Daniel Balan

If the only tool you have is a hammer, don't be surprised if everything around you seems like a nail. Contemplate what I said here. It will grow your understanding of politics immensely.

Charlie was not a fascist, neither is Trump. They are backward nationalists semi-authoritarians that support the corruption of the capitalistic system. And that's about it. I perfectly described what fascist means here: In America you don't even have anything remotely close to fascism with Trump in power. By historical standards America was more "fascist" under Eisenhower. Because he was the commander of the American troops during WW2, and fascism is characterized by militarism. The notion ot Trump and Kirk being fascist is laughable and frankly stupid. Backward redneck Christian nationalism ain't fascism.

Please tell me that you were joking when you said that. Because if you weren't, then good luck defeating MAGA. If all the democrats think like you, I don't blame the American citizenry for voting Trump. If in your eyes Charlie Kirk and Gavin Newsom are fascists, I'm litteraly lost for words. My mind can't compute such a perspective.

That garbage human that killed Charlie Kirk should've been in front of Charlie with a microphone in his hand, using his ideas and brain to debate Charlie one on one. Like a man! Prove to the whole crowd that Charlie's ideas are not good. But he couldn't. Like all the leftists in existence, they start crying the moment you debate them like a man. Charlie would've wiped the floor with him and make him look like a fool in front of everyone. So he decided to shoot him in cold blood. Only a castrated man could do such a thing. And honestly, leftists are castrated creatures. When they can't withstand you during a debate, they grab their sniper rifle. Losers! I didn't agree with Kirk's political discourse at all, but I admired how much of a man he was. He debated anyone, anywhere using civil and nice language. No name calling, no bullshit. A fine man, killed by an ideology which couldn't counter his arguments with words, only with bullets. Rest in peace!

Is Gavin Newsom also a fascist? Acording to the logic stated above he is a fascist for having a podcast with a fascist. This is pathetic and silly on levels beyond my ability of comprehension. No wonder leftists and democrats lose all elections. Every leftist influencer has the blood of Charlie Kirk on their hands. When MAGA calls a leftist a communist it implies someone who wants to take your property, but when the leftists call someone like Kirk a fascist it implies someone whose political ideology is responsible for the killing of 60 million people during WW2 and unimaginable horrors. Calling someone fascist or nazi should lead to serious jail time for anyone who uses this label for someone. Leftists seem really goofy and stupid by calling a Christian Conservative Nationalist a fascist. A fascist is someone who advocates for empire, for the rebirth of the nation via military conquest & territorial expansion, for extreme nationalism, for extreme obedience to religion and tradition, for dictatorship, for nationalization of all the means of productions that will now produce for the revival of the nation, for the collective, not the individual. Only one individual in the world right now could be legitimately called a fascist and that is Putin. While Charlie was just a voice that advocated for more tradition and religion and less woke ideology. Leftists are so weak and pathetic that they can't defeat a man using ideas and arguments therefore they go and kill the voices they can't outwit in a political debate. Leftists are such losers. If you are a man go ahead and debate a conservative using civil language, not bullets that have written on them "Fascist catch". Every leftist influencer should be sent to live few years in Chechnya, Russia to see how life really is. Those spoiled brats don't even know what a fascist is. Leftists need to touch grass ASAP.

@Tyler Robinson Thats fucking preety india

May Charlie rest in peace. Regardless of whether you agree with his political agenda or not, no one should be killed while holding a microphone in his hands. It leads to the impression that he was killed for speaking his mind. This is totally unacceptable. As long as someone is not advocating for hate or violence, that somebody should never be censored, let alone being killed. Speaking your mind in a civil and non hateful manner should be protected and championed by everyone. I didn't even heard of the guy before yesterday but as far as I know, he was just a conservative voice speaking his mind. As a liberal I value a lot the ability to speak my mind in a free civil manner, I have respect for anyone who speaks his mind in a civil non hateful manner. If I don't agree with someone's worldview I simply don't engage with that persons content. There is no need to hate or demonize people who hold different opinions than you. Live and let live! May he rest in peace. So sad.

@zazen I have a friend that moved to China because he married a girl from China. He met her when he was studying abroad in the US. And he said that the people in China are extremely smart and hard working, he said that the culture is great, he said that everything about China is great except the way how everything is centralized, the censorship, the dictatorship and the one party rule, and the non stop state sponsored propaganda that is displayed non stop everywhere. So according to my friend, China's only downside is exactly the very thing that you seem to be head over heels in love with.

