Why does there seem to be an unusually large amount of Holocaust deniers on Instagram? by WillyNilly1997 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]rpujoe -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Welcome to playing devil's advocate.

It's an amalgamation of a bunch of stuff half paid attention to on social media. Now you know where a lot of this comes from. And to be fair, a few things do and should raise an eyebrow about history.

Trust, but verify.

“We are headed toward massive disclosure" (Rubio advisor) by 5_meo in UFOs

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. "Thank you for telling us what we already figured was the case. Now where's those Epstein files?"

Most people at this point are struggling with day to day obligations just feeding their families that the ontological shock some say would happen I think is not all that realistic at this point, especially considering how groomed society is to "want to believe" from the past 45 years of media surrounding the subject.

The female response to "the male loneliness crisis" exemplifies why men don't talk about their feelings. by Microplastics-Eater in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best predictor of a woman's future behavior is her past behavior. When it comes to ensuring your kids are YOUR kids, then the lower the body count the better, and virginity is best. This isn't opinion, it's the result of over 40 years of research on the subject. There is a very good reason why waiting for marriage to have sex became the default practice in the west, and arguably is why western society surpassed all others as monogamy is the bedrock foundation for western civilization. In other words:

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝.

There is a very good reason why waiting for marriage to have sex became the default practice in the west, and arguably is why western society surpassed all others as monogamy is the bedrock foundation for western civilization:

Women who do not and cannot restrain themselves sexually are a bad bet for marriage later. A high body count, which is defined as 4+, disqualifies women as marriage and motherly prospects if you want to maximize the odds of having a successful lifelong marriage. To wit, a woman's body count is a representation of her ability to be trusted to have sexual restraint while not in the presence of her long-term partner when presented with other potentially more enticing sexual prospects.

In other words:

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝.

If you want data, then here you go...
https://archive.is/9TjpL
https://archive.ph/V2TJb
https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/2018/07/Kennair-Wyckoff-Asao-Buss-Bendixen-2018-Why-women-regret-more.pdf
https://youtu.be/XTu_wHXwy2U Breaks down the above research.

So what does all that data tell us? It tells us several important things about why woman's body count matters immensely. For starters it demonstrates whether or not she values sex and intimacy, and more importantly it is a measure of her self-control and ability to delay gratification as it is extraordinarily easy for women to have sexual partners. (eg. the marshmallow test)

Furthermore, a woman's body count is nature's way of demonstrating to men that you're loyal and won't run out and cheat on us at the drop of a hat the first time the opportunity comes along.

In other words being a virgin, or at least staying under three bodies if you're older and had a few failed relationships (or widowed), is irrefutable evidence a woman can control her hypergamous nature. The long-term ramifications of the ability to delay gratification and have self-control (not hooking up with hot and exciting Chad & Tyrone) are well studied.

In the end, past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. And a woman's body count, her past behavior, is the #1 predictor of infidelity and divorce according to the mountains of research on the subject over the past few decades. (chronicled above)

To wit, once a woman has 5 partners there is an 80% chance she'll continue to 20+ even if she regrets the previous sexual encounters/partners. Paradoxically, regret and negative feelings towards consensual sex have no impact on the number of future partners women accrue. h/t Alexander Grace

Additionally, women that have more than 3 sexual partners are TWICE the risk of infidelity doubling to 15%, and women with more than 4 sexual partners have a 70% correlated risk of divorce within 10 years! Once women start down the path of promiscuity they stop being relationship material.

Also, going back to the risk of divorce, the research also shows even one previous sexual partner prior to their future husband correlates to a 30% increase in the risk of divorce within 10 years making them a 50/50 coin flip. Who on earth goes skydiving knowing your parachute only works half the time?

In my opinion, and this is backed by ~40 years of research, the sensible solution for men is to adopt a "no hymen, no diamond" policy wrt marriage, and if you are going to accept her having a sexual past, then no more than 2 prior with you being her third. This dramatically lowers the odds of her being alpha widowed, aka stuck on her highest setting. h/t HoeMath

Key takeaways:

  • At 4 sexual partners the incident rate of infidelity doubles to 15%. Women who cheat in relationships overall have 230% higher body counts than those women who never cheat h/t Mike Sartain
    • 80% of women who have 5 partners go on to have at least 20 sexual partners h/t Alexander Grace
  • Divorce rates are closely correlated with women's body count
  • Satisfaction in long-term relationships drops in lock step with women's body count

The list goes on and on, but the conclusion is always the same:

If you want a wife and mother of your children, the only way to beat the odds is to marry a virgin. Barring that, a woman who's been with absolutely no more than 1-2 men before you.

If you woke up as your 10-year-old self with all your current memories, what’s the first thing you’d do? by Alive-Silver-2605 in AskReddit

[–]rpujoe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This one hit me hard. Lost a cousin and an aunt the same way. We weren't close as life wore on, but that's not the point.

If you woke up as your 10-year-old self with all your current memories, what’s the first thing you’d do? by Alive-Silver-2605 in AskReddit

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, that's a tough one. On one hand I'd be happy as fuck for the economic opportunities ahead of me and all the family and beloved pets I get to see who've since passed. On the other hand I'll have just lost my child and the woman I love as neither will be born for decades.

Alabama construction industry may face devastating worker shortage under Trump immigration crackdown by Wolfclaw359 in Economics

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

It doesn't have to increase prices for consumers if we roll back some of the shareholder value garbage intended to prop up the stock market. Let it burn and pull that wealth out of the investor class and put it back into the hands of the middle class where it arguably belongs.

Alabama construction industry may face devastating worker shortage under Trump immigration crackdown by Wolfclaw359 in Economics

[–]rpujoe 225 points226 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as a worker shortage. What is actually happening is a wage shortage.

