It's the distinguishing characteristic between the wannabe tyrants and the true leaders. The true leaders say here's an offer, would you accept this of your own free will? And the tyrants say the apocalypse is coming and everything and we're allowed to do everything to forestall it. Right.

Including controlling you and everything that you do. That's the problem. And that's how they get people to fall in line. They fall in line through fear - well, fear and force. But if you then turn to fear and compulsion as your means of governance, then you're a tyrant. I don't care what your excuse is. It has to be invitational.

That's when it gets scary when you see governments telling people that they have to fall in line or these are horrible consequences for you not agreeing to what we're saying.

- Dr. Jordan Peterson (Joe Rogan Experience #2308 - Jordan Peterson)

“Katie, do you need this?” he said he told her. “I don’t think you need this.”

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House’s top spokesperson.

Trump told reporters earlier he had asked Zacharia to reconsider her role, all but declaring her brief tenure in the job over.

“Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,” Trump said he told Zacharia on Friday morning.

He said they would speak when he returned to the White House and he would leave the decision to her. But he did not sound particularly encouraging of his embattled press secretary.

“Katie, do you need this?” he said he told her. “I don’t think you need this.”

Zacharia had captured Trump’s attention as a conservative commentator on television, and her hiring occurred quickly after other candidates were deemed ineligible because of critical comments they made about Trump.

Trump did not initially think Zacharia’s performance at her first press briefing was as bad as some of his advisers had, two sources familiar with the discussions said. However, her interviews that followed — specifically her Thursday night appearance on Fox News with Sean Hannity — and conversations he subsequently had with his allies convinced him that it was untenable for her to remain in the role, they added.

Her five-day-long tenure ultimately came in shorter than that of Anthony Scaramucci, whose 11-day tenure as White House communications director in 2017 is now used as a measuring stick for the relative longevity of embattled White House officials.

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I remember throughout the 2000's and even early 2010's, you used to frequently see advertisements for donating to charities that help children. That's it. They helped children.

Somewhere down the line it changed from "children" to "girls". The charities now specifically target one gender of children.

These are selfish people man. To even go to child focused charities and then decide who matters because of their gender. And they wonder how they got such a bad rep. Its because of stuff like this. I can't even remember the last time I saw an ad that just talked about children in general.

1. Dont talk about all your aches and pains, I really dont want to hear it over and over again.
2. Dont try to dress a guy or give him advice on what he does all day long, don't like it when a guy is really into video games? Dont date guys that are really into video games. Stop trying to change him. Dont nag him about his diet or friends, if you dont like him leave him, hes not a project, if he does change it will be in ways you dont like or predict.
3. Don't wear a mask around him, if you're planning a life with him let him know who you really are, let go of your desperate attempt to avoid loneliness by wearing a mask of someone you're not just because you're afraid of being alone.
4. Take responsibility for your mistakes, recogize them, admit them, apologize and make a change not to repeat them. Dont blame other people for your mistakes.
5. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
6. Dont victimize yourself. Dont redefine words into something else.
7. Respect boundaries.
8. Stop placing yourself in his position before making judgments, he doesn't think like you
9. Dont be a feminist when it suits you and traditional when it suits you, thats called being a hypocrite.
10. Being with you is not the sum total of your contribution to the relationship, you have to actually bring something to the table.
11. Offer to sign a prenuptual agreement if he asks to marry you.
12. Dont change into a monster after marriage because the courts in the US gives you so much financial and emotional leverage to destroy him in case you divorce.

I saw a list of this crap from who I thought was a woman telling men to do better on r/life they didn't let me post this

One incident after another it’s sickening.

Mother kills her daughter in Queens NY. Grandfather of the child was in the house at the time.

Mother kills her husband and son in Pennsylvania.

Father kills his entire family including his sons and daughter and grand kids.

16 year old boy walks into a school with a shot gun and kills 3 kids and a teacher and thank god someone came by and shopped the boy. Mother bought the gun for this boy.

Lindsey Clancy murders her three innocent children.

What is the common thread in all of these cases? Folks around these people were aware of how mentally ill these people were and still had children near them and in some cases these people had access to guns.

The 16 year olds mother in Oregon bought him a shot gun for his birthday. He used that weapon to kill those kids.

There is way too many of these incidents.