It's crazy how you can go from a relationship of 2 years plus to hos and the hos have more respect than the singular woman of two years.

There is some fault of my own for getting lazy or excepting behaviors that I shouldn't in a LTR.

My experience, to some fault of my own, is hos treat me better, than I require from LTRs.

@Kloi Hoes show that women can be very nice when they want to be. Its astonishing how women can be so nice when they think they are going to benefit, yet ignore a man from whom they benefit greatly daily.

Its all about what they are getting, not what they have. Somehow a LTR needs to still leave her wanting to work to get more not take for granted what she has.

@Typo-MAGAshiv

One day you will learn the power of enjoying the joke for what it's worth

@Typo-MAGAshiv I broadly agree but think foreign aid can have two useful functions. One is as a bribe to a country in return for access to trade terms or resources or as a reward for past service to keep an ally loyal. The other is simply humanitarian in the case of great and unplanned for disaster. Both these things can help a country that gives aid to maintain influence and a good image.

However where we are at the moment is just a sort of Christian inspired self loathing where the west assumes it is its duty to be a cuck and pay to raise up other countries who despise it and its principles -because its the right thing to do. Fuck that. Its the wrong thing to do.

@Vermillion-Rx one of my best friends from my university days is of Indian descent.

His parents are very successful, quite rich in Canada and the US.

They decided to retire to their ancestral homeland where they aren't just rich, but ultra-rich and can live like kings.

After seeing some of the tourist videos of India, especially from Bald & Bankrupt, I'd rather stay here and live like a normal person. What a shithole.

@odaklanan_insan dude seems pretty based.

I feel the same way about American lives vs foreigners.

We need to understand that almost everyone in the world feels that way about their own, except we westerners have been brainwashed to have suicidal empathy, pathological altruism, whatever you want to call it. The rest of the world uses it against us to exploit us and slowly conquer us. Hence the demographic ruin in much of Europe, and that invasion in Spain yesterday.

I wanted to ask y'all how common is this type of ideology among Israelis?

Israelis aren't a monolith. Ever watched their parliament?

A lot of US resources go into supporting Israel

I'm personally in favor of ending all foreign aid. The rest of the world needs to learn to fend for itself for a change.

@First-light @Kloi

In addition to the difficulty of maintaining an LTR in the current mating landscape, this might also have to do with the "Fast vs Slow life strategy" model. LTRs need more pronounced Slow traits.

Update!

Surgery was this morning. Everything seems to have gone well. I can reposition myself on the bed without substantial pain, which is a dramatic improvement over when I came in. Even got up and went to the bathroom today.

Was told I've a reasonably good chance of being discharged tomorrow if the ortho staff sign off on it. Here's hoping.

As I've said before, I'm glad the hospital is here and incredibly grateful to the staff keeping me (relatively) comfortable and well fed, but I miss my bed. And my cats. And food that doesn't taste like beige.

As was Bill Gates

As was Elon Musk

@Vermillion-Rx funny, but fake

Bezos was still a multibillionaire post-divorce