Daniel Balan

Here I admit defeat😂😂😂 You got me! You win! I'm the one with his soul darkened. I'm not kidding, upon self reflection I realized that I have in deed a dark soul. But I see it as something positive. I like darkness. It makes me feel alive.

Bro stop it! I can't stop laughing 😂😂😂 Voldemort? 😂😂😂😂

@zazen I never laughed so hard on this forum until now! Bro had no response to me making fun of him for spreading Russian BS, asked his favorite AI to do a argumentated comeback to counter my narative! Haha 😂 All those mental gymnastics used to justify Putins war! Imagine making analogies to Great Britain and Ireland, which have less land than Poland combined, with a behemoth which spans 12 time zones, occupies 1/8th of the global land mass at a stagering 17 milion square kilometres! You have to be kidding! Have a nice day brother, may the light of reason and kindness reach your dark soul!

I've watched TIK History's video and I can say that I am very worried! He states that Hitler and the Nazis were leftist socialists! Which is quite disturbing since I just thoroughly studied @Leo Gura blog article: https://www.actualized.org/insights/hitler-was-a-conservative. The second video accurately explains why Germany started World War II, driven by Hitler’s autarky policies. He pursued autarky to prevent exporting industrial goods to agrarian Eastern countries, fearing their industrialization would reduce demand for German products, triggering mass unemployment and a Marxist revolution. Hitler believed capitalism, which he saw as a Jewish creation, encouraged exports to destabilize Germany’s economy, as seen in the Weimar Republic’s liberal capitalist system. He feared this would lead to chaos, enabling a communist revolution that would promote globalism, dilute German racial purity, and collapse civilization, as he believed only ethnocentric, “pure” nations without immigrants could sustain it. To ensure Germany’s self-sufficiency and avoid reliance on foreign goods, he launched the war in the East. Autarky depleted Germany’s resources, necessitating the invasion of the Soviet Union for food and oil. However, the video’s claim that Hitler was a leftist socialist is incorrect, as his policies aligned with fascist state-controlled capitalism, not socialism. But he did mention something which depicts the real kind of socialism that Hitler was into : This is exactly what Leo said in his blog post It baffles me how someone who has read hundreds of books on history tells with such conviction that Hitler was a leftist socialist. What worries me more is that without Leo, I would have continued to believe TIK's nonsense. But I do agree with TIK that people voted for Hitler precisely for this socialist appeal: eliminating unemployment, helping families with children, reducing inflation, etc. But in practice Hitler used those workers as literal slaves with him as king in order to use them for their labor and money to create his Aryan empire. What TIK fundamentally misunderstands is what he calls socialism was in fact old school fascism! Real Socialism seeks equality, welfare, and equal opportunities for all, reducing class hierarchies through collective or state ownership of production, often with unions, to advance universal progress. Fascism shares some methods with socialism, like state economic control and welfare programs, but uses them to enforce a hierarchical, nationalist society, often defined by race (e.g., Nazi “Aryan” supremacy). It preserves private ownership under state direction, confiscates property from “outsiders” (e.g., “Aryanization”), and suppresses unions to dominate others, not to achieve equality.

My mistake is that I tended to take TIK seriously because he has read a ton of books on ww2! He always seemed to know backwards and forwards the history of ww2 and Nazi Germany! I believe that if I follow someone that has dedicated decades of their life studying a narrow niche like ww2 history, I have a lot to learn from that person! What I failed to take in account is self bias and self deception! I will keep this in mind going forward! I will do my own reading going forward! Thank you for taking your time explaining this to me!

Agreed, but in november 1932 the citizens of the Weimar republic had to choose between 35 different parties! The situation by 1932 reached almost 30% unemployment, the people were in dire straits, but why vote the nazis specifically? In 1917 Russia people didn't vote, but rallied behind the communists, why didn't the people of the Weimar Republic follow suit? I think they did! They didn't vote based on policy, but rather they voted pro authoritarian, for a strong man that could save them! A daddy figure! A leader!

@Leo GuraAgreed! I personally try to avoid to get into ideology! But I want to understand social phenomena based on ideology! You are totally right when it comes to your blog post https://www.actualized.org/insights/hitler-was-a-conservative . Nationalism is what led people to vote for both Trump, Putin and Hitler. But National Socialism is really tricky! TIK is totally wrong calling it leftist, but National Socialism did have some socialist flavors! I think TIK is trying to point at something, something that is missing from modern understanding of National Socialism. Nazis did tax the hell out of people, that is a socialist policy, they did nationalize private property that didn't align with the Nazi agenda, like Jewish property and of those who disagreed with Nazi ideology. They did create many projects that gave employment for the unemployed, they did offer some welfare subsidies only to the "Aryans". The bottom line of my comment is that National Socialism in my eyes is more related to socialism that with today's US Capitalist Neo Liberalism. Economics wise! Of course National Socialism has nothing to do with equality and DEI like programs of today, but its authoritarian control of the economy resembles much more Soviet socialism than American capitalism of 21th century!