@zazen elections and democracy are the best tool for advancing society because people vote out of office the ones that govern badly and worsen their quality of life. In China and Russia you don't even know what the people actually think about the current governance. Protests and votes of no confidence are a sign that democracy is working. Lack of protests, bruttal crushing of public revolt is what actually sets back a society. In the dictatorships of Russia and China that you so much seem to love, you don't even know what is actually happening there. All you know is what the propaganda machine of Putin and of the communist party in China want you to know. Western democracies have their flaws so obviously displayed because in the west no government has a monopoly on information and no government creates non stop propaganda about how good the country runs. Russia is the worst form of governance that a country can have. I genuinely think that there isn't a single good thing that the west can learn from the form of government that Russia under Putin has. China has a lot of positive aspects that we can integrate in the west, it is a mistake to totally dismiss China's way of governance. Overall China has developed a lot, but so did Taiwan and Japan and South Korea. So to praise centralized economy as the only driving factor for economic improvement is quite a partisan thing to do. The reason I don't want to do rebutalls and to debate you is because you have some unique semi-Duginesque ideology that I am not here to challenge. No ammount of debating and rebuttal can get you to step out of that "4th way" of viewing politics. Nor should you step out of it per se. It is a good thing for this forum to have a pool of diverse unique perspectives. My main issue with you is the bias and the one sidedness of your arguments. If you look at how Leo is approaching geopolitics you would notice that he has like 15 lenses that he uses to see how geopolitics work. If he is doing a blog post critiquing China, he is also keen to praise the positive aspects of China. So when he critiques the west. I've watched a lot of your posts and frankly you sound exactly like the people that appear on the far right propaganda tv outlet in my country. Only shitting on the west and praising China and the authoritarian world. Shitting on Ukraine all day long, wanting Ukraine to surrender to Putin, while they pump their chest saying that they are patriots. How are you patriot if you want another sovereign country to become the vassal of Russia? As I said previously, I will take you seriously when I will see from you that you also criticise the authoritarian world. Right now you only shit all day long on Ukraine and the west, how about you also start shitting on Russia and China and the rest of the "Centralized planned economies". Have a nice day.

To my shame I've never contemplated or grasped or came to the realization of something as deep as the topics Leo is discussing in his videos.

It was just a personal assumption that I made. For some reason during that segment of the video with the new age girl example, for the duration of that part of the video I've had the image of Teal Swan in my head. Every detail and description of the new age girl felt like you were talking about her, at least that was the image I've had while listening to that part of the video.

@Leo Gura I noticed something about you in this video. I notice that in a lot of videos that you shoot on the topic of metaphysics/spirituality/god you burst into tears mid-video. I noticed that this never happened when you shoot videos on politics, practical personal development, psychology, spiral dynamics etc. What is the reason that this happens? Is it because you feel very sad that only you seem to care about such deep topics? Is it because you see that mankind is so asleep to these metaphysical and spiritual matters? Genuinely it feels really saddening for me to see you crying in your videos. It must be really lonely and sad to care about such powerful topics and to have your life's work revolve around these topics when 99.9999% of mankind doesn't care about these topics. Seeing you cry in this video made me aware that the biggest insult someone could give you is that they value and appreciate your work but they are not into your work for spirituality but rather for politics or epistemology, when in fact the topics of metaphysics and God are the cornerstone and the main pillar of your work.

Not to be mean or anything but the new age woman example at the beggining of the video felt like a subtle lowkey jab at Teal Swan! 🤣

I'm not Einstein, But I think that closely regulated capitalism is the best in the 21th century and it will be the best in the 1000th century if humanity survives until then. I don't agree with you that humanity is not yet developed enough for socialism. Living in a state built rat box, owning nothing, having no private property whatsoever, working all your life so the state can benefit from your work while you get only what the state thinks you need is not the hallmark of development and never will be. In my eyes socialism is a step down in development not a step up. There is a reason why at stage purple socialism works wonderfully. Because only utter barbarians need to have a higer authority puppet them and put them to do the work necessary for survival. If one needs a master with a whip in order to function properly that is a sign of low development not high development. I bet that the higher humanity evolves and develops on the spiral, the less and less humanity will need to be regulated and puppeted by the state.

Isn't the economic model of Western Europe the best economic model that mankind has to offer right now? Capitalism with strong regulations and oversight? I think the best economic model is capitalism that is closely regulated by a big government, a government that also owns some key industries like energy, gas and petrol, aviation, road infrastructure etc.

