Leo Gura

This is like what Bin Laden said. Look, no ideology can ever be applied 100% faithfully, because ideology is always a cartoonish view of the world. Of course top-level national policy will be about raw power and money, not Sharia faithfulness. But to say the Middle East is not run on Sharia is silly. Of course Middle East governments are westernizing and secularizing too. But that process is far from total.

It definitely is an ideological issue. Remember, it only takes a handful of radicalized people to create serious problems. It doesn't matter that 70% of people are peaceful. That time is long gone. They will hate Israelis for at least 50 years now. And it failed to deliver a solution, leading to the current situation. This is a common misconception about terrorism. Most terrorists are well educated. The average Arab terrorist has higher college education than the average American. Islamist terrorists are better educated than the average MAGA supporter. So it is about ideology, but not just Islam but also nationalism. Then they have an endless line of new recruits stretching around the block.

That's exatly why I don't want to give you my opinion of you. What matters is your opinion of you.

Not the same. Different ideology. These Islamists are too proud and too eager to martyr themselves. Those are the ones who self-selected to be okay with Israel existing. The ones outside self-selected otherwise. Those outsiders are a different beast who refuse to be tamed. You can tame a horse but not a rhinocerous. But you would still need to heavy blockade and police them because they will be blowing you up every week from the inside. The harassment and hatred will not just melt away.

So Boomer is best. The circle is complete.

Most of them fawn over Sharia law.

It won't work to accept them. They will not be part of an Israeli state when they believe that Israel should not exist. They will just do endless terrorism from the inside.

What is it called when one sees all of that as cringe larping?

I don't know and it doesn't matter. My judgment of you is not what matters. Contemplate for yourself whether you are a weak man.

It's easy when a third of the Congress thinks Muslims are children of Satan.

Netanyahu is considering plan to force all civilians out of North Gaza: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/22/middleeast/netanyahu-gaza-hamas-expulsions-plan-intl/index.html All hell will break loose soon. You Israelis here are in for 50 years of new terrorist attacks. Palestinians will never forgive you. And even us Americans will get hit. This is like Bin Laden breeding ground x10.

Yeah, I disagreed with all those. Lots of bad leftist ideas there which do not deserve normalization. Haha. Yeah, well, that was said jokingly. But seriously, even a weak man is still a man in the end. Just because a man is underdeveloped doesn't mean he ain't a man.

They are a good example of being overly dismissive and cynical. It's more comedy than serious sensemaking.

I don't think that's true. Well, I don't expect him to understand my work. He's in a very different line of work. And sure, he may easily see my as a cult leader. It's pretty obvious that anyone in the debunking business is gonna find it irresistible to criticize me. Because debunking is just a form rationalism, which my work challenges. As I said, there is a right and wrong way to do criticism. It has to be done very carefully. I have talked many times about how skepticism can be abused and weaponized. What you're talking here is the abuse of skepticism. That is a big trap.

I don't think he has a problem with courses per se, he has a problem with grifty courses which offer little new content at huge fees and sleazy sales tactics. That sort of thing is a big problem within the get-rich-quick industry. Many newbies get outright scammed. Coffeezilla is one of the good debunkers out there. He does good research and the guys he targets are major sleazebags and conartists for the most part. They do serious fraud. So I got no issue with Coffeezilla.

There is an important function for correcting misinformation and biased perspectives, but it's really hard to do it right, without falling into flip side self-deceptions. Many debunkers do it from an ideological place, trying to replace one ideology with another, or criticizing without offering constructive realistic solutions. Criticizing others is the oldest, easiest trap in the book. And social media rewards it far too much.

Find jobs that pay well. You need to build up capital.

Indeed. I answered all the gender questions as men cannot become women.

You can just tell that Jesus guy is running the Evangelical script. They brainwash them to develop those born-again scripts and he's parrotting it out just like they trained him, like a good little monkey.

Why are we assuming that number isn't juiced?

Such ads are too sleazy and petty. Lincoln Project ads are like what political ads would be if Trump ran an ad company. There's no need to sink to this level to effectively criticize Trump.

@Ero Interesting analysis. Thanks.

I found many of the questions to be quite sloppy, ambiguous, and oversimplified. Not a great test. I would like to see a test like this with much more nuanced and realistic policy choices.

Someone needs to photoshop that with CONMAN.

I plan to make a video about it. Although I won't go too much into the technical detail since it's not really necessary for our purposes.