Bro if you are curious about alcohol go ahead and try it! I've drank everyday from 14 to 19! Last time I drank was on my 21'th birthday! I drank solo half a bottle of Absolut Vodka! I am now 25 and I haven't drank since and probably never will again in my life. It is cool to drink with friends! I would suggest you try it! But don't exaggerate! Like one glass of vodka every 2 hours you will feel amazing. But if you drink one glass now, and another glass after 10 minutes you will feel like shit and it will ruin your experience. I personally like smoking a lot. I have 10 years since I started smoking. But I never smoked more than a cigarette a day! Each day before I go to sleep I like to look at the sky and contemplate about reality while smoking while stargazing! It gives me such an Éire vibe! I quit smoking entirely between 2017 and 2019 and I can say that I was deeply unhappy! Smoking one cigarette every night on the hills of my village is like being in heaven for me! I always used to do this while I was wandering at night in the country side with my beloved dog

I am assuming that TIK got his nazis are leftists worldview from the hundreds of books he had read until now! What pitfalls has TIK fallen into to adopt such a perspective on National Socialism and Hitler? What was wrong in his epistemology and philosophy that lead him to have such a perspective? I've followed him for quite a while and I know for sure that he is motivated by truth! How can a search for truth end up in such self deception? It really worries me! My biggest fear is to ending up having similar perspectives regarding politics, philosophy, spirituality, and other endeavors that concern reality! But what if the one who is stuck in self deception is me for dismissing his take on national self deception as garbage? I am really confused. I no longer can distinguish what is true, what is false, what is deception and what is clarity! The only thing I have going for me is that I have a strong intuition, and my intuition was mostly right until now, but I fear that even my intuition could be poisoned with self deception.

@zazenDid you say all that with a straight face? Or you are trying to make fun of yourself? Bro, have you heard of the Helsinki accords? That's why Britain and Ireland no longer go to war. Is because we have treaties that we agreed to respect. Guess which country for the last 30 years has violated every treaty with its neighbors and provoked non stop wars! 2 Chechen wars, Georgia, Transnistria Moldova, Anexation of Crimea, Donbass, the full scale war since 2022. SURE!!!!!! Romania and Poland are total criminals for joining NATO to be safe from Russia. Russia is like a thief that complains that his victim has too many locks and shields that block him from entering the facility! As bad as the west can be, being under the Russian grip is deadly inferno. Bro, Russia is longing to be an empire once again, that's why they do all they do! And their last chance is now, until their demographics totally collapse! They do it now because the more they wait the more their demographics worsen, it won't get better! If you can't see that you are either ignorant, a Russian propaganda vehicle or you consume too much junk from social media.

Dugin is that you? From now on anything you say I will regard it as Russian propaganda! I love you skeptics! I just love it! How come all your skepticism is directed against NATO while you fully swallow anything that serves the russian narrative? Bro, a country like Romania was invaded by Russia 12 times since 1700!!! 12! All they brought here was famine, poverty, violence, vandalism, corruption, backwardness, loss of private property, dictatorship, commuism and as of 2025 they are trying to export their 4th way fascism here! The Polish state was dismantled 4 times by the Russians in collaboration with other empires! Bro, with all due respect! You are spitting Russian propaganda day and night! Fuck what Russia thinks, we want nothing to do with them! We just want to be protected by NATO and the west, regardless if the Russians like it or not! As of now I will never ever take you seriously ever again!

@Leo Gura Ok! I got this! Thank you so much for everything! Much love! ❤️

@Leo Gura But how to make sure I don't become a Whatifalthist? That guy as you've said, read a ton of books on politics and is very educated in a way, but is a MAGA conspiracy theorist! My biggest fear in any endeavor is the potential to be totally cloaked in self deception! How can someone who litteraly followed the advice you just gave me become a MAGA conspiracy theorist? This gives me nightmares thinking that this could be me! Unless I have access to your blog and videos and forum! And if I never had encountered your work, I am 100% convinced that I would have been exactly like Waitifalthist!

