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Everything posted by Leo Gura
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This is so stupid. As if police did not exist for 1000s of years before slavery. Slave-catching is not the origin of police. Every major city-state had police because there were violent criminals in every city that needed stopping. At the very least police are need to protect banks and wealthy shops & houses from robbery. If there was no police every bank and shop would be robbed. It has nothing to do with slavery. Yeah, but the point is that you never know which mundane traffic stop could turn into an axe-wielding maniac. "Should reduce crime" is a very distant and idealistic notion. When a kid with a gun is shooting up a Walmart, you don't have the luxury of talking about shoulds. The police are the last line of defense for all the failures in the social system. Our social systems are too imperfect so you will have lots of failure and they will come in unpredictable places. Improving education and social services requires decades. In the meantime you gotta protect innocent civilians. The reality is that if you send in social workers into many of these situations they will just be bullied and murdered. You cannot tell from the outset which situation will turn violent or not. Here's great example: In this video the police do a routine check-up on a guy who has mental illness and claims to be hearing voices. His mother asked the police to escort him to a hospital. The police were super nice and careful. But in the end he stabbed the cop in the neck with a hidden knife. The only reason the officer didn't die was because by fluke luck the doctor said the knife missed every major artery in his neck. If this was a social worker, he'd be stabbed to death in the face. This is a great example of how progressive idealism/utopianism just falls flat on its face. Progressives underestimate how vicious criminals can be. Police carry guns for good reason, not because they are trigger happy authoritarians. Here is another great example that illustrates why progressives are wrong about sending in social workers. In this case the girlfriend of a suicidal boyfriend went to a gas station to call the police on him. She told them that he needs a social worker to come help him. She specifically told them not to bring guns or the police. As she was making this call, the boyfriend drives up and shoots a female officer who was trying to help the girlfriend. Just imagine what this boyfriend would have done to an unarmed social worker. Progressives are so empathetic with criminals they do not understand how deranged and vile these people can be. Empathy and diplomacy will not save you from a drugged up psychopath. He will stab and rape you.
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A human didn't write that.
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He has higher potential for sex, but not higher potential for growth. The key mistake in your thinking is valuing sex above growth. No sex will ever feel as good as deep growth.
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LOVE!
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Provide yourself the love you crave.
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Not a stupid job, a job you find meaningful. Jesus. This isn't rocket science. Although it could be.
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BS
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Careful. There are plenty of 9-5 jobs which people love. You just gotta find the right one.
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Depends on what you mean by "sugar". If it's pure refined sugar, that's not good for you. But if it comes from fruits and natural sources then there is plenty of room for that.
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That's no accident. Big mistakes lead to big growth.
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I never claimed anything was wrong. Most of the police actions on this YT channel are fully justified. Which shows that police are doing a good job, on the whole. Occasionally you see excessive use of force -- it certainly exists -- but it's quite rare and you understand why police must err on the side of caution when dealing with such scumbags. If police were more lax, they'd be dead. So it's hard to blame them for being trigger happy once in a while. One important thing I learned from watching all these videos is that if someone is charging at you while you have a gun, you gotta shoot him way more times than I thought. I used to think that you could put 1-2 bullets in him and stop him. But now I realize that's not nearly enough. You'd want to shot him at least 10 times.
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Good. Keep going deeper, more approaches. Never envy those who have it easy. They will not grow as you.
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American right-wingers are Blue/Orange.
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Leo Gura replied to WisdomSeeker's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Sure. Ralston has some kind of boarderline austim from what I overheard. -
We call that a child here.
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This one's just nuts: At least the dog got himself a ball in the process.
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@Kksd74628 You need to educate yourself about NYC's failed stop-and-frisk program.
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The traffic stop from hell:
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In practice with profiling the harms outweigh the benefits. Look at how stop-and-frisk worked in NYC.
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Actually it is a good reason not to do it. I do care and I try to prevent it within my limited capacity.
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All too easily abused.
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This is insane. These poor cops:
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Leo Gura replied to Blackhawk's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
They still don't understand the true power of Infinity. Infinity means, you can create whatever item you want, whenever you want, for free, with pure Intelligence. Infinity is not dumb mechanical box, it is a Consciousness. The power of Infinity is not in repeating, it's in not having to repeat. -
A real man squeezes his carrot juice with his bare hands
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This channel is a goldmine!