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I just looked up his account. It feels quite shallow in terms of his ambitions, but there may be something to his training. The question is whether or not his claimed results are repeatable.

People have totally lost balance on this issue. You criticize media now, but you have no idea how bad media will get the more Trump gets his hands on it. It will become rampant propaganda and disinformation, more closely resembling North Korean or Russian media. And the more you subscribe to this "fake news" worldview, the more it will give permission for Trump to do exactly that. What we have now is an oasis of free press in comparison. Legacy media needs to be defended right now, not mindlessly trashed.

That's an interesting distinction. So what's the bodybuilder version of brain training?

I think this is a deeper discussion we should have elsewhere on the forum. I don't want to dilute an example thread with us going back and forth on this.

A beat-poem ripping new age spirituality and espousing the benefits of rationalism, empiricism and modernism. His music is filled with these kind of Stage Blue, premodern takedowns.

@Ulax Awesome! What are your biggest takeaways?

High: Steelman case for the modernist perspective and the flaws of relativism.

Relative to what this answer could be, I will call this low. But it could be deemed high in many other contexts. Conflating being at peace with enlightenment, buddhist / zen group think, lack of God-realization

Your perspective is also just an interpretation. But the difference is that my interpretation includes yours, and yours doesn't include mine.

Your understanding should also include that it’s still toxic.

Talladega Spirituality reminded me of this genius song:

1) If people are so over it, then why did the majority vote for Republicans who would love nothing more than to privatize all healthcare? 2) You can have rage at the healthcare system without making Luigi into some kind of hero Expected behavior or not, it’s still toxic. Shooting CEOs is not a solution. But people just want to see blood.

I don't know about the death penalty, but he definitely needs a strong sentencing. People have lost their mind justifying Luigi's behavior. Total toxic populism, pitchfork-wielding mob mentality.

This channel is a goldmine of these. Low: strawmannirg, framing bias, cherry-picking

Low: hypocrisy, double-standards, justification, partisanship, basic fact-denial

That's appropriate only at a certain stage in your healing. When you're just becoming aware of some devilry for the first time, you don't try to love it. You let it crush you.

It's a genuine question. Life will certainly get worse for your ordinary American citizen. But I think the answer is it's only worth leaving if you are physically endangered. Don't forget, you could move to Germany thinking you're escaping all this. And then Elon Musk shows up on a screen and supports AfD. At this point we need to fight for our democracy, not run away.

It's unclear how this all ends. Saying they are "playing with fire" doesn't cut it. More like they are playing with a nuclear bomb. War or other forms of violence may be coming soon.

A rapid-fire compilation of pre-modern low perspectives. Lots of examples of justification, self-deception, demagoguery, ignorance, toxic religiosity, superstition and more:

Level-headed critique of Musk’s libertarian nonsense:

It does in the sense that Europeans also have a bureaucratic administrative state. Right-wing groups will likely use this same line of attack, seeing how it was effective in the US.

Some places to start looking: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ https://indivisible.org/

They are going to continue to try and undermine the independence and authority of the courts. This is an authoritarian power grab. They’re not interested in playing nice.

No it’s a separate EO. Along the same authoritarian lines, but different.

This one is maybe worse: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798