Here’s some advice from someone with a high nat charisma role on birth:

Gaining friends, lovers, or even acquaintances isn’t a goal to be worked towards - rather - the best kinds of these relationships are byproducts of mutual interest and experiences.

If your efforts are only going towards showing up at social events to participate in small talk, then no wonder it feels like you’re coming home from work. Because that’s the same behavior expected at work.

This “social script” we’re expected to follow at work is to maintain social standing to get work done, rather than grow and deepen connections.

Basically, work socialization and personal socialization should be approached differently, and taking the work approach to your private life will likely lead to the same kind of relationships you’re building at work: simple and makes your work easier. (Rather than relationships that are deep, and make your life more colorful.)

Here’s something to try the next time you find a group you want to be a part of:

• 1st: Don’t talk about work itself. Talk about the actions you take at work. Don’t say, “I work in sales” say “I sell shit to those that don’t need it.”

Talk about the specific actions you take, in work or anywhere else, and personalize them.

The fundamentals of any relationship are built on the aligned behaviors of individuals. The easiest way to determine if the way you behave is similar to others is to talk about how you act. And if you can add in your own opinion about those actions, even better. These small things communicate who you are much better than anything else. Actions speak louder than words, so try your best to speak about yourself as the actions you take - use verbs to describe yourself, not nouns.

• 2nd: Don’t talk about yourself unless asked. Instead, engage with others to learn about them. Specially, what actions they like.

If you know someone is interested in something like bikes. Don’t ask what bikes they like, ask if they “like the thrill of downhill mountain biking,” or “prefer a chill bike ride through the park.”

Do they watch movies? Don’t ask “did you like that Movie?” Rather, ask “did you like pacing of that Movie?”

Verbs should also be at the heart of your inquiries into others, as they describe the actions others have that might align with yours.

That is - good relationships are built on mutual action, not mutual interest.

So don’t ask, “How was work?” ask “What projects are you working on?” Then follow that inquiry up with more specifics on their behaviour through that project - “How hard was the project to complete? Who got in your way?”

Basically, socialize as if the people you want to hang around are all the main characters within their own show. They have adventures, villians, love interests, etc - and just spending time learning what those are, will make them feel closer to you. Once you know enough about them, you can begin asking them about the events in their own show. That is, in time, your small talk will grow from, “how was work?” to “did you get your evil manager fired over their bullshit harrasment?”

And that’s the difference between a friend, and someone you know at work.

Eventually, when you learn about these people more, you’ll discover the behaviour they have that aligns with yours. And eventually, you’ll begin doing stuff together with them.

They like casual bike rides? Cool, give it a shot with them! They like seeing matinees on Sunday? Cool join em!

The more you show an interest in how people behave, the more likely it is they will want to include you as part of that behaviour.

• 3rd. Encourage others. Be their hype man.

You know how they act? Great. Encourage it. Sometimes, even encourage it with you included.

They love bike riding? Great. Tell them about the park near your house they should try. Heck. You can even join em.

People often have goals tied to their favorite behaviours. If you know what those goals are, you can encourage them to pursue them. When they succeed, you will now be a part of it they’ll remember.

In time, you keep up the above, you’ll be surrounded by people you know well, and whom you’ve shared a lot of activities with.

And they will without question enjoy you in their lives for it.

At the heart of Fascism is ignorance. Ignorance can be readily defeated, we just haven’t figured out the best way to do so in the information age with social media creating BS faster than facts. Time keeps going, and beyond the coming tide of Fascism, is something else. As long as we can stay informed, and educated, Fascism can be overcome. It’s never taken hold permanantly because it’s built on unstable bullshit and populism. It will come, it will pass, and when it does, whoever left will want to move avawy from the ignorance that caused this rise of Fascism in the first place.

AI to run companies in sustainably profitable ways that benefits their workers instead of rich greedy sociopaths.

