Daniel Balan

@Leo Gura You say that leaders like Stalin or Lenin couldn't suppress religion.. but something is odd here! From my experience, people, especially fanatical religious peasants, would rather die of famine and starvation, than to support a new ideology like the one that emerged in Russia, that is totally godless, anti religious and profoundly atheistic. Even if the leader of that new ideology promises them the moon! I don't believe it! Those fanatical retarded Orthodox Christians would rather eat earth with worms than to support an atheistic movement like communism! And you can't do a revolution without the support of the masses! Masses which in Russia were and are profoundly Christian Orthodox! Look at Putin's war! This is all about! The existential fight of Orthodox Christianity against the secularism of the west!

@Leo Gura You know why I asked this? Because today's Europe experiences a furious backlash in regards to Religion, I give my country as an example! Here people are as fanatically Orthodox Christian as in Russia, since the fall of the Iron Courtain, religion was allowed to be practiced without one ounce of restriction from the government, yet since the covid pandemic fascism has been on the rise a lot, and these religious nutcases are vehemently anti EU like if the EU are this evil entity that wants to do away with religion! Which is totally false since EU never meddled with religion in any way sahpe or form to restrict it. The nutcases are reacting against the stage Green that is coming from the EU! Having said that, those religious nut cases are so vehemently anti EU because of some gay rights that the EU wants to grant to sexual minorities, despite the enormous sums of money that have been given to my country for development, I find it really odd that the same nutcases accepted the atheism of communist Russia, that also came with huge poverty attached, yet they don't accept few gay rights that came attached with a quantum leap in terms of infrastructure development

So Hitler used Christianity to appeal to the masses. I have a big question for you Leo since you are Russian. How came that in the most Orthodox Christian country on earth, which is Russia, an ideology like Marxism Communism, gain so much popularity and rulled the country for nearly 8 decades? To do a communist revolution like the October Revolution in the most religious country on earth, how was it possible that a godless, vehemently anti religion, Atheist ideology gain so much popularity in such an Orthodox Christian society? It makes no sense to me why Communism wasn't deeply religious and nationalistic! It should have been in order to gain the popularity it did. So how was this possible? This is so counter Intuitive for me to understand! I totally understand why all the other aspects of communism were popular, but I don't get how Atheism was popular in such a religious country like Russia!

@Leo Gura this blog post is arguably the best of all time! I loved it so much! I got such a mental orgasm by reading it! Awesome interpretation of Hitler and NSDAP ideology and how much it overlaps with the ideology of today's right wingers and conservatives! The core reason I utterly abhor conservatives and the right wing is all the points you emphasised on your blog post! That is also why I am mad at you when you criticise the leftists! You can criticise the leftists because they totally deserve! But you can't criticise the leftists without criticising the conservatives and the right wingers 10 times harder! You made one mistake in your blog post regarding Hitler and Christianity! Hitler was on a quest to destroy Christianity and totally wipe it out from Europe! Hitler was a pagan that glorified the germanic and Norse old traditions!

Haha! that leftsplaining word is so true. But you should come up with a similar word for the ape like right wingers. They need one too!

Hi Leo! Thank you so much for the actualized quote on leftism and even more thanks for the blog post "How the left got lost"! That blog post is easily one of the best I have ever read. I'm a centrist but I have a soft spot in my heart for the left. I find that the left, even though it is massively delusional and flawed, at least cares for mankind and for the planet, as opposed to the right, which I totally hate with all my being. The right only does things in a selfish egotistical manner, without giving a fuck about others or the planet. All their policies are done to maximize profit, rape the earth of its resources, and dominate the weak. But this blog post is like a wake up call for every leftist to touch grass immediately and make contact with the harsh and brutal nature of survival. A message for the more ambitious of the leftists: Those lunatic right wingers all have their billion dollar businesses with which they control politics while you stand crying for gay rights. Man up and build your amazing business too, so that you can truly combat their selfish, corrupt interests!

My relatives that live in Germany and Austria told me that a ton of manufacturing and construction businesses are facing serious turmoil and are risking going out of business because the demand from clients has dropped considerably compared to 5 or 10 years ago. Those relatives of mine are MAGA like conservative right wingers that bitch and moan all day long about how harmful the Green Deal policies of the EU are hurting their businesses and that the bureaucracy is destroying the competitiveness of their business and so on. They are always scapegoating the bureaucrats in Bruxselles! I've always regarded their lamentations as bullshit due to them being right wingers and I view EVERY right winger as a dumb fool. But maybe I am wrong. So I want you guys to tell me the truth. Are the EU policies doing a lot of harm in deed to their businesses? Are my relatives being poisoned with Russian propaganda from the bullshit they see each day on tiktok and facebook? Are the EU policies good but because my relatives are corrupt devils they wish some right wing party to rule so that all the regulations and bureaucracy will be eliminated so that they can continue exploiting their employees and customers without any government intervention to stop them from doing so? What is really the truth? I have no Idea! Please enlighten me!

