, the cops never had to pull their guns. It was fun watching them take down belligerent drunk Japanese and US service members. Ultra polite. Never cursed. Very respectful. Failure to comply was verbally notified and the person in contact was told in no uncertain terms that this was not a request. Then, Hikiba! Dude would be laid out.
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  50. I disagree with your general argument, respectfully. But for different reasons. In the US the Supreme Court has affirmed the term "fighting words". Through multiple cases, going back to the 40s, in unanimous court rulings, any language that meets the terms fighting words can be responded to with physical violence. I do agree with your statement on the spread of what is deemed insulting. But people know when they are being insulting. Women do it all the time, because they think the social politeness of society will give them protection. Context matters. Men are never under that pretense. Mens social interactions are always with the subtle message of be respectful or violence can break out. The larger issue with modern society is the refusal for violence to occur when it should. And sometimes violence is appropriate. If we did, people would be much more polite. I am a firm believer in the connection between zero tolerance policies started in schools in the 80s and the inability of people to be socially respectful to each other. I am not bald. But if my supervisor called me a balled see you next tuesday, I would have broke his jaw. Then I would have sued the company for wrongful termination and a hostile work environment. You dont get a better world from backing down from threats, you have to neutralize them. You can do that with violence or with law. Right now we are doing it with shaming. That is the problem.
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