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Honestly don't care that much. Despite the bluster by leftists about Trump being the end of the world there isn't THAT much difference between them. It's good to have gridlock because the fringes of both parties are both looney. They'll all keep printing our money and increasing the debt. They'll both keep being corrupt and giving handouts and bailouts to the top and bottom while the purchase power of the middle class decreases.

In theory it's supposed to mean supporting our middle class over the middle class of other countries. In practice, the rich will continue to get richer because of the policies in many countries such as quantitative easing which basically act to prop up asset prices, and the wages never seem to keep up with the rise in asset prices. Also globalization has lead to increased competition when it comes to labor costs. The idea is if you bring back manufacturing, maybe the wages actually go up to the way the boomers had them, where homes were affordable and the like. What they really need to do, but won't, is stop using property bubbles to prop up economies. Even left leaning countries like canada to this... no restrictions at all when it comes to owning multiple properties, foreigners buying properties, etc. Without these regulations wealth will continue to consolidate/concentrate as housing ends up in the hands of the wealthy and the lower class get priced out.

The elites always thinking the masses are too stupid to make their own choices, and always want to bring on strict autocratic type systems to manage human nature that stifle innovation and progress. The problem is that human nature itself corrupts such strict systems and turns them against the people in the long run. However it can be argued no system of government will work forever, because as a species we are wired to want change for the sake of change, power tends to attract corrupt and psychopathic people or simply turn them corrupt in time due to our nature, and since you can never please everyone, we tend to go through cycles of trying new things to see what works, and cycles based on the old saying 'Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.' We managed human nature pretty well I would argue, when we adopted a more conservative, "God Fearing" culture that restricted the more sinful vices. Of course shit went on behind the scenes because humans will always try to get away with things when nobody is looking that their dopamine driven animal cravings desire, and we were a whole lot more racist back then, but all in all there were aspects of this more conservative culture that made society as a whole work better. In this country we have the "right" versus "left" nonsense and then you have left wingers who support communist type systems which tend to lean autocratic in time because human nature makes them never work, or socialist systems that try to support too many unproductive people, which also doesn't work. Autocracies themselves tend to adopt more conservative type value systems by their nature... look at China, Nazi Germany, or any autocracy that isn't a drug ridden high crime cesspool like Cuba. It's a balancing act. We could simply not decriminalize all drugs and impose harsh sentences for dealing them, but left wingers don't want to do that... they want anything goes, so here we are. They treat people like they'll just make all the right choices and do the right thing and then act shocked and have meltdowns when it doesn't happen. Shocker, our animal nature is stronger than our value systems without forceful imposition (not a shocker) In China for example they monitor a lot more and enforce laws in such a way that people don't as often try to "get away with things" that are outside the law. There is a sort of carrot and stick conditioning that makes the rules more readily followed. But would we really want that? Tough question. We are materialistic because the global elites push consumption, population, and "perpetual growth" along with inflation to keep the unfunded liabilities from bankrupting the system.. pensions, social security, etc. This is another reason they never try to stop this "disposable culture" in which we live and peddle the "economic growth" psyop globally among all media outlets. If they actually made things to last, people would stop consuming and GDP would go down... something the Keynesians and modern monetary theorists simply cannot have. All of modern society in the west is based around consumption. Built in inflation means simply saving cash is a losing proposition. https://www.reddit.com/r/Detailing/comments/1g0qub5/the_paintfinish_on_new_cars_is_criminally/ For millions of years of human history we've never been able to have the personal freedom to experience all these things... I'd say it's a phase and we should just accept it, enjoy it, and evolve, or engage in genetic engineering to fix it. You will never save everyone, please everyone, the best you can hope is a system that works well for the majority. We do need something like stakeholder capitalism, which emphasizes better build quality, higher wages, and a stronger middle class, rather than this quantitative easing based system where everyone tries to be an investor, we bail them out, we drive up quarterly profits at the expense of wages, and the purchasing power of the middle class continues to decrease as the rich get richer and gobble up more assets with all their liquidity. Homes should be for living in, not buying like stocks.

