Leo Gura

The CIA would view him as a huge liability and mark, since he is so erratic, vain, egotistical, and unable to control his mouth. He's just the kind of guy you gather compromat on for blackmail or manipulate by feeding his ego what it wants to hear.

This is science fiction and speculation about so far in the future that it is both irrelevant and totally unknown. Crazy things will happen in 500 years, but it hardly matters to us today, nor it is useful to try to predict it.

That is true in general. But Musk doesn't just sit around collecting rent. He's actively making new useful tech. So your point fails for his case. Sure there is plenty of media hype and spin and BS fantasy. But the tech underneath it all is very real. And of course what I'm saying does not mean Musk personally invented everything. But he did put its creation into motion and financed it. He risked all his money to make it work. This is not an argument you want to make because it will apply to any human who did anything important or valuable. What if Leo had never existed? Some other guy would take his place. You can't hold that view consistently. As long as you want to give credit to people for anything, you gotta give him credit.

The Musk rabbithole of egotism and grossness seems bottomless:

Not so easy. His worth goes way beyond that. He's rich for a reason. He provides a lot of material value to people. Don't forget that. Just because he's a political pervert does not mean he doesn't provide serious value elsewhere. That is the paradoxical nature of people. Elon could murder 10 babies tomorrow on stage, and he would still have provided more net value to the world and to American society than anyone on this forum. That's the mindfuck of it that leftists do not comprehend in their drunken self-righteous socialist stupor. Musk is a disgusting egotistical character, but he also generates enormous material survival value. It's important that your worldview accounts for all this.

No. Think for yourselves. I am not going to spell out for you what to do. Reacting foolishly in a bad political environment is as bad as not reacting at all.

No. I am not hysterical. This was a statement of our political situation published on the date of an inauguration. Your posting is different and unproductive.

@Bobby_2021 I am not engaging with you any more on Ukraine or Russia or US foreign policy because your mind is skewed and closed.

This is BS. 1) Russia is the one trying to set up a lapdog government in Ukraine. They had agreement not to violate Ukraine's international borders. 2) Ukraine is a sovereign nation. They can change their langauge however they want. It is not Lavrov's place to tell Ukraine what culture or language Ukraine should have. Can you imagine invading another nation because you disagree with their language policy? That is insane. This is Russian gaslighting.

That is not safe. That is to pitch your tent in front of a stampede of crazed buffalo. You guys are not thinking. If you were around in the Soviet days you would be first to the firing squads or Gulags. Why do I even issue warnings if the response is to double down on business as usual?

I don't. Perception is Absolute Truth. But people who never awoke don't understand that and mistake it for something else.

Of course. I never said otherwise.

When it comes to situations of mass delusion of crowds, you should consider what happens when the hype breaks and the delusions collide with reality.

I can't answer that for you. You should think through and research your options very thoroughly yourself. Do lots of research into your options. Your best options you don't even know exist yet.

About half the Vimeo videos on the blog and the Life Purpose Course are currently deactivated. Vimeo deactivated them because they say Actualized.org is in the top 1% of all Vimeo accounts in terms of bandwidth usage. To reactivate the videos they are asking me to pay them $5000/yr. Just to give you an idea of how much of a price hike that is, I was paying them $200/yr for the last 8 years (that's what a standard Vimeo account costs). So a 25x price hike overnight. Now I am forced to pay them $5000 because I don't really have an option to move all my years worth of videos somewhere else. Kind of a shitty situation for me. Please be patient as I sort this out with Vimeo over the next few days.

Thanks! Fixed.

That's possible. I hardly know ye. Passion is not enough, you have to master navigating the academia system and bureacracy. As I said, these jobs are rare and hard to get. Obviously it is possible. But is it wise for you to limit yourself to such a narrow game?

I will do a video on how to think about climate change. Already in the works.

Easily. Ukraine and Russia have an old agreement that Russia will not violate Ukraine's internationally recognized borders. Russian broke that agreement and commited a war crime. Russia has also been trying to establish a puppet government in Ukraine for decades. Russia is violating Ukrainian sovereignty. No CIA plan or whatever justifies that. Putin is also abusing his own population. So he has zero moral ground. As he ended fair elections in Russia he wants to do the same in Ukraine. Which is tyranny. He has no authority to dictate Ukraine and he should not be allowed to do so as long as Ukrainians are willing to fight for their nation. Zelensky is the fairly elected leader of Ukraine. He is not a puppet. He is popular and he defends his nation with honor and integrity.

@James123 If I am right then you are wrong which means I am wrong and which means you are wrong.

I would love it if the US cut off and sanction Israel. All coups are wrong of course. Ukraine war I support. Other wars I am against. How convenient that you leave out half my message.

I'm not a fortuneteller. I'm not going to predict the future for you. The future is chaotic and full of uncertainties. But you should understand when a sandstorm is coming.

This is so naive.

Things are going to get much worse than people comprehend. The shit has barely begun.