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Your ideas are catered to a very niche audience, not to mention that you became even more niche over the last few years (many of us are not into your alien consciousness/solipsism). Your ideas will not be relatable to 99% of people, and you will sound like Nahm to them, so what are you really going to accomplish? Knowledge without wisdom is very dangerous, and you well know it. I don't think that pushing the narrative that male/female are just constructs to masses is a good idea, and it will not in any way improve the life for the majority.

People who claim that it is just a construct lack wisdom, and responsibility when it comes to this matter imo. If what you call "male" and "female" are just constructs, then so is a "you", "mother", "father" , "friends", "family", and this entire thing that you call life/universe. How do you see the society functioning, and living in practical sense, if you would totally deconstruct everything? It may make sense to you to mentally theorize, mentally masturbate, and philosophize on these matters on a forum - but in real life this leads to a lot of problems, and ultimately to a huge dysfunction. @Leo Gura You gave shit to Nahm for being too "insane" in his rhetoric, of conflating absolute vs relative domains and how he even in your communication with you wrote that there is no "you". Now try to imagine how your rhetoric of it's just a construct, etc would sound like to many other people? Can you see some similarities in these scenarios?

From where did you get how to count? From where did you learn what is water, what is air, what is a tree, etc?

Why do you think that only conservatives disagree with this idea (or nonsense)? There are many of us who are liberals, but who are not woke, who think this is an issue of common sense. ignoring biology and the basic fundamentals, and unable to answer a question what is a woman, is just insane. If you want to identity yourself as a woman when you are not, that's cool. But don't expect others to accept your definition of what is a woman and treat you as a woman. And don't push this shit onto our kids. Instead of focusing on more important things, people are having trouble answering a question what is a woman? If you want to call it just a "construct", then why just stop there? Your whole life is a construct in that regard - but how is that going to do you or society any good in practical sense? I think what you fail to understand, is that your metaphysical contemplations are only good in theory, in practical sense they have no benefit and can be even dangerous.

@Gidiot Based on what you posted here, it is clear that you have no idea what racism actually is. The deeper problem, is that you assume first that Trump is a racist in your mind and then try to find evidence to support your case. Don't be surprised when some people vote for Trump, just because they protest against people like you and their ideology.

So you came up with your own definition of what is "racist" and you expect everyone to accept your definition? What you can see for your self is purely subjective and is also heavily influenced by ideas which were put to you by other people. The problem is that you are obsessed with race, and see race/racism issue in everything. This is the problem of the woke left that even many liberals (I consider myself one) are against. Dictionary definitions have actually a lot of worth, otherwise how can you expect to have a consensus? You actually have no idea what racism means and are throwing this term around very loosely. Thanks to people like you, the word loses it's power completely.

I don't know this for sure, that was my guess as to what he meant. If it's backed up by data, I don't see how it can be racist? This happens in every country. Go to Spain for example and you will see that some type of jobs usually Asians take, some Indians take, etc. What does this have to do with being racist?

There is no need to overcomplicate such simple and common sense things. If the sex is consensual and you are honest with your intentions, then it's all good. As long as you both feel good and are enjoying yourself, then there is no issue.

Black jobs are the jobs that a large percentage of black people take - such as those that don't require high qualifications for example. In this case, he means that the immigrants are providing competition and taking away their jobs. What is so hard to understand about that?

@Leo Gura I am still waiting for your full response to show me examples of why you think Trump is actually racist, - given that you said they are on public record. This one video of what happened 20 years ago is not really enough and you know it. I don't think it's good to throw such terms lightly, because then it totally loses it's meaning.

I don't think you understand what racism is and just throw that term loosely around because you want to. Racism is defined as: Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized. If saying an N word 20 years ago makes a person even today racist, then a lot of people would fall into that category, which you normally don't call racist, such as Joe Rogan. The traits that you listed are common traits not just person who is a racist, but a lot of other things as well. So far, you didn't bring actual examples as to what makes Trump racist.

Gaslighting is defined as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality. I did not do that, nor ever want to do that. I apologize for my offensive rhetoric of "woke leftist", just tired of everyone bringing up the race/racist card. With that said, I would genuinely like for you to show me more instances of what makes him racist - because like I said, not even a bit I ever considered him to be racist - he quite frequently talks to black people on podcasts, public places, etc and I never got the sense that he somehow has prejudice against them. Joe Rogan not long ago also was almost cancelled for saying a n word long time ago on some podcast, but he was too big/popular to be cancelled. And there were many people who called out the absurdity of it. How is this any different?

The people that voted for him in 2016 would say otherwise. If you didn't vote for him, then it doesn't really matter what you think, what matters is what the people who voted for him think.

