Danioover9000

@Israfil Why is the USA no better than Russia or China? Aren't Americans more friendlier and nicer than the Russians or the Chinese? How is the USA's global politics, economy and agenda stage red??? If true, then what, Russia's or China's global politics, geopolitical and economic agendas above stage red? Why should the USA be honest with it's economic and political hegemony? And is the USA the only country manipulating economics, politics, funding coups and dictators?

@Raze Mainly to live in better countries. Immigrants are, based on differences with Spiral Dynamics stages of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types, ego development, states of consciousness, life experiences and other lines of development, and ideological upbringing, are mostly, compared to 1st world democracies, live in 3rd world authoritarian regimes and generally less developed societies which over time gets harder, so they chose to migrate to another better environment that fits their needs for themselves and their children.

Can we all take a minute of silence for the users @Arcangelo and @Gesundheit2 for getting banned for being annoying jerks? Their humour will be missed. @Jowblob I thought @Leo Gura did talk about levels of consciousness with some of his infinity videos, and the many features of awakening?

@Pure Imagination Yes, this will be shaping the future a bit brighter. Now we're just waiting on higher taxes for billionaires.

@Thought Art I just noticed, you're back to being a Mod! Congrats again.

@DrugsBunny What Nootropic did you take to write so much eloquent gibberish?

@Epikur Oh man, an even more savage bad faith answer would be, assuming the UN spokesperson is the USA representative here, would be, if the interviewer pushes this line of questioning: "Because Syria holds geopolitical power and resources such as more oil deposits and minerals, such that if the USA did not occupy parts of Syria, that would leave other countries such as China and Russia opportunity to occupy Syria first with their military. And even Iraq. So, Reporter, would you rather have Russia or China, Authoritarian regimes and with little humanitarian laws, occupy Syria or even Iraq instead of the USA, a 1st world democracy, and more developed country that upholds liberal values more so compared to Russia/China?". I would probably still be fired or reprimanded by my seniors in the UN whether I stumble my responses, or pushed back aggressively, but I'd at least won't go down without fighting and lashing back at the reporter for asking a question and attacking me like that.

@Epikur Clearly this isn't a real answer, or maybe it's deep fake and edited. The real answer to the question of whether America's military occupation of Syria is illegal or not, is 'yes, technically it's conditional illegal occupation, as a geopolitical and geo power play towards China and Russia, as well as a part to fight against terrorism'. Or, the more spicier answer would be this:

@Hardkill Oh no! The orange man is gonna be made into marmalade! I thought most cases it would be swept under the rug.

@Leo Gura Finally, thanks Leo. This should reduce all those ChatGPT like replies and A.I image gifs and videos. It was a headache trying to figure out if I'm talking to a robot or a real person sometimes.

@hoodrow trillson You're right, it's pretty horrifying how Tik Tok has damaged and proliferated many false and distorted ideologies out there, far quicker than any other app, it certainly has greater brainwashing capacities. Also, Tik Tok did help a little bit with the voting against the Republicans and Trump, but because it could do so any political party can amass and utilize Tik Tok to gain quick following and ramp up votes for any agenda they want. Unideal situation for me is this thing is still in the market, even with much more restrictions. Ideally this has to go away, the negatives are building up.

Although Destiny's take here is a bit biased and self preferential. It is because due to the differences in Spiral Dynamics stage of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types and traits, life experiences, other lines of development in areas of life, and different ideological indoctrinations from upbringing. Also, Sam and Destiny had a debate in the past and it was pretty contentious, which may have skewed his reaction here to be a bit more biased against Sam. Also, Destiny is a staunch capitalist and Nihilist Determinist, so there's that worldview filtering and interpreting things. Now, as much as I lately don't like Destiny as he's a very manipulative person in his sex and work relationships, he's technically right here in terms of Sam's argument in this podcast. Again, I do think that he's smoke screening here, hiding this behind logic, debate and arguments, when really he hated paying higher taxes in California LOL.

Although Destiny's take here is a bit biased and self preferential. It is because due to the differences in Spiral Dynamics stage of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types and traits, life experiences, other lines of development in areas of life, and different ideological indoctrinations from upbringing. Also, Sam and Destiny had a debate in the past and it was pretty contentious, which may have skewed his reaction here to be a bit more biased against Sam. Also, Destiny is a staunch capitalist and Nihilist Determinist, so there's that worldview filtering and interpreting things.

