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Dragonblade01 posted...

This reads like an Onion article and yet I know that it's not.

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Hmm, this was posted by a youtube use with the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4eHTD1ZJA

Safe to assume not satire, and this guy just hates ladies?
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I agree 100%. Men want to get at that vagina. Even if it's only done subconsciously. Like if a guy and girl are friends and they find out each is DTF, they are gonna fuck.
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lilORANG posted...

Hmm, this was posted by a youtube use with the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4eHTD1ZJA

Safe to assume not satire, and this guy just hates ladies?

It is the same person. And the second he spouted, get a REAL JOB, I stopped caring whatsoever. The guy is a Lutheran priest, posts crappy editorials, and sock puppet soapbox speeches, I mean debates. Fuck off with that shit.
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foreveraIone posted...

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

There's an overpopulation problem and obsession with capitalism in this world.... and this article wants us to bring more people in? The fuck?

The overpopulation problem is more of a poor country thing, where people have like 5 kids. Rich people in first world countries generally don't breed.

This. People confuse the global overpopulation issue with places like the US needing more births in order to keep the country running. If you think our infrastructure is crumbling now, just imagine how much worse it will be in 20-30 years with the shrinking middle class meaning even less tax revenue.

garan posted...

foreveraIone posted...

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

There's an overpopulation problem and obsession with capitalism in this world.... and this article wants us to bring more people in? The fuck?

The overpopulation problem is more of a poor country thing, where people have like 5 kids. Rich people in first world countries generally don't breed.

This. People confuse the global overpopulation issue with places like the US needing more births in order to keep the country running. If you think our infrastructure is crumbling now, just imagine how much worse it will be in 20-30 years with the shrinking middle class meaning even less tax revenue.

The middle class shrinking is far more complicated then simply there not being enough babies being born.

Money has been slowly moving out of the middle class. We have a growing poor and rich class.
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So many people missed the point. The population rate is slowing to such an extent we aren't gonna have the population to fund the nanny state you guys desperately want. Why don't you go take a look at the amount of people it has taken to fund 1 person on SS over the decades. Hint that number hasn't gone down.
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ClockworkHare posted...

Platonic friendships between men and women are entirely possible without ridiculous factors in play (like the guy being gay). It's just, when it's between two sexually compatible people, it's not something that all pairs like that are good at. Like it's so common to suck at it, it's backwards to treat it as extremely shame worthy when so many people have the same difficulty.

When both people are sexually compatible with each other, there's always going to be the possibility of sexual tension between them. That doesn't mean they're destined by the stars to bang if they keep hanging out. It's just a possibility. Friends who are fine with staying platonic are less likely to pursue that possibility. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem worthwhile enough for them to change things. That's the kind of dynamic that has to be in play for a man attracted to women and a woman attracted to men to remain platonic.

It's really not that uncommon to find a woman who just wants to be friends. However, a man attracted to women who feels the same way is not a unicorn either these days. He's real. And he comes in a variety of types. The "laid back passive guy who likes chicks, but not ambitious enough to chase them " is a classic example. He doesn't mind just being friends because he sees a full blown relationship as tiring and not worth the extra effort when he gets satisfactory enjoyment elsewhere. He might even be attractive looking, but he's too lazy to pick up dates. They're prime candidates as guy friends for women. And they can still end up with girlfriends, it's just more likely to happen when the girl is approaching.

Guys hungry for any female attention at all generally don't believe this guy exists. They can't understand how he could. Partly because the concept of his existence pisses them off. A guy into chicks gets a bunch of opportunities to ask a female friend out, but he's too apathetic to bother. It's like a huge middle finger to all the self-destructive losers crying over the friendzone...

Nice write up...

I dont agree with all of it persay, but I definitely can agree with a lot of those points.
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What if we just cracked up our boarders and loosed up our restrictions on immagration. I mean its not like we personally have to create the next generation, we can just borrow our next generation from India or China.
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Only virgins with no female experience think men and women can't be friends.
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lol that article and it's reductive thinking
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CowboyDan posted...

Only virgins with no female experience think men and women can't be friends.

eh i would say its more the opposite


but again, are we talking close friend or just people you're civil with

if youre spending all your free time with a girl you have no attraction to, use your free time better
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