@Alex4 So you say Brexit was a bullshit move from both Great Britain's and EU's POV? That's what I also initially thought. So you say that if other countries from the EU would want an exit it would cause much more damage than benefit to that particular country?

@zazen Great answer! Thank you!

@zazen This is a great answer! Thank you! This is the kind of answer I was expecting! The only thing I disagree with you is when you condenn the EU for pushing liberal values on the eastern European countries! To me this is pivotal to happen! Eastern europe is very backwards and underdeveloped when it comes to human behaviour! Here my fellow country men behave more like apes than decent humans! Plus there is the Russian propaganda machine put in place to capture the minds of the citizens of eastern Europe with endless propaganda that demonizes the west, so I highly encourage the EU to invest heavily in education and in NGO's that promote a more sane and liberal way of thinking for the citizenry of eastern Europe which currently is very backwards and barbaric in behaviour and thinking!

After you gave a great answer last time, now you again talk shit! Of course I don't know wheter the policies of the EU are good or bad! That was the reason I started this very thread! TO FIND OUT! I wanted to know wheter Europe goes too fast towards Green while damaging healthy aspects from Orange! And regarding the right wing, I never ever found any valuable policy from them EVER! Everything the right wing does is utter madness and stupidity! I call for centrism because in my mind centrism means balancing both welfare policies and green deal type of policies from the centre left with more conservative economical policies that help reduce excessive bureaucracy for businesses, having strict borders that don't allow illegal migrants to wreck havoc, to limit migration and only take very small quotas of them, only people that have a clean criminal record etc! Nationalism, isolationism, racism, xenofobia, homofobia, showing the middle finger all the time to Bruxelles, endless conspiracy theories, theocracy, chaos, ultra traditionalism, fanatical religion.. those are the traits I despise the most and guess what, all belong to the most stupid and retarded ideology, which is the far right! I hate the left too, but the right triggers me in a way I wanna vomit!

And why everyone is imaginary except me? I think even if solipsism is true I should be as imaginary as all the other stuff from reality! I should be as imaginary as all the other beings and things!

@Leo Gura Solipsism is not true because when I sleep and have dreams there I've never had a dream where a person from that dream tells me that what I dream is imaginary and not real or that it is a dream, on the contrary, I've dreamed people that I never ever met IRL and none of them talked about solipsism in my dreams! So here we have the ultimate proof that solipsism is false! Hahaha if solipsism was true not a single ilusory being shall realize their imaginary nature

I'd argue that America went the fascist route as a counterbalancing act regarding the power dynamics with China. It went fascist because it started to slowly but surely be overpassed by China

That's the slogan of the far right in Europe today!

I've never thought that you will criticise the European Union for being too stage Green! Haha! You usually criticise from the opposite angle, that a political entity isn't stage Green enough! Jokes aside that's Europe's Achilles heel right now! Too much suppression of inovation and industrialization in the name of the Green deal. This could be fatal for the EU! By trying to hard to go fully Stage Green, it could make the whole union to collapse once reactionaty far right leaders are elected into office, thus undoing all of the stage Green polices and doubling down on hyper capitalism and throwing all the environmental policies and welfare policies in the trash can! The current leaders should be very careful with their policies!

@Leo Gura Hi Leo! How do you predict the Ukraine war ending? Do you think it will end with Ukrainian victory meaning that Ukraine will freeze the current frontline and emerge with the rest of the territory as a sovereign state free of further Russian violence? Or do you think Ukraine will ultimately collapse and Russia will go on to restore it's Sphere of influence on countries like Poland, Romania, Hungary etc. Do you think that the EU will ultimately collapse due to the Russian pressure on eastern Europe?

