Want to truly learn to think like a master PUA?
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Pua laughed when asked about Najib's new social media presence.
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Flor Pua was born and raised in Belgium to Filipino parents.
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PUA as a concept came to China from the United States.
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"I'm the best PUA in China," Mr. Wang told the class.
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The shot included Ayanna Mackins, Pua Medeiros, Yes Duffy and Shawn Sealy.
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That seems like a good way to transition into your PUA career.
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Mr Pua has written that Mr Najib's signatures are "littered all over 1MDB".
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Pua lamented the failure to get crucial information on 1MDB's foreign banking transactions.
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This one offers a lot of insight into the rigidity of PUA tactics.
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Flor Pua is also a licensed commercial pilot that flies planes to relax.
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If I took the bait, it would likely segue into PUA (pickup artist) negging.
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In China, the English initials PUA refer to both the man and his manipulative techniques.
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Actor Pua Magasiva has died at the age of 38, according to his production company.
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"He has done a fantastic job in keeping his hopes alive for a comeback," Pua said.
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"Reforms will take time, reforms will take a couple of years," said Pua, the member of parliament.
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After all, who needs a romance when your sidekick is a squeal-worthy little pig named Pua?
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Angeline Flor Pua is the first woman of Filipino and Asian descent to win Miss Universe Belgium.
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That sounds like you're kind of toeing the line with what a PUA would say minus the misogyny.
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Tony Pua, a Malaysian member of parliament from the ruling coalition, said he isn't surprised that people are unhappy.
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The same thing happened to PUA Jeff Allen when his own nightmarish statements about women and rape were rediscovered.
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"They took it for granted that he was a sitting duck," said Tony Pua, an opposition member of Parliament.
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After I asked on Weibo if any women had boyfriends who followed PUA techniques, two young women contacted me.
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On the surface, PUA communities and incel communities have a lot of generic appeal: The PUA lifestyle emphasizes self-esteem and confidence building along with physical health, while the incel community allows men to bond over their struggle to achieve all of the above in spite of their sour luck with women.
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I recently called up Jaunzemis to find out more about the film, Soaping, and his new career as a PUA.
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Aside from fundamentally misunderstanding social human behavior, the PUA philosophy has been widely criticized for being toxic and objectifying women.
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"You just fucking push, push, push, and it can't not work," says one PUA who goes by the nickname Tyler Durden.
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Early last year, Lay Peng Pua says she started smelling acrid fumes around her home in the rural town of Jenjarom.
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The jobs market continues to evolve, and it's important to welcome that change and move in tandem with it, said Pua.
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In a way, it makes perfect sense for the PUA philosophy to express itself in the logic of a video game.
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On Steam, a platform dedicated for video games that is also full of hate groups, the PUA philosophy fits right in.
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Pua Case, a climate activist from Hawaii, left a protest against the building of a telescope on Mauna Kea to attend.
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Pua says she has faced a lot of adversity both in pageantry and aviation but says it only made her stronger
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Pua Magasiva, an actor widely-known for his role in "Power Rangers Ninja Storm," has died, according to his production company.
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Pua added that those hoping to replicate Klook's technique should keep their profile up-to-date so they attract the right opportunities.
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Many are repeat clients, returning again and again to seek the wisdom of PUA coaches or "trainers," who are revered as gods.
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While learning new skills is a vital aspect in your career development, ensuring they are recognized is almost as important, said Pua.
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Pua Magasiva, who has starred in several Power Rangers television series as well as New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street, has died.
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The government started to crack down on PUA companies in the last two years, and Mr. Wang and his company became targets.
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That means staying up-to-date with your industry as it evolves and making sure that's reflected in your online presence, said Pua.
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After the PAC's report was released, opposition leader Tony Pua told a press conference that the findings vindicated critics of 1MDB, Reuters reported.
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PUA culture is what society tells men to be, and it starves men of options and different ways of being in the world.
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Tony Pua, member of parliament with the opposition Democratic Alliance Party has asked 1MDB to disclose the sale and purchase agreement between the companies.
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Mr. Pua, who also has called on Mr. Najib to step down, acknowledged that the panel did not conclude that the money was missing.
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"That's the life of a professional PUA," he told students, according to a three-part documentary produced by a Chinese news site, The Paper.
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The community grew out of the pickup artist (PUA) movement, which advocates manipulative strategies to pick up women, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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"Anything else we don't know, as we don't have the overseas bank statements of 1MDB," said Pua, an MP with the Democratic Action Party (DAP).