Our educations system has been in decline for the last 20 years. Instead foreign money has combine with private interests to blast us with complete made up bullshit propaganda 24/7. Almost all of our major news sources are now owned or operated by MAGA donors, who care more about money than public well being. Basically, half this country is now too stupid to determine if the information they’re viewing is corporate propaganda, or foreign government propaganda. Both are exploitative, and both want Americans sick because it’s profitable to them. So despite having a president that publicly threw out our pandemic response killing more Americans than in all the wars we’ve ever faught in combined - 4 years later we reelected him. That’s how bad the propaganda is here. Combined with poor education, we can no longer agree on how basic cause and effect works.

TL:DR - We’re now too stupid and hopped up on propaganda to understand how preventing diseases works.

It’s because billionaires are pussies. They will get upset over the slightest inconvenience, or insult, because the money they have has insulated them from the consequences of their actions.

They’re so used to being praised, and getting their way with everything, that the thought of people not like liking them upsets them greatly.

And the dislike is warranted because most billionaires use their money to buy social credit instead of earning it. They don’t add anything to society, they just pay as much as they can to get artificial praise from it.

For example, Musk bought X, and used it to promote his own BS to make himself popular.

Alternatively, the idiot could have simply rented a blimp and thrown the same 44 billion out of it all across America.

That would without question make him more popular than X has, to the point where people would likely build statues of him.

Instead, he cowers in fear of the word CIS on Twitter because it hurts his feelings.

Now, since he can’t remove the word CIS from reality, he gets scared people will hate him for expressing that desire. And they should hate him, because that opinion can only be formed in a bubble where you don’t experience reality. Aka extreme wealth.

Billionaires use their money to remove themselves from the consequences of their actions.

Free speech is the easiest way to express what those consequences would be in a more natural order.

They fear the violence their greed and behavior has created. They’re just too stupid to understand how one leads to the other.

Reddit is proof of how sensitive they are to this fear. The simplest gesture of protest can go a long way to upset them. Because they’re huge cowards.

I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see Jinjer! Seriously impressive vocals, and absolutley one of my favorite female metal vocalists.

Oh hell yeah. Thank you for this! I was unaware of the insult. Great to learn, and much appreciate the info! Glad to know you’re fighting the good fight as well. That was a great time hilariously good exchange you had with them. You called it out perfectly haha

I’m aware. I got them to shut up. And I distracted them from doing whatever the FSB tasked them with.

They only way you can fight trolls like that is by wasting their time. Hopefully in a way they realize their work isn’t worth the pay.

(But appreciate the heads up!)

Been on Reddit for 15 years. Can confirm it’s pretty much a bot hellscape now.

Years ago I noticed the quality of front page posts drop in terms of their basic spelling and grammar. You never used to see typos in what hit the front page because mods actually cared about the quality of what was being posted to their subreddits.

That’s far past gone now in all the top subs. Mostly because the mods there have all been compromised as shills that get paid to gatekeep selected content from bot controlled posters. Now all they care about is volume rather than quality.

That’s why most of the default subreddits and most of what hits the front page is the same regurgitated content with dick-riding commentary that doesn’t discuss much aside from just agreeing with the upvoted group-think of the post itself.

Overall quality in all the top 100 subreddits has declined exponentially in just 5 years, as the mods now heavily favor bot accounts posting more, rather than community members posting gold less often. So the best members of most communities just left, as there was no reason to contribute content that wasn’t going to be seen against a flood of mod approved click bait.

Reddit is now a soulless faceless husk shambling around as if it’s content is from a real community of people, and not a corpo filtered humonculous.

Engagement there, the good kind. Is now rare at best, if at all. And even worse - I’ve found dozens of sites that will just let you buy upvotes and accounts, so making it to the front page just takes some clever marketing spend.

It’s sad to see such a colorful community of people from around the world get invaded and slowly taken over by a body-snatcher like corporate mimic - but that’s the best compliment I can give to what’s left of Reddit.

Covid is not gone in the US. Here’s the CDC data:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

Thousands are still dying from it every day in March of 2025. Largly due to the poor adoption rate of the vaccine due to propaganda.

Good job admitting you’ve turned a blind eye to thousands dying every day. The loss of life only counts when it isn’t American lives right?

