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This guy is right. Why is Gen Z so low testosterone and is it over fur future generations of men?
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>>533264166
>return to monke
nigger
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>>533264166
Oy vey what an antisemitic conspiracy theory

They just dont eat enough beef hehe
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>>533264166
Get of load of captain simp over here.
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>>533264166
>muh dik
You have to be human to post here
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>>533264166
Women are extremely low quality in 2026. It's been this way since at least 2013 but gets worse each year
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>>533264166
The juice is no longer worth the squeeze.
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>>533264318
Having a sex drive doesn’t make you a simp, low T zoomer.
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>>533264318
kek
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>>533264166
They're getting sexual satisfaction from whack'n it to online porn. Much easier than dealing with real people and zero chance of getting locked into an 18 year repayment plan.
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People have finally grown up. It's about damn time.
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>>533264166
Slept for 11 hours last night
feeling /comfy/
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>>533264166
Gen Z is thirty, this guy is in denial about getting old.
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>>533264166
its a major sin.
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>>533264166
>lust boomer doesnt understand the world
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>>533264378
Sleep is better than sex. Women are fucking awful.
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>>533264166
>When I was in my teens and early 20s, id walk a mile over broken glass...barefoot to get laid.
Holy shit was a desperate loser, imagine admitting this like it's a good thing.
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>>533264378
What quality women makes a man a simp nowadays?
They don't exist unless the man is jeet tier levels of desperation.
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>>533264166
I'm tired, boss.
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i can see millions of girls buttholes online from the comfort of own rented 1b/1ba
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>>533264166
COVID "vaccines".
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>>533264166
people have to work to survive
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>>533264166
>if you aren't jestergooning you are a coward
>t. cuckoldinal
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>>533264295
Based and red pilled
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>>533264378
Dragging yourself through broken glass and jumping on rusty nails to touch a femoid does in fact make you a simp
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>>533264318
Learn what simp means zoomie
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>>533264166
SIX SEVEN
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when i sleep like shit i get migraines and i have no interest in putting my mutilated cock in some heifer so its sleep
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>>533264378
Having a sex drive is completely different from the performative "I would do literally anything for sex" shit. It was embarassing, dickless simping back then and it's even worse now with modern women.
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>having a sex drive doesn’t make you a simp, low T zoomer.
>learn what simp means zoomie
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>>533264954
Exactly. At least 15 years ago women were mostly ok looking. Now it's all just fat bitches.
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>>533264166
Porn and the realization that women are demons.
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Modern women are the absolute fucking worst. Absolutely zero redeeming qualities whatsoever. I would rather fuck a pineapple. Besides, having a gf or wife would mean less money for guns and ammo.
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>>533264353
Women are hotter than ever
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>>533264504
No Gen Z is 29 to 14 that’s still relatively young retard
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>>533265153
More like fatter than ever
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>>533264166
In a world like this all I need really is sleep
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>>533265153
The average American woman is obese.
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I'd still walk a mile over broken glass to get pussy. I've just realized that walking a mile over broken glass and failing to get laid isn't worth the attempt anymore.
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>>533264837
I didn’t realize pol was so breathe point jester is making is we actually wanted and tried to get laid. Gen Z was a too lazy dumb and low testosterone.
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>>533265220
>I'm 29, 29 is young!
having the defining personality trait of
>we are young and other people don't understand us
is already exploding in your face
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>>533264988
Gen Z will call you a simp for asking a girl out for coffee.
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>>533265340
young women make more money than men im not buying a woman coffee
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>>533265245
That’s when they hit the wall. 21 year old college girls look better than ever.
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>>533265087
Mostly peaceful BLM strikes again
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Sex is my number one reason to live, I have high libido and body count approaching 3 digits but would not even sacrifice 30 minutes of my sleep for sex.
Actually with my current gf I don't think we ever fucked after 7pm.
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>>533264166
>I would endure humiliation rituals for some slime pocket
Lmao
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>>533265340
>just like ask her out to coffee!!
Go to bed grandpa
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>>533264318
tpbp
>t. millennial
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>>533265417
We are cooked as a society
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>>533264166
Chad doesn't or never has had to walk a mile over broken glass barefooted to get laid. Just saying.
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>>533265428
>21 year old college girls look better than ever.
Oh please. The only attractive ones are all in Chad's harem. 90% of the women on my campus are either obese or brown. Many times they're both.
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>>533265503
and of course neither do women, because of megasimps like this guy
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Pussy you have to work for is never worth it
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let's play a guessing game, anons, what is AXEjfWIp?
>indian
>foid
>troon
>simpimus maximus
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>>533264166
In what fucking world having sex is better than sleep? All time spent awake is inferior to time spent asleep, I feel depressed when I wake up from a dream often even, real life somehow doesn't the same as a dream, feels much worse, even if nothing's bad happening.
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>>533264948
Exactly sex is pointless of you are circumcised. This statistic is specifically on reference to the US not the world
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I genuinely haven't slept well since they rolled out 5g. Used to be uninterrupted 8 hours. Now I get 5-6 hours interrupted.
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>>533264318
/thread
anyone who is willing to sacrifice ANYTHING to have sex with the modern whore is the very definition of a simping cuckold.
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>>533265881
>circumcised
>pointless
kek'd
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Nobody really talks about how unappealing women have become.
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>>533264470
This. Honestly sometimes I’ll just do a group masturbation session with my gf instead of fucking. She likes girl on girl stuff so we always find stuff to watch.
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>>533264166
Low test, low moral. They were born into a dying civilization without enough man juice to weather it, so they are giving up
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>>533264166
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It's become way too much time and energy just to get even bottom of the barrel obese single mom pussy. Hoeflation is real and if you plot it on a chart it's going parabolic.
Back in the day I could pretty much just show a low value munter my cock after 10 minutes and most times that was enough, now they expect the full dating treatment and wooing over multiple days just to get to the same place.
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>>533264166
>1.7M views
X is just pure slop
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>>533264166
what if foreskin harvesting has gotten so out of control they're taking more and more off which has killed most of their sex drive
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>>533265472
It works though trust me. Grab her by the pussy.
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>>533264166
you cant keep your cortisol low without a good nights rest dumbass
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>>533265528
I am just making the point my local college I drive by I don’t see any fat women
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>>533266474
I drive past my local college daily and there are nothing but fat women and brown women and sometimes fat brown women.
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>>533264166
Sleep >>>> having sex
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A good nights sleep>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>being a slave to sexual desires and being a worthless simp to some glorified prostitute
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>>533264166
>the point of life is to have mindless retard sex, do drugs, eat, and poop really got shits!
>what do you mean i'm a nigger??????
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>>533264166
Jewbait, but true. All I ever thought about was pussy and the next pussy from 15 through 30.
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>>533264318
this
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>>533264166
In nature animals won't reproduce if they are in danger, sick, or something is wrong in their environment.
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>>533265747
Sleep really is better than sex. In the evening all I need to think is: why would I squander this opportunity to rest so that I can waste my time and energy for the same sexual high I could get online?
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>>533266716
It's a US statistic and it's true because of circumcision
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>>533266268
we live in a society that has 0 advantage to being a man, so theres no reason to do the negative parts of being a man if you get nothing for it, especially when you see that other men dont actually have to suffer anything to get laid for example
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>>533264166
>noooooo you have to be a desperate thirsty simp or else things just AREN'T RIGHT, you know?
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>>533266474
dont know how thats possible, even the asians are getting fat here
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>>533264166
>I would torture myself for some hole
>Whats wrong with kids that don’t worship sex?
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>>533264166
Game addiction, social media obsession.
Their is a lot of subliminal imagery and audio in today's online world. Largely because it's games and online they can get away with shit and not be subjected to regulation laws governing that area.
Want to know why your child is a fat lazy loser and has developed some type of personality disorder, it's because you let them sit in front of a screen their whole lives disconnected from reality. What to know why he wants to lop off his balls and become a cute little anime doll. Look at all the videos games and videos he's into. Listen carefully to the kpop crap being pushed. The answer is right there folks
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>>533264166
women made the dating scene this way
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>>533264378
Walking a mile over broken glass for a whiff of pussy isn't having a normal sex drive, Captain Simp.
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>>533264378
>>533264889
Sucker
Idolizing
Mediocre
Pussy