And regarding the title of this thread: The prize is you as an individual! Regardless if you are a man or woman! The real prize is to always prioritize your wellbeing and never make compromises for anyone! It is better to be single that to be with someone who you have great physical connection but that person makes you walk on egg shells! I would refuse to have a relationship even with the most beautiful woman if her behaviour would constanly make me feel like I am in a whirlpool! Peace of mind is the prize for me

@Leo Gura Sure! That is common sense! I would advice anyone to walk away at the first sign of rejection! If you made your move and the girl says a clear no, or that she has a bf, I think it would be gentlemanly to walk away! I have the belief that if you really have chemistry with someone things should sail smoothly! If you always have to force stuff to happen it is a clear sign that even if you manage to sleep with her, in the long run it is not worthed to walk on egg shells

But what I propose only works if you seek monogamy, if you are into pick up dissmiss all my advice! You are right from that agle!

When I thought like that I had no girlfriend in my life for years, but as soon as I started pursuing with genuine interest girls I liked, I had a girlfriend in no time! What I understood from my POV is that as soon as I dropped all the games of not showing interest, not caring etc and I started expressing my feelings for the woman I was in love, I got her! I feel so free since I dropped all this PUA mindset! I feel like I've been unchained! I talk and behave however I genuinely feel, regardless if it is "masculine" or not! The bottom line is that game is like a cage one puts in himself from preventing him of being genuine! Also my approach filters out all the women that are not on the same wavelength as you! If you have to play a role of this aloof and not too caring stoic guy it means that girl isn't someone a relationship could work in the long run! You know you found a good girl when you can behave with her 100% genuinely without any game!

@Leo Gura How do I develop world class political education and understanding? From a very young age I always wanted to develop world class understanding in the most importand endeavourus of reality! It keeps me up at night the fact that I don't have 100% understanding and mastery of a subject! And right now politics is something I deeply want to understand but I am totally clueless! The more I try to understand politics the more insecure and weak I start to feel about my understanding of it!

My biggest fear is that Actualized.org will be banned, either in my country because it will become like Belarus, or because the US will shut down Leo's YT and website for being a threat and undermining their grip on power! What I mean is that the US government will fear that too many citizens will be exposed to actualized.org and this could destabilise the grip on power of the corrupt elites!

@Leo Gura You also did videos debunking Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, but you didn't go inside Andrew Tate's war room to tell him to his face that he is stupid! There is a difference between constructive debunking versus talking shit!

@Leo Gura I've never understood people who try to debunk the work of others! I think that if you don't agree with someones work, just don't follow it and ignore it! If you wanna buy a house and you don't like it, just ignore it and go find a house that you like! You don't spend time and energy trying to show to the whole world how bad that house is!

I would love if you will ever make a blog post where you compare Nazi and Hitler's worldview and their policies and ideology with the Marxist Communist USSR of Lenin and Stalin. Nazism and Communism of Europe's 20th century ought to be discussed in a way only you can do on your blog. In a way Communism and Nazism are quite the same. Like the 2 faces of the same coin. Both totally dominated society. The only difference I can name is that the Communists took away private property and all was owned by the state, while the Nazis did kinda the same, the private property that didn't suit the Nazi agenda was taken away and given to someone who served Nazi interests. Honestly I can't really find much difference between Nazism and Communism. Both wanted to conquer other lands, both were populist, both squashed individualism for the sake of everyone working only for the nation. I can't wait for the blog post where you compare the two.

@Leo Gura Hi! In your blog post https://www.actualized.org/insights/hitler-was-a-conservative. At the end you talk about What is the Communist litmus test? How can I know if I can pass it? Please explain to me how can I take both the Communist and Nazi litmus tests to see if I am able to pass them! Thanks once again for publishing that article on your blog post. One of my all time favorites. I think what Hitler meant by Socialist was the collectivist nature of Stage Blue. He wanted to appeal to all the Stage Blue people. Socialist as favorable to the well oiled machine that is Stage Blue collectivism and power as a group, as a nation. As opposed to Stage Orange individualistic libertarian, not Socialist as favorable to Stage Green egalitarian. Plus he used Socialism to fool the workers! The workers thought that he will cater to their needs. In a way Hitler's first years sought to help the workers by almost reducing completely unemployment. That was a socialistic move in a way! Everyone working for the benefit of the German Nation. I made a forum post a while ago called Hitler's Socialism where I emphasized that the Auto Bahn road network project of Hitler was in deed kind of socialistic but here all of his socialism ends. The workers were brutally exploited and had almost no rights and protections. They were basically Hitler's slaves. His wishes must be fulfilled by the working class. Basically the definition of fascism. The Fuhrer's will, was Germany's constitution!

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@Alexop ❤️ Nice insights. Thanks!