Leo Gura

There is no such thing as a safe nonstick pan. The only safe pans are steel or glass or clay.

No, what does it tell you about the Republican party that Dick Cheney can no longer stand it?

Americans are such political fools, it's stunning.

American Christians are as dumb as humans get and they will act accordingly by supporting the dumbest president of all time. There is no healthy conservatism in America. It's corrupt and sick.

Then you learned nothing from the Bush years.

If the risk of leaving is 60/40, that is not good odds. You are better off staying. Don't gamble your life on a coin flip. Especially as the situation could change dramatically in 6 months. Your current situation doesn't seem too bad. Remember, things could get much worse for you if you do something risky. But you can plan to leave if there is a ceasefire. Be careful because a ceasefire might be temporary. Putin could easily re-invade, so use that opportunity to leave if it comes.

Stop sharing links to copyright violation. This is against Forum Guidelines.

Again, myopic. You should have learned from the Bush era what kind of stupid wars these right-wing perverts can start.

It's the perfect word for describing all these Trumpists.

If you wanna see how they bullshit each other, watch the All In Podcast. It's 5 TechBros blowing smoke up each others asses. There's no mystery here.

No amount of money can fix stupid.

This is so myopic.

They don't need to prep Andreessen. These guys live in their own libertarian fantasy worlds, bullshitting each other, blowing smoke up each others asses. It's just their self-serving worldview. The TechBro egochamber. And then guys like Rogan and Lex whitewash and publicize their BS.

That wasn't the problem.

Regressing backwards is always easier than inventing a better system. To invent a system better than neoliberalism requires serious work.

1) Depression is such a psychological thing, so no surprise. Depression is not comparable to a health disorder. 2) I don't buy these claims that psychedelics cure depression. I think these reports are from people who are self-deceived. They will fall back into their depression. You should assume that most reports of any kind of healing are self-deception.

That is the bottom line, after all the stories and excuses. Development is what drives everything. Even the so-called corrupt elites are just products of their society and culture. A neoliberal culture breeds people like Trump, Musk, Theil, Zuckerberg, Tate, lobbists, crypto grifters, and Wall Street wolves.

There is algorithm capture, there is audience capture, there is social circle capture, there is career capture. All 4 are at play. But at the end of the day, group-think rules the mind. No matter how advanced, how God-realized, the mind buys into whatever others around it buy into. If everyone around you is doing stupid things, it's only a matter of time before you join them.

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. But clearly that backfires when it comes to the whole Trump phenomenon. You try to be nice and charitable but then these perverts just become more emboldened in their pervertry. It's like dealing with an abusive person who just keeps gaslighting you when you wanna be nice and assume the best about them. But at some point you gotta draw a line in the sand. Which is what I have done with all Trump perverts. Zero charity towards any of them from now on. They are all servants of the Devil.

It's just the natural progression of neoliberalism. Inequality gets worse and worse over time under such a system. From Reagan to Bush to Trump. It's a natural progression.

A real disorder is not psychosomatic.

What a strange analogy. I played Pokemon Red and have no memory of this Team Rocket.

This is fundamentally wrong. That assumes that people are developed enough to transcend neoliberalism. They are not. People complain about neoliberalism but they are not mature, developed, educated, or selfless enough to live in a non-neoliberal society. It's like a rapist who complains about his family getting raped. But just because his family stops being raped does not change him from being a rapist and raping other families himself. The rapist is not truly against rape, he's just against rape when it hurts him, and he's pro-rape when it's him benefiting from it. So really all he is, is selfish. He has not transcended rape. There is not going to be anything but neoliberalism for the next 100 years. Because people are not developed enough for anything higher. You can blame centrists or whoever you want, but it's not going to happen. But what could easily happen is a backslide into illiberalism and authoritarianism. The more neoliberalism is attacked, the bigger the backslide will be, because attacking neoliberalism is not a solution to transcending it. Attack and criticism doesn't actually solve any developmental problems. The issue is not a lack of criticism, the issue is a lack of development.

1) Because standards evolve. 2) Historical research has evolved a lot since the 1960. History is a lot more accurate today than back then. Not even due to lack of standards, but just because historians have access to so much more data, archives, documents, cultures, etc. 3) It's actually pre-1960s history which is biased because it was written prior to the realizations of relativity which post-modernism brought to the table. You can whine about wokeness like a child, but the reality is that the relativity of post-modernism was developed precisely to combat gross ethnocentrism of people like Whatifalthist. Because ethnocentrism and nationalism makes for shitty, inaccurate, biased, corrupt history. Without post-modernism, history turns into Whatifalthist garbage.

Actually they are not. Since people keep voting for neoliberalism on steroids. People do not have the intelligence nor development level to understand what neoliberalism is or how to stop it. What people really want is to personally benefit from neoliberalism. Which is why they vote for Trump.