When was the last time you saw a modern woman who was EVEN mediocre?
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>>533267041
>Want to know why your child is a fat lazy loser and has developed some type of personality disorder, it's because you let them sit in front of a screen their whole lives disconnected from reality. What to know why he wants to lop off his balls and become a cute little anime doll. Look at all the videos games and videos he's into
its because reality fucking blows fat cocks retard
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>>533264166
women are fucking disgusting now
>hurr durr gay
were it so easy. i just dont see the point. smoker-husky voiced fat fucking slags with mannish behaviour and feminist (slut cope) drivel constantly coming out of their mouths. oh yeah that’s REAL attractive.
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>>533264483
same, I was exhausted and today I feel great
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>>533267179
>When was the last time you saw a modern woman who was EVEN mediocre?
Out and about? Fuck man it's been a hot minute.
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>>533266719
>>533264837
>>533267179
>>533267279
didn’t ask zoomoid KEK
congrats on being the dumbest, virginest, nigger-dick addicted fag generation in recorded history
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>>533267433
You gran never loved you gramps.
She just had no coices.
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>>533267433
Literally every one of these same articles was made for Millennials like ten years ago.
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>>533264166
It's unironically weed
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>>533264166
it's because of porn
you don't need to do anything anymore
no need to create a team of loyal friends to hunt, you can just matchmake online
no need to court girls you can just open phub
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>>533264166
I'm a millennial, but I also never had the urge to seek out pussy. I accept that something is wrong with me.
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>>533267564
And it will be remade for Gen Alpha Gen Beta so forth because it's easy clicks to get ad revenue.
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>>533267190
>Waaaaaaaa life's so hard
Make yourself useful for once sperg and Kys, become spare parts because that's the only thing worth from you
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>>533264166
Someone claiming to be a kid on here said all the gen z dudes shave their legs and it made me laugh for like 5 min
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>>533266550
Where do you live Mississippi? Get out of the south bro
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>>533264166
Engaging in vapid casual sex is weird. Sex is really kinda gross if you think about it.
It should be done primarily as a biological function to create life first, and second as a way to strengthen the bond with a long term partner.
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>>533267433
>idn’t ask zoomoid KEK
>congrats on being the dumbest, virginest, nigger-dick addicted fag generation in recorded history
you know this means this is what the previous generations selected for right?
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>>533267622
Online dating is basically porn for women so I agree. Porn and dating apps should be banned.
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>>533267569
This thread proves pol is nothing but zoomie incels
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>>533264166
This would be based if the reason why zoomers don't care about sex wasn't that they're all satisfied with pornhub and onlyfans.
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>>533267673
theres supposed to be some sort of benefit to men taking on hardships. please point to them
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>>533266360
Thanks to the thousands of sex apps out there, I just blast out "Hey, ya wanna fuck?" until one of them says yes. Just make tons of accounts and spam away, you'll eventually get one. She might not be the prettiest girl at the ball but you can get your rocks off and never interact with her again once you finish. I haven't met a woman worthy of getting an all expenses payed night out, im sure one exists but I haven't met her...
I wish gamer girls actually existed/weren't men who cut their penises off. Just some turbo autist that wants to sit at home playing vidya and looking after the kids.
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>>533264166
>just go fuck stinky pussy after spending retarded amounts of time effort and money for a woman with high body count
i will not be having sex, thanks
maybe ill read a book
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>>533264166
I'm in my 40s and I would prefer the sleep. I'm basically expected to do 2.5 people's jobs at work now, sleep would be more rejuvenating and satisfying. This environment was created by corporate overlords overworking and underpaying people.
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>>533264166
Boomers and millennials (mostly numales) devalued scrotalsacs into the negatives, Gen Z men are doing the thankless job of tackling the deficit of male value.
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>>533267041
Nope
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>>533267673
Holy shit fucking kill yourself fembrained faggot loser.
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>>533266276
every last one 10 bongs out of 10
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>>533264166
Why is Gen Z so tired?
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>>533267433
SAAR
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>>533268340
Go read a book about getting pussy you loser
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sex comes easily
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Gen Z women are kinda shit, so I understand them.
Too much work for really shitty pussy and really shitty attitudes, they all basically act like more cowardly niggers.
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>>533264166
>Zoomers made to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week only to get brainrotted by internet slop the rest of their waking hours
>After being exhausted mentally they dare preferring to sleep
What a mystery. Maybe the neoliberal way of squeezing the workers dry to the last drop for the benefit of a pedophile class wasn't that good an idea, after all.
But's probably the fault of SOSHALIZM or DA JOOS
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>>533264166
I know what it's like to be severely horny, and it's not good. Nobody fucks for free. Also, a good night's sleep makes the next day pretty good. I guess sex can have an aftereffect, but I doubt it compares. It's just a few minutes of rubbing genitals together. Extremely overrated and I say this on the 14th day of nocoom.