This popped into my feed for some reason when I was hopping into the shower... it shows how modern factory farming is really the most efficient way to farm, and also the most humane if conducted properly. There's incentive for them to keep the animals healthy and non stressed because it improves the meat quality. There is traceability from farm to finished product by stringent government regulations to try to ensure the safety of the meat. It simply would not be possible to produce meat to sustain humanity with "mom and pop" type farming, and it would be much less efficient, paradoxically more stressful for the animal, and less safe with less traceability. They have meat production down to a science in western countries. It's certainly more pleasant for the animal than say being ripped apart by a Lion or Alligator as food like would happen in nature. Constant food supply, protection from the elements, protection from predators.... it's not perfect but should be looked at as a necessary evil, because we are not going to give up meat eating as a species. It's simply not going to happen.

For me it's psycho cybernetics, though the foundation of other books would probably be necessary to understand what drives human behavior. Letting go by David Hawkins and The Open Focus Brain are also useful, as would be the power of now. Atomic Habits. The goal is personal growth without excessive "effort" which activates the sympathetic nervous system and drives stress and neurotic responses. Creating good habits without excessive use of willpower, through observing cravings and impulses rather than either suppressing them or giving into them. People who think Jesus wrote ACIM with Helen Schucman, I personally think her work was based on other books of that time including psycho cybernetics which was released in the 1960 time frame, and that she wrote it. Just like Neil Donald Walsch never actually had conversations with god and Gary Renard never actually chatted with ascended masters. Their books are good but they are blatantly lying to their readers.

These large corporations , content creators, political parties, etc. are experts at pandering to people's emotions and triggering them with sensationalist content, and making them think the world is "going to hell" along with creating echo chambers and hijacking a person's ability to properly rationalize, similar to being in a cult, because we now have instant access to information, much of it designed to trigger people's dopamine receptors. In truth, this world has always been a hell, depending on your perspective. Life is harsh. Beautiful, but harsh. Let me be clear no "side" is immune to this. The "right" or "left" or whatever nutcase cult a person subscribes too or votes for. You make excellent points. Good stage yellow thinking here. A lot of people here get caught up in their emotions and moral judgements and worshipping their emotions as some grand truth when they are merely animalistic limbic mechanisms that compel an animal to act in it's environment. They are best mindfully observed and acknowledged, along with all impulses, cravings, etc. Throw in bots taking over comments and chat, and these bots themselves tend to push a narrative to manipulate people's opinions. The line between facts and narratives is being blurred by emotional manipulation and sensationalized/fake content... but such is human nature. This has been going on a very long time. The stage green "outrage dynamics" as you describe are still strong here but am seeing more detached yellow perspective lately which is good. It will literally take genetic engineering to "fix" our behavior at the ADHD sort of speed modern people tend to demand today, because of it's evolutionary origins. This won't fix the fact animal species are still out there eating each other for sustenance, or that nature itself is harsh, but it will appease the people always so upset about human behavior, thinking humans should know better when their animal impulses assert themselves and they make impulsive choices in a society and culture where we have so much individual autonomy to do as we please, often without "bad behavior" ever being punished or called out.