You’re a really great example of the effects of propaganda making anyone intolerant.

But do go on about the spending. Maybe you can figure out how much each American death costs Russia per capita, and compare it to how much they spent to make you apathetic about it.

We are no longer in the nuclear age.

We are in the information age, post social media.

The reasons we don’t nuke each other into oblivion are no longer memories people hold. Most of them are now gone, and their memories with them.

Peace and how it’s maintained are just words on paper now. And these words now compete against billions of others on social media.

China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc all have entire buildings full of bad actors firehosing disinformation into every space built by a democratic nation to keep peace.

This disinformation has already, in less than 10 years, unquestionably destabilized the US. Who have not stopped embarrassing themselves on the world stage since. Trumps Covid policies killed millions of Americans, and disinformation got him reelected.

The massive loss of American life didn’t stop disinformation from convincing Americans that Trump wasn’t responsible for his own Covid response. Instead, they voted for him again, and now he’s placed a TV personality in charge of our military who is actively talking about leaving NATO and invading Greenland and Canada because he’s an idiot. But he’s in charge of our military, so that idiot is going to get whatever he wants.

And the people that voted for Trump honestly believe this is a good idea because of disinformation.

It’s just a matter of time before nukes are likewise a good idea because of disinformation.

Death and suffering no longer matter in the face of this level of disinformation. Just like it didn’t matter to Americans that millions of them died because they elected a reality TV personality into office. Despite this being an obvious fact, the majority of the US will now literally fight you for thinking it.

The security you think you have is an illusion from an age we no longer live in.

Russia and friends are spending billions of resources into firing the disinformation hose at everything democratic.

What do you think they’re hoping to gain from it?

The US has already fallen victim to it. Their military, which used to be the backbone of the UN and NATO can no longer be depended on. Europe’s military defenses will be crippled by nearly 70% if the US leaves NATO.

And thats what the US is actively talking about, encouraged by Russia. With the EU responding as if it’s a real threat by discussing a new government body that replaces NATO without the US.

The EU is acting like this is already the case.

You are being naive if you think all this disinformation is just for fun. It’s targeted. It’s in EVERY democratic election from the US to Canada, to France, to Germany, and it’s gaining traction.

The peace you described as normal has been decreasing exponentially across the world for the past decade for this VERY reason, and you want to think these countries are just doing it for fun?

No shit.

Is it only the biggest spender of propaganda that makes them bad? Or is all propaganda bad? Maybe it’s what propaganda does to a country that’s the problem.

You know - just like how the propaganda Trump used for his US Covid response killed more Americans than anywhere else in the world. Actually, it’s now killed more Americans than all the wars they’ve ever faught in combined.

That’s the propaganda I’m fighting. Mostly because it killed friends and family.

My country is now radicalized not just into voting away their own rights, but their own lives. The dead and suffering are now ignored by the corporate controlled media, to the point where Trump was elected again despite fucking up everything he ever touched and killing over a million citizens.

Russia is now targeting Canada and Europe using these same tactics, and if those citizens are too resilient, well thankfully he’s about to step over Ukraine to get there too.

But sure, let’s talk about who’s spending money on propaganda instead of what each kind of propaganda is doing to the world. Definitley makes for a good strawman.

I’m talking about them like the heroes holding back WW3 that they are. What’s your excuse?

I’m already doing my part to try and unfuck the US from aligning with Putin to pick the corpse of Europe clean when they’re done with it.

If I fight in this war, it will be to take my country back from the Russian bullshit that’s taken it over.

Russia is doing the same across all western countries and elections. They are in an active war with Ukraine at Europe’s footsteps, and NATO is on the verge of collapse because of the US’s withdrawal after aligning with Putin.

You are naive to believe Russia will stop there after weakening everything protecting Europe.

You are no different than everyone who thought Hitler would just magically stop after Poland

The US has the biggest military in the world followed by China. None of those are Europe.

Remember how WW2 wasn’t just Germany? How they got the help from Japan of all places because of their mutual hatred for China?

The US now hates NATO as much as Russia and is looking to leave / destroy it from within.

