Apparition of Jack

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Captain America isn’t Green, he’s healthy Blue. It’s in his name.

@Consept He’s a progressive YouTuber in the same vein as TYT or Secular Talk. However, he tends to be very anti-establishment and can take progressive dislike of centrist Democrats too far, which is counter-productive to pushing for progressive ideals. He’s also a comedian and a lot of his videos revolve around comedy talks.

@Thought Art You can acknowledge that native cultures had a lot of wisdom and knowledge that has since been lost to colonialism whilst also not fetishising them as some sort of pure untouched culture that never had any conflicts or downsides. In fact I’d argue this hinders the cause for native rights since it portrays a reality that never existed and thus makes other people feel put off by it.

This is disgusting, racist terminology

Too much stage Red. Yikes.

1. It wasn't his property. 2. In a choice between lives and property, yes, lives are more important.

@purerogue He went out of his way to murder two people If a man comes into your town with a gun and sees you jaywalking, does he have the right to kill you? According to you, he does, since apparently anyone can take the law into their own hands whenever they feel like it.

@purerogue There's no point arguing with you. You've already decided in your head that someone who killed others with no reasonable cause is only as guilty as the people he killed, who were not trying to kill him.

@Rajneeshpuram Assuming that image isn't fabricated, and knowing right-wing talking points there's a chance it might be, then it's still all completely irrelevant. You do NOT deserve to be shot for protesting or defending yourself, regardless of your background. Not to mention the shooter purposefully traveled to the protests and decided to go armed. He had no business being there yet willing put himself into a tense situation where he ended up killing two people for no reason. He's a murderer.

@Leo Gura Not consciously, no, but I feel like subconsciously there's even just a little voice saying to him "Wouldn't it be great if Trump won just to see the corporate Dems squirm?" Not enough to actually make him vote for Trump, but enough to make him consider abstaining from voting for Biden due to his inner resentment. Of course the question comes to whether he's developed enough to ignore this voice or not when the election comes. I actually think as the election draws nearer and the gravity of the situation mounts (causing a raise in consciousness) he'll be forced to evaluate and eventually come around to supporting Biden in the election. Krystal too, but it's less likely with her.

@Annoynymous @Leo Gura Here's a more cynical take - both Kyle and Krystal are upset that their candidate (Bernie) didn't get the nomination, and so in order to maintain some semblance of authority they want to "punish" corporate Dems and ensure a Trump victory. Basically, when Bernie was leading in the primaries they could "smell victory" so to speak and became convinced that Bernie was going to be the nom. However, when centrists coalesced around Biden all those hope and dreams were taken away from them, and now all they have is bitterness and resentment for the establishment, rather than taking the realistic approach and working with the establishment to get their ideas passed. I see similar things happening with some (not all) leftists on Twitter. They want to hold onto some semblance of power and so equate the Dems with the Republicans and claim that not voting is some principled ideological stance, rather than the self-biased desire for power that I think it is. This is mostly happening unconsciously too, I doubt any of these people are aware they're doing this. This is just something I've observed.

Forget climate change, covid, inequality, all that other stuff, the main driving force in this election will be how people feel about race and race issues. When it comes time to vote the vast majority of the people will vote, consciously or subconscious (usually the latter), on whether they prefer races remain apart or races cooperate with each other. I guarantee you this is especially true of the Trump camp, where most Trump voters will be animated by a desire to keep the US as white as possible (yes, this even includes black and brown Trump voters. And yes, not all Trump voters will feel this way, but most of them will.) This is why Trump is so hard to dislodge, because despite all of the shitshows he dragged the US through with the outright fraud, record-breaking government shutdown, kowtowing to dictators, destruction of climate protections, and the fatally botched Covid response, too many Americans will simply support him because he represents white interests (as opposed to collective interests.) The thought processes go along the lines of "Wow, Trump is a monster, he's put the US through so much suffering, how could I vote for him?" -> "Hey, maybe he's bad but at least he's not a Marxist/Anarchist/Chinese plant (i.e. he's not against white supremacy), I think I'll have to vote for him" as the election drawers near. I guarantee you this is how it's going to go. Most people who vote like this won't even be aware that they're doing it. Race is such an utterly pernicious and stubborn marker of identity that I didn't even fully grasp how deep the attachment goes until this election. In some sense people are more attached to their race than they are even to their gender. My proposal to all this is of course to maximise Love and make working together and promoting shared values (instead of racial purity) as sexy as possible. How do we do that? I don't know, I'm not in marketing. But we have to try. An alternative to simplistic racial divisions and white supremacy needs to be presented. Otherwise we'll get at least four more years of a climate denying, aporophobic man-child running the most powerful country on the planet.

