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https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.76.6.661 This study shows that given equal levels of economic development, socialist countries provide a standard of living that is on par or even superior to that of capitalist countries.

Funny enough, I have two meditation retreats planned in 2025. One in November and the second in December, making that three retreats in 2025 alone. The retreat I have in December is the Satipatthana Retreat, and its more intense and longer than the other retreats. So much, that the requirements for any student to be admitted is they must have completed two Brahmavihara retreats. Below was in the email they sent me: “There is one direct path for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of pain and distress, for the attainment of the right method, and for the realization of Nibbana. This is namely the practice of the four establishments of mindfulness.” (DN 22: Mahasatipatthana Sutta) Satipatthāna (four establishments of mindfulness), also known as Vipassanā or Insight Meditation, is the practice of establishing right mindfulness on the four aspects of body, feeling, mind, and dharma. Through this practice one understands the nature of arising and passing away, impermanence, dukkha, and non-self. Through this realization one can be liberated from distress and rebirths, and attain sainthood. These retreats, combined with a potential Actualized.org psychedelic retreat, I'm really in for a lot.

When will this happen and how do we sign up? How much does this cost?

So many celebrities, once you peak into their personal lives, are disgusting and horrifying. Trump, Epstein, Diddy… Once someone has a lot of money and fame, being an abusive pervert is almost part of the job description. But why? These people are so famous, they don’t need to resort to rape and trafficking to get laid. Yet they do it.

There was also this racist post by Trump where he depicted Rep. Jeffries in a sombrero and mustache. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115290424560405640

Actual Trump post on Truth Social. This is the leadership we have to lead us out of this shutdown.

I liked this video because the themes of communal living and the veneration of nature spirits reminded me a lot of Leo's video on the SDi Purple value system.

God yes please. I recently did a meditation and enlightenment workshop. While it was good, I didn't get any mystical experiences from it.

So in almost every other advanced and developed democracy, they electoral system is such that the voters have an option of at least three political parties. The Israeli Knesset has 12 political parties, the Canadian Parliament has 4, the German Bundestag has 6, and the French Parliament has 20. This gives voters who house a wide variety of political thought a perspectives, a vast menu of different options to choose one so that they may vote for a party for whom they feel best represents them. This also gives them the option to vote for more niche parties when they feel that the status quo establishment parties are beginning to fail them. Are you economically on the left, but don't subscribe to more socially liberal values (BLM, LGBT, etc...) Great! There's a party for you. Or maybe you're the opposite and support socially liberal causes but want a more free market and less social services, great! Are you super left wing and oppose the existence of capitalism? Great! There's a party for you. Are you violently against migration and immigration? There's a party for you. You see how much more freedom this gives the voter? Not only that, but newer parties have a better chance of getting off the ground in European democracies. The German AfD used to be a niche fringe party, and now its the second most popular in Germany. But in America, there's only two options, and that's that. There technically are more than two parties, but people refuse to vote for them. And when they do get more popular, they only serve to thwart one of the established parties, and elect the one the voter least agrees with. Think about Ralph Nader in 2000 and how much that helped elect George Bush. But why do Americans stand for such a system? Is it because Americans are too comfortable with the established parties, or what? I really support the Green Party of the United States, and want to help them organize to help their candidate with the governorship of my home state, Maryland. But Wes Moore is too popular, even though not many people know too much about him. I feel as if people voted fore Moore because they've always voted Democratic here, that's just what they're used to as a default position, and don't bother to research the candidates.

See the post right below the OP, we had the opportunity to implement a voting system with numerous rounds, but voted against it in a referendum. Why?

There are very few examples of third parties doing well in America, but they exist. A good example of this is the Vermont Progressive Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Progressive_Party

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Republicans have both the House of Representatives and Senate, and yet they can't pass a budget bill. The bill to fund the government failed in the senate of all places, which is how the shutdown happened at all, where the Republicans have a comfortable lead of 53 out of 100 seats. You would expect the bill to fail in the house, where the Republican's majority is very slim, but no, it failed in the Senate. Edit: Never-mind, it turns out that according to the constitution, 60 votes are needed for a budget, not simply a majority. I was wrong and stand corrected. This is partially the Democrats fault, its both parties fault.

This problem could hypothetically be fixed with a ranked choice voting system. But in 2024, (almost) every single ballot measure to establish ranked choice voting lost. https://fairvote.org/ballot-measures/?section=_2024-ballot-measures Why!?!?! Why are we doing this to ourselves?

