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Thinking about it, it's not that crazy that it doesn't come out top for 'rogan trump', it comes out top for lots of search terms like 'rogan trump interview'. If it was being suppressed it shouldn't show up for any searches, but just putting their 2 names is quite indirect. I'm not saying it's impossible that it could be suppressed but it's not really obvious to me. Also we don't know exactly how the algorithm works, there could be lots of reasons why it doesn't show up for that particular term

It has less censorship depending on what you say, if you were tweeting about how bad Teslas were all day you'd definitely get banned. That's not so much the case with youtube, you can definitely critisize the platform without getting banned. Also regulations on a platform are not bad, it's just they need to be fair across the bad. There should of course be regulations that act to keep a platform safe and there should be regulations against bots or misinformation and disinformation. This site were on now would be terrible without any regulation. A lot of people are running away from X because of how it's being run, so the experiment of taking a successful platform and reducing regulations has not worked.

I do watch KT sometimes and I would agree that he says worse stuff on the show, but I would also say some o the humour on KT can come across very harsh in terms of bullying and a lot of the jokes especially from Tony are racial, which i dont even have a problem with if theyre funny but a lot of the time it just like 'its an asian guy (inesert stereotype here)'. So its not that im outraged or offended i just think its lazy and repetitive a lot of the time, there are some things he says where its actually amazing he came up with it so quick as well. But overall i think its fine and people like it. In regards to the rally, if i was thinking strategically from Trumps campaign pov, it cant be a good idea to have Tony on there because it could have the potential of influencing a lot of independents or undecided voters. The other thing is that the audience of the rally is very important to take into account, when Tony makes jokes about Latinos or Blacks in front of this crowd the idea is how bad Latinos and blacks are and how different they are to us, its not laughing with them really, especially when you look at the rhetoric of the other speakers. Lets say Tony was speaking at a Dem rally and mad the same jokes, itd probably go down a bit better because its shocking and its like a break in what everyone else was saying. But him making the jokes at the trump rally takes away the irony, so its looks like hes just saying PR is a shithole rather than, 'isnt it shocking i said PR is a shithole'

@Average Actualizer Genuine question, what do you think about Elon Musk censoring people on X that he disagrees with and also doing the sweepstakes thing offering people a chance to win money if they vote?

You're right in that he's worse on the show but to do this at a political event is a very different situation. Even Trump kinda disguises what he says a little bit so that at least there's some doubt, sometimes. But Tony making out right racial jokes can't really help trump at least amongst latin or Jewish voters, obvs no dem is gonna hear that and be like 'I was waiting for racism to change my vote' but in theory it could put off undecided or be the final nail for some of his followers. Either way it's not gonna help.

The average person believes theyre not average because everyone wants to be special. But wanting or believing yourself to be special is by definition an average person. the way you do it might be different, some on this forum would use spirituality or spiral dynamics, pinning themselves at a higher level than the 'average' person, some will use material achievements, some will use academic achievements, familial achievements, personality etc etc, its all the same we all dont want to be average and that is the human condition and if you look for ways that youre not average you have the same condition as the average human, no matter how pretentious your reason why

Been tracking my sleep and trying to improve it but nearly every night I always wake up too early an have trouble going back to sleep. I think its really important just for general functioning. I'm wondering if going to sleep earlier can help. Anyway what time you mofos go to sleep and what kind of numbers are you putting up?

Always love these type of replies

yeah tbh its probably something to do with this, i will look into it a bit more thanks This could be a factor as well, i will experiment with not eating 3 hours before. I usually have a snack less than 3 hours before so this could be something, thanks He is very calming, i normally listen to Karl Pilkington, hes calming in his own way

I don't think that's really true, there might be some people that don't like Kamalas policies but I would put that at a minimal percentage. Not because her policies are necessarily amazing but because those that were going to vote rep or dem were going to do it regardless of policy. The dems had a workable border policy but trump wanted it shut down until he could get into office and get credit for it, this probably didn't even sway that many away from voting for Trump. So policy is not at the forefront of most people's minds when voting. There's probably more people voting because they dislike Trump, like the whole republicans against Trump movement, with multiple orgs on the right putting money behind ads to vote against Trump. This is something we rarely see in politics

Nah I'm not depressed, if anything when I have been depressed I sleep a lot

You dont have to accept it, you have the choice to suffer

Well no, not accepting that you don't know everything is suffering. Any resistance to what is, is suffering, but it's within your power to accept and not suffer.

Trump has support because he knows how to hit the pain points of a certain demographic, exaggerate their potential issues and then offer a solution, while giving them a common enemy to blame for these issues. He is also willing to do anything to get and stay in power, more so than most if not all politicians, mainly because hes at stage red and had a very specific upbringing that trained and encouraged him to be ruthless to get his fathers love. Hes at stage red whereas most politicians go from stage blue through to green maybe yellow, this means he can take things further than anyone else. The demographic he caters to get more from having these pain points touched than they would from the actual truth, therefore he gets his support. Its also a good metric of where the US is and how easy it is to be manipulated. Interesting fact, US citizens are the most likely to be catfish scammed, so they are the most vulnerable to a love scam.

