DocWatts

Psilocybin will probably follow in marijuana's footsteps as far as a path to legalization; clinical studies show a good case for medical legalization, shifting the Overton window to open the way for public acceptance of broader legalization across the country.

Lame Duck Donnie supporting calls for a Civil War is something in the realm of possibility. And that's scary.

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/04/oregon-measure-109-psilocybin/ Looks like it's going to be legalized for Clinical use for psilocybin assisted therapy. What this measure won't do is make it so that you can walk into a shop and make a purchase, like you can with weed.

Looking so far like the Republicans will still maintain control of the Senate; or am I mistaken?

As for Oregon, does legalization mean 'recreational' use? Or is it more of a medical thing where it's legalized but only in a clinical setting?

Keep in mind that a best case scenario Lame Duck Trump between now and January is still dangerous; can still sow chaos and harm over the next two months.

Very much so; the Democratic Republican demographic divide is in many ways a divide between urban and rural areas. In the US political system, rural areas have a disproportionate amount of political influence compared to thier population. If presidential elections were decided by popular vote rather than the Electoral College, Republicans might conceivably never win another election. Which is why they defend the E.C., as they benefit from it politically in a big way.

Masks are mandated here in Michigan as well, but it's not uncommon to see people proudly and flagrantly violating that mandate as a 'Fuck You' statement.

Don't disagree, but four more years under a pro-fascist would be far, far, far worse than another neo-lib Democrat. Like the concept of democracy itself being in big trouble if Trump gets another four years. At least a Biden presidency would be a breather, so to speak.

Coming out of the woodworks lol. Interesting to note the difference in reactions between the two camps: Supporters of Biden if he wins : Relieved, cautiously optimistic Supporters of Trump if he wins :GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT

If the Biden leads in Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan hold, this will put at Biden at 270.

Thank you.

The three figures I mention are arguably three of the greatest military geniuses in world history. Red is about Survival; which often translates to military conquests. Red is brutal, but as a rule it also has the capacity to be strategic and intelligent as well (though as a rule you'll find less of these individuals here than at other stages). While Red can be impulsive, when impulsivity is contrary to its survival strategy exceptional Red individuals can reign in that impulsivity. One of the main differences with Orange is that it is more likely to scheme than it is to use violence to achieve its ends. Because Orange went through Blue, it will also have at least some degree of morality that restrains the brutality of Red.

@louhad Julius Caesar Hannibal Ghengis Khan All strategic thinkers at stage Red.

From what I know of him, he strikes me as a textbook Red; the reason I give for this is because he's pretty clearly a Plutocrat, and closer to a Mob boss rather than say a stage Blue religious zealot or ideologue. I think he tries to play himself off as Blue Patriot in a similar way to how Trump tries to play himself off as an Orange businessman (and also Trump admires Putin and wants to be just like him is also decent evidence for this). https://fortune.com/2017/07/29/vladimir-putin-russia-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-worlds-richest-man/

I like Wilber but I feel he tends to strawman Green at times. I think he also overestimates how much influence Academia has on the culture at large; how many people in the general population know who someone like Michel Foucault is, or could articulate the arguments of Dialectic Materialism used in Marxism?

This type of behavior needs to be called out, and anyone supportive of White Supremacist political violence and intimidation needs to be socially ostracized. We can't allow this sort of thing to become normalized if we want to continue living in a Democracy.

Looking back on this era, Red Hats will be looked at as 2020's equivalent of the Brown Shirts.

Not a waste of time at all. If nothing else, reading pivotal thinkers like Marx or Plato will give you historical context and a deeper understanding of ideas which have shaped the world we live in. The whole concept of Epistemology came out of philosophy; ditto for science which was at one point known as Natural Philosophy. Every political system that exists today has roots in philosophical ideas of 'the dead old white men' that were decried earlier (and yes Leo, this will eventually include you as well. ? ). Also realize thay you can entertain a philosophy without necessarily believing in it. No sane person would want to live in Plato's Republic, but I'd argue understanding that work is important because of how much it's shaped the last few thousand years of history in the West.

bUt BoTh SiDes aRe at FAuLt! aNtIFA iS jUSt as bAD! You know things have gotten really bad when MAGA Cultists start re-enacting scenes out of Max Max Fury Road

@Forestluv My primary concern is for mail in ballots that arrive after Nov 3 being successfully contested in Courts by partisan judges and thrown out, and not being represented in the initial Totals. So yes, the 'before' part is what I was referring to.

@Forestluv Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking specifically of how many swing states/districts Trump and the GOP could overturn where the races are close enough to give them enough of an excuse to do so. From what I've seen on fivethirtyeight, I get the impression that the election will likely turn on Pennsylvania (every prospective outcome there has the winner of the election go to the candidate who wins Pennsylvania). I know that fortunately Pennsylvania is not a deep red state, but how safe is it from tampering if Biden squeaks out a win by only a point or two? I also wonder what the results will end up looking like on election night, vs a week or two later when all of the votes are counted (not that they all will be, due to intentional tampering). When will as close to a consensus we are going to get start to emerge (realizing that at best maybe two thirds or three quarters of the country will see it as legitimate)?

So here's a question; how much of an electoral lead does Biden need for the results to survive intentional tampering by Republicans, whose strategy is to throw out as many votes as possible and declare the election over before the mail in ballots have been counted? We know that they will almost certainly be leveraging GOP friendly courts to overturn and invalidate unfavorable results wherever they can.

^ ^ ^ This ^ ^ ^ The 'Marketplace of Ideas' that people like to argue for is a vast oversimplification of how ideas spread and propagate through a society; (ie that the Better Ideas or Arguments will always end up winning out in the end). The idea that most people in a Society come to their beliefs through a careful, deliberative process of weighing the pros and the cons of the arguments that they hear is largely a myth; most people will simply accept the view that emotionally resonates with them (for a host of psychological and developmental reasons) most of the time. And we all know how vulnerable people are to being emotionally manipulated, and how susceptible the average person is to a host of cognitive biases that they have little awareness of. And that's without even delving in to group-think and mob mentality. In addition to the point made above, I'll also add that even if the vast majority of people don't take hate speech seriously, it only takes one person who's become radicalized to hurt or kill dozens or hundreds of people (the majority of terrorist violence in America is done by white supremacist Hate Groups). I would hope it would be obvious how shifting the Overton window so that ideologies like White Supremacy or Fascism go from being fringe ideologies that are socially ostracized, to gaining some degree of tacit acceptance in mainstream society, is extremely harmful and dangerous.