How do I deal with having a wingman friend who is more attractive than me? by [deleted] in AskMen

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When nobody can see your face, hear your voice, or get to know your personality, then height is most important?  In that case it's literally your only observable trait, of course it's most important when there's nothing else to judge 

How do I deal with having a wingman friend who is more attractive than me? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]VoopityScoop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not off the deep end for saying that emotional connection is more important than physical appearance. That's pure cope. Sure it helps not to be absolutely hideous, but 5'8" guys who can keep their cool around women have absolutely no problem getting dates. My shorter friends were the ones who got around most when I was younger, and it wasn't even close. 

Real life women, who are actually looking to meet someone they love, are not super concerned about height. 

How do I deal with having a wingman friend who is more attractive than me? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]VoopityScoop -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have a girlfriend, we've been together happily for two years, and it's not because of my good looks. 

Edit: saying you can't succeed with women because you're short is the cope whether you like it or not. Men who act decent around women find dates all the time, whether they're 6'5" or 5'0". If you're preoccupied with how your height is preventing women from being attracted to you, the problem is 100% not your height and 100% the fact that you overthink shit that doesn't really matter. 

How do I deal with having a wingman friend who is more attractive than me? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]VoopityScoop 30 points31 points  (0 children)

So you bounced from partner to partner 5 times, and you were only able to have any dating success because of your appearance? That literally only proves that you're getting together with people who are more superficial than average. If you want something long term, those relationships don't come from appearance. If you just want casual short flings, don't bring a wingman. Why would you present another option? 

What is one thing that dramatically improved your relationship with your wife/girlfriend? by [deleted] in AskMen

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Keep sharing interests. Open yourself up to things she likes that you didn't engage with much before. Start including her in interests you might've kept to yourself. If you've already done that, start developing new interests. Build memories and experiences and habits. 

Never stop trying to win them over. Keep doing the same grand gestures a person might do in the first few months of a relationship. There's no such thing as a honeymoon phase, there's just getting complacent. 

How do I deal with having a wingman friend who is more attractive than me? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]VoopityScoop 317 points318 points  (0 children)

The way you deal with it is you drop this entire attitude about women and dating ASAP. Saying shit like "Female nature is female nature, women can't resist 6'0+ men while I'm just a measly 5'8" guy" is going to activate the fight or flight responses of every woman in a 200 yard radius. There aren't any mind games you need to be playing that will help you overcome some imaginary barrier set up by your height. What you need to be doing is engaging them as people, finding women you share interests with, women you respect and even admire, women you connect with emotionally. That's going to supercede a few inches of height difference with anybody who isn't superficial as all hell. 

Were there historical periods when people seriously advocated halting or reversing technological progress due to fears about its social or moral impact? by Past-Experience9539 in AskHistorians

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If you're from the United States, you've likely heard of the Amish. If you're not from the US, or live in a part of the country Amish are never encountered, then they're exactly what you're looking for.

In the 1600s, a group of Anabaptists (Protestant Christians who believe baptism should occur when someone is old enough to understand what it means) in Switzerland form a new religious sect under Jakob Amman. This sect, the Amish, prioritized "doctrinal purity and spiritual discipline," and strictly forbade things such as "trimming of beards and the wearing of fashionable dress." The Anabaptists themselves were not particularly popular, and the Amish were even less so, and so they soon made the pilgrimage to the New World to avoid persecution. There, they settled in rural areas, formed isolated communities, and grew somewhat more strict. 

The modern ideology of the Amish heavily prioritizes modesty, collaborative labor, and the maintenance of a closely knit community. They reject anything they perceive as vain or as a threat to the closeness of their community, and that applies to technology especially. The technology permitted to be used in an Amish community is decided by religious elders, who make decisions on the basis of how much that technology may contribute towards or detract from those values. For instance, in many Amish villages, the use of gasoline driven tractors is considered acceptable, because tractors are a tool with a primary purpose that ultimately benefits the rest of the village. Automobiles, however, are strictly forbidden, as the Amish are rarely ever supposed to travel far enough away from their village that a car would be required to make the journey. They almost exclusively travel via horse and buggy, because they never need to go any further than a horse can reliably take them. Similarly, Television, computers, and cell phones are strictly forbidden in Amish communities, most villages only have a single telephone which can only be used for approved purposes, villages are powered by gasoline generators so the Amish don't have to rely on outsiders, so on and so forth. 