That is a moral judgment. Humans are experts at imposing morality onto situations that when analyzed from a purely logical perspective would be amoral, such as natural selection, one animal species eating another, pathogenic bacteria killing their hosts when they invade it, and all the little quarks that come with natural evolution. Our limbic animal brains are good at this. I'm not saying don't have a moral code, but analyzing it from a mindful perspective and pondering where it actually comes from can be a handy practice. What is "dignity" in the guise of natural selection and passing on the best genes? I'd say it actually counts for a lot just doing some pondering. One should ask oneself as example if these cattle we domesticate for our consumption would be better off in the wild unprotected as an example, exposed to predators and the elements. Perhaps they'd be better off not even being born, which they wouldn't if we weren't breeding them, but then we're not going to have meat to eat for 8 billion people. Should those zebras and gazelles that are meals for lions not be born because it's a cruel way to exist, possibly being food for some other species? I would make the argument that life on this planet or any plant in this physical universe entails lots of suffering just because of the rules of the game here. Should all life in the universe simply not exist because existence can be cruel?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/terrorism-prevention-thomas-fugate-trump-b2774791.html A 22-year-old college grad with no security experience is now leading a government terror prevention team: ‘Putting the intern in charge’ https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1936750454270247004

I would argue no... I always find it fascinating how people like this are allowed to get away with what they do with just a slap on the wrist, but hey cops just enforce laws, and there are no laws on the books giving more severe punishments to individuals like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzTKx-vHzc However I fully understand and support humans given higher priority status by the law, because people shouldn't just go around killing one another. We have egos and a higher level of conscious awareness of ourselves and our enviornment. That said we tend to give higher priority to certain animals based on our emotions... dogs and cats are seen as more worth protecting than say wild animals because of our genetic link to them via domestication, and I won't bring up pest animals or insects like mosquitoes or invasive species like the asian carp or feral swine. Bottom line, natural selection is survival of the fittest... nature is harsh and cruel if you really analyze evolution. I still enjoy my meat, because we evolved to eat and enjoy it and take nourishment from the proteins, just like other animal species.

To be honest I'm neutral on this whole thing. Iran and Arab cultures are a lower spiral dynamic stage of development, the global freedom index, and they tend to be autocracies, so it's probably good they don't have nukes however the main reason they dislike us is because we've been meddling in the Middle East whether it's been for Israel or oil for decades literally decades so we're not guiltless in this whole thing either. Bottom line it's just human nature playing itself out in the global stage. If we did nothing and they did develop nukes then they would end up like North Korea so who knows if that would be better or not. Who knows if this attack even accomplished anything as they were expecting it and probably moved all the sensitive material off-site before it occurred. If you notice it's autocracies that tend to help other autocracies and democracies that tend to defend democracies. Israel is supposedly a democracy and embraces a lot more Western and progressive values than any of the Arab Nations and the vast majority of their population don't even seem to support this war or their government's actions either. If Iran did somehow develop nukes and launch them at Israel we'd be blaming everybody for not being proactive. Seems like a damned if you do damned if you don't situation when dealing with autocracies and lower spiral Dynamics cultures and human nature in general. There are no Innocents here when it comes to global leadership we all share the same genetic makeup with the same general tendencies it's only the cultural development that separates us. The one mistake of stage greens is they think they can handle lower spiral dynamic stages from the perspective of a green and think that those lower stages will listen and it usually doesn't work that way. This is one of those situations where there's perhaps no easy answer and no statistical analysis you could run to say one course of action is definitely 100% going to work over another. The real danger now is retaliation on aircraft carriers or us installations in the area and potential allies supplying Iran with weapons and escalating the situation. Escalating to a global world war is generally a no win situation even for the money changers and big corporate interests that generally profit from war but there are plenty of psychopaths and sociopaths in positions of global leadership. Enjoy the show.

Trump just launched attacks on Iran, so now the US is involved... seems like a lot of righties on the conspiracy forums don't necessarily agree with this move either but these righties were anti-israel before it became popular on the left. Enjoying the global theater by the money changers and profit mongers. Trumpie is going to speak at 9PM CST (2AM GMT or about 90 minutes from now)