@Alexop I found that video ecuation response to CTP's problem very cool, that problem was hard AF and to be honest it was a great video for the election campaign! Mathematics is his ace and it would be unwise to not use his ace up his sleeve! Regarding the spiral, I watched tons of hours of debates and interviews with him and I am 100% sure that he is aware of the entire spiral, despite the fact that he doesn't know spiral dynamics which makes it even more impressive! He is aware of the developmental levels of different portions of society, especially he often emphasised that rural Romania has been suffering of great inequality compared to its urban counterpart! And regarding religion, he is a true Christian and he embodies genuinely the Christian values, not like the average Orthodox Christians that would literally kill you if you don't agree with them. In this case him being a Christian Orthodox has nothing to do with him being tier 2 or not! For example I am stage red and I totally hate every kind of religion, especially Orthodox Christianity which I totally abhor! Being non religious doesn't translate into more development. Regarding Ilie Bolojan, yes he is a neoliberal, but given the fact that the previous government went on a massive deficit spending, the new government will need to cut some costs to reduce the deficit regardless of political ideology. Romania is riddled with corruption and public money is being stolen by the corrupt mayors and other local county leaders across the entire country. We need less corrupt and more law abiding leaders like Bolojan that could stop the broad daylight stealing of public funds from the national budget, regardless of their political ideology. But I still hold my opinion that Nicușor is tier 2. I never gave tier 2 status to any politician up until him, I could be wrong, but after watching him talk for hundreds of hours in the last year and judging by his spotless career up until now I give him tier 2 status. If he were to be orange he would have had a much different personal net worth and much of an easier life compared to the hatred he accumulated during his political career. If he were to be orange he wouldn't care about protecting old arhitectural buildings or green parks in the city or going above and beyond to stop the real estate tycoons from building illegaly and overcrowding Bucharest with apartment buildings during his mayor tenure. He would have made himself extremely rich while allowing the real estate tycoons to exploit every piece of land for constructing 20 story buildings. He brought order in the way real estate tycoons are allowed to build, no longer allowing them to build buildings without the road infrastructure and other basic infrastructure necessary for the day to day dealings of residents so that the existing roads don't accumulate enormous traffic. Here I saw that he is a systemic thinker. If Bucharest was lead like that from the very beginning today there wouldn't have been the overwhelming car traffic that it has today.

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@Alexop I get what you say, but to me personally Nicusor seems stage Yellow. The fact that he is extremely humble, lives in a rented house, has no luxury items, is very decent and honest, is never lying and when I say never I mean never, and above all I hear him all the time bringing in his speech the importance of tackling issues like corruption and economics in a systemic and well thought manner. Not to mention that he is a world renowned mathematician. Consecutive double gold medal winner at the international mathematics olympiad in 1987 and 1988. USR is a reformist party and in deed Neo Liberal. But not Nicusor, Nicusor is a centrist liberal, slightly conservative. He is socially centrist but a bit towards the centre left of the spectrum, while economically he is center right, but not neo liberal. Many of the people around him are neo liberals, but I watched him for over a year now and I never heard a neo liberal policy from his mouth. He is by my standards the definition of classic liberalism. A Bill Clinton of Romania.

Almost certainly not. And even if he did, he would be hated, ineffective, and booted. Hi @Leo Gura I am very happy to share with you that my hero, Nicusor Dan, who I deem is at tier 2 stage Yellow, just won the Romanian presidential elections while defeating a Trump like pro Russian, euro skeptic, fascist far right candidate. Here you can read Garry Kasparov's article on how the democratic party from the US can learn from this outstanding victory over fascism. https://thenextmove.substack.com/p/the-perfect-pro-democracy-candidate . It looks like Romania is deeply red and blue in the countryside but actually quite orange in the big cities. Stage Orange people could resonate quite well with Dan's stage Yellow. Also I know that Dan is stage Yellow because of how much spiral wizardry he has done in his campaign, being able to convince many people from all stages of the spiral. Also his humbleness and the fact that I never got the sense that he wants power for his benefit but power to be able to change and to do reform for the development of our country. Also he is not populist and 0% demagogue. I never felt so convinced by a political candidate like I was now. I could be wrong and acknowledge later that he is not tier 2 and actually orange. I am very careful of how I rank people on the spiral but I can say with a lot of certainty that he is Yellow. Unfortunately he will be tremendously hated because Romania is extremely corrupt and a president like him will have a difficult task diminishing that corruption. Well, the first signs of him reducing corruption have already unfolded: The Tate brothers have announced following Dan's victory that they are leaving the country for good! Great News!

@Alexop That's right!

The truth is, that a rat life is as valuable as a human life! I have a barn full of wheat and corn and there are a lot of rats that destroy my corn. I put traps to catch them, and whenever I catch them and see their dead rat body it makes me wonder how meaningless my life is! The only way I could kill that rat is because my species can dominate the rat species! And that rat I just killed is as meaningless as my life is. It makes me realize that my life is not more valuable than that of a rat. And the only reason I was able to survive up until now is blind luck. I could have been killed long ago, just like the rat I killed with my trap. How lucky we are, yet we don't even realize that it takes enormous luck just to be alive. We take that for granted