Don't forget there's also degrees of siddhis. I imagine it would take an incredibly developed and rare soul to be able to levitate, for instance, but things like being able to feel people's emotions or having intuitions of the short-term future would be much easier to develop.

@ColeMC01 Keep in mind this is from 2015. This was before Trump, the alt-right, the rise of Neo-Nazis, etc. These sorts of ideas have gained a lot more traction since then since people have begun to see the opposite is oppression / judgement.

@Lindsay Under every single post, there's a couple of buttons that say "@ User", "Quote", and "Bookmark". The "@ User" button puts the user's name at the front of your post, like how I've put your name in this post. It notifies the person you've mentioned them. The "Quote" button puts their post in a quote box that you can reply to, like this: ^ This is me replying to your quote. And finally the "Bookmark" button lets you bookmark someone's post so that you can easily find it to read later. Hope this helps!

I consider him to be the “Shaman that failed.” I actually disagree with most of his politics, but I can “sense” he has some inner sense of shamanic insight that just never got fully developed. He clearly understands that power of myth and the subconscious to dictate human affairs, and I think it was by harnessing this energy that he managed to get so many listeners because he was appealing to something deeper inside of them. The problem was his own quest for ego go in the way, alongside his paranoid fear of the collapse western civilisation and his inability to put his insights into greater context. He assumed that just because the subconscious mind is more powerful than modern society gives it credit for, then our only hope of survival is to make up bullshit faux-Christian narratives that suppress our inner beast. This is such a novice take on shamanism that it would be funny if he didn’t unfortunately use it to mislead so many of his followers down this road. Modern western civilisation isn’t going to collapse because of a few collage students wanting to be called by their preferred pronouns, if anything it’s the stuff he defends (neoliberalism, hyper-individualism, climate denial, etc) that is going to cause our future malaise. Jordan’a biggest problem is Jordan Peterson. If he calmed the fuck down a little and got into yoga / psychedelics / meditation he could actually grow a lot as a human. The problem is he’s too full of himself to realistically do that that instead he’s just going to peddle his half-baked ideas until the day he dies.

@r0ckyreed Honest question, do you hold to these beliefs in your real life? When you're faced with an in-the-moment moral dilemma, do you mentally try and go through all these different concepts in your head to find out the correct course of action, or do you act on impulse? Because to me, and forgive me for being a bit stark here, but all this kind of sounds like elaborate mental games that don't really mean much when its comes time to act.

@Gidiot That's my issue with it too, making it compulsory so soon after its been developed with no long-term trials could potentially lead to mass health problems down the line. From what I understand a successful vaccine has never been developed for a coronavirus, so if one is developed shortly for this it'll be treading whole new ground which could have unforeseen implications down the line. I think making it mandatory after two or so years of trials that show no long-term health effects could be a good idea, but otherwise I just feel it's too risky to make everyone take it.

The ideology of these talking puppets:

More like a white-worker

@Anderz Have you checked out Leo's video on marketing? It's really good. It explains how like 90% of our "true" ideas in ANY domain are actually just the result of marketing, lol. Here's the link if you haven't seen it

@Anderz Apple has always been overpriced for the technology they provide, I honestly think 75% of Apple's "genius" is learning how to market technology as sexy and avant-garde rather than as something for nerds and bureaucrats, and hence being able to charge premium prices for their products. I don't want to diminish the real technological achievements made under them though, they clearly have technological innovation, but most of their success comes from marketing IMO.

@diamondpenguin Because mentally he is 13

"Progressives may benefit more from a Hitler victory. Here's why"