It’s likely not even a US op, and division like this benefits places like China and Russia even more.

Nope, it’s 3

The third one was technically a friendly fire shoot down, but it still ended up at the bottom of the same sea.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-aircraft-carrier-red-sea-cost-navy-millions-dollars-mishaps-2025-5

Don’t forget the new submarine fleet, three new vessels in the last two weeks.

WEALREADY HAVE TRADE DEALS WITH EVERY COUNTRY

We don’t rip them all up when we change prime ministers or something equally as stupid

Leviticus 18:19

but you shall love your neighbor as yourself*

* unless they fall into one of the following categories: If they love someone who has the same sexual parts as themselves, if they have different skin color from yourself, or if they wear a dress while having a penis or pants while having a vagina"

Cannot get a trade with any country? We already have trade agreements with almost every country. The only thing that has changed recently is the US.

What kind of propaganda bullshit are you strung out on?

What? who suggested women initiate dating conversations with men they have no interest in?

When I say women should have to approach men, I mean that men should not ask, and women should do the asking if they are interested to avoid any issues with women not wanting to be approached. Why the fuck would it mean anything else?

Your reading comprehension is very low. You should work on that before arguing with people. When I suggested the handkerchief system, the word gay was indicating a specific system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code) that had previously existed that you clearly are not aware of, which is made clear by the fact that I said it should be adapted to the whole population.

Yelling at people in your second language after not understanding the arguments being made is not helpful.

Why?

It’s mandatory for all men to register for the selective service system in the US, and women don’t have to.

Sometimes things be like that.

Or maybe you should stop, because you’re making about as much sense as a potato.

And yet I don’t think raping someone is an acceptable response to being rejected and yet its still okay for women to treat all men like they might do it. So why should men not treat all women like they’re going to cause problems if they get approached?

There are people in this thread saying even doing it as a bar isn’t okay anymore. Name one place where a man would be safe asking without potentially being called a creep even just for a polite inquiry. It sounds like there isn’t one anymore.

Not all women would react that way, but it sounds like there are enough women who think that’s an acceptable response even in a bar that it’s nonlonher longer viable.

I’m 40, and married. This isn’t about me.

You still don’t get it through, you say talk to them first, but thay limits when you can even start a conversation to very limited locations and certainly doesn’t include your suggestions around a park or embankment.

Do you think highschool isn’t real?

We aren’t talking about 40 year olds dating here grandm.

What the fuck does my energy level have to do with anything.

I’ve never had to ask a girl out in my life, I’ve been married to only my second relationship for more than half my life, and both ladies approached me.

It is a regular occurrence. Regular enough that it’s been reflected in popular media for decades. They even make entire movies about “boy gets rejected by popular girl, boy transforms himself to win her over, boy decides he doesn’t need her anymore because she’s mean”

Are you honestly so naive that you think those initial rejections don’t happen in real life? Everyone saw them at high school, and everyone saw them even more on social media when said girl spreads it around to cyberbully the boy even more. It’s been more than 20 years since I was at high school, and even when we didn’t have cellphones that shit still happened, and it didn’t stop at University either.

If you walk up to random people in a cafe, park, or embankment (really?) and ask for their numbers, you could get a positive response, but it’s equally likely that a women (or even a group) will start yelling at you for doing so.

That’s what I’m saying about nowhere to ask safely. Some women will be totally fine with being approached, and others will not, but there is ZERO way to indicate to others that information.

We need to bring back the whole gay handkerchief system and adapt it to the whole population, If everyone wore an accessory or object that indicates your willingness(or not) to be approached it would make the whole situation 100% better. Like a stoplight party, but all the time and with slightly less impact on your whole wardrobe.

And you’re so far down a path that you think getting laughed at is an acceptable response to someone asking you out.

Which one is more toxic?

You’re using anecdotal data, I have actually heard a woman say “why won’t he just ask me out” and that isn’t useful data either.

It keeps coming up in dating studies though, which are useful, and frequently point out that women are complaining or confused about why it’s happening.

Men are more and more frequently getting in trouble for even just asking, which means they need to stop entirely or risk getting in trouble.

Either women take responsibility for asking the men out, or accept that they’re not going to get asked out except by assholes who ignore the risks and are statistically upsetting a lot of women before they succeed.