That goes for me too!

@zazen Just to make things clear, I don't hate on you, I have no interest in debating and rebuttal. It is good that this forum has different opinions and perspectives, which is a healthy thing for both me and you and everybody on the forum. I just made a constructive critique because I am really irked when people use AI for sense making. AI should be used for descovery of information not sense making, because if you use AI for sense making it is just another echo chamber. AI validates and reinforces all your pre-existing beliefs. AI can be good for sense making if you ask it to play devil's advocate and challenge you on pre existing beliefs. But you need to ask it everytime to do this otherwise it has the same echo chamber effect as the social media algorithms. Sorry if my tone seemed harsh or confrontational. I didn't mean that. I just wanted to give you constructive feedback. I want people to make sense of the world using their very own brain, I hate when people delegate sense making to a machine or to Chinese/Russian revisionist history altering propaganda.

@zazen The west needs and deserves criticism for a lot of things, but China, Russia and the entire authoritarian world deserves the same if not even more criticism. Until you start criticising the authoritarian world, until you start and criticise the governance of China and Russia the same way you criticise the governance of the west, you are just a propaganda vehicle to me.

Bro yesterday I put my critique of you in claude ai and I asked it to give a rebuttal to it, and your response today is almost the same as the rebbutal that Claude made. This is hilarious. I am not intending to do rebuttals to your posts, I'm not the west's guard dog. I don't advocate for the push of western ideals on China. My sole position is that I don't want bullshit authoritarian governance models pushed onto the west. Which is what you subtly advocate.

Bro this is some insane levels of bullshit. Comparing the Munchen agreement with the Molotov-Ribentrop pact is some of the most insane levels of bullshit and self deception I've ever withnessed. Britain and France wanted to avoid war and gave Hitler permission to annex the suddetten land of Czechia in exchange for him not invading any other territories. That was it! The Muchen agreement didn't contain sectet protocols that devided Europe upon spheres of influence and the redrawing all the borders of Eastern Europe. The soviets were the main contributors to the outbreak of WW2. Hitler wouldn't have dared to invade Poland if he knew that the USSR would have allied with the west. He would have been defeated then and there on a 2 war front. That was the main reason Hitler wanted to have a non aggression pact with Stalin to make sure that he doesn't have to fight both the soviets and the west once he attacks Poland. The soviets captured half of eastern Europe when they allied with Hitler. They even offered themselves to join the axis in late 1940, but Hitler denied them because he was already set on invading them. Bro please, be less Russia and China biased. Please. Your understanding of history is as if you were taught history in Russia.

The more some politician goes above and beyond saying and doing anything that will get him closer to taking power, thats who you should never vote for. The more power hungry a politician is, the more dangerous and corrupt he is going to be once he is in power. Another principle I deducted from the video.

I deducted a principle for politics from the video: How to decide who to vote for? Ask yourself, which of these politicians or political parties are valuing truth the most and have their life and policies guided by the pursuit of truth the most? Thats who you should vote for!

I agree, but by successful I meant a life of integrity and personal fulfilment. I mean even though I have 2 dollars in my bank account, I view myself as successful because I live a life full of integrity. To me success means living a life of integrity. In my romantic relationship I've always been truthful towards my girlfriend and I feel very happy with my relationship, I never lied towards my girl and I am really pleased with my relationship. I think success is a bad word I used, I should replace the word success with the words fulfilling life and spiritually rich life. A philosophically successful life.

I'm 30 minutes into the video, this is what I took away from it thus far: The only way to experience and live a succesful life is to have your life led by a mind that is run by an engine of truth. The only way to experience a fine life is to have a mind that is powered by an engine of truth. The engine that runs your life must be truth, otherwise if your engine is anything but truth the vehicle that runs your life will stray to corrupt and self deceptive paths that will lead to suffering and pain. A correct interpretation of reality can only be achieved by driving through life in a vehicle that has as its engine the valuing of truth. Without truth as your engine you risk having your wheels fall off your car as you drive through life.

I discovered actualized.org when I was 14 in 2014. I got news flash for ya, no teacher ever will help you with success and money. At the end of the day you gotta get off your ass and work to improve your financial situation. Leo gives tremendous financial advice, the problem is that we are too lazy to follow through on his advice. We can't expect Leo to go to work and improve our career for us. That is work each of us individually must do.