Leo Gura

Stop it. Do not spread baseless gossip.

The whole challenge of life is that a human isn't omnipotent. You struggle against this core truth every day, and there is no escape other than death. This is not news to anyone. Everyone knows this, just not so explicitly. Life is all about learning to surf waves which are too big for anyone to control.

In the end whether you survive or not is your responsibility. It's not about fault, it's about understanding how survival works.

I want to create a database of the most egregiously wrong quotes spoken by mankind throughout our long history. The point here is to highlight how easily the mind fools itself due to ignorance, arrogance, self-bias, and self-deception. These can be quotes from science, philosophy, religion, politics, economics, etc.

Of course no.

Not necessarily. It can occur within your 5 senses. Consciousness and mind can get massively enhanced without going beyond your 5 senses. For example, you can imagine that a rat mind has the same basic 5 senses as humans, but notice how much more depth a human mind has: what a human mind can understand about the universe vs a rat mind. The human mind has totally new alien capacities relative to the rat mind, and yet, the human still experiences the same 5 basic senses as a rat would. Most of the heavy lifting of consciousness isn't done at the level of adding new senses, but higher orders of abstraction.

It's not whataboutism, it has been my core position from day 1 about Trump. All that's happening now is just the unfoldment of the chaos and corruption Trump as been sowing for 8 years. And if Trump is re-elected it will get much worse. And it will all be his fault.

Notice that you have no conscious control over what the universe is dreaming. Look at any object and notice that you have no control over its shape. Look at your body. Notice, you didn't choose your body and you fundamentally cannot change it. You live in a video game which you did not design.

Plants can cause a lot of allergies and inflammation problems. Plants contains all kinds of sugars and pesticides. Plain chicken meat is like the least inflammatory food.

This is how technology has always worked. Email made the mailman broke. In order to make a living in life requires constant adaptation to new technological environments. You can't just expect to be safe as a mailman forever. That's not how life has ever worked. The #1 rule of life: Adapt or die. It is your job to get on the winning side of every new technology. And if you don't, don't be surprised when you end up screwed.

I am not listening to that right-wing garbage. Every election cycle they roll out yet more self-biased garbage and projection.

Of course it is an undemocratic act. But the right-wing in America, and especially MAGA, has lost any right to cry about undemocratic acts. It is precisely because the right-wing doesn't care about democracy and is actively assaulting democracy at every level -- politically, economically, via corruption of the media, electorally, legally, morally, and spiritually -- that we on the left do not buy your crocodile tears about democracy. The entire case against Trump has been that he will corrupt and prevert democracy. And that is exactly what he has done and continues to do without shame. Right wingers think that they can get away with corrupting democracy and things will turn out well for them. But any student of history knows that's not how this works. If Trump continues to corrupt democracy, he will end up dead from his own stupidity. When you flame hatred, guess what? You get hatred in return. When you corrupt the courts to escape justice, people take justice into their own hands. This corruption is Trump's doing and he is responsible for it no matter how much the right-wing fingerpoints at the left. This is obvious to anyone with a serious understanding of politics. Which is why we have been saying Trump is unqualified for office. It's only MAGA fools who think they can promote hatred and lies against the Dems without consequence. Assassination is wrong. But Trump doesn't care about right and wrong. So he has no grounds to complain. Assassination is illegal, but Trump breaks the law all time. This is the problem with supporting Trump. You are supporting incoherent garbage but then crying about it when it blows up in your face. The entire case against Trump is that his corruption will blow up in your face. Trump's corruption, hatred, and devisiveness cannot be free. It comes with a big cost. The cost is what we see playing out in the media. And it could easily get much worse. But right-wingers wanna fuck around and find out. Then they will do the surprise Pikachu face and blame everyone but themselves. In the end, everything related to Trump will collapse, die, and lose. The only question is how much collateral damage will America incur? Tldr: the man shitting in the pool doesn't get any sympathy when he ends up getting some shit in his eye. If you want us to care about shit in your eye then first stop shitting in the pool.

There are at least 100 like him in Trump's orbit.

We only really lock threads that are low quality or spiral out of control.

Only Mods should have such a feature.

Trump is a chaos agent who is too incompetent to actually be an effective dictator. Nor does America need such a leader. You can't be an ignorant narcissitic corrupt cunt and run America well. That's not how a developed government is improved.

Yeah, he's excellent.

Shooter voted for Trump in 2016. So he wasn't a far leftist, he was center-rightish/anti-mainstream.

Shooter seems to have plenty of center-right and pro-Dem positions: https://nypost.com/2024/09/15/us-news/would-be-trump-assassin-idd-as-ryan-routh-58-of-hawaii-sources/ Seems like he is really pro-Ukraine and democracy.

Don't shoot baby Hitler.

You need to space them out because your body needs time in between rounds to recover. 1-2 weeks between rounds is good.

That's what happens when you shittalk Taylor Swift.

@stephenkettley 10-20 rounds are usually needed for significant results. It's best to get on with it and not delay. If you care about results then don't dabble but do it with a passion.