PurpleTree

Well you’re wrong. There are many people giving such advice here.

Why do you guys always seem to argue?

Yea i think a lot of advice is just reinforcing the “me"

Advice is not a hug. Wrong advice can lead you astray or keep you trapped.

It seems all sides were quite delusional in this war and now we’re stuck. Remember when Poohtin was shacking and we thought he’s almost a goner. Or when the Russians thought it’s a few days war. Or when Prigozhin marched to Moscow gosh at that time i was in a hostel in Medellin Colombia and i was amped the f uup.

Alriiight, the clarification “process” makes sense. It happens similarly here. But i wouldn’t say I’m achieving it. It just seemingly happens that way.

Gosh. That was all old white hippies fighting back against those ice creams. It’s wild how the US remained to be the hegemon with all those internal problems.

I mean about EU countries. Yea there are Putin guys in the EU like Orban, the Slovakian boi and so on.

No that’s what i said. It makes sense for them i’m not being ironic.

Yea and it makes sense for China to put people into reeducation camps because they’re not assimilating. And it made sense for the Nazis to put people into ovens and want more Lebensraum. It makes sense for Russia to take Ukraine because of strategic reasons.

Here’s what gpt said. This is a complex question with political, economic, and historical dimensions. To give a balanced and honest answer: Short Answer: Yes, some policies supported by Democrats (as well as Republicans) have contributed to the weakening of the middle class in the U.S. over the past several decades. However, attributing the decline solely or primarily to Democrats would be historically inaccurate. Both parties have played roles—sometimes collaboratively—in shaping the economic conditions that have eroded middle-class stability. Long Answer: 📉 What Happened to the Middle Class? Since the 1970s, the U.S. middle class has faced: Wage stagnation despite rising productivity. Outsourcing and deindustrialization, leading to job losses. Weaker unions, reducing bargaining power. Skyrocketing costs for housing, healthcare, and education. Tax policy changes that favor wealthier individuals and corporations. Automation and globalization, which disrupted traditional middle-income jobs. 🟦 Democratic Complicity: In What Ways? 1. Trade Policy NAFTA (1994) – championed by President Bill Clinton and supported by many Democrats – accelerated the loss of manufacturing jobs. Though it increased overall trade, it hurt certain working-class communities. 2. Financial Deregulation Clinton-era Democrats repealed Glass-Steagall (1999), a Depression-era law that separated commercial and investment banking. This deregulation contributed to risky financial practices that led to the 2008 crash, devastating middle-class wealth (especially home equity). 3. Education and Student Debt Support for privatized student lending and the expansion of for-profit colleges under Democratic administrations helped fuel the student debt crisis, burdening younger generations of the middle class. 4. Welfare Reform The 1996 Welfare Reform Act, signed by Clinton, cut social safety nets and led to long-term hardships for poor and working-class Americans. It reduced poverty assistance without adequately addressing structural job shortages. 🟥 Republican Complicity: Just as Significant To be clear, many Republican-led policies also hurt the middle class: Union-busting laws, especially in right-to-work states. Massive tax cuts for the wealthy (e.g., Reagan’s and Trump’s tax reforms). Opposition to minimum wage increases and universal healthcare. Deregulation that favored corporations over workers. Blocking efforts to expand affordable housing or regulate Wall Street. 🤝 Bipartisan Failures Some of the worst trends (like corporate consolidation, campaign finance loopholes, and underinvestment in public infrastructure) happened under both parties, often with bipartisan support. Many politicians, regardless of party, prioritized corporate donors and neoliberal economic models over the economic health of everyday Americans. 🧭 In Summary: Yes, Democrats have been complicit, especially during the Clinton and Obama eras, in enacting or supporting policies that contributed to middle-class erosion. But, to focus blame solely on Democrats ignores the larger bipartisan embrace of neoliberal economics from the 1980s onward.

I mean it’s hard because there is no control. Psychedelics just basically do what they want with you. Could be trauma healing or not.

I think (but who knows) that many let’s say MaGa were so fed up with politics that they just wanted to throw a wrench. Because although Maga are crooks. It’s not like they are the root of evil. US supporting Israel no questions asked. Starting forever wars. Regime changes. Destroying the middle class. Unions. Moving jobs to Asia. Destroying movements. Rent getting unaffordable. Trying to destroy Bernie. Etc. is all before MagA.

Also just less care for human lives. They don’t care that much to throw people into the meat grinder and Russia seems like a quite depressed suicidal society who drowns their sorrows in Vodka (although that maybe stereotypes)

Now is still kind of in time. Like here needs a there. That’s why immediacy fits better imo.

I mean Von der Leyen always kind of seemed like an American bootlicker. God it’s gross ^ and Mark Rutte? Gosh what an ass hat. I thought he was a decent Dutch PM maybe I’m wrong but how he’s stroking the orange plague’s ego. 😬

I thought this talk wasn’t too bad. Although i don’t agree with his assessment that Europeans were basically the worst party in the conflict. He says it not because the Europeans were the most evil or anything but because the Europeans didn’t and don’t have a clear strategy and bad leadership. And i agree mostly Europe is fumbling around. And the leadership is bad, i don’t think anyone likes Von der Leyen and also the French, German and British leaders aren’t very popular. Macron had some good ideas about Europe i think. European army and It etc.

Sure but that’s why i say we’ll see how it worked in hindsight. If the US/Trump agree that they can have those obslasts and Crimea. Europe doesn’t really seem to have a strategy aside from trying to appease the orange pest. God knows what the US is doing. Trump is pushing India closer to Russia/China/Brics So it’s really hard to tell what’ll be the outcome.

Otherwise i agree with you. But instead of Now you could call it *immediacy* Which i’ve heard speakers say and i think it’s more fitting than Now

Time is money, boiii

It’s wild. The infinitely beautiful patterns and symbols on psychedelics. I‘ve had it mostly on mushrooms and ayahuasca. And when you come back it’s hard to remember. Just like a dream. My last real trip was like 3 or 4 yrs ago and it was too strong. But i remember at some point again the infinite patterns and symbols. Moving and circling.

I mean only in hindsight we can say if it worked out for Russia to send their people into the meat grinder.

I feel like those new age wannabe fascists are quite weak. Would they even have the courage to blow their brains out in a bunker? Or to take ungodly amounts of drugs?

@Nivsch what do you think about that basically all Israeli prime ministers had Eastern European (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc.) heritage. Many were even born there and many of them changed their names?