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Using Leo's videos, Understanding Impermanence and What Is Death to cope. @Leo Gura if you're reading this, which videos do you recommend for this situation?

I just did a google search, and it turns at Bashar (Darryl Anka) is of Lebanese descent. Just like me! Cool.

The number one burning question I've always had of China, is its Communist Party, and their ideology. They liberalized because they didn't have the productive capacity to enact proper socialism as China before the revolution was feudal and agricultural. But do they actually have a plan to achieve socialism? From what I can infer, the CPC has no intentions of communal and employee ownership of the means of production, because by their definition of socialist, they already are socialist, with Chinese characteristics, of course. Current Chinese policy is about "perfecting" and "deepening" the policies they have already implemented. This means more markets, more private ownership and more export of capital. Central planning has long ceased to exist and has been replaced by a system where the market is "decisive" (not the only force, but by the CPC's own admission "decisive"). CPC members don't see China ever becoming socialist because by their own definition it already IS socialist. They don't see themselves as passing through a retreat like the Soviets did with the NEP, they consider the current system to be a superior socialist system to the central planning they previously practiced. In the minds of CPC members, all they need to do is keep "developing" and they are set. But don't blame Xi for this. All he is doing is continuing a process that Deng Xiaoping set into motion and every General Secretary since has followed. It was Deng who set off on the "Southern Tour" that kickstarted further marketisation reforms when they stalled after causing economic and social crisis. It was Jiang Zemin who declared the "Socialist Market Economy" and unleashed the firesale of public assets in the 90's. It was Hu Jintao who started the "stablity maintanence" and "harmonious society" programs that now make it impossible for Marxists in China to criticise Opening and Reform. The mid to long term goal of the CPC is embodied in the "Centenary Goals". By 2050 China is supposed to have become a "strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and modern socialist country". Based on what those terms mean in China today and their silence on exploitation, I personally don't think the CPC has any intention of droping market forces, exploitation or private ownership within our lifetimes, if ever.

@Leo Gura Do you consider Arnold Schwarzenegger to be part of this book saturation problem? I'm asking because I want to read his latest book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life. Fun fact, did you know that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels spent approximately 30 years working on Das Kapital. A Critique of Political Economy, with the first volume published in 1867 and the remaining two volumes edited and published posthumously by Friedrich Engels. Currently reading it right now, and its so in depth, technical, and difficult to understand, with its use of mathematical equations and all. Super profound though, I'm learned a lot about commodity production; what is a commodity, the dual nature of labor, elementary or accidental form of value, etc... Currently reading chapter II about exchange, the social relation of exchange, role of money, the double character of commodities, and more. The point that I'm trying to make is that this is some serious value that you cannot get within 30 days using a ghost writer.

The problem is that South Korea is a hyper-competitive society which places working oneself to the bone above spending time with family and human happiness. South Koreans from birth throughout their educational system are brainwashed to be as competitive as possible, and because they're so squeezed for time in this wage-slavery system, they don't socialize and don't have time for family. The labor rights and laws in that country are atrocious. For a better resource, I recommend this documentary.

Lol, if only Leo drank alcohol, for which I'm sure he doesn't. Which is quite sad, because piña coladas are delicious.

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According to the SDi founders, a brief history of time by Stephan Hawking is an example of Yellow.

My forum profile picture.

I'm being serious, Leo should team up with Wiley and make this into a real book.

Leo as Lenin.

Leo as Lenin

Considering all of the criticizing Leo has done of Elon, and especially of Trump, his head is going to explode when he sees this.

Here's a ghiblification of my forum profile picture, which is a picture of me btw. #FaceReveal

I'm going to hop of the Ghiblify trend train. The second image is from one of the couch blogs. The source for the first page is on the 'About' section of this website.

Two extra vids, really shows the brutality of the situation, and of human survival.

Hmmm... In a Democracy, the ruler has more "keys". What is Trump doing to all the Federal Departments and agencies again?

