more than almost anything, people innately crave an IDENTITY. this is why young people with no direction and few friends often turn to gangs, cults, and terrorist groups -- because they desperately want to BELONG to something.

people also deeply crave reassurance of their own SUPERIORITY and that they are DOING THE RIGHT THING with their lives.

in 2019 America, liberalism is a cult that reassures its members of their MORAL, INTELLECTUAL, and SOCIAL superiority.

and you can easily signal your membership to this ENLIGHTENED GROUP via SOCIAL MEDIA, where numerous others can virtue signal their own memberships to this ELITE CLUB and reassure each other of their SUPERIORITY.

members of this club do not deign to besmirch themselves by mingling with those of lesser status and opposing beliefs, lest they be judged for their company. additionally, they do not want to hear anything that may question the legitimacy of the thought processes they have fully adopted.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#37667694)

It's tied to female hypergamy, like many ills

Men want or even need to placate women to find and keep a partner. It feminizes them and changes their de facto loyalty from their male friends to women, specifically to the woman they settle down with. So men who once may have been close friends become distrusting of one another, or are often viewed as competition. And I've seen this too many times--adult male "friends" often only stick around to use you as a way to access women and won't hesitate to try to homewreck if they see an opportunity

And of course: fewer shared experiences, little incentive to form bonds when fast easy dopamine hits are right in your pocket, rootlessness making it not worth the investment to build friendships that might just dissolve months later when they get a new job

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#37671223)

Strength is toxic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#37672860)

It sucks that you lose so many people to cowardice and brainwash, but if anything it's just more of a reason to stay true to your principles. If nobody grows a spine and tells these guys to stop being such groveling faggots, then there's zero hope for anything ever getting better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#37672862)

I realize this poast is hypocritical.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#39173720)

A smart, funny, overweight 37 y/o virgin who smokes pot in a tent in his basement.

A Jew & his fob Chinese wife.

A childhood friend suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome who assumes I’m lib.

A mid-40s couple whom I’ve given thousands of dollars in free legal advice for dealing with their own divorces (they’re actually my favorites, though).

A late 60s friend of my dead father.

Various bartenders, who like me because I tip well

A bunch of black dudes who I got into watching Frasier because they are always smoking weed at the 37 y/o virgin’s house

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#39173752)

things happen so slow you don't even realize you're drifting apart.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#39173769)

also i'm not the one that would bring any of this shit up

edit: upon further reflection, i'm still pretty damn sure that they are wrong about their dumb political beliefs and that i am capable of hiding my power level IRL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#39173836)

Also, people aren't predisposed to having "friendships," they are predisposed to having Cliques. Since Jocks/Nerds/Scumbags all have a particular MO and are either chasing some kind of Victory/Engineering thing/pussy/adventure/adrenaline rush, friendship doesn't really come into play. The sort of arrested development that leads to adult men wanting to have "friends" is one of those Loser traits. Leave it to Losers to sabotage this perverse desire of theirs with, of all things, liberal arts. Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4187248&forum_id=2#39191842)