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So Much Cuteness: We haven't seen quite enough of the cute pig Pua in this trailer, but Moana's googly-eyed chicken Heihei makes up for that.
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The findings reflect the wider uncertainties surrounding technology's impact on the workforce, said Roger Pua, LinkedIn's senior director of brand marketing and communications for Asia Pacific.
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Back in 2006, you had to pay thousands of dollars to be in a PUA program, but now you can get all the information for free.
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Tony Pua, an opposition lawmaker and one of the report's authors, regrets that 1MDB was unable to provide the committee with all the documentation it requested.
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I certainly can't vouch for the PUA community's "rebranding" — its insistence that it gives awkward, nerdy men more confidence and sociability — especially given recent, disgusting headlines.
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In Damansara, Selangor state — another constituency expanded by the election commission — the incumbent Tony Pua, a P.H. stalwart, reportedly won more than 80 percent of votes.
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While Angelina Flor Pua has been competing in pageants since she was 12, she says it was always her dream to pursue a career in aviation
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Neither of them was sure that her former boyfriend had actually studied PUA strategies, but both identified with the student who had tried to commit suicide.
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He claims something along the lines of "no one would ever mistake her for being classically beautiful, but there's something there…" like a horny space PUA.
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When Mystery and I meet a few weeks after our first call in a quiet pub in downtown Toronto, he brings his friend and fellow PUA, Colgate.
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Tony Pua, a member of the Malaysian parliament with the opposition Democratic Action Party, called on the Malaysian attorney general to cooperate fully with foreign investigating agencies.
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He cited long-standing cash bonuses and programs such as free legal counseling, as well as a monthly town hall meeting with Phison's chairman, Khein-Seng Pua.
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PUA culture thrives on platforms like Reddit and 4chan, where they're able to trade strategies for stalking and harrassing women under the guise of being good guys.
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"Whether you are looking for a business partner or to be approached by others on LinkedIn, a credible LinkedIn profile can be your best foot forward," said Pua.
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I'd never condone sleaziness or PUA culture in general, even if today's communities are trying to rebrand the whole thing as a confidence-booster for shy, lonely men.
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"Consensus is required, and the experience working with him over the past six months certainly confirms he is more than able to make decisions consensually," Mr. Pua said.
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Mr. Pua, the member of Parliament, was sued by Mr. Najib for defamation and is now under a court injunction limiting what he can say about the prime minister.
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"We were the people that no one expected to rise the way that we did," Pua Case, one of the leaders of the Protect Mauna Kea movement, told Vox.
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At its peak in late 000, Langji, the most-well-known PUA company, employed a staff of about 22006 and had nearly 230,000 students, according to Chinese news reports.
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Cheekily titled The Game: The Game, Washko's exhibition is set up as an alternative video game in which players interact with a variety of prominent pickup artists (PUA) with different styles.
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"My reading is that they will take the opportunity to transfer as much of the debt as possible to the Ministry of Finance," said Tony Pua, an opposition member of Parliament.
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"Many of the details of their relationship reminded us of the notorious PUA," her friends wrote in a long social media post that included screenshots of chat messages between the couple.
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Witness this exchange that took place on one PUA forum the morning after the election: The basic idea that "women are getting too out of hand" is the patriarchal common denominator.
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In Hilo 230 miles (2000 kilometers) from the volcano, Pua&aposena Ahn says he has experienced labored breathing, itchy, watery eyes and some skin irritation as ash plumes intensified in recent days.
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"Such cooperation will not only go a long way towards identifying the culprits ... but also removing the perception that the Malaysian AG was biased in favor of the Prime Minister," Pua said.
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Rodger was a frequent poster to PUAHate, a site for men who bought into the PUA worldview, realized it was a scam, but still viewed women as objects that they were owed.
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"He can say, 'I am not wanted in the United States and I can go there without being arrested,'" said Tony Pua, a member of Parliament and a critic of Mr. Najib.
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Tony Pua, a member of Parliament from the Democratic Action Party, said that unlike in the past, when Mr. Mahathir's party dominated the governing coalition, his party is no longer the strongest.
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Shortly after it was released, opposition leader Tony Pua, who was part of the PAC, told a news conference that Najib, should at least be held culpable for the mismanagement at the fund.
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Criticism of PUA philosophy became a subject of national discussion in 2014, when a 22-year-old man named Elliot Rodger shot six people to death near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Sure, apparently this is a tack Maverick and Goose have used before (remember when tag-team PUA schemes were in every movie and TV show?) but why do all the other pilots join in?
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La Ruina, who founded a company called PUA Training that promises to help men "become a pickup artist and pick up girls," adamantly insists he is not a pickup artist, but rather a dating coach.