It doesn’t really matter if Russia is running out of troops and /equipment if their allies have more than the rest of the world combined several times over.

Russia just has to make it through Ukraine, and the rest of the bad guys in the world will unite to take Europe apart for their own gain.

It’s what happened in WW2 to keep Germany going, and it will absolutely happen again.

You’re basically acting like France in WW2. And they laughably got bulldozed simply because like you, they weren’t convinced there was a greater threat despite Poland already getting attacked. Now Ukraine is getting attacked, and you don’t seem to care why or what it motivating their assault. There is a much bigger game being played than you are refusing to understand, and your attitude of running from the bigger obvious threat to talk about trivial smaller ones that have literally no possible positive outcome is naive at best.

History repeats itself, and so do the idiots who think peace is the norm like you.

Answering your question is meaningless because you are taking sides over a drop of blood that’s holding back an ocean of it.

But to answer it regardless:

No, forcing people back into a war zone is a bad thing.

No shit.

They left Ukraine in the first place because they were either unwilling or unable to fight that war, and moving them back into a war zone they escaped is beyond cruel. To that point - they are NOT being forced to return by Ukraine or Zelensky. Rather by Russia’s ally, the US.

They left because they wouldn’t or couldn’t help the war, so their forced participation in it by the US likely won’t help much.

It would be nice if you cared more about the obvious growing threat to the world, rather than how the only people fighting it are somehow not doing it to your taste.

Unless you like the taste of blood, you better hope they fucking win.

Let me explain this simply so you understand the point I am making:

What would you have Ukraine do? Slow down their conscription? Stop it entirely?

Alright, heres the game theory results on how changing their conscription rates will effect this war and it’s consequences:

Outcome 1: No changes to conscription, Ukraine wins the war. Russia leaves their territory.

Result: hundreds of thousands of dead, you get to complain about how many died from conscription. Most importantly, this war doesn’t reach Europe.

Because once it does, all those images of war you’ve seen will get much much worse, and the body count much much higher.

This is the likely outcome of all our other options.

Outcome 2: Ukraine changes their conscription laws. Less are forced to enroll to defend their country. Their population is MAGNITUDES smaller than Russias, so without the broader conscription laws, they no longer have a fighting force large enough to withstand the endless wall of North Korean and Russian meat being thrown at them.

Result 2: Russia steam rolls Ukraine. Gets a foot hold on Europe. Declares war on NATO. Starts WW3 and likely the end of peace and modern civilization as we know it. Death toll in the millions, and lots of worse war pictures for you to clutch your pearls about.

But hey, Ukraine no longer exists, so you don’t have to be critical of their rough conscription laws anymore!

Outcome 3: Ukraine loses the war anyway. The above happens anyway.

Result 3: Again. No reason to be critical of their conscription laws, because they don’t exist as a country now.

Sure, it would have been nice if they had a fighting force large enough to stop Russia’s push into NATO and Europe. Especially considering the force that has historically stood up to this bullshit on the world stage, the US, has now broke bad and aligns with Russia.

Ukraine is not just defending themselves. They are defending the entirety of Europe and NATO, which is why there’s so many emergency meetings being held by both to help them.

Point being. Ukraine conscription is a necessary evil to prevent the worst outcome of Russias actions. If you want to be critical about death and war, then maybe understand how worse WW3 would make all of this, and how Ukrainian conscription is literally the biggest thing holding it back.

Because that’s how NATO and the Ukraine see it. And that’s how you should see it too. Thinking otherwise, that this isn’t a very likely threat, is to ignore the death toll that’s been rising for years.

Ukraine conscription is to prevent that death toll from being all across Europe.

Let me explain this simply so you understand the point I am making:

What would you have Ukraine do? Slow down their conscription? Stop it entirely?

Alright, heres the game theory results on how changing their conscription rates will effect this war and it’s consequences:

Outcome 1: No changes to conscription, Ukraine wins the war. Russia leaves their territory.

Result: hundreds of thousands of dead, you get to complain about how many died from conscription. Most importantly, this war doesn’t reach Europe.