Your mind might be hell but earth is not. Meaning its all perspective, if we put this on the micro level, somebody might hear a piece of music and think that its the worst thing, its hell to listen to and another person might think its the most amazing sound ever and its heaven but the reality is its a sound, only your perspective makes it so. All things are temporary but thats also what makes them beautiful, if you lived forever you wouldnt appreciate your life in the same way as you do knowing its impermanence and in fact living forever might be hell.

Well can be anytime, but let's say if I go to sleep at midnight to wake up between 7-8am ill wake at like 5 Nice, do you find it helps to track it? If I sleep under 6 hours I feel exhausted. But generally I hit that at least, sometimes for whatever reason I dont get enough rem or deep sleep, so I'll sleep a lot but still feel tired but that's not often. My bedtime routine is usually terrible, watch youtube on my phone before bed or listen to a comedy podcast a fall asleep to it. For the last 7 days my sleep score was 75 out of 100, which is actually decent for me. What about you?

I wonder how many people are actually watching and taking him seriously now, its actually getting sad at this point

Before Musk took over Twitter was a very popular social media platform and was the go to source of news for a huge amount of people. Elon Musk criticised Twitter as a platform that didnt allow free speech, was too left biased and he believed he could do a better job and so proceeded to buy the platform for $44 billion and took it private. His assumed goal would be to allow free speech and make it a more balanced site. Since his take over he has reinstated many previously banned accounts, he has allowed all kinds of 'free speech' to proliferate regardless of whether it was fake, hateful etc, there is a massive problem with bots. The biggest hypocrisy is that Musk himself is completely and unashamedly on the right, some would say maga right as he himself propagates conspiracy theories and actively and very regularly promotes Trump. Now all this is what it is and if you want to be a free speech absolutist you could make the argument that Musk should be allowed to say whatever as he also has free speech rights, i would obviously argue this point as I think the owner of a platform should be as neutral as possible otherwise its just a propaganda machine for one side. But the bottom line is this has not worked as a business or even as a platform. In 2 years, by most estimations X has lost between 70-80% of its value, even an internal leaked memo from X has shown that its lost over half of the value it was bought at. Ther ad business is down 60% from advertisers dropping out, the US daily users has dropped 23%, global 15%. Whole countries like Brazil have banned X a trend that will no doubt spread if he doesnt follow each countries rules. Essentially this is a lesson in how to tank a company. As well this has affected the dialogue around politics to the point where you have conspiracies such as man made hurricanes started to influence an election, actually being debated and taken seriously. Musk and Trump have legitimately set America back years as well as dividing a nation and occupying a lot of minds with absolute garbage. However it was an interesting experiment in whether you could actually have unregulated free speech, simply put it doesnt work. If a platform started out with unregulated free speech it would never get to the popularity of Twitter without severely evolving. Musk buying Twitter is interesting because its imposing these libertarian ideals onto something already hugely popular, to see if it could maintain or even increase popularity, none of this happened obviously. Maybe X will make a comeback I dont know, but what i think will happen is it will shrink to just a usership of the maga right, essentially becoming a 'truth social'. Its interesting also that Musk even thought this would work or maybe he just didnt care if it would.

It's more you're not looking for this information, you just have an opinion. Tbh I actually think it's bad enough that an owner of a tech platform has his extremely partisan views amplified and yes people's minds can be influenced, that's the whole reason he over paid for twitter, otherwise he wouldn't bought. But I will give you the easily searchable examples of left leaning accounts being shadow banned- Steven Monacelli, a journalist at the Texas Observer Ken Klippenstein, a national security correspondent for The Intercept Alan MacLeod, a reporter for MintPress News Rob Rousseau, a left-leaning podcaster @liamnissan, a comedic commentator who criticized Musk @zei_squirrel, a left-leaning commentator who has criticized Musk https://newrepublic.com/post/177936/twitter-suspends-accounts-journalists-critical-elon-musk Also Shadowbanning of a Tesla fan A Tesla fan claimed that X shadowbanned his posts after he complained about a defective Cybertruck. https://futurism.com/tesla-fan-shadowban-cybertruck Story about him shadow banning critics - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailydot.com/debug/elon-musk-shadowban/%3famp He's also reinstated some extreme right accounts like Tate, Ye, Majorie Taylor Greene, babylonia bee, projrct veritas etc. He's promoted and retweeted accounts like libs of tiktok who dox people they disagree with on the left. To be honest you'd have to be pretty blind not to see this stuff happening. Basically everything the right complains about the left doing is being done 10x. Question now is, is this enough evidence for you?

