Leo Gura

What's wrong is that such elites are still biased and selfish, so they would abuse that power and not be sensitive to the needs of the lower classes. We have done aristocracy before and it doesn't work too well. Lower classes need to have votes because they have a unique survival agenda which elites do not understand nor represent.

I saw it. Unsure what to say because your description is so vague that it could point to any number of different states of consciousness. So I don't really know how deeply your grasp God. I no longer make it my business to judge your consciousness. I haven't done coaching for a long time. But I respond to questions here.

But that's proper. Leadership needs to reflect the public. You can't skirt that.

That's a bad idea. The problem is that our democracy is corrupted by special interests, elites, corporations, and low-info partisan media. That's what needs fixing. Democracy comes in many degrees of quality. It's not a binary. And this quality needs to be up-kept because it naturally deteriorates.

Oprah: the orignal Joe Rogan.

Good good. In the right direction To Crocodile Infinity and beyond!

The problem with Islam is that is has always been intertwined at its root with building a Muslim caliphate and political conquest. So the politics is intertwined with the religion, which makes for bad religion and bad politics.

It's not about quantity but quality. You don't wanna know what kinda porn conservatives consume.

What's crazy is that Islam recognizes as valid all the major Jewish prophets and they believe in the same God as Jews. Yet they treat Jews like aliens.

That's cause that's what communism is in practice. It was acheived. It's just a dish no one likes the taste of once they have a bite.

It was a liberal democracy in its ideals from the 1700s, but the actualization of those ideals takes a lot of time and is far from ideal.

Leninist Communism is literally defined as "the dicatorship of the proletariat". So yeah, it's dictatorial. People hate it. And water is wet.

Yeah, that's how Americans treated the Native Americans. Push them out until they die out.

Kanye West says the same. Classic antisemitic trope.

No they can't, because Islam is not compatible with Marxist communism. You can try to astroturf it for a while, but it will fail, as it did.

Don't conflate what happens inside Palestine with what happens inside Israel. Of course they do! Liberal democracy is about how you treat your own citizens, not foreign minorities.

Everyone in Afghanistan is religious. There is no meaningful secularism there.

"West" is not a geography, it is a value system and mindset. That's why Japan is considered "West". Israel is a Western secular liberal capitalist democracy. It does respect human rights of its citizens within reason. Most Israelis immigrated from Europe and brought with them European values and norms.

These people are Christian ideologues so they cannot make sense of basic history because it would contradict their ideology. You can't make sense of reality as a dogmatic Christian. These people think Hitler was a socialist! They couldn't pass an AP high school history exam.

He has always been for containment, he just doesn't think Russia is a big enough threat to be worth containing. Mearsheimer is a hegemonist. He thinks the US should rule the world.

Because Israel is a "Western" nation and all the Arab nations are not. The US wants a Western foothold in the Middle East. Religious alignment is also a huge factor. Christians are more aligned with Jews than with Muslims. So in a sense this is a war of religions. The US also has a big population of wealthy powerful Jews who have outsize influence in US politics. Israel is also an important ally to the US for hunting down Arab terrorist networks. US and Israel probably share a lot of sensitive intelligence.

No, that underestimates how strategic and intelligent terrorists are. Hamas is very calculated in its strategy, it is not about random aimless violence. There are even quotes of Palestinian leadership saying stuff like: It is better to kill 1 Jew in the city where everyone can see it vs killing 10 Jews out in the desert where no one will see. The purpose of the violence is to create as much public attention as possible. Because they know they cannot kill all the Jews with terrorist attacks. They aren't stupid about that. Terrorism is a rational policy, not an irrational one.

Yeah, but the Soviets were spreading communism to Afghanistan. The Muslim locals did not want to live under a secular communist puppet regime. It is proper for Islamists to be in charge of Afghanistan. Most of the population are Islamist there. Soviet communism is out of place there. It was the Afghans' choice to fight for their independence from Soviet influence. Just like how Ukrainans choose now to resist Putin's influence. If Afghans wanted communism they could have just accepted it peacefully. But obviously that would have been a bad choice for them. Debunked?? It literally happened in dozens of nations. Communism was a global movement that spread like cancer, infecting dozens of nations like North Korea, Cuba, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, etc. Lenin's whole thing was international communism, gaining a foothold in Russia and then spreading to cover the whole globe. That's what the whole Cold War was about. Stalin tried to inflitrate every nation he could with his commuist influence and stage communist revolutions across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Many of these revolutions failed, or were stopped with the help of capitialist powers.

That's really none of our business.