>>533267654
Nothing wrong with you. You are superior. Not genetically viable as the species relies on animal instincts, but you're above being an animal. If we ever turn to cloning humans, you should be the model.

>>533267693
The thing is, people want sex, not children or partners. Without the "gross" desire, it all falls apart like a house of cards. No logical reason to debtmaxx (moving out and getting married) or be a natalist. It only makes life harder and objectively worse, despite what ringwraiths will say.

>>533268041
A lot of effort just to pump and dump. I'd only use those shit apps to find a gf/FWB real quick and delete my profile before the entire city saw it, but of course, it doesn't work that way. To do all that just to fuck some sub-mid hoe? Shit, nigger. Just pay a whore.

>>533270423
I don't even know what women are like nor do I care. I have no social drive which makes the whole game 100x more annoying to play. All I know is the intergender dynamics and expectations and see it's all on my back. Women's only "role" is existing while the man makes shit happen. I got shit to deal with and the last thing I need is a woman to take my time and energy.
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>>533264166
sitting down warms the balls up quite a bit.
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>>533269466
>my life revolves around begging for pussy scraps
kinda pathetic desu
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>>533268601
Low T nigger faggot! You're spare parts kek
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>>533264166
>jews make life miserable in all facets
>"Why aren't they doing X like we did?"
Gee, I dunno.
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>>533265417
Quit jestergooning and get that bitch a coffee
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>>533264166
>I would go through hell just to stick my pee pee in a ran through wet hole
what kind of humiliation ritual is this?
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>>533266121
Shouldnt have taken the shot, leaf
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>>533264166
Women have a lot of expectations and im not interested in any of them.
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>>533270423
I’ve heard so many of them repeatedly saying bro in public it’s disgusting hearing a supposed female say that
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>>533264166
sexdolls are better than women
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>>533264166

It's because all the women near them are 22 years old and somehow morbidly obese
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>>533264166
Why would you want modern women
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>>533264166
Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials are the biggest pussy-worshipping simp generations in existence. Pussy is above all else, they don't even CARE if woman it's attached to it is hot or ugly or fat or homely or whatever, all they care about is OOOOOO IS THAT A HECKIN PUSSY I'M GONNA CUM!!
At least Zoomers want attractive pussy attached to a good woman, which is why were all incel. There aren't enough good women willing to fuck most of us so we just LDAR and NEET and NPNW.
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>>533265257
me? I just pay for it

I lost count of how many women I approached and failed, would still be a virgin at 30 if prime prostitute pussy wasn't available
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>>533272777
My hand is better than most modern women.
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>>533265436
kill yourself manwhore
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>>533274085
Shut up bitch millennials were the first to put a stop to it, that's why everyone mid 30s to early 40s is getting divorced, we had kids (you) and zoomers came out to be drooling staring blankly retards so the mom is like fuck this and the dad is like aww shit when their 16yr old cant even do a load of laundry or pick up candy wrappers in their room. Useless dairycow eyes.
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>>533267812
It's not just the porn, that's been around for ages. It's the fact that women are withdrawing consent years after the fact and putting those men's reputations through hell. No one wants to be that guy, especially for mid women.
Men have to be able to interact with women without having a metaphorical gun held to their heads for this situation to improve.

>>533274500
It's the women divorcing the men though. You guys are only stopping the simping after you've paid the price of getting divorce raped. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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>>533264166
pussy lost all of it's appeal. pussy without personality is no different than your own hand.
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>>533264166
How are 40 year olds having sex if their vouyering 20 year olds all day long?
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This asshole has obviously never spent more than 5 minutes with a Gen Z woman
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They don't jerk off and work out enough.
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>>533264378
You can be high T and have some self awareness and self control. You are just a monkey. A instinct driven retard.
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>>533274776
Wrong, we believed the world for what we were told from boomers/genx, work hard, get a good girl, etc.. but that went to shit with 9/11 and all the social contract went out the window. In the middle of our 20s no less, world turned upside down. I cant wait until zoomers are in the real world, staring stupidly forward, cant even get up the dopamine to get enough motivation to do a wash lol
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>>533264166
That's a false dichotomy, you can have sex and then get a good night's rest.

What's true is that nobody wants to be up all night at bars and clubs hoping to get lucky.
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>>533264166
They're starting to realise women get more out of a relationship than men.
And you have to basically build your whole life around sacrificing yourself to please a hole that could flip any moment and go with another guy.

