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I have been staring at this video trying to figure out why she is smiling as she runs after him and trying to take his hat. Like it's some kind of game or courtship ritual. I guess hat guy also sees this as a game (he seems to be rather young so let's go easy on him), but if what lib-lady says about her beliefs concerning the hat is authentic, why the smile? Shouldn't she have an angry expression?

A lot of female authoritarian types tend to smile and maintain a "nice" expression even when they're furious. Think of an angry kindergarten teacher keeping a fixed smile on her face while she tells the class how disappointed she is that they couldn't stand in line without yelling.

Things make a lot more sense once you recognize that the female left-authoritarian archetype is basically an eternal kindergarten teacher: scolding people for being uneducated, for not standing in line obediently, for not listening to authority figures who always know better than them. All while smiling and "being kind."
 
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I have been staring at this video trying to figure out why she is smiling as she runs after him and trying to take his hat. Like it's some kind of game or courtship ritual. I guess hat guy also sees this as a game (he seems to be rather young so let's go easy on him), but if what lib-lady says about her beliefs concerning the hat is authentic, why the smile? Shouldn't she have an angry expression?

The answer seems to be that lib-lady is "playing a character". I'm not saying the video is fake, rather that our culture has become so performative that lib-lady wouldn't even be able to give you an honest answer on why she did this. It's just "what you do". Brain on complete autopilot, merely reacting to stimuli, but her mind seems to be able to evaluate the situation she is in and deems it as... funny.

I think this is pretty horrifying, personally.
Women like this are intensely pent up. They've been promised emotional release for literal years. Her expression is a mirror of her bloodlust.
 
The “Elon will import infinity jeets” thing is funny to me because we were thiiiis close to having a literal negrojeeta in office.
If you’re hating Elon for the Jeet Question, fair, but I implore you to imagine what would have happened had Kamala gotten in.
We would be seeing Indians fucking airdropped across the country, it would be an unfathomable tsunami of poo.
I agree that it would have been much worse with Kamala, not just with jeets but with people from every third world shithole out there. However, this does highlight the problem I've had for a long time with most so-called conservatives: The left will say "We should do X" and then these people say "No, we should do X but slower", and I'm very much sick of it. Don't get me wrong, compromise is necessary and I don't believe in purity test nonsense, I'm very proudly wearing my "got exactly what I voted for again" award, but I do think we need to keep pushing on these issues that are important to the long term health of the country. Hopefully whoever comes after Trump will go even further in this direction. We have nothing to gain and everything to lose by having loose immigration policies.
 
Asthma is mental illness anyway, you can cure it by just getting over it and working out.
I wish, man. I had to stop working out and running because I developed such terrible asthma after a bad bout of pneumonia. It got so bad I couldn't walk up a couple flights of stairs without stopping to gasp and wheeze and none of the inhaled drugs even took the edge off.

I'm on this expensive-as-shit special drug that I have to inject every couple weeks now. Thankfully, that one has been like a miracle cure for me, but I was effectively disabled until my doc prescribed it.
 
However, this does highlight the problem I've had for a long time with most so-called conservatives: The left will say "We should do X" and then these people say "No, we should do X but slower", and I'm very much sick of it.
That's a large reason Trump got popular because broadly conservatism was just liberalism driving the speed limit. The same thing but "legally!" or just more easier for normiecons to swallow. It really was this totally gamed, rigged bunch of fucking losers who only existed to do whatever the Democrats wanted but just in a way more palatable for their voters. It's why they hate Trump and MAGA so much, you're not supposed to win or buck whatever consensus says is true, you're just supposed to honorably lose and capitulate over time.
 
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I have been staring at this video trying to figure out why she is smiling as she runs after him and trying to take his hat. Like it's some kind of game or courtship ritual. I guess hat guy also sees this as a game (he seems to be rather young so let's go easy on him), but if what lib-lady says about her beliefs concerning the hat is authentic, why the smile? Shouldn't she have an angry expression?