There's a lot of things he's done to give himself an unfair advantage in terms of attention. His tweets are promoted more than anyone else - "The engineers fixed “the problem” by tweaking the code to automatically “greenlight” all of Musk’s tweets. “The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000,” reported The Verge, “a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed.”" https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-musk-x-twitter-donald-trump-b2586440.html#:~:text=The engineers fixed “the problem,anyone else's in the feed.” So his voice is amplified artificially 1000x more than anyone else. It wouldn't surprise if Trumps and others likes are too but I'm speculating. He's also made it so that even if you block him, you'll still see his tweets, you just can't engage with them. So literally if you're on X there's no way that you wouldn't see his tweets. Now this may make sense if he was just giving technical updates for users or news about X as it may important for users to know. But he's not he's tweeting out, in some cases, very far right misinformation, or just inflammatory posts like the one saying the UK is on the brink of civil war, during a time of unrest. Imagine now if there was a civil war, would he have played a part in pushing it that way? Also he's not trying to hide this, it's all in plain sight, so no it's not a conspiracy or anecdotal it's literally what's happening.

That is true but i would argue that even that is not really a success. What Murdoch did very well was tread the line where he would work within the regulations of a particular country and so the media output, although biased, could get out to a lot of people because the bias could be somewhat hidden, or at least not as blatant and off the rails as something like Musks posts. This meant that Murdoch could keep a massive audience and put out his agenda in a sometimes subtle way, thus he could actually convert people from the other side. Also he was a good business man, so his platforms could stay relevant and be successful for years. With Musk this is definitely not the case, hes so partisan, that he actually works to engage the other side to vote against Trump. As well the business model is not sustainable and its haemorrhaging users and value at a crazy rate. I think his genuine belief was that his leadership would take twitter up a level and improve upon it, mainly by getting rid of the 'woke mob'

Not gonna give specific details but hopefully I can give am idea of the situation. So I have a family member who has always been a big issue within the family, I believe they have npd although they would never admit that. Reason I think that is they get into fits of rage when disagreed with, sometimes smashing walls or throwing things and even physically attacking, not to the point of striking but pinning down. As well they never take responsibility for these type of actions. In general can be very manipulative and if they want something they will find a way to get it. In conversation focus is constantly on them and they often play victim as an emotional tactic ie no one gets their pain etc. I have always found it hard to connect with them and so I use the grey rock method, which basically don't give them much emotion or supply, in fact I give nothing basically. The issue is though I'm not often there but I have other family members that are directly affected almost daily by this behavior. I generally just hear about it or see it when I visit. Recently something tragic has happened in this person's life, after which this behavior escalated, numerous rage incidents, arguments etc. After this other family members stopped communicating with them. I didn't necessarily stop communicating, but I decided to take a stop back and not put in any effort with them. To which they replied by basically disowning me. I do feel bad because it does feel like I'm abandoning someone in their time of need. In a similar situation they haven't provided any support even though we were on speaking terms, so it's not like this person would do anything for me but I do still feel bad. Also what's stopping me is that he can tend to drag you into certain situations that you don't need or want to be in. I'm also much closer with the rest of my family and feel like they deserve the support. I will also say I don't think he's consciously doing this stuff, I think he genuinely believes his reality and that everyone is wrong and he's right. I guess more just wanted to get it out but am I wrong for taking this step back or should I just deal with the fallout? Obviously any other general thoughts about the situation are welcome

@Letho Hey man, thanks for the detailed reply. So yeah i have put in boudaries and had them for a while, the only thing that makes this different is that something genuinely bad has happened to this person but they have used that to justify bad behaviour to other members of the family. So the dichotomy from my side is feeling bad because it is something terrible they're going through but then also maintaining these boundaries and not accepting the behaviour. I decided to not accept the behaviour and haven't had much contact but I also believe that they will use what has happened to manipulate if that makes sense. I may be wrong about that but I have seen it in the past. What you said though makes me think, whether I have a negative perception which is slightly exaggerated. So I believe that they would feel pain if something bad happens, I don't think they're a psychopath, but I do believe that most things they say and do in their life is some sort of manipulation to get others to side with them or to get them to do their bidding. For example, I'm not aware of them calling someone close to just see how they were doing or listen, even with parents, but if they want something they will phone a lot until they get that thing or support or whatever they want. So because of this I find it hard to see the good in them mainly because they are so self focused. From a meta perspective I can love them but inter personally I don't want to be around them

In the uk its similar, men are quote repressed sexually, however there can be a difference with say 2nd generation immigrants as their culture at home can be quite different. I can also attest to what you say about mujeres Latina, I dated a colombian girl and she was pretty much all the things you say and living in the uk she couldn't get her head around how insincere British people are

I'm with you but glory hole's do exist so some dudes are doing it