And then scientists wonder: gee why do men die earlier
Because you'd pick sex over a good night of sleep, like a moron simp.
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>>533275597
Yeah that's what is was all about, all of that hard work - getting status, money and assets to get the girl, i.e., simp shit. The old social contract revolved around you being a slave for a pussy.
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>>533264166
i'm sure if you could take zoomers 40 or 50 years to the past, they'd also walk a mile over broken glass to get laid
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>>533264353
/thread
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>>533264318
kek, why does Gen-Y act like sex is some transcendent experience that NEEDS to be had. it's not that special. modern women are not worth it. they're all brainwashed mudshark whores and jewish slave cattle. no hope.
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>>533264166
when I was 15 I used to sneak out of my window at 3am by jumping onto an oil tank then i'd hop on my bike and ride 3 miles to this big tiddied hapa girls house and then she would jump out her window and we would ride back to my place and screw for a couple hours then go to school.
It was both glorious and traumatizing for both of us. Not worth it at the end of the day, and I know for damn sure my daughter will never be allowed to get away with the shit that my highschool girlfriends used to pull.
I can only imagine how much better my life would be had I not focused so much on getting laid as a teenager, and had she not grown up to be a total whore.
Movies like KIDS ruined us from a very young age, personally I think Larry Clark should be <redacted> in the street
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Apparently zoomer men have to break their own jaws with a hammer to get a better jawline to get laid. And there's 0.1% chance a relationship will result in children. If I was a zoomer today I too would prefer sleep and porn.

Luckily I was born in the 1980s + good jawbones so I cant even remember how many girls virginity I took.
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Maybe modern women shouldnt have made themselves into insufferable, unfuckable borderline BPD whores. Has that simp even LOOKED at the fucking menu lately, let alone tried anything from it? Jesus wept.
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>>533264166
Pussy is very rarely worth it
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>>533264166
When I was younger women were pleasant to hang out with, had a sense of humor, didn't think every man on earth was actively trying to fuck them, had hobbies, could hold a conversation, and didn't stay glued to a smartphone.
>They also didn't hate men
>They also didn't try and build rosters
>They also weren't ticking time bombs waiting to out your dirty laundry when they got mad at you.
>They also did not get support for being vindictive and were mostly shamed for false claims.
In other words, women now are turbo victims who treat you shitty and blame you for them betraying you and try to ruin your life cause they think it's funny.
Yeah, I'd rather take 8 hours of sleep too.
>Now add to this it is forbidden to so much as suggest that women may be the problem in the equation or shame them for doing shitty things.
Honestly, I applaud the fuck boys who straight up tell women they won't even talk to them as a friend unless he is smashing her. Women's self esteems need to be destroyed.
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>>533276248
>I know for damn sure my daughter will never be allowed to get away with the shit that my highschool girlfriends used to pull.
"Heh I gots mine, fuck you inkwells"
Your daughter will be sleeping around and you won't be doing shit about it boomer.
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I did the walk barefoot in glass a few times from different women for the promise of sex just for her to she has a headache. After the 3rd or so time you just stop trying unless it’s a 1000% sure bet.
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Can't say we weren't warned about the environment. Boomers did this.
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>>533264166
>What is going on with these younger generations?
Women.
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>>533265340
Maybe women should get hobbies and interests so society doesn't have to pretend like "getting a coffee" is a thing
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>>533264166
>giga simp with ai pfp saying young men bad
lol lmao even
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Porn they all tired and coomed.
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peace > jewish lust

stop acting like rutting animals jews selling rap music want you to be
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>>533265340
>just ask her out for coffee bro!
Yeah, and then what? Take her to some nice restaurant, then a fancy cocktail bar and then MAYBE she will grace me with hug and a promise she will allow me to let her suck more money out of my bank account. Woohoo! Fuck that shit lmao, skip the ole song and dance and go straight to a prostitute, cheaper AND the sex is better too.
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>>533275938
that shit only lasted 100 years and it'll be gone in the next 20

Not great for young adults who got screwed, but at least you get to make the new rules if you survive
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If we're being honest, a good amount of gen z are porn addicts just because its a vice thats literally free.
Besides that, cumming is seen as something you do to get rid of the haze of horniness that fogs over your mind. Its not the goal itself.
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>>533277427
Listen dude, if during the first meeting no sparks fly, or she doesnt give vibes thats shes interested, dont even go on with her.

For i its always first meeting yay or nay, mostly yay. No “second date for dinner” just meet at your home or hers and watch a movie with drinks.

Dont be a jestergooner
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>>533269466
Kek what faggot simp
Guarantee I have fucked more than you and i can surmise this because you still think its worth it
what a poor soul
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>>533264166
I'd never have sex again if it meant being able to fall right asleep when I go to bed instead of dealing with insomnia
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>>533264166
Because women are fucking awful and waking up after a good night's rest is probably one of the best feelings in the world.
Also that shit is free, you know how much it costs to even access women?
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>>533277427
>>533277767
people who give any singular advice related to gratifying women or a womans presence should be killed
faggot simps like you with no self control pine over the most mid cunts because maybe your mom hated you or something idk
>just make an effort bro, give your resources away to a girl with 100 prior dicks inside her
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Also we have to be fair women in general have become extremely unpleasant to be around. Also there so many femcels fat lesbians who hate men.
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>>533277767
and of course its a dickless nederlander posting this horse shit, go get fucked by an afghani refugee by the canal you daisy faggot
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The thing is that these bitches are now so uppity that they'd now make you carry them back over the broken glass to get laid.

