Leo Gura

I once saved a homeless dog outside my apartment. Does that mean I get to shoot black people now?

That's his problem right there. Pickup has a steep learning curve. Took me 440 approaches to get my first result. But I didn't pay no $8000 for it. If you are a hard case newbie with serious social anxiety issues and deep introversion, you'll need more than 300 approaches to start to see results. But the good news is, your results grow at an exponential rate. The first year is the hardest and driest.

I have listened to a wide variety popular conservative leaders. Ain't nothing intelligent there. If you got a good argument against systemic racism, then bring it.

Haha! Yeah.... that's exactly how the first few trips are. You gotta push past all that nonsense. You're not even scratching the surface yet. If you want an easier trip, then plug it. Otherwise, get ready to have your reality obliterated within in seconds. You don't need to do any more research. We told you exactly what you're getting into here. If you do a serious breakthrough trip, it's gonna feel like God shot you in the face with a shotgun. Plugging is the way to go. You guys are unnecessarily freaking yourselves out with vaping.

It doesn't take a genius to know where they're coming from.

@datamonster Dude, I've watched FoxNews and listened to conservative talk-radio for YEARS with an open mind. What I learned was, they're full of shit grifters stuck in stage Blue/Orange. There's no intellectual integrity to people who deny systemic racism.

Blue hypocrisy. Having sex with the pool-boy: This kind of sexual repression is classic for stage Blue. Repression of sexuality leads to sexual deviancy.

How many girls did he appraoch for those $8000? Burning money on trainings can be pretty easy compared to actually going out consistently.

@Preety_India Look at your hand. It is Absolute Truth.

Thinking that experience is a trick, is a trick. The color red cannot be a trick. Red is red. That's what it is.

Of course no amount of meditation or therapy will fix that. She needs to muster the courage to leave her husband. That is the elephant in the room. Be ware of using spirituality as a mask for basic material inaction. The spiritual thing to do in all abusive relationships is LEAVE! Not-leaving isn't love, it's fear.

Consciousness is the only game in town.

All that and more! Gerrymandering is a big deal. But mostly the corporate lobbying and money in politics which is all straight up corruption.

The purpose of politics and government is to elevate the consciousness and love of mankind. It's that simple. See 4 part series: Conscious Politics

When it comes to politics you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Focusing on yourself will allow devils to rule over you. Engagment is important. There's really no other option but to work towards social justice and improvement of government. It's not about you, it's about the future of us. If you are getting into politics with a mindset of "what will I get out of it?" you've missed the point of politics. It's about service and elevating mankind.

Good topic

Today's socialists are neo-marxists, or neo-comms

Of course whenever and wherever a large mob of people arises, some degree of devilry will be done. This is a law of human nature. But also, when the political system is such that democracy isn't working well because one person one vote is corrupted, then mobs have no choice but to break out. So the ultimate cause of these mobs is a lack of government responsiveness. If we had better leadership with more compassion, responsiveness, and vision, these mobs wouldn't be necessary and would self-dispurse. Trump and the Republicans are fueling these mobs by twiddling their thumbs while they look the other way on many popular issues. Republicans are refusing to take responsibility for these mobs. Instead they demonize them as that is far more convenient.

Let's pull together a list of the best books on politics and governance. I'm noticing that one of the biggest challenges with politics is that people (including myself) are just damn ignorant of the historical facts of governance and geo-politics from around the world. We spend way too much time debating culture war issues and partisan demonization vs actually studying how societies around the world have been managed. Politics and governance is not my area of expertise, but I want expand into it more. I want you guys to become more educated about it too. To do that I feel we need to build a foundation with books. So search the web for the best political book lists. I'm talking about non-partisan, non-ideological stuff. Well-researched stuff. Stuff that goes into the details of how government works. For example, I want a list of books that Michael Brooks from the Majority Report was reading. See what you can find. It shouldn't just be about American politics but international politics.

@datamonster I don't see the systemtic racism issue having a legit second side. I see that people who argue against systemic racism are just in denial about it because they subscribe to American exceptionalism. Similar to climate change denial. I don't see this guy as more biased than any other major progressive YT channel like Kyle, TYT, Majority Report, etc. Of course they are all biased. But you can factor that in as you watch.

Yes, we have a double standard here for thoughtfulness vs ignorance/dogma. You can express conservative positions but you must do so in a thoughtful and non-dogmatic matter. If you are just here parroting pro-Trump talking points you will get banned because we are sick of hearing it and it adds nothing of value to our discussions. It just so happens that most Trumpists are not very thoughtful -- surprise, surprise. But that's not the Mod's problem. I am happy to see intelligently expressed conservative positions that make me think well of conservatives. But they tend to be rarer than hen's teeth.

One day you will realize the most obvious thing ever: experience is Absolute Truth.

It can't be explained to you.

Probably not. But Blue doesn't have to be fundamentalist. The solution is healthy Blue.

Sagaar is a neo-neo-con. The millenial/zoomer conservative. It's fascinating to watch how conservativism evolves to make itself tennable for younger generations. It can't be homophobic and racist for the millenial/zoomer crowd any more. And it can't be too pro-corporate either because millenials and zoomers are feeling to shafted by late-stage capitalism. But at the same time it can't be progressive or pro socialist either. Sagaar must walk a very tight rope. I don't envy him.