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Smith was convicted of a 2013 gang assault largely on the basis of his own sick boasts on the internet, which his victim dredged from PUA websites after police failed to act on her report.
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In the PUA realm, thanks to complete misunderstanding of wolf pack hierarchies, "beta" has come to be used as a catch all term for anyone who is not an assertive, overbearing alpha type (mostly liberals).
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Although I named my business 'PUA Training' back in 2006, I'm now married and have always taught 'natural game' with an honest approach...so don't really like that I still have that label stuck to me.
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Here we see an example of "negging," one of the tenets of PUA life: Backhanded compliments meant to make women feel worse about themselves and in theory, better about whatever headass is vying for their attention.
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This is maybe unfair — Jeffries has had his own moment in the sun, appearing on Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends and Dr. Phil, managing his own PUA business for decades, and apparently inspiring Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia.
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At the forum in Petaling Jaya, fans seeking selfies crowd around Tony Pua, an opposition MP whom police have banned from leaving the country; at dinner afterwards people at neighbouring tables insist on paying for his meal.
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On PUA forums, where men proudly talk about their "lay counts," the default assumption in the days leading up to the election was that a vote for Hillary Clinton signified weakness that no real man would display.
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"What we are seeing is the concentration of power in the hands of one man," said Tony Pua, who is a member of Parliament and an opposition leader and wore his Bersih 4 shirt to the August rally.
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Part Nathan for You, part Waiting for Guffman, part informal PUA conference, How to Act on Reality TV is an uncomfortable, hilarious look at real people doing real things that you really can't believe are real—on camera.
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The associations between the PUA industry and the manosphere can be even more overt: Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodgers, for instance, subscribed to Julien Blanc's YouTube channel Real Social Dynamics and was a member of a forum called PUAHate.
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Speaking ahead of the Court of Appeals ruling, Tony Pua, a finance ministry official and longtime critic of Najib, told CNN the complexity of the scandal and the multiple cases against the former PM could work in his favor.
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Anyone who's been even vaguely online over the last decade could draw a direct connection between broadly describing women as social-climbing golddiggers and the unfulfilled promises made by professional pickup artists like Strauss to the propagation of anti-PUA forums.
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In pick-up parlance, the concept refers to the idea that women are driven by the fear of slut-shaming to put up "token" resistance to having sex, but that this resistance can be overcome with a range of PUA techniques.
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But WeChat Index, which monitors the popularity of topics on WeChat, China's biggest social media platform, indicated that mentions of the term "PUA" soared nearly 1,700 percent overnight after a news article about the woman's attempted suicide spread across the internet.
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When Asheville coffee shop owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens had to shut down their business following an exposé on their disgusting List of Lays blog (veritable space trash in the constellation of the PUA online community), I cheered along with feminists everywhere.
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"Learning a new skill — or upskilling — is a great way to enhance the value you bring to an employer or your own business," said Pua, who cited learning as his number one recommendation for young people looking to take the next step in their careers.
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Pick-up artist, or PUA, culture promises men luck in love—or at least in getting laid—if they only prescribe to a set of behaviors and scripted moves that treat women (yes, it's incredibly heteronormative) as predictable, manipulatable objects for men to acquire.
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When, at the close of Seduction, Knox sees a man at a bar try to use PUA tactics to pick up a girl, he seems to find it oddly redemptive: At least this man is wooing someone face to face, the old-fashioned way.
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Among those denied entry to Sarawak are the opposition members of Parliament Tony Pua, Rafizi Ramli and Teresa Kok, as well as the journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown, whose website Sarawak Report was blocked in Malaysia after she reported on Mr. Najib's receipt of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Opposition leader Tony Pua, who was part of the parliamentary probe, said "there was no way" the attorney general or the parliamentary inquiry could clear the prime minister of the allegations since billions of dollars that 1MDB sent overseas cannot be traced and investigations into them continue abroad.
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"There are many other laws that are already in existence which can deal with these issues, so the only reason for a new law to come in is to make the severity (of punishments) even higher," said Tony Pua, a member of parliament from the Democratic Action Party (DAP).
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The question for Mr. Apandi was "how did he satisfy himself that, even if the funds deposited into the prime minister's personal bank accounts came from the mysterious Arab donor, the money did not originate from 1MDB?" said Tony Pua, an opposition member of Parliament from the Democratic Action Party.
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Players, meanwhile, end up experiencing what it is like to attempt to opt out of a conversation with each PUA, or go as far as they describe in their teachings, which includes having sex with them and becoming one of the "epic stories" described in their instructional videos and books.