Juice just not worth the squeeze anymore.
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>>533264166
they see the enslavement trap and are not complying
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>>533268730
I miss 10/10 in Bongland anon :(
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>>533264166
Rest is rest
Also why do you care so much?
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>>533278337
He's a condoms salesman and is sad about loss in revenue.
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>>533264166
It's fairly simple. Feminism has ruined young women and made them all monsters. It has in turn demoralized tons of men.
Then there's the fact that as a millennial raising my kids, ALL the kids they went to school with in middle school had divorced parents. All.
Eventually it even happened to my ex wife and myself. 100% divorce.
So the zoomers have seen that too. Universally. Their parents got divorced and so did everyone else's parents they know.
The only reason the divorce rate isn't 100% is because so many boomers stayed married.
As soon as they die off it's going to rise drastically to around 100%.
All of this combined, is absolute demoralization in regards to dating, having a family, marriage, children.
Especially to men, all this isn't worth it.
And then I almost forgot the economy is so trash, there's no hope of owning a house, having a good income, how are you supposed to raise a child in that mess? With great struggle nothing else. For at least 20 years.
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>>533278010
I never chase and never go on a second date. We meet at home. You’re the cuck, probably jestergooning and lonelymaxxin at the same time
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>/pol/ is finally starting to realise women are the problem
you actually love to see it

god, this place has been simp central for too long

>>533272777
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>>533264166
Circumcision makes sex feel like shit, most young American men were raped by doctors.
Quality of women is subpar - obesity, unpleasant tattoos, coochie stink, & racial abominations
Sex outside of enhancing intimacy with your girl and reproduction is dumb, society was hoodwinked into believing pursuing sex in and of itself was somehow noble/admirable by the sexual revolution and queerdom.
No money to get to the point where you even have the ability to have sex even if you work, and no privacy.
If you become intimate with a girl, she can drop you instantly due to social media/suffering no recourse through shaming mechanisms, so there's no use trying to be dedicated to a girl
Women's employment and education

There's no point, can't blame zoomers at all. There are also things better than reckless sex like building, working out, reading, and generally learning things that are actually useful. I'm sure hormones have to do with it, but micro plastics are mostly a meme, its the female hormones in the drinking water from birth control
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>>533278661
enjoy your divorce rape :)
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>>533278795
Im not talking about marriage. Im not married. Why so negative here?
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Walking over glass to earn a few minutes of gratification is a problem. What the fuck.
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>>533277767
>Listen dude, if during the first meeting no sparks fly, or she doesnt give vibes thats shes interested, dont even go on with her.
Nigger, that's 95% of every woman under the age of 30.
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>>533277958
It's on women to know how much they're actually worth so it's not my problem
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>>533278658
How the fuck will s()yciety cope? I read somewhere that half the mothers in the west are single. What would happen if half the men ended up NEETmaxxing? This is going to be interesting.

>>533278669
You've clearly not been living under the rock (4chan.org) for a while. Women have been blamed here for as long as I remember. Yes, there used to be more apologists, but the majority opinion was always like this. I personally blame the system being completely rigged to blow first and foremost, but I do despise the lie of monogameme that we've been sold. I despise it so much that I'm still not fully done seething about it 5 years after I figured it out.
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Pussy is overrated
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>>533278883
Das waddim sayin
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>>533264166
They don't fucking go outside and move their bodies.

/thread
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>>533264378
Yeah, but why would I try to impress some 25 year old bitch when I can just spend 10 minutes jerking it to anime girls and then go on with my day?
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>>533279065
Humans have sex in private, not outside in public.
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>>533278961
>but the majority opinion was always like this
Are you retarded or a newfag? Back in 2016, the entire purpose of this board was to convince young guys to stop watching anime and play video games and to instead man up and have kids to save the white race. You have no fucking clue how much simping was going on back then. It was beyond disgusting.
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>>533278961
>What would happen if half the men ended up NEETmaxxing?
We're just about there. And generally this is white men neeting. Their parents are better off than they are so they end up living with them or off them. Because DEI has is against white men. It's not for equality or any of that nonsense it's hiring of women, trans, any other race that's not white men.
So society is against white men, it's very hard for them to get a career and very hard to hold onto it if they have one.
So they simply give up. The failure to launch isn't even really their faults, society doesn't want them anyways.
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>>533264166
Its simple I am not a faggot ruled by my base instincts
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>>533264166

Have you seen what they eat?!

Also, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2418257122
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>>533278661
I can't even jerk off anymore because I think to myself "would I fuck this woman" and instantly think of the amount of dick these whores have taken
I am checked out mane, no goonerjestermaxxing or whatever the fuck you retards are into
The only solution is become extremely rich, and to insulate oneself from foids and any other low class 'people'
The man who can't accept solitude is no man at all
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>>533264166
Why do older generations turn casual sex into a virtue?
Every traditional society considered it a vice to be avoided and discouraged.
And why is it considered some kind of "own" to boast about how you'd walk barefoot over glass for a mile to get casual sex? To me, that's just a horny guy lacking self-control, a person whose basic drives can't be tamed by their capacity for reason, perhaps because their rationality is deficient.
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>>533278933
Checked
Very smart post
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>>533265340

>asking a girl out for coffee.


>Just talk to girl bro
>Make Le White Children
>Why Arent U Married ManChilDrEn

These millenials nigger rly think life work like in SIMS game where life has no complexity and you simply interact with small talk as a complete stranger. We're no longer in the 80s retard. You're as out of touch with reality as a boomer; you have no business being on this site anymore.
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>>533279170
I'm a 2013 newfag, but I'm pretty sure this place was always critical of women in many ways. Not that much has changed. Sure, there was tradcuck wignatism I even fell for because I was young and impressionable, but blaming women was always popular.

>>533279235
Hopefully I'll see a bloody revolution in every western country while I snack on pop corn.
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>>533279386
I've never heard someone give a real reason for why you fucking HAVE TO HAVE SEX OR BE IN A RELATIONSHIP
Other than fear of loneliness
Do these people not understand being with God at all moments and at peace? The outer will not fulfill the inner
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>>533264166
GEN Z IS THE FIRST MAJORITY BROWN GENERATION!