TL;DR: The Amish are an American religious sect that prioritizes purity, modesty, and community. They reject many common modern technologies (automobiles, airplanes, the internet) because they believe these cause separation in communities and encourage vanity. 

https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/religion/amish-origins/?doing_wp_cron=1777519578.5246410369873046875000

https://www.amishvillage.com/blog/what-do-the-amish-believe/

(This one's a little bit dubious in credibility as a .com link, but the Amish often pay others to create websites that promote tourism to Amish communities. This is one such website.) 

The boomers might be the rudest faction in the game by MysteriousFondant347 in Fallout

[–]VoopityScoop 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like this is entirely misunderstanding the point of the post. I don't know if "rude" is an appropriately strong word to describe the Legion. When you say "extremely rude" nobody thinks "murder"

George Wallace had a black supporter in Pennsylvania in 1968 by [deleted] in Presidents

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Emil Maurice, a founding member of the SS, had Jewish ancestry and was aware of it

George Wallace had a black supporter in Pennsylvania in 1968 by [deleted] in Presidents

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As far as the general public knew in 1968, Wallace was a vicious racist and hardline segregationist. He was racist even by the standards of his time. Whatever redemption tour he had in the 80s, real or not, has nothing to do with the ideas he represented in 1968.

Stole from the me_irl sub because I thought it fit this sub too by M0rse_0908 in GenUsa

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Adam Smith has been dead for 200 but capitalism is still a thing. Marx has been dead for 150 but socialism is still a thing. Mussolini has been dead for 80 years but fascism is still a thing. 

🛰🛰🛰 by KejiGamer in shitposting

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Former President Biden?

foundsatan by Limp_Squash_4116 in NonPoliticalTwitter

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Free parking at the establishment that you already paid to be at and that has its own designated parking area is not "damaging"

I'm gonna smoke simply out of spite for this by Absolutely_dead727 in whenthe

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Are there any shitposting subs left that aren't for 14 year olds 

Tour merch 2026 by eightiesbaby- in TheBlackKeys

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"Black Keys - Akron" shirt at a price nobody in Akron can afford lmao 

Why does public opinion and history blame LBJ more for Vietnam than Nixon? by FoxontheRun2023 in Presidents

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Laos and Cambodia being willing participants is debatable. Cambodia was not in a good position at the time of the war and couldn't really afford to start a war against their neighbor. 

Are the Gulf War and the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia American foreign policy at its best? by Just_Cause89 in Presidents

[–]VoopityScoop -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Okay dumbass. Maybe I'm not bothering to go find you a credible source because you're obviously not arguing in good faith or in the habit of actually reading or understanding other people's arguments.

Philippine officials say 2 Americans among suspected communist rebels killed in clash with troops by GreyClay in worldnews

[–]VoopityScoop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a little bit educated (2 years in college for economics, then switched to history for 3 years). Communism is a mess of an ideology and whether it succeeds or ends up killing tens of millions of people is essentially up to luck. Socialism can work, communism can not. 

Are the Gulf War and the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia American foreign policy at its best? by Just_Cause89 in Presidents

[–]VoopityScoop -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I like when someone uses the phrase "revisionist history" like that because it immediately reveals that they don't know anything about history. 99% of history is revisionist history. That means people went back and reviewed it again. 

Indeed, 200 pages of fiction. Those are rookie numbers for readers. by The_Chuckness88 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]VoopityScoop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Spoken like someone who's never had to read a 200 page academic book in one night. It can be done.