The founder of Turning Point USA has been shot during a political event at Utah Valley University, and is currently in the hospital in critical condition. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/live-blog/rcna230437 Edit: ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Massive NSFW warning ⚠️ ⚠️⚠️ Link below is the footage of the shot that hit him. [Graphic Violence Warning] https://files.catbox.moe/7vn2tm.mp4 Second edit: Official news, Charlie Kirk has died.

Meet Zohran Mamdani: https://www.zohranfornyc.com/ He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and a current candidate for the Mayor of New York City. This election is significant because he managed to close the polling gap between him and Cuomo by a significant margin. He used to be behind Cuomo 30+ points in the polls and now is now behind less than 10% points in the most recent polls. Even Vaush thinks that this guy is a genuine socialist and not a social-democrat, as he wants to create more city and employee owned enterprises in NYC, such as and most notably, grocery stores. If he actually wins this, it will be a huge victory for the socialist movement in America. A member of the DSA being the mayor of one of the most iconic and economically significant cities in the world? Eugene V. Debs would be so proud. But this is precisely why all of the centrist corporate wall street Dems, and have all endorsed Cuomo, despite him being shockingly bad due to his past sex abuse scandals and corruption. Cuomo is only popular because of his name recognition, and he is very well established in the Democratic Party's corrupt senior leadership, so the dinosaurs who make up that leadership don't want to see one of their chess pieces fall. For the centrist libs, maintaining their positions of authority, enriching themselves through corruption, and serving corporate interests is more important to them than serving the poor, which is why all of the big moneyed interests have donated to Cuomo's Fix the City Super PAC, including: Billionaires: Stavros Niarchos, Alex Blavatnik, Peter Schoenfeld, Henry Swieca, Bill Ackman, Barry Diller, John B. Hess, Matt Hulsizer, Kenneth Langone, William Lauder, Daniel Loeb, Deborah Simon, Alice Walton, Dan Loeb, Glenn Dubin, and Emma Bloomberg. Other high-profile donors: Billy Joel, Michael Kors, Stacey Bendet, Beth Dozoretz, Laurie Tisch, Antonio Weiss, Abby Levy, Jessica Seinfeld, Peggy Drexler, Jill Kargman, and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel. Corporations and Organizations: DoorDash Inc., Fisher Brothers Management Company, The Durst Organization, Halmar International, Lyft, Including RXR Acquisition Corp, Centerview Partners, Charter Communications, and SkyBridge Capital.

This happened at a Mormon Church, and the guy who shot Charlie Kirk came from a Mormon family. Suspicious.

Breaking News: Eric Adams has dropped out of the race.

These polls show that he's very close to 50%, sometimes at 47%.

Update: Mamdani up by 20 points in recent polls https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5521815-mamdani-poll-lead-cuomo-nyc-mayoral-race/ This is excellent for the socialist cause in America, a huge win for our cause and the cause of the American left. He is a man who has openly called for seizing the means of production and raising class consciousness. And of course the business Wall Street tycoons who run New York City, and the conservatives on Fox News are losing their minds over this. Just search his name up on YouTube and Fox News is melting down over this. Even Kamala Harris and other establishment Democrats, such as Schumer and Jeffries, refuse to endorse him by name, even though they encourage progressives to "vote blue no matter who" in presidential [election] cycles.

Vaush's response to this was perfect.

On January 8, 2023, a mob of Bolsonaro supporters raided the Brazilian National Congress in an attempt to overturn the countries election and (disputed) to overthrow the government and suspend democratic order. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/americas/brazil-congress-attack-explained-intl On November of 2024, Bolsonaro was formerly accused by the Federal Police of crimes related to the coup. On September 11, 2025, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, was officially sentenced to 27 years in prison. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-coup-trial-verdict-latam-intl

The Scandinavian and Nordic countries don't have suffice amounts of worker or community ownership or representation, not even enough to be considered social-democratic, they're just welfare states. Proper social democracy would mean something like, workers having a certain amount of representation on the corporate board. And social-democracy doesn't fix the contradictions of capitalism (read: use value vs exchange value, or, Social production vs. private appropriation) n'or the imperialism. Northern European countries can be so wealthy because the rest of the world is not. I read a book about this called; Imperialism in the 21st century, by John Charles Smith.