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth bros. If anything we need to focus on how to keep this trend going.
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>>533279170
kek my brother fell for it and now he’s shacked up with some malignant narcissist florida cunt
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>>533264166
White zoomers have 3 generations before them to observe. We won't fall into the mistakes ya'll made. Just pump a woman and have a kid then go straight into debt slavery, nah, uncs. We learned what not to do also, you made this bed, niggers
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>>533264378
Have you tried just jacking off then going to bed? It's what I do when I am too turned on to sleep sometimes.
Women are not worth the fucking trouble nowadays.
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>>533279525
I do often wonder how non-whites reproduce. Even most whites aren't that good looking, but non-whites? Just an ocean of ugliness.
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>>533264166
i used to sneak out and ride my 3wheeler to my gfs house but i had to push it 1/2 mile so my dad didn't hear it fire up. on the way there it was a great idea but on the way home at 4am with school at 8am, i was wishing i'd had a good night's rest
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Knowing there's virgins on this board... my son recently lost his virginity. Found out because the gf's parents went through here texts, then called upset and pulled her from the programs they had together. Pretty fucked up, desu. Honestly it's her who did it. She may even post here... the things I heard that girl say while I was chauffeuring them...Not to mention their older daughter is TRANS... really mind boggling. it's almost like they're upset she's not gay.
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>>533279598
It's impossible to know the true machinations of animals
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>>533279316
Can anyone name one traditional, non-decadent society, before the West in the mid 20th century and later, where things like casual sex, binge eating, filling one's head with propaganda voluntarily (rage bait media that people binge on), being self-absorbed and greedy: a traditional, non-decadent society that valorized this stuff?
I can't think of one. The only pre-1960 examples that come to mind were all decadent places: the Roman Empire, Weimar Germany, 1920s Roaring America etc.
Sure, the sex drive, greed for money and status, loving to eat, working oneself into a rage against perceived enemies etc.: these are all natural, instinctive things. But the point of culture and civilization is to tame our instincts and make rationality supreme over our baser drives. Thus every traditional society, and even modern ones before they turned decadent, acknowledged that all these things exist, but discouraged them strongly, and had penalties in place for violating the prohibitions on these natural vices. People were expected to keep their base drives in check for the sake of society, and societies had practices in place to hold people's worst natural behaviors in check.
Since the 1960s or so, those traditional barriers have been torn down in modern societies. The consequences may feel "liberating," but only for a while as things deteriorate yet haven't reached a crisis point yet.
The counterculture turned libertine hedonism into some kind of virtue. The 1980s neoliberal revolution in economic culture or people's thinking about money turned greed into a virtue, whereas older societies knew that these forces, despite the fact that they're natural, have to be held in check so they don't run amok and wreck society.
We're on the road to ruin and there's no off ramp at this point. The modern West is now irreversibly in its decadent stage.
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>>533264166
Im 32 and ive never held a girls hand, never kissed, never been on a date, and definitely still have my virginity.

I havent even approached a woman since before covid.
Yeah im sad that im missing out on a major life milestone, but theres nothing i can do. Gotta work 65+ hours a week to afford bills and im way too tired to go to a bar with my half day off. I dont even jerk off anymore. I thought it would give me the drive to get out there. 14 months cumless and still no drive.
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>>533264166
Why would you disrespect yourself for a wet hole?
That's just being desperate, dude.
Im a millennial and I would choose a good night's sleep over such a ridiculous thing.
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>>533279737
I would take back my virginity in an instant
Just understand people who have an incessant need for sex and validation from sexual partners are hooked on feelings that pass and fade
Purity is often overlooked and underappreciated
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Should people on an H1-B VISA be given citizenship, if they marry a U.S. Citizen?

Should the children of H1-B VISA holder's be granted U.S. citizenship? (Even if born in the U.S.)?
Or should there be a special law that specifically states their children cannot be given naturalized U.S. citizenship? (Under any circumstance, while a parent has an H1-B VISA).
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>>533279315
So you’re essentially solitudemaxxin
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>>533279445

Yes, being a Wignat in 2026 is 2015coded and it's cringe. They spent their days for decades posting pictures of white women with flower crowns on the ground, sitting in the grass (something that absolutely doesn't exist in reality; these guys invented an alternate reality where white women needed saving, lol). I used to be on jeuxvideo.com in the early 2010s (the same culture as 4chan, before), and it was the same in the early 2010s, very anti woman and redpilled, and around 2014 there was a rise in popularity of simps (I fell for it too, but I was young)

https://streamable.com/mm8w1f This video finally ended up redpilling the cucks in France; that was the final redpill.
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>>533264166
>get urge to waste a bunch of time and money trying to find some hole
>jack off to hentai and i'm over it in 10 minutes
simple as
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>why is a generation pumped full of microplastics and estrogen low test HMMM
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>>533264318
Im gen y/ millenial 33 y.o.
I fully agree, dont simp like a fornicating FAGGOT NIGGER
Although if im in a relationship, why would i want a "good nights sleep" when thats exactly what sex does if you can properly be intimate?
This thread is bonkers
And another screencap shitter
Into the trash it goes
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>>533280290
>t.jestergooner
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>>533264166
i am gen z and am probably low test
I am happy to not have a libido
the only reason why i would get hormone therapy would be to get more motivation for my work
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>>533280346
Go take good vitamine d tablets and in summer get sunlight on skin. Dont be a lowtestmaxxer
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>>533280101
I believed in the wignat crap, but not whole-heartedly. I just wanted the monogameme lie that s()yciety sold us, but I was always suspicious because I could see what kids were like already in 6th-7th grade and couldn't get it. I spent a better part of my late teens and early twenties in absolute awe of the fact that virginity is no longer a thing. How the fuck does anyone fall for marriage anymore is beyond me.

>https://streamable.com/mm8w1f
I don't speak baguette.
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>>533280099
yep and never been happier
animals are better to be around
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>>533264166
There's too many fuckin' niggers at the party. And by niggers I mean the women mind controlled and deep rape glucked by kike jewish evil spirit world, and given bad nature not native of humans from human world, and of Heaven.

>"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
-George Orwell

And so you see all die of the joozish war enemy sataniztz and extraterrestrial alien hybrid nonhuman bioweapon afflicted genetic zombie people. For how the real world changed in to something so nonhuman, and so shot between the toddler eyes since 1999, you all deserve to be depopulated. And that is precisely what the smartphones and chemtrails in conjunction have for you so well underway. They ugly graying of the air and all the soil. For deviating the stability of the Earth's magnetic field so far the breathable air atmosphere in most of the world is turned to sky high amounts of radioactive deuterium and tritium. Let it touch their little offspring's jewsatan faces, and dry one eye, and dry the other, and give them the only chin up they'll ever know. For their own parents were the enemy and they were the enemy.