Because once it does, all those images of war you’ve seen will get much much worse, and the body count much much higher.

This is the likely outcome of all our other options.

Outcome 2: Ukraine changes their conscription laws. Less are forced to enroll to defend their country. Their population is MAGNITUDES smaller than Russias, so without the broader conscription laws, they no longer have a fighting force large enough to withstand the endless wall of North Korean and Russian meat being thrown at them.

Result 2: Russia steam rolls Ukraine. Gets a foot hold on Europe. Declares war on NATO. Starts WW3 and likely the end of peace and modern civilization as we know it. Death toll in the millions, and lots of worse war pictures for you to clutch your pearls about.

But hey, Ukraine no longer exists, so you don’t have to be critical of their rough conscription laws anymore!

Outcome 3: Ukraine loses the war anyway. The above happens anyway.

Result 3: Again. No reason to be critical of their conscription laws, because they don’t exist as a country now.

Sure, it would have been nice if they had a fighting force large enough to stop Russia’s push into NATO and Europe. Especially considering the force that has historically stood up to this bullshit on the world stage, the US, has now broke bad and aligns with Russia.

Ukraine is not just defending themselves. They are defending the entirety of Europe and NATO, which is why there’s so many emergency meetings being held to by both to help them.

Point being. Ukraine conscription is a necessary evil to prevent the worst outcome of Russias actions. If you want to be critical about death and war, then maybe understand how worse WW3 would make all of this, and how Ukrainian conscription is literally the biggest thing holding it back.

Because that’s how NATO and the Ukraine see it. And that’s how you should see it too. Thinking otherwise, that this isn’t a very likely threat, is to ignore all the images of war you want me to look at.

Ukraine conscription is to prevent those images from being all across Europe.

From Arizona / Mexico:

Birria, especially Birria Ramen. It’s slow cooked meat in a broth of spices and a bit of onion and Chiles. It’s fall apart tender, and usually served with melted cheese (Queso Birria). But my favorite version is served on top of Tapatio Ramen. So it’s fork tender beef with spicy noodles.

Really great on a cold day.

Funny thing is, I’m from the East Coast of the US, so actually have a bunch of favorites from there that are really worth giving a try too.

Especially a REAL Cheesesteak.

Shaved Ribeye cut thin and grilled on a hot surface for a char. Grilled and charred onions and green peppers. Add it to an Italian soft roll that’s warmed, NOT toasted. Melt on top of it either Cheez Wiz (an Aerosolized Cheese snack that’s awful by itself) or American cheese. Mix it all together on the bun along with a few slices of Italian peperonchinis and a couple dashes of celery salt.

Incredibly unhealthy, but quite an experience if you ever get to try one (or make one yourself! I’m literally eating one I made for dinner right now haha 😂)

Why do Ukranian people want to leave their country?

That’s unquestionably what’s causing every problem you take issue with, so why aren’t you also taking issue with that cause?

Ukrainian conscription exists because Russia invaded them.

You blame Ukraine.

The US is sending refugees they previously welcomed back into a war zone because our government is now aligned with Russias.

You blame Ukraine.

Without Russia, none of your problems with Ukraine would exist. And more importantly, all the problems you have with Ukraine are already far far worse in Russia.

It’s pretty clear you’re either arguing in bad faith because you drank too much propaganda, or you’re working for the FSB.

Eitherway, your arguments are making Russia happy. Which means history is going to make you look like the idiot you’re acting like in supporting them.

Your comment was about how bad it is to cater to the Saudis.

Shitting on Dems isn’t needed to make that point. At all.

Unless your point was actually about shitting on Dems in the first place, and using the Saudis as an excuse.

Which is the point I was making, and now you are too:

Does every negative comment about Democrats need a caviat also condemning Republicans to be valid?

You can shit on the Saudis without shitting on a political party.

Instead, you’re just using “Saudis bad” as an excuse to attack Dems.

How does that do anything to further your point about the Saudis being awful? Your point is lost, and you just sound like every other brainwashed American.

Fair enough. And thanks for the clarification.