So to you he is a racist, just because 20 years ago he said a n word on set? This is all the evidence that you have? I didn't think that you were one of the woke leftists, but now I am starting to think otherwise. They tend to do exactly this - go back 20 years, find 1 thing and then put a label + cancel people. I have not heard him say anything, nor any behavior in the last 10 years that would indicate he is anywhere close to a racist. Is this really all you got?

Understood. On a side not, I have not actually seen any evidence that Trump is actually racist - for some reason leftists always try to bring up the race card, and always make it about the race. If they do it this time - they will lose the election and vice versa (if Trump's campaign somehow will bring up Kamala's background). People are tired of that shit. I was going to say fair enough until I read the last sentence. You were actually wrong about human psychology and other things - and here you are trying to say that Americans were stupider that you thought, which is not a genuine, nor honest admission of being wrong.

Interesting take, but he actually delivered a lot of the things that he promised during his presidency to his followers- so to say that he delivers nothing to his followers is not correct.

Pretty much every politician overpromises and Trump actually fulfilled a lot of his promises during his last 4 years of presidency

We are talking here about the possible use of dog whistle rhetoric, not just any con artistry - which requires playing chess, not checkers. And you pretty recently mentioned that Trump is not playing chess like Putin (that he is dumb), thus if he gets elected you won't be totally fucked. So this kind of contradicts your previous statement, understand? The problem here is when it's convenient for you, you say that trump is dumb and when it's not, you don't think that he is dumb. Same goes with your predictions - You said Trump has 0 chance of ever being president again few years ago and now you claim that you were not wrong, it's just circumstances have changed, because it's convenient for you to do so.

@DocWatts Thanks for sharing. it's an interesting theory, yet it still contradicts the main leftist narrative: that Trump is very dumb and with this logic, he wouldn't be intelligent enough to come up with this thin dog-whistle rhetoric. It really comes down to your own interpretation of what he said, as many on the right and center believe that Trump meant that the issues will be fixed so good, that the people won't have to worry about voting next time.

An interesting viewpoint, but to play devil's advocate, this can also be considered a conspiracy theory. The left all the time loves to label people on the other side "conspiracy theorists", how about this time? Or this time it's different? I am talking about the idea that he actually wants to be a dictator and that there won't be anymore elections. Could you also bring some examples of Trump's hateful dangerous rhetoric? I mean from this election cycle.

So if you guys think that he actually meant that in the context that there won't be anymore elections and he would be a dictator, that he just accidently slipped and said that? With some things, you say that you cannot trust what comes out of his mouth but on the other hand you take such statements at face value? Trying to be open-minded here. He could have also meant that he will have the issues that matters to them fixed so good, that they won't have to vote, as it won't matter anymore, no?

Which part of Europe are we talking about? Because in Russia and in eastern European countries they do care, but this is also where you have the top of the cream when it comes to beauty and femininity.

What is the reason that he can't take psychedelics anymore? Like he quit them for good? I must have missed this.

Nice straw man, very dishonest dismissal from you - this has nothing to with not taking bookie betting odds and you know it. In fact with this statement, you have confirmed everything else that I wrote about you above. In fact, with such dishonesty, I am not sure if you can be even taken seriously. Everything started with this statement of yours: Coming from a guy who also made claims about reaching the highest levels of consciousness in the history of human man kind, and claiming to have the highest teaching, this is a big deal. You preach self-honesty, avoiding self-bias, watching out for blind spots, etc. Yet, you don't embody what you preach. You are more delusional than I thought and it's quite sad to see.

You read me wrong, I was not blunt enough. To say that everyone has some ego, is false equivalence and does not apply to Leo's case. This is not about having different political views, as people can agree to disagree, this goes much deeper than that. When your guru tells you that he is the most conscious person on the planet (or in his own words, experienced the highest levels of consciousness any human being in history that did), trashes other spiritual teachers and teachings, and claims to know more about politics than almost anyone on the planet, you should see HUGE RED FLAGS. When your guru almost never admits that he was wrong, never apologizes for anything and displays that level of arrogance, you should see HUGE RED FLAGS. In the latest video on the topic of "being wrong" that he did, he still at the end found justifications for his wrongdoings and sobbed over himself "reaching highest levels of consciousness", while on this forum he claimed that he was being vulnerable and humble. At this point, it is fairly obvious that he was either a narcissist from the very beginning or has lost himself along the way (as happened with many gurus). I am also not the first person to point this out either, just see what the ex mods and ex long time users of this forum have said. The scariest part is that majority of the followers/students are not able or willing to see these obvious things on the surface - they are in complete denial, ignore the red flags and find every excuse in the book to justify it. This in no way devalues all the value that he brought to all of us over the years. In fact, it's the work that he preaches allows us to see this.