The answer seems to be that lib-lady is "playing a character". I'm not saying the video is fake, rather that our culture has become so performative that lib-lady wouldn't even be able to give you an honest answer on why she did this. It's just "what you do". Brain on complete autopilot, merely reacting to stimuli, but her mind seems to be able to evaluate the situation she is in and deems it as... funny.

I think this is pretty horrifying, personally.
I figured it was just a manufactured viral video and the two men, the woman, and the cameraman were all in on it.
 
Oh, it's worse than it seems. I deal with people from a local CS course. It is true that, after a lot of campaigning, many universities managed to raise the amount of women in CS from ~10% to ~25%. The thing is, most of them aren't at all interested in programming, compilers, or studying algorithms, and many won't even end up working as code monkeys; they're budding middle managers, carefully cultivated by third wave feminist propaganda into studying something they often dislike or don't care about, just to show those stinky boys up by taking over male spaces/reducing the wage gap/being Women In STEM ™️ /<insert cause du jour here>.
I think this is one of the byproducts of those in charge shoehorning women into STEM as a whole and CS programs. Too many are CS majors simply because they are women and they lack either the affinity or desire (or both) to truly learn the subject mater on any sort of meaningful level.

When I studied CS before all this BS permeated academia, many of the women studying CS at the time wanted to do so and actually knew their stuff - and you knew who they were because they were in the same upper-level CS core and elective classes as you were. Even if the numbers of women in CS was "low," those in the program generally had a genuine interest in the discipline and working in the field.

Now, schools and activists are more interested in ticking check boxes and fulfilling DEI metrics that they're throw anyone meeting those criteria into the program even if they can't handle the coursework or plan to work in the field in management positions. A textbook of mine had a joke that "Boss" stood for "Big Old Sorry SOB (who can't code and manages people instead)." What was meant as a playful wordplay joke seems to be more of a real thing now. Worse is the political climate that encourages this and passes it off as a good thing.

This needs to happen nationwide. I've had a lot of experience with truckers, and there are so many of them that cannot speak English, and I don't know how they even got their CDL. Some of them can't even back up in a straight line.
As long as there are states and other governmental agencies that allow drivers to take their tests in their native language and not force them to learn the English necessary to drive any sort of vehicle safely and properly, this is going to be an issue.
 
They hate him because he holds up a mirror to themselves, and they don't like what they see. Much like how when you hold up a mirror to a bird, the bird attacks the other bird in the mirror.

Very few animals pass the mirror test.
Magpies are one of the few, ironically.
 
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New gaslighting method just dropped
“Consume the gay slop or else children will die!!
So we either listen to you, live in pods and eat the bugs. We get slop shoved down our throats, get the jab and develop all kinds of off the wall diseases while billionaires fuck off to China. Or, we don't, we keep our standards of living, Media is Made Great Again, and society ignores climate change preachers while people can afford health insurance again (in both ways). Oh, and billionaires get a tax cut.

That's a really tough choice.
 
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I have been staring at this video trying to figure out why she is smiling as she runs after him and trying to take his hat. Like it's some kind of game or courtship ritual. I guess hat guy also sees this as a game (he seems to be rather young so let's go easy on him), but if what lib-lady says about her beliefs concerning the hat is authentic, why the smile? Shouldn't she have an angry expression?

The answer seems to be that lib-lady is "playing a character". I'm not saying the video is fake, rather that our culture has become so performative that lib-lady wouldn't even be able to give you an honest answer on why she did this. It's just "what you do". Brain on complete autopilot, merely reacting to stimuli, but her mind seems to be able to evaluate the situation she is in and deems it as... funny.

I think this is pretty horrifying, personally.
I want to think it's less complicated than that, and that the unlikely answer is maybe some lampshades are hanging and people realize how utterly ridiculously they're behaving. Probably not true, but, who knows.
 
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