Leo Gura

@Salvijus You have turned intuition into a dogma. So there is no reasoning with you. You believe it is infallible and so you are like a terrorist who believes Allah perfectly rewards their terrorism. All discussion ends there.

I've only had improper awakenings.

It's mass delusion and mania, like Nazism back in the day, but now it's crypto scams and profit by any means possible. Yes, people are drunk on capitalism, like drunks having an orgy on the Titanic. It's a drunken capitalist circle jerk.

People are too selfish and immature to understand how the system really works at a causal level. All they know is they want money, success, sex, cars, houses, power, and their ideology validated. They don't see nor care about any contradictions.

Lobotomy by social media group-think.

Vlad with the good stuff:

Oh, I will bear them in mind.

Materialism was never based on proof, so it cannot really be disproven either. Materialism is a set of philosophical assumptions that are taken on faith. So it's like trying to disprove the flying spaghetti monster.

This guy is on another level:

Boobies irritate Allah the Almighty.

1) I am a philosopher freak. 2) I am still interested in girls.

Dude, there is a very long history of animosity with Iran. I cannot recap it all for you here. Iran took US hostages. Iran seeks to dominate the region through proxies. Iran proxies disrupt oil shipping lanes and oil fields. Iran tries to make nukes. Iran supplies arms to Russia. Iran is a repressive theocracy. Iran executes and imprisons pro-Western journalists. Iran is hostile to Western capitalist interests. Iran expropriated Western capital. US overthrew Iranian leaders. The list is endless. I am not saying Iran bad, US good. I'm just saying why there is hostility.

There's truth in both views because, as I said, nations scratch each others backs. It's an alignment of survival agendas. That's what all relationship is fundamentally about. Don't forget that Israel is also a hedge against Iran.

I mean the current left. Not Mao. Although Mao and Lenin certainly had very delusional and utopian ideas about how society functions. Although they were also ruthless, pragmatic, opportunistic, Machiavellian creatures.

Your position just isn't serious. It's based on leftist ideals, not how the world actually works.

A lot! Israel is a Western bastion and military base in the Middle East, a region of critical geopolitical importance. Israel shares intelligence on terrorism and Middle Eastern leaders. Mossad is powerful. Israel has many defense contractors and important technology companies. Many important and powerful Jewish tycoons in the USA have a fondness and loyalty for Israel, and they need to be placated. All that is politics 101.

Then there is some hope.

Has anyone noticed how liberals and leftists keep being surprised and shocked by the right's victories? Why do you think that surprise and disappointment happens? Could it be because the left does not have correct sense-making of how society functions?

Aye aye.

I don't see how final cut could have saved that film. Unless you leave 50% of it blank But, yeah, I know he regrets it.

Could be both. They dovetail.

I don't get insanity from it, but it is blackpilling and emotionally difficult for sure to see all of mankind's corruption. It's been difficult. In the end, truth is your North Star. Follow truth wherever it leads. A genuine commitment to truth means that you don't get lost in sugary fantasies of life, but also don't overfixate on negativity and fall into pathology. The path of truth is an exquisite balancing act, with crocodiles to the left and right.

Consider those two hostages dead.

Higher than China, Middle East, Russia, and the non-Western world. The West still has the highest values of what's found around the world. You gotta keep things in proper perspective. Neoliberal tech-bro democracy is still more advanced than Putinism or Islamic theocratic monarchy or Chinese communism.

As I said, once Israel has the hostages, they will have no mercy and no honor. The pig-headedness will continue. Gaza now has zero leverage and Netanyahu will punish them for it.