https://ibb.co/6x79knZ 8 ounces sliced mushrooms 16 ounces baby carrots 1 either whole onion, whole green pepper or two, or whole zucchini/yellow squash ... don't eat onions and garlic unless I know I have the day off to get that sulfur breath to go away. This is cooked by itself on skillet until there is nice mallard reaction, then frozen broccoli is added and cooked until it's the frozen broccoli is soft. Then the rest of the shit is added Lower sodium canned chicken 6 ounces tomato paste can of "healthy" (lower sodium) cream of mushroom soup lawry's salt free 17 seasoning Parmesan Cheese Liquid Sucralose... I like my stuff sweet without adding sugar, so this is used quite a bit, and used here. Can be made without canned chicken and Parmesan cheese for vegans... add another 8 ounces of mushrooms. Not as good but hey that's a vegan diet for you. Goal of meal is to reduce grains, increase vegetables in diet, and reduce sodium in diet... the way neurotypicals would make this, the sodium level would be quite high compared to our evolutionarily normal diets. This meal the potassium is higher than sodium by a 2:1 ratio with low sodium options. Calorie range is around 1000 as made here. Can be reduced with some tweaking. Should be enough for 2 meals for average individuals, though I typically eat the entire thing at once.

A good diet plan. It's ultimately calories in/out despite what people say about what types of foods to eat. Of course keeping carbs moderate at best is better than a super high carb/fructose diet. Your inclusion of eggs is excellent for the choline which helps prevent buildup of liver fat, acting as a methyl donor, among other benefits. Consider adding in a cheap daily multivitamin, say great value brand mature multis, and foods sugar free greek yogurt is a good choice, with milled flaxseed mixed in is delicious adds fiber and beneficial fats, and mixing in peanut powder with the vanilla greek yogurt is addicting but adds some protein. I don't eat bowls of cereal for breakfast, I eat bowls of frozen blueberries or mixed berries, with low calorie almond milk and a vanilla type protein powder mixed in... this protein powder is quite delicious... https://www.sixstarpro.com/products/100-whey-protein-plus-frosted-flakes?variant=44209294475508 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Wild-Blueberries-40-oz-Frozen/700604894 Canned low sodium chicken is a staple of mine also.... https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Less-Sodium-Chunk-Chicken-Breast-with-Rib-Meat-in-Water-Fully-Cooked-12-5-Ounce-Can/42613740 A healthy meal I like to make.... https://ibb.co/6x79knZ

Become skeptical of almost all social media content now... aiming to break free of reddit consciousness (even though I'm linking to reddit lolz) or any sort of belief system about anything and question everything down to the mundane, like I must eat this or that, or do what anyone says, or that it matters if I live to 100 with a healthy body even (though the healthy eating habit is established) ... this guy produces content to get views. You can take wisdom from it or not, but after some point it becomes a distraction from self realization work which is done on the level of the interaction between the prefrontal cortex or thinking brain and older brain structures. https://www.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/comments/1k8g7p0/something_is_seriously_off_about_steven_bartlett/

It's not so much a mindset as it is habits... trying to brute force control the limbic brain into different habits when it wants what it wants is the hard part... the best is to learn to sit with any craving, emotion, or sensation and mindfully observe without engaging in it and letting it overtake/control you... leo has a good older video on addiction that sums it up, the whole body sensation that occurs when you don't engage on a bad "habit" and thus the dopamine craving in the brain increases like a child who starts to scream and yell to try to get what it wants... if you give into the craving at this point you only make the addiction worse... you're better off just giving in early on, or not giving in at all... don't give in when you get an extreme urge... kind of explained a bit in this video but applied inward instead of at another person (child, partner, whatever).... learning to make decisions with the prefrontal cortex instead of the "emotions" like is so often touted by stage greens who say "emotions are the truth" (nonsense) is important. You need to be your own strong parent to that inner child that screams for what it wants, that animal driven limbic brain. Keep in mind that simply thinking about the activity over and over and trying to "resist" thinking about it is basically the same as doing it.. ya gotta learn to just let stray thoughts and urges come and go like waves in the ocean... He plugs his book from 4:30 to 5:10... you can skip that if you don't have an extension that does it like sponsorblock installed