Dating and Nation Building

 Went to Bar Mitzvah of P today, a former gf from long ago. P is a nice girl, honest. I was dreading going because her Mom used to like throwing barbs at me. Mom isn’t looking so good these days and didn’t recognize me so we’ll call it a win. Saw a guy from the Marines that I hadn’t seen in thirty years, he’s doing well.

Standing in the corner was a cute girl, maybe 40 all by herself. I start talking to her. She starts out slightly salty and faintly insulting. She’s a single mom with two kids, 7 and 5, and a med admin assistant. I’m a scientist making 200k a year. This woman is treating me like a pariah. I said cute, not super-hot, (not that you should put up with that type of behavior from anyone) and I’m probably the only decent looking guy in the place.

WTF? Welcome to dating post MeToo. Also known as the Titanic.

Also why I don’t date anymore. You know what single mom? Go stand in the corner by yourself. Buy some cats. I’m not saying she should kiss my ass, but try and be human for 15 minutes. What is it with women these days? I wondered away, and left as quick as I could. When I was walking out, I shook the hand of the kid that the bar mitzvah was for and gave him a “Mazel tov.”

Kid says, “What’s mazel tov mean?”

“After a bar mitzvah, children are also held responsible for knowing Jewish ritual law, tradition, and ethics, and are able to participate in all areas of Jewish community life to the same extent as adults.”

FAIL.

I’m not making this up. His mom told me the kid is gay, and she won’t be getting any grand kids out of him. Jesus H. Christ, the human race is doomed. And how did he get through bar mitzvah ceremony training?

Went home and worked on an NLP, natural language processing model, looking at some linguistics patterns and meanings. Ironic, isn’t it?

I’m old enough to remember when internet dating started, twenty years ago. In the beginning, there were women who posted pictures of themselves fifty pounds ago, described themselves as ‘average’ in body style when they weighed 300 lbs, and when they were fives, would only go out with guys that were eights or above.

Fast forwards twenty years, and nothing has changed. But back then, I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. Now, after the dudes got together on the internet, I’ve finally figured out what I did wrong: Nothing. I did nothing wrong.

Internet dating math:

Any average woman is flooded by requests so they think that a five + internet dating = 9.

This isn’t me making crap up:

This is how it is. But when I went to a party or a club back then, or up to about 2010, I would get digits from sevens or eights, no problem. So, that’s probably where I actually was.

Let’s go to 2021. Dating is the vast wasteland of Mad Max or Post-apocalypse terminator world. Women traipse around the battlefield like hunter-killers, zapping any poor man who dares to show his face on the battlefield. Except for the top ten percent of guys who command the battlefield, hopping from bed to bed, aka the Fuck-boys. The F-boys are also immune to the HK’s lasers and missiles. In fact, they themselves are the only ones that can do harm to the Hks.

The F-boys are happy. The guys like myself who decided to not play anymore, we’re happy. There are only two groups of people that are unhappy. Almost all the women are unhappy, and the men who are below the top ten percent who are still trying to play an unwinnable game, they’re unhappy.

Show me a happy feminist, and I’ll show you a Xanax script in her wallet. Laminated.

Here now, the news.

Afghanistan Withdrawal Five ways Biden’s Leadership went bad.

https://www.heritage.org/terrorism/commentary/afghanistan-withdrawal-5-ways-bidens-leadership-went-bad?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=thf-fb

It was more like a hundred, but if you want to stick with five, OK.

New employment alternatives suggested to Biden:

Let me point out the first mistake, which was started by Obama, continued by Trump, and finished by Biden:

Stampeding for the exits: Everyone is screaming that we needed to get out, that we can’t stay there forever, and that we have another Vietnam. How was this another Vietnam? We hadn’t taken a casualty for a year. Also heard was we’re not in the nation building business. Let me show you something:

See that? That’s three nations that were rebuilt after two of them were bombed back to the stone age, and one of them started off in the stone age.

We’re in the nation building business. History decided it, not us. But we are. Many people, including some Japanese told MacArthur that republicanism wouldn’t work in Japan, that it would be a disaster. That the Japanese were too corrupt, and feudal. Sounds familiar, neh?

We’ve been in Afghanistan for twenty years! How long’s it going to take.

Jesus H. Christ, we were in Korea, Japan, and Germany for sixty goddamn years. We didn’t even try to nation build in the Stan, cause all the liberals and idiots said after Vietnam that we can’t be in the nation building business anymore.

If you asked the Marines, me or any one of us, we are going to have to stay in the Stan for fifty years to prevent another 9-11, or fall of Kabul. Are you guys willing to do that?

Every single Marine (except the shitbags you see with stars on their collars these days talking up wokeness on CNN) would say yes. To protect our families at home, to keep 9-11 from happening again, we’ll do what we have to. It sucks, but if that’s what it takes, then yes.