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So when pickup artist (PUA), overpaid lecturer in the art of seduction, and puddle of garbage juice Jeff Allen made jokes about his "rape van" and promised to help guys score threesomes, and Australia canceled his visa and, by proxy, the Australian lecture stop on his world tour, I applauded.
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"He was speaking the lingo of the 'pick-up artist' (PUA) community that feminists have been raising alarms about for many years now, arguing that it's a breeding ground for misogynist resentment and may even be encouraging violence against women," Amanda Marcotte wrote for The American Prospect at the time.
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Members of the seduction or pickup artist (PUA) community take inspiration from all over the zoo: peacocking, or trying to stand out with a visual display; protean behaviors, or sending mixed signals; and sarging, the act of going out looking to score, named after pickup guru Ross Jeffries' tomcat Sarge.
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"I trust him today because at this time and age, he is more interested in leaving the right legacy for Malaysians and to set his record right in the history books," said Tony Pua, an opposition member of Parliament who was re-elected Wednesday with a record number of votes.
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Tony Pua, a Malaysian lawmaker and an aide to the finance minister, said the deal was brokered by a hard-partying Malaysian businessman named Jho Low, who is accused of siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars from the fund and is now believed to be in China, avoiding a Malaysian arrest warrant.
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The stories read like Tucker Max blog posts with all the fratty joy surgically extracted from the prose and replaced with gritty "realism," a few limp gestures towards the erotic, and some obvious examples of Strauss's narrator deploying the PUA techniques the reader has presumably mastered by this point in their journey with the Rules.
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Read more: Putting This PUA Game On PlayStation and Steam Normalizes Stalker Behavior Dead or Alive Xtreme, if you're unfamiliar, is a spin-off of the fighting game by the same name that features the same characters, only that they play volleyball and lounge around in swimsuits rather than kick each other in the head.
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"It's kind of surreal to see someone who brought down his party, who has been indicted in pretty much all media around the world, indicted in the US, indicted in Malaysia, to be out and about and to be able to make himself look like ... an antihero or even hero among some segments of the population," Pua said.
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"Beyond taking the first step to connect on LinkedIn, it's great that they also had a period of 'courtship', making sure that they share the same commitment to and passion for a vision for the company, before tying the knot," Roger Pua, LinkedIn's senior director of brand marketing and communications in APAC and China, told CNBC Make It via email.
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La Ruina is the main character in all of the game's videos, where you can see him say things like, "If you're not good at cooking, you better be real good at sucking dick" (La Ruina makes it clear that this is not something you should say to women.) Super Seducer emerges from the bog of 'pick-up artist' (PUA for short) philosophy.
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And because showing how Tehura sparks Gauguin's imagination isn't quite enough to sustain a movie — in one of the bigger eureka moments, she inspires his famous 1892 painting "The Spirit of the Dead Watches" — Mr. Deluc, working with three other screenwriters, invents a love triangle of sorts, in which Gauguin suspects Tehura of having eyes for Jotepha (Pua-Tai Hikutini), a protégé of Gauguin's.
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When my first novel, "The People in the Trees," came out in 2013, I bought just one thing with my advance: a deep-blue enamel ring that I had lettered with the first line — Kaulana na pua a o Hawaii/Famous are the flowers of Hawaii — of one of the most resonant Hawaiian protest songs, "Famous Are the Flowers," written in 1893 to voice support for the overthrown Queen Liliuokalani, the islands' last monarch.
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Examples from the past two years include the threat of a mass shooting at a major public university because the university hosted Gamergate enemy Anita Sarkeesian; the many pro-rape statements made on PUA hubs and social media accounts by prominent pickup artists like the notorious internet troll Roosh V, who bragged about committing rape; and finally, the 2014 mass stabbing and shooting of six UC Santa Barbara students by Elliot Rodger, a man who fortified his misogyny and sense of alienation via the incel communities he frequented online.
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Among the 35 elders arrested on that third day of protection were some of the most respected in the community: 82-year-old Kumu Hula Pua Kanaka'ole Kanahele, daughter of Edith Kanaka'ole, for whom Edith Kanaka'ole Stadium, home of the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, is named; 68-year-old attorney Mililani Trask, sister of the famed author and activist Haunani-Kay Trask; retired nurse Genevieve Kinney, who at 85 years old needed to be taken into custody in her wheelchair; and Ritte, a well-known activist and member of the "Kaho'olawe Nine," along with his wife, former Miss Hawaii Loretta Ritte.
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