Leo Gura

I have never heard anyone say this.

Book in my book list teaches you how to speed read.

That's not true. Israel gets plenty of criticism for killing civilians.

Rather than sticking a foreign label on it, just study the facts on the ground.

You could. I have many times. The problem with these types of awakenings is that you will immediately lose them.

A single payer healthcare system would likely backfire badly. California needs to get its taxes under control or it will lose a lot of business to other states.

Don't start with that crap.

It takes a lot of intelligence to act stupid

Sure, awakening and tripping in dreams is possible. You didn't say what you became conscious of so it may have been awakening or some other mystical experience. There are also many different kinds of awakenings.

The US is run on Hispanic migrant labor too. Of course Saudi is gonna be worse because it's much less developed.

Of course I didn't just read his book. I also read other books. Yes, Mein Kampf is a bad read. But I didn't know that at the time.

Yes, I was also interested in understanding Hitler when I was young. When I was 17 or so I bought and started reading Mein Kampf to try to understand Hitler. I read Stalin's biography. I read Saddam Hussein's biography. I read Lenin's biography. I read Mao's biography. I read Genghis Khan's biography. I read about North Korea. I studied Osama Bin Laden's ideology. If Satan had an autobiography, I would happily read it.

From what I've seen, leftists are split on this. Some are so blind they support Hamas out of their love for Palestinians. More reasonable people on the left condemn the terrorism as much as people on the right. Any reasonable person is gonna condemn the terrorism. But all terrorism has a broader context, which usually goes ignored. I am interested in exploring that context. What creates terrorists? What I liked least about the whole 9/11 era was that no one was seriously asking what creates terrorism? Which should have been the top question.

No, I feel the need to understand it. And yes, relativity is a huge factor in understanding it. I don't accept this sort of Bush/Biden position of "Terrorism is evil, full stop." This is not serious understanding, this is childishness. I don't understand your question.

Being a billionaire and being conservative is no fun.

I'm not looking to justify anything. I'm interested in seeing all the perspectives and nuance. Unlike most people, I am interested in the perspective of terrorists.

Saudi Arabia is evolving pretty rapidly.

Most peoples are equally capable of brutality, it's mostly just a matter of circumstance.

Well, that's a matter of relative perspective. If you were on the receiving end of it, you would sing a different tune.

1) I was comparing Europeans and Arabs. Genghis Khan is another matter. 2) My whole point is that there's nothing uniquely brutal about the Arabs. They are just lagging behind in development due to slower advance. What I see is many in the West demonizing Arabs as uniquely barbaric while overlooking European barbarism. This is the epitome of cherry-picking. 3) I see your Arab slave trade and raise you European slave trade.

Even Hitler did some good stuff. It's really hard to be 100% pure evil.

Lol. This is such hogwash. As if Islam respects women and as if pre-Islamic culture was also not pagan. Every culture from before 2000 years ago was stage Purple animistic pagan-like. The West is the most civilized culture there is at the moment. Not because it is the best, but simply because it was the fastest to get there due to contingent geographical factors.

Of course. The Holocaust alone should be enough. But if that isn't enough for you, you can find 100 others examples from European history. Europeans were utterly ruthless conquerors. Look at what the Spanish did to the South Americans.

You are God's mind. You're welcome

Yes, well, people are cherrypicking with the terrorism. So it's only fair to balance it out. Bias is a hell of a thing.