Leo Gura

Don't forget that politicians are pragmatic above all else. When they sense that Trump is no longer useful to them because he is about to lose all his power they might turn on him on a dime to save their own asses. In a sense, Republicans right now have an easy out to redeem their personal images. All they have to do is vote for impeachment. I think it's possible that 17 of them could be pragmatic enough for that. For example, history will look kindly upon Mitt Romney for being the only Republican to vote for Trump's first impeachment. Romney had integrity and he deserves credit for that. Republicans can begin to whitewash their image as soon as next week. Also, it seems like Trump can still be impeached after Jan 20th when Dems take the Senate. Which is another good option if McConnell is the obstacle now. It doesn't really matter if Trump is forced to resign via impeachment. Just impeach him. It's important that in history Trump goes down as the only President to be impeached twice. This is worthwhile to do. It will discredit far right-wing politics for generations.

Amazin'

You'd have to compare the numbers. How many incels has JP given pussy to vs how many incels have used JP to deepen their hatred towards women, feminism, and socialism? Most incels I see online are using these ideas not to get pussy but whine online about SJWs. If you want to give an incel pussy, that's what the pickup community is all about. And in the pickup community victim mindsets and keyboard-jockeying are frowned upon precisely because it's the biggest obstacle to getting pussy. If you want to get pussy, JP is not gonna do it for ya.

Good! Having thought about this some more, I agree that there need to be as many consequences as possible for Trump and his movement. They need to be publically shamed and humiliated to the point where no reasonable person will want to be associated with it any more. Similar to Nazis. MAGA needs to become as stigmatized a term as Nazi. As soon as you identify yourself as a Nazi no one takes you seriously. Same should go for MAGA. Future generations need to clearly see that this kind of political behavior will never be acceptable and will have serious personal consequences. Devilry must be punished or it will spread.

Sad and tragic indeed. That's why I harp on epistemology so much. We badly need to teach epistemology in school to innoculate people from these kinds of mind viruses. That's my ultimate life goal.

NSA, not NASA. Google what is NSA.

That's the problem. People don't fucking read, hence they are so easily fooled and misled. Bingo! They want someone to tell their ego exactly what it wants to hear. The ego wants to be validated in its worldview, not to deeply question it. See, the big difference between what I do with my work is that I try to invalidate every part of your worldview. So it hurts. No matter what you believe, if you listen to my videos I will tell you things that you will hate. Hence I can never be mainstream. Mainstream is all the stuff that validates the ego. Mind candy vs mind veggies Be ware of people who tell you things you want to hear.

My guess is, once Trump is kicked out, sued, and publically shamed -- Trumpism will die out rather quickly and be replaced with some new brand of right-wing movement. Trumpism will look so ugly soon that it will need to be re-branded. But of course the fundamental ideology will still remain the same. Right-wing populism and its delusions are not going away soon. Think of the Tea Party in the Obama days. They basically rebranded themselves as MAGA.

Policing criminals

Of course they will try to make their own niche platforms to maintain their bubble of false reality. But, this will not work because all these right-wing platforms will be shunned by mainstream platforms and they will become very niche radicalized places with such extreme views and lack of moderation that they will eventually get shut down. This is what we see with platforms like 4chan and 8chan. Eventually even the hosting companied and payment processing companies will refuse to do biz with them. So will major advertizers. And so they will be relegated to the darkest underbelly of the internets. If there's one thing running this forum for 4 years has taught me it is this: no healthy online community can exist without serious and swift moderation against devilry. Exactly like society at large. A healthy society cannot exist without police. All the major online platforms are learning this lesson very deeply with the destruction they have caused. Facebook, YT, Reddit, Twitter, even 4chan. Operating a massive online platform is a great responsibility akin to having a child. You cannot have a policy of letting your child do whatever the hell they want. In the end, the vast majority of people prefer healthy, well-moderated online platforms that are free of trolls, extremists, cults, and toxic conspriacy theories. In the end, truth wins and falsehoods die. That's the beauty of truth. It always wins eventually.

Google seen going solid Green here: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22220778/alphabet-workers-union-demands-youtube-ban-trump

Lol If you say so

Muscle testing is not a reliable method. It's too prone to confirmation bias and self-deception.

Blue-Yellow is an oxymoron. You probably just aren't familiar enough with the stages yet. If you think you're Blue-Yellow, you're probably Blue but like to think of yourself as higher.

How many? State the actual number.

Privacy rights are important to fight for. But this particular battle has been lost long ago at the business/consumer level. It needs to be waged at the federal level with privacy laws and regulations.

Yeah, well, Thomas Kuhn still didn't understand metaphysical or epistemic relativity in the end. So don't take him too seriously. Kuhn's work is middle school level stuff, really.

Dude, there are so many better alternatives to JP that it's hard to know where to start listing them. Literally walk into any bookstore, ask for the self-help aisle, pick any random self-help book from the shelf and it will be better than listening to JP. The people who are awed by JP have simply never read any self-help authors or teachers.

You realize that your ISP can read all your chats and web history whenever they want?? People have this silly double-standard when it comes to Facebook. Companies have had your data for decades now. This is nothing new. Your bank knows your entire purchase history. And the NSA has back-channel deals with all these companies to see your data.

EVERYONE is a good man, until he's not. There is no such thing as evil men. It's the good ones who create evil when their consciousness lapses. Even Trump is not an evil man. He's just deeply wrapped up in a wounded ego that never received the proper love.

Yes These people are brainwashed by the right-wing populist conspiracy theory alt-media echo-chamber. It's not just fringe stuff though, it's also FoxNews and the like. Basically any right-wing media source in the last 4 years. Including stuff like Tim Pool, Brietbart, Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Jordan Peterson, etc. consuming all that trash ideology adds up to mind-cancer. Their sense of reality is so delusional and reactionary that they have lost all sense of decency and common sense. In their minds their actions are fully justified because they legit believe that pedophile communists are taking control of America. That is their worldview in a nutshell. Yes, of course. But Trump was a huge assemblage point for all the worst right-wing tendencies. Trump basically took stages Orange and Blue and appealed to their deepest and lowest fears, insecurities, gripes, hatred, anger, greed, racism, and nationalism. And they swallowed his con hook, line, and sinker because it felt so good for their egos to get validated. It's like dangling red meat before a starved beast. That is the epitome of demagoguery. Hitler did the same thing in 1920's Germany.

Another good take:

Here's how the MAGA cult can cost you your life:

If marketing is something that appeals to you, then you are not a creative person to begin with so there's no problem here