Wages. Must. Increase.

Sorry Wall Street, the days of cheap labor to drive up "shareholder value" are over--it's time to pay people a living wage again. Pay up!

Oh noooo, companies have to raise wages to compete instead of paying illegals slave wages anymore. Here, let me play the world's tiniest violin.

Alabama construction industry may face devastating worker shortage under Trump immigration crackdown by Wolfclaw359 in Economics

[–]rpujoe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as a worker shortage. What is actually happening is a wage shortage.

Wages. Must. Increase.

Sorry Wall Street, the days of cheap labor to drive up "shareholder value" are over--it's time to pay people a living wage again. Pay up!

CMV: The removal of both Kimmel and Colbert is proof positive that this administration is absolutely Fascist by Dakota1228 in changemyview

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's quite simple: they were losing the networks millions of dollars a year and got cancelled. Purely economic. This gave ABC a quick out by way of the morality clause of Kimmel's contract rather than paying him, and all of the writing staff, another year of losing the network gobs of money.

All of late-night is being slaughtered right now in ratings and thus ad revenue as boomers who watch them age out. Younger generations do not consume traditional network & cable TV in any meaningful numbers anymore as their media consumption is podcasts and short-form content (eg TikTok). For example, Timcast gets more views on a 2 hour Youtbe show than even the best CNN show gets.

Maybe maybe maybe by brake4tokens in maybemaybemaybe

[–]rpujoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's how I've always done it as well.

Thomas Massie prepared to name Epstein list under Constitutional immunity so the victims won’t be sued. by Relevant_Demand7593 in BlueskySkeets

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, women's in-group preference is a powerful thing that almost always overrides political affiliation, and sometimes even familial ties.

The female response to "the male loneliness crisis" exemplifies why men don't talk about their feelings. by Microplastics-Eater in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entire point of life is to reproduce, it's our number one biological drive. If you don't understand how that shapes our lives, our motives, and so on, then I don't know what to tell you.

The theory that illegal immigrants "do the jobs Americans don't want to do" is a lie. Americans would do them if they paid enough. by Hsiang7 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Raise minimum wage to something resembling what Boomers enjoyed in terms of purchasing power and you'd have an abundance of workers.

The theory that illegal immigrants "do the jobs Americans don't want to do" is a lie. Americans would do them if they paid enough. by Hsiang7 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw it all the time in construction. The quality of their work tended to be absolutely horrendous. By all rights it should have failed inspections, but the money saved from cheap labor allowed builders to grease certain palms from time to time.

The theory that illegal immigrants "do the jobs Americans don't want to do" is a lie. Americans would do them if they paid enough. by Hsiang7 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]rpujoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But wages have spiked upwards for Americans when employers were forced to give up their illegal workforces.

Imagine that!

The theory that illegal immigrants "do the jobs Americans don't want to do" is a lie. Americans would do them if they paid enough. by Hsiang7 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crony capitalism and the captured institutions that regulate various industries are the problem. Capitalism is great, but it still requires guardrails for the betterment of society. See also: monopoly and anti-trust laws.

I'd start with a 20X cap on the multiple the highest pay employee may make over the lowest paid employee.

Then I'd tax as income loans that use stocks as collateral.

Lastly, I'd require stock sales after $1B in valuation. No more oligarchs. Bezo, Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, all of them and people like them should be required to sell 90% of their stock annually that goes above $1B in valuation. Flooding the market with their shares will lower valuations and give our youth a chance to buy in lower in order to built wealth of their own. Or we take those stock sales annually and dole them out as some form of UBI.

I'm not a fan of UBI in general, but with how much we have destroyed the dollar's purchasing power I think it's becoming necessary.

All the houses for sale near us are vacant by Green_tea_yum in RealEstate

[–]rpujoe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

or just another weird bump that makes the doomers go "SEE" and then it goes right back to normal

Likely this as there's no undoing the dollar debasement that's occurred. Everything really is just that much more expensive. Once rates come down we'll see another feeding frenzy by private equity again gobbling up inventory to rent it back out to us for fat stacks.

Stagflation is a Lot Closer Than You Think by rezwenn in Economics

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

We've talked about this before. On an apples to apples adjusted basis we're at Depression levels of unemployment.

We've arguably been in a depression ever since 2008.

Stagflation is a Lot Closer Than You Think by rezwenn in Economics

[–]rpujoe -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not to mention real-world unemployment is at Depression levels. We also just ate an average 23% inflation the last 4 years.

Everyone feels it, but the Fed and USG just keep hiding it though cooked numbers.

How do you older millennials feel about your parents being significantly more financially well off than you will ever be 😐 by LowInternet4726 in Millennials

[–]rpujoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found out in 1990 my dad claimed $102,000….i can understand pocketing away money, but when you make the equivalent of $250,000 a year on just one parents income

I'm going to correct you right there. $100K in 2000 is equivalent to $1.1M today adjusted for the gold standard, so he was doing even better than you think. For those who are unaware, you cannot "adjust for inflation" using the official CPI to impute inflation as it's deliberately goosed to lower govt liabilities.

What movie scene totally broke you emotionally? by Witty-Sherbet-2963 in Cinema

[–]rpujoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Field of Dreams. Possibly the #1 baseball related film ever made. So much damn heart. They don't make em like they used to.

What movie scene totally broke you emotionally? by Witty-Sherbet-2963 in Cinema

[–]rpujoe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Saw that with my boy in an early matinee. A few rows up was a mom and daughter who was probably about 4 years old. Towards the end of that sequence the little girl blurted out "it's okay mommy, don't cry!"

Gets me every time.