For context, skip to 54:30 of the video below. https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-the-media-is-corrupt I remember Leo in his blog video about why the media is corrupt, where he was talking about bias. How as long as someone is identified with something, then it is impossible to look at reality from an unbiased perspective. A man, a Democrat, an American, or even a human, as long as someone is identified with one of these limit and finite forms, it is impossible to look at reality objectively. But then Leo veered into a very strange direction, when he said that innocent culture was not innocent at all, and was programming us with certain metaphysical and epistemological assumptions. So those Disney movies I watched as a kid? I show them to my child. Because I loved those Disney movies! That's where the programming starts. And those same Star Wars I watched as a kid? I show them to my child. And the same University I went to? I send my child to that same University! Leo, what's wrong with that? Isn't this just innocent and harmless culture. Which, apparently, it isn't. It's programming us with certain epistemological, existential, and metaphysical assumptions. What? How? How are Disney movies doing this? So if I have a kid in the future, I should not show them the childhood movies that I watched as a child. What existential assumptions could I possibly get from watching Soyuzmultfilm [Союзмультфи́льм], or Disney, and them showing it to my future child?

Do you guys think that the casualty numbers the IDF is releasing are accurate? I mean the IDF counting their own losses.

Serious question for those who know a thing or two about military tactics, maybe Israeli people here who have done mandatory IDF service. But are the Hamas Yassin RPG's actually effective against IDF Merkava tanks? Because Hamas keeps publishing these GoPro footages where they hit tanks with RPG rounds. But does that actually do anything? Tanks are really heavily fortified, and Hamas rarely shows the aftermath of vehicles they hit. Do these RPGs actually decommission tanks? Or is it just for show?

There's this funny trend on Reddit. Go to r/cologne, and type in the search bar, What your favorite cologne says about you . It's like horoscopes for men, but practical and funny. There's like 8 parts, but here's part 1 and 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/Colognes/comments/1f18u4y/what_your_favorite_cologne_says_about_you/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Colognes/comments/1f1rn6b/what_your_favorite_cologne_says_about_you_part_2/

Skip to the 6:30 part of the video below, where he mentions Bill Clinton. . The rabbit hole gets deeper from here. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/who-the-hell-is-ken-wilbe_b_4673036 https://www.kenwilberfund.org/praise-for-ken-wilber/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/30/bill-clintons-world/ Here's also a video where Bill speaks very similarly to Leo in the conscious politics series, where he directly mentions the words "consciousness", and "integrated". Even Al Gore was a fan of Ken Wilber!

A gang of Israeli settlers attack a 17 yo Palestinian, Kusai, with clubs, while his mother, Ala, screams in horror in the background. (Masafer Yatta) https://x.com/yuval_abraham/status/1905744410970865709

Real men use WhatsApp cologne.

Mahmoud Khalil is a 29 year old graduate student of Columbia University who was detained by immigration authorities and is most likely to be deported. He was arrested because of his involvement in coordinating the 2023 Palestine demonstrations, and is being accused of promoting terrorism and specifically supporting Hamas. He is most likely to be deported for the following reasons: 1. Legal permanent residents are still aliens subject to 8 USC 1182 and 8 USC 1227, and thus explicitly deportable for any speech expressing support for designated terrorist organizations or statutorily defined “terrorist activities,” as well as deportable for foreign policy grounds at the sole determination of the Secretary of State and/or AG. These are not crimes, but they don’t have to be. They are removal grounds under 8 USC 1182 and 8 USC 1227. No criminal conviction is required to remove aliens. IF a crime is committed, it can serve as grounds for removal, but no allegation of criminal misconduct is necessary. 2. ⁠No due process has been denied. He is entitled to a basic statement that he is being detained and subject to removal proceedings, and he got one, and he’s entitled to a removal hearing before being deported, and he’ll get one. 3. ⁠He is not missing. The ICE detention database, available to the public, clearly lists that he is in a detention facility in Louisiana. 4. ⁠These actions are not being done in the name of “Jewish safety.” They are being done on the basis of expressing support for terrorism organizations or activities and on foreign policy grounds which is the prerogative of the Secretary of State and/or AG. 5. ⁠Separately, though no crime of “material” support of terrorism (or any other crime) is legally necessary to deport an alien, his distribution of pamphlets with Hamas iconography and language is “material” support (producing and distributing documents is legally considered material support — just like other forms of “material” support like direct financial assistance). 6. ⁠This is an open-and-shut case. At the removal hearing, the government will recite the above, and the judge will affirm that these recitations have been made. On the “foreign policy” grounds of 8 USC 1227 alone, Mahmoud Kahlil is deportable and the government’s declaration that his presence is contrary to foreign policy is non-reviewable. The judge is not entitled to second-guess this; the judge can only require that this invocation be made by the government, and indeed, this invocation will be made. I am not at all supporting his deportation, but these unfortunately are the legal facts.