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There is no “man in black.” MIB is just one of the manifestations of the darkness that is the “smoke monster”: Jack’s dad on the island, Eko’s brother, Alpert’s wife, John Locke. It takes on the form of those who have died as a means to trick people into doing what it wants. The “monster” is evil. It is darkness. It is negativity. It is self-cherishing. It is depravity. It is degeneracy. It is anti-spirituality. To let it leave would mean it would spread its influence all over the world. Everyone would end up like Claire.

They also exist to service the car you buy and uphold the warranty the manufacturer provides to cover repairs.

Not sure about MR points and what resorts to suggest.

I like the Dominican Republic, St Thomas, Aruba, Puerto Vallarta. Cabo is great, too, if you’re wanting a desert environment.

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So, by 2024, after the Left was given basically almost 2 full cultural cycles, things had ended up WAY too left.

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Have a upvote. I normally disagree with you. Congrats!

You are spot on. The Democrats, bolstered by the Globalist network and a fawning media, kept holding the pendulum from swinging back right which is why it’s swung back so hard. They squashed the TEA Party (with the help of Establishment Republicans) which caused that movement to morph into MAGA.

In typical Democrat style, they overplayed their hand grossly during Trump’s first term and even more so during Biden’s term. The incessant prosecutions of Trump turned a man who is innately unlikeable into a sympathetic figure who was being unjustly picked on. In doing so, they spit in the face of the American people telling them they cannot prefer an outsider candidate. And if they do, the political machine will destroy him.

This backfired immensely because the Establishment forgot about and underestimated the will and desire of the American people to self-govern.

It’s also why Democrats may never win Gen X back and are facing a very real extinction event. I normally don’t say that because parties always bounce back, but this version of the Democrat Party relies on a mainstream media Americans no longer trust and taxpayer funding that’s been laundered by shell organizations which is now being shut off. They’ve threatened the retirements of Gen Xers and made it impossible for Millennials and Zoomers to afford the life they became accustomed to as children.

They undemocratically dumped their Presidential candidate in favor of someone who was unfit, unprepared, and vapid. This was unacceptable to a majority of Americans who showed up in droves to vote for Trump. The only reason the election was within 2 million votes is because California spent a month ballot harvesting to blunt the Congressional majority.

The pendulum swung back hard because the Democrats, with a lot of help, held it back. Doing so has created such a sharp and overwhelming momentum against them that they may not recover. They certainly won’t if they continue to double down on unpopular policies like they are…

Does this mother know that most penises are flaccid 90% of the time? That’s normal.

It astounds me how little women understand men, our bodies, and what we go through all the while complaining about how misunderstood they are.

Coicado Rories…
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Mariah Carey has a new favorite team: the Mmis. So does ARIANA Grande.

And don’t drive to a Car ‘L stals game.

OMG. LMAO! These can’t be real.

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it is a bit of stunt casting to make you hate him right away. Lets make him a stereotype of every commercial real estate or investment banking douche ever met so that no matter how right he is the viewer will be against him.

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This ^^^

Is what makes this show so good! White plays with stereotypes setting up what looks to be more wokism then breaks it halfway through the season.

Armand is an unreliable pov character.

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Excellent analysis. Have an upvote.

Former HS teacher here:

That stat doesn’t include all of the teachers who are caught but the parents are persuaded not to press charges in lieu of firing the teacher.

I’ve seen it happen.

In each of the first two seasons, White tells stories about straight male characters who are cut off from their masculinity and then find it.

In season 1, the Mossbacher men begin the show emasculated by the women in their family. By the end, Mark has demonstrated his prowess by fighting off his wife’s attacker and Quinn does what every man has to do: separate himself from his family to strike out on his own in a risky adventure.

Despite the douchey exterior, Shane is the most fully formed masculine figure across all 3 seasons. He understands who he is, his place in the world, and what he wants. Yeah, his mom showing up to the hotel is odd, but he never asked her to do it and smartly avoids a scene. He also uses the opportunity to assert to Rachel that she is his wife and that she is now part of his family. All he tells Rachel is how much he wants to make her happy, protect her, and provide a financially stable life. His frustrations and irritations come from Armand going out of his way to prevent Shane from offering her the perfect honeymoon. On the surface, his actions seem selfish, but he demonstrates that he will not be cheated, duped, or embarrassed especially when he’s in the right.

In season 2, Ethan begins the season deferring to the more outwardly domineering Cameron and allows him to pull him into situations that he worries will piss Harper off. He can’t initiate sex with his wife and consistently chooses porn over her, causing her to fall for Cameron’s advances. By the end, he learns to assert himself physically over Cameron by almost drowning him in the ocean. He screws Cameron’s wife to avenge himself then reclaims his own wife by bedding her aggressively.

Albie follows his father’s path by taking his pleasure from a prostitute as revenge for Portia passing him over for the more dangerous Jack. Lucia’s con working on him is an important educational experience where he begins to understand how women work via rejection and manipulation of “nice guys.” His quip to Portia in the airport that he “got played” demonstrates that he sees the error of his naïveté and will assert himself more strongly with Portia going forward.

I see a similar dynamic happening with Saxon and Lochlan. Saxon is pulling Lochlan out of the circle of women. Lochlan’s posture session demonstrates that he is disconnected from himself and his own masculinity. I expect Lochlan to go through some kind of initiation this season that pulls him away from his sister and into the world of men.

We’re also seeing this dynamic play out with Goggins’s Rick who is having to come to terms with the loss of his relationship with his father. He’s had no lasting male initiation experience and has been living a life disconnected from purpose and meaning. He’s right to go to Bangkok against Chelsea’s requests thus enabling him to enter into danger as a means to test himself against it.