Now that's how to spiritual true love fuck 4 million or more girls in the entire world.
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>"What's your body count millennial hot white guy?"

"4".

>"It's four?"

"Four MILLION XD"
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>>533280518

A man named Augustin tried to play the white knight by "saving" 2 women (the ones you see in the video) from Nafri, who was apparantly harassing them. Augustin ended up in the hospital, nearly dead, after being caught in a 2v1. The women then posted the video on social media, mocking him, and in the video, they laugh as they explain that he was knocked out.
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>>533264166
Need a race war, badly
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>>533264166
its easier to goon in front of have a 5,000$ machine than go talk to women
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>>533264483
This post made me jealous like no post about sex would.
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>>533281063
Well, at least it redpilled people. Always look for the good side in things.
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>>533278764
It's this. The stat is only from the US
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>>533264166
Chemical Warfare via Consumer Goods by the Jews.
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>>533264620
This.
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>>533266435
>It works though trust me
It doesn't, it even works for them as an excuse to bail from a situation
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>>533264378
>>533264166
Women are genuinely horrendous and anybody who is enamored with them in 2026 is a low iq ape.
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>>533266184
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>>533264166
>im such a winner for plapping this beat out roastie thats had their lips asshole and pussy sprayed by other mens cum
all men desire virgins and they actually compete to steal virgins from other men. just for that im going to send a nasty message to a bunch of germans and jews and scottish people who think they're funny.
imagine me pissing on your faces for all of eternity. that would be funny, wouldn't it? that's exactly whats about to happen.
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>>533264166
> I'd walk a mile over broken glass...barefoot to get laid.

This faggot is part of the problem. When I was in my 20's, I wasn't one of these dudes who'd do anything for a girl to sleep with them. I wanted to find a girl who was decent and not a degenerate whore. Even the decent ones put out, so it's not like you have to pick one or the other.

It's guys like him that give these bitches inflated egos, because they will just do whatever they say or put up with whatever they do for a crumb. Don't be a retard and center your life around women. The Zoomers have the right idea. Women are reading all these fantasy books about hooking up with selfish douchebags because guys like Jum were simping for them for a generation.
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>>533266387
Isn't that what jews did anyways? circumcision is just snipping the loose part up front that doesn't touch the gland, and nowadays it's the whole thing and they even stretch the penis to grab the skin under the gland.
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>>533264166
gen Z females would walk a mile over broken glass for sex. it just has to be with a gigachad, everyone else gets nothing.
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>>533264166
Microplastics have nuked everyone's testosterone.
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>>533264166
>>533281773
imagine being a young teenager and having your virgin waifu stolen by some elite faggot with energy weapons. this is basically what young men are up against nowadays.
how do i know? it happened to me. i was dating a girl in HS and they started torturing me with energy weapons to get us to break up.
this is the true lengths these subhumans are willing to go to keep us from breeding and being happy.
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Sex is accessible easily. A good night’s rest is a luxury. Z is right and this guy is a simp.
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>>533281885
It's from circumcision you dope
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>>533264166
>>533264318 (You)
Zoomers are vaccinated, porn brained, terminally online and mentally retarded
All you need to do is read this entire thread of painful cope from humanity's genetic dead ends
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>>533279170
>making your life objectively better and having children is simping
>literal REPRODUCTION is simp shit
You're fucking retarded. You don't know what the words you say even mean.

>>533279445
We've been critical of women since the very start because this place used to be a hangout exclusively for parmavirgins. I still remember the very idea of pretending you have a girlfriend being laughable on here, of the sheer amount of waifuist you would see in literally every thread. I miss all that anime posting, constant, confident, and sure of itself that this place was home. The truth is 4chan wizards were the ones that taught /r9k/ robots who taught MTGOW who taught Reddit who taught normies the truth about women. We've been warning the world since the start how 19/20 millennial women choosing to be whores by 2010 is not sustainable for a productive society and just look how far we've fallen now! Now women being whores is the least of our worries, they've all decided to enter the fascist, sexless, godqueen phase of feminism. I'm honestly more shocked it took this long after the literal 2/3 of men are virgins that never even tried statistic came out for normal people to accept this as a real problem. That should have been the final warning bell for men to get out there and change themselves, to try to change women, but instead we just shut down and started fapping even harder.
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I've just clocked out. I spent most of my youth simping (29 now) and the only pussy I've ever gotten was when a woman decided that she had both humiliated me and been treated like shit by Chad for long enough, that she had finally decided that she would give the pathetic whimp the privilege of dating her and that such whimp was me. I can see that such is the only way for any woman to give me, an average man in every sense of the word, a chance, and I just don't want to do that anymore, I'd rather die alone than embarrass myself in that way anymore, no woman is worth that.
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>>533264378
I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR PUSSY

>I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR PUSSY

I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR PUSSY

>I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR PUSSY

I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR PUSSY

>I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR PUSSY
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>>533282607
I was thinking the other day about why women hate than men spread their legs when they sit and it always reminds me about sperm needing to be produced in these cooling balls hanging from your body and then it hit me. Primitive "relationships" was grug at the watering hole with his cock and balls hanging for the women to see and they literally just came over and sat in your dick. Like monkeys, lol
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Chad here.
A good night sleep is way better than sex. Specially after 30. Casual sex is ok but gets fucking annoying after a while, specially after fucking and you want the bitch to fuck off.
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>>533265728
Indian.
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>>533272777
Checked
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>>533266993
>even if the woman makes more money than you. You exist to serve.

>even when back in the day men were the sole earners. They had to serve.