Here's Destiny's reaction of this podcast, share your thoughts: Also, @Leo Gura, I wouldn't be too quick in calling Sam Seder a level headed progressive:

@Romanov Virtue signaling, group ideology, cancelling and censorship of critical thinking, reasoning, and research into if these are more group ideology versus being born an identity.

@Richard Purdy Interesting channel. Yes, for survival these detectives will use whatever psychological or manipulative techniques to break down a suspect. Some are even very corrupt. If I'm in jail forever, that's bad news, because YA'LL ARE LOCKED HERE WITH ME!!!?

@Juan Interesting will watch. Fun fact: Add an m in the end, you get wacom, for wacom tablets, used to draw difitally.

@UnbornTao OMG, why so late? Do you do meditation after midnight?

@Juan Yes, I think most users here already know you're sort of making a living with your Tik Tok. Tough, but this thing's getting more and more unethical by the months. Get ready, prepare to find another outlet for your artistic talents. Tik Tok either will be banned from the USA, or will be regulated severely. Don't be like Destiny or these toxic influencers and streamers. Did you know that he was doxxed by a kid about a decade ago, and later threatened to kill that kid and his Dad? Over being blocked, without considering other alternative avenues of gaining income? Do you want to grow like that, treat life over dramatically like that?

@Leo Gura In regards to the Buddha though, wasn't he renowned for his debate and argument skills? He was able to convince the majority of spiritual masters of Buddhism on his side, which required some critical thinking on his part? Is there also a tradeoff here, of having more systems thinking and less mystical/spiritual experiences? And Vice versa?

@How to be wise Of course, higher consciousness and spirituality /=/ good political takes and understanding governments and how to lead people. These are, to me, two distinct developmental paths, both seperate and sometimes overlap with each other.

@Hardkill 5. Also, Just because Tik Tok has marginally helped with voting for the left against Trump, as AOC and TYT claim, doesn't mean that it justifies not banning Tik Tok, as this is favoritism and bias. Why? Because if it happened to be that Tik Tok had way more right-wingers, that is voting for Trump and the Republic that happened to be in the right morally speaking, that just happens to be fighting against evil corrupt lizard lefties ruling the establishment, wouldn't AOC and TYT then for banning Tik Tok?. See how the syllogism and logic of this makes it more selfish that a person would just oppose Tik Tok just because it helped you?

@Hardkill Okay, here's what I think: I think Tik Tok should be banned for the following: 1. A historic moment in America's history in recent decades, of a social media platform being banned. Also, the USA government does shut down websites as well, like illegal drug trafficking, sex trafficking sites and other perverse and potentially harmful websites from time to time, of course these websites aren't social media sites. Why not make history and BAN TIK TOK and be the first country to do so? 2. While this AOC politician argues from the legal standpoint, I argue from the psychological harm standpoint. In fact, in the very design and formatting of Tik Tok, from automated facial beautification, to time distortion(no time marks in Tik Tok screen=lose of time spent), and to Algorithm hyper efficient in tailoring and catering content per user's bias more so than any other algorithm out there, and the controversy of kiddie porn being recommended in Tik Tok feeds, there's a convincing case for banning Tik Tok due to psychological degradation of the user, as well as enough studies and research so far to show the ADD/ADHD symptoms that develop from prolonged social media usage of Tik Tok. Can we tolerate Tik Tok and the corrosive effects it has for the brains of young people? 3. National security risks. AOC is incorrect to saying that the USA's data laws, privacy laws and protection laws are being violated by big tech and USA based tech companies that collect your data, and drawing a false equivalency to the data collection, privacy and protection laws in China and the CCP, which is none existent or minimal in comparison to USA based companies, as these USA based companies collect information to improve their services and products offered digitally to customers and users, whilst the CCP collects data from users of Tik Tok to actually spy more on every user and to use data nefariously for whatever aims the CCP has in store. 4. Creates an opportunity to actually question the Amendments and constitutional rights in the USA, and to finally open reviews to modify these amendments to better suit the modern world. Does banning Tik Tok violate the 1st amendment? Let's revise the 1st amendment then. Why? Because some people abuse and misuse the 1st amendment to kingdom come! Finally, a truly pivotal moment in history, to question and revise these amendments right Americans?! Finally some forward progress.

@Leo Gura Will you start to trademark the word AWAKE, or AWAKENING from now on, in this forum?

Interesting, I might try this out: There's something interesting when spirits and other entities of this type use energy to communicate like this.