You can sorta see the alpha thingamajig in hyenas. The chick with the biggest clit gets a possy of white knights trying to please her.

But it's not obligatory. Dudes just chilling together and biting asses can still happen without a chick to lead them on.

Don't remember the specific age, but it was something in the vein:

"We gotta talk. You know about the sex stuff?"

"Yeah, no problem. Got the internet. Already a master or better."

"Eyyyyy!"

"Eyyyyy!"

And that was it. But seriously, the internet taught me more than biology class, without all the hoops and whistles.

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According to research, it takes around 2000 work hours for the average academia researcher to start making shit up in order to publish a paper.

Source: an average academia researcher.

The first guy on the left seems disappointed in his football team.

There are two wolves inside you. One is Remus and the other is Romulus. Your body is the birthplace of Rome.

One is homo, the other is no homo, bro?

I have multiple thoughts on this and it may come out disjointed. Apologies in advance.

If you look closer at Romania, you'll find it akin to a mini-US election situation. The rich getting richer and patting each other on the back while the working class is down in the dumps. Then this guy shows up and hits where it hurts.

A problem some people aren't getting is that the undercurrent was already there in plain sight. The discontent already existed and needed a fuse. This guy happened to be it. It's not that the shadow campaign had foreign backers such as Russia, but more that it didn't really need them all that much. Something like this would have happened eventually because it already did somewhere else. And multiple times in the past as well.

And really, is it that unbelievable that a blitzkrieg would successfully change the tides if played at the right moment? Hello? WW2 anyone? Butterfly flapping wings ending up as a hurricane. Reddit wrongly identifying people as terrorists after the Boston marathon bombing? There is precedent of things wildly spiraling out of control, people! Get a grip.

There's no doubt in my mind Russia interfered in this election and that they had a part in this guy's campaign. But also in most of the others. No way they would've stopped to only this one candidate. It's just that this one worked beyond their expectations likely.

The rise of Trump isn't unfounded. There are people willing to give in to mascots such as him all over the world. But as long as the problems pushing them towards these candidates aren't solved, we'll never be able to prevent their rise.

Edit: Right. Forgot about TikTok influencers. Remember Tate brothers? That daddy McPherson dude who went all religious with Russel what's his face? Joe Rogan? Alex Jones? Social media can make something go viral instantly if it has the right people spreading the message to those who want to hear it.

So this guy's campaign doesn't necessarily need foreign backers as long as the right local backers shared his message to their own followers and they agreed with it

The main component you have to deal with is exhaustion. Whether mental or physical, nobody is able to sustain a continuous fighting mindset. The longer the fight, the higher the odds people will burn out and drop all resistance.

Second component is outing infiltrators looking to do the above and destroy your movement from the inside out.

Third component is avoiding radicalization due to the above as it will turn your movement from a reasonable position to a fringe extreme.

Fourth component is to avoid becoming a cult. Ideas are good, but don't fanaticise over them. Not everyone thinks the same and there's always a conflict of ideas.

Fifth component is understanding that people die and their experience and knowledge isn't inherited in full by the next generation, so avoid gathering around a central figure you can't do without.

Sixth component is to find a way of communicating without communicating out loud. Rather than super secret spy stuff, it means having a set of guidelines for people to follow if things don't go according to plan rather than have them panicking.

Seventh component is having conviction. Don't bother doing something like this if you don't believe in it. Doubt will creep in even when you're wholeheartedly dedicated to something, let alone when you're just paying lip service.

Feel free to change or add as desired.

Slams, tears, rips, disembowels, eviscerates...

Anyone feels like this is some sort of silent protest of journalists being turned into an LLM babble mill?

You'll find time loses importance once you no longer have to manage it.