>A woman would never put up with no broke man. Just like a man would never put up with a broke woman... right?
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>>533267673
Why are you spending your more valuable time here with people you view as spare parts?
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I’d rather just jerk off. It’s quicker and I’m always tired.
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>>533264166
>something is not right
they had their dicks cut
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this was the average in the 90s. why even bother at this point?
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>>533283668
Listen you just need a nigger wife, cut your losses marry a nigger. If you're lucky she knows voodoo and can curse your neighbors with COPD
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>>533264318
This.
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>>533283668
Yeah but everyone had shit teeth in the 90s.
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>>533267695
Kek. Got him.
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>>533283899
imperfect teeth are cute as fuck. unnaturally perfect teeth are boring at best and creepy/stepford wife-tier at worst
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>>533264166
did he break into someone's house and rape them?
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>>533264166
i'm good,orcmaxxing right now.had several zoomer girls show interest in me
t.orcmaxxed 30yo boomer
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>>533264166
>Fight degeneracy
>It works, next generation is less degenerate
>Get mad about it
Millennials are kind of weird
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>>533264166
I don't really blame zoomer bros. It's super rare if zoomer girls smile at me. Usually it's all frowns and glares with them.
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>>533264166
Screen time,
Blue light
Not processing their thoughts
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>>533264166
Marriedfag here. I choose sleep over sex every chance I get, unless my wife is so horned up that I can't get away without laying pipe.

Sex is honestly a lot of work for a mediocre reward as a man. Does it feel good? Yeah, I guess. But it's not the life changing sublime experience that incels think it is. You've got to thrust, use your hands, keep your boner, and do all of this long enough to satisfy her. It's honestly exhausting, and the older you get the harder it gets.
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>>533264166
Seems like low T beta to be desperate about getting laid just to hope to feel better about yourself. Only to get used and abused and have your life ruined by women in the long run. You will never get that time back wasted trying to please some bitch.
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>>533264166
masturbatory mediatic habits, weak/lazy parents feeding them goy slop full of plastic and endocrine disruptors
>>533264483
7 hrs is the sweet spot, and the more you sleep the more likely you are to die
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>>533266121
get yourself a farady net to put over your bed, done
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>>533264353
i actually got chat to admit people are going to start getting women fatigue, especially younger women against older women and vice versa

the next century will be the fall of women because no sane man wants to be a part of what a woman is doing in the way a woman wants to be a part of whatever a man is doing

they’re an uppity chaser-race of government and corporate simps who also help to constantly supply empty amazon boxes to every apartment building recycling room

women are the most useful idiots to ever exist, and I’ve been married for 16 years and have two teenaged kids
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>>533266239
Both of you are defective, unless you both find each other unattractive.
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>>533284749
Whatever happened to Miladys? I used to see them all over the good side of the fediblock list and now they are just vanishing.
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>>533266276
I like how the slam pigs hurry past the camera. Surprisingly self aware.
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Jerking off saves all of the time, drama, and money. I can’t think of an argument against this which isn’t steeped in outdated sentimentalism.
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>>533284514
you cant even look chad in the ey in the street so you deserve to be filtered as the genetic failure that you are.
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>>533264166
Having sex used to be a biological and social fun harmless thing, but now ot’s a jewish legal minefield and state/corporate micromanaging thing. It’s like how video games stopped being fun thanks to the jewish changes they made to them, so people stopped playing them.
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>>533276757
at least one of us has gotten laid, fucking clown.
"boomer"
anyone over 30 who has had sex is a "boomer" now guys
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>>533264166
It's not just Gen Z

Nothing beats a good nap
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>>533267433
its not the 80s anymore uncoid
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>>533284587
>the more you sleep the more likely you are to die
You often see firefighters at fires, therefore firefighters cause fires.
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>>533264166
Low test.
It makes you lethargic and low sex drive, anxious, depressed etc
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>>533264166
>destroy country by fillings it with niggers, nons, and fags
>wut culd be rong wit deez keedz?!
Yeah, what a fuckin' mystery.
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>>533264166
Jews constantly shit on Gen Z to demoralize them.
Hate Jews or perish.
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>>533264166
This is just firm handshake logic but instead of begging for a wage from your employer it's acting like a dog so a woman will fuck you.
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>>533265153
You retarded nigger I said lower quality. For you to assume that means hotter or not and not based on values/personhood shows what a simple virgin loser you are
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This is the Generation that is going to grow up and destroy the USA. Upon this rock I will build my church. Nothing you remember of it will be spared. You don't feed the citizens and children into furnaces and then expect mercy. Everything will burn.
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>>533285476
I think you’re projecting. I think YOU cannot look people in the eye
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>>533264166
When I was at the age I felt that way about sex, most girls would put out but also want a relationship. They weren’t virgins by any means, but they weren’t out fucking random dudes just to fuck random dudes. There was a general, quiet expectation it was not a one night stand.

Whores still existed back then, but no one put any effort into them because they are whores. They literally do not require effort by definition.

Zoomers, right or wrong, apprehend all females as whores. If it takes anything more than marginal effort, or is costly (such as money spent on dates, or feeling like shit the next morning) it’s not worth it once you stop being a teenager.

This is also why their drinking seems so much lower when expressed in dollars: they aren’t drinking at bars because the women there are not worth it.
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>>533291488
It’s probably the end times ngl
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>/pol/ has frank conversations about sexual relations thread
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>>533264166
>when I was in my teens
boomer
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>>533277668
>cumming is seen as something you do to get rid of the haze of horniness that fogs over your mind.
Literally this,
I can not start lusting over coworkers again, I need to keep a clear head.
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>>533264166
I’d also take a good nights rest. Being a desperate simp is nothing to be proud of
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>>533264318
kek but I don't imagine the renaissance ending soon, 3 years+ at least regardless of political situation
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>>533266276
10/10 demure wife material in bongland
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>>533264166
Why are pol posters such humongous faggots and retards. It's like everything you post is all bait and lies but you're completely serious. This board has changed so much over the years it's just become cringeworthy.
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>>533264166
Plastics and birth control in our water supply from women pissing it out

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