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And republicans would shutdown democrat administrations. You guys gotta quit thinking like this is checkers, the Hasan/AOC stupidity is a virus.

How receptive do you think gen Z and Alpha are to Fuentes' racism? I can't see his racism sticking very well, but he is a far better speaker and more intelligent than Ben Shapiro. The guy is very intelligent but obviously a coward that has hid in his mom's basement his entire life making him afraid of people with foreign accents. If he can pivot away from racism I think he has a really good chance to make it big though, if he would be anti-immigration without the racism. Racism and fascism thrive in economic downturn, which is the foreseeable future. Here is a good speech by Fuentes. I disagree with him, I think it's easily proven obvious his conclusions are wrong. But he does have a good grasp that there is a problem, just hasn't figured out Democratic policy is the actual solution. His logic is flawed by false premises about "Big government" and cultures. Hopefully his coarse honesty eventually leads him to the truth.

Democrats are not in power. Thats not how politics work, at all. You're looking at it like a religion or something. You think republicans are going to accept everything democrats want because they can shutdown.... republicans were voted in power, democrats should shutdown if they don't get what they want? People vote their pocketbooks. Trump 2016 won by running on lies, that caught up to him in the next election, where he lost to a dementia patient. Lying can work one cycle. Trump won 24 because of the inflation derived from Trump 16'. Trump 24' is going down even harder and you're ALREADY seeing a blue apocalypse for republicans, democrats took seats held red for 20 years. Biden and Harris' tax plans were to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, Harris wanted to tax unrealized gains even, thats "moving right" to you. Newsom has the highest tax rate in the country on the wealthy in California, and just started a state ran pharmaceutical company. Thats "moving right" to you. You don't want to tank the economy even more with excessive shutdowns, trump is already doing bad enough job. When democrats get back in it takes time to rebound the economy, you don't want a massive downtrend like biden started with. People will vote opposite party when economy is faltering regardless of fault. Retaining aca with a republican majority is a near impossible task. Obviously we need to do shutdowns, but calculated, there are lives hurt by this shutdown. We should shutdown longer next time and keep shutting down, republicans are being ridiculous.

Causing the longest shutdown in history because you're a party out of power fighting for aca, is not "shifting right". layoff the Hassan podcast. That's not how politics works, most people are not baristas living at their parents house.

Economic decline has barely started, it's going to only get worse and worse.

Democrats just swept the elections.... republicans were elected in charge of everything 2024, not democrats. This is what America voted for, and it's crumbling hard. There's no reason why America will vote republican, none.

It's only funded through January, they'll keep doing it until ACA is reinstated. This gives federal workers time to find other jobs, now that they know what's coming again. This was the longest shutdown so far, it will have serious effects and will kneecap the economy even more. The u.s. government is the largest employer in the country. We need to shutdown given Republicans rampage, but we can't just nuke ourselves or a single group of innocent people in the process. Shutdowns have lasting consequences. Medicaid cuts don't start for a year.

The person...

Who are you talking to?

Why should enlightenment be strived for? What happens when everyone enlightens?

Ya. Yah, I'm definitely looking into it, thanks. It definitely rings louder after loud noise exposure, that's why I associated it with it. Something else I found was headrests in cars, I turn mine around backwards so it doesn't push your head forward on your spine. I feel almost like a conspiracy theorist with how all these common things seem to screw up your posture. I even wear flip flops as much as possible, it's all one kinetic chain.

Why can't enlightened people fly? Or do anything special? It just seems like escapism for mental health, not mystical.

Interesting, I never had a doctor look into my tinnitus. I used to clench my jaw a lot, I'm going to look into that. Thanks. I noticed that sleeping on a pillow seems to mess up my alignment, it's actually less comfortable even. I'm not sure, but my mind just won't turn off, I'll stay up. Some type of noise even a fan, sort of acts trance inducing.

I have it mildly, a quiet solid high pitch ring i think around 4kHz, never really changes but sometimes it seems like a slight siren effect. I only notice it in silence. I think it's from a lot of loud noise exposure. I actually kind of like it, aside from the fear of hearing loss. The last time I did a hearing test though, 10 years ago, my hearing was off the charts good, they were skeptical as to how high a pitch I could hear. It's sort of trance inducing to me, I've had it for a long time, maybe my whole life but i don't remember when it started. I prefer sleeping in silence but I pretty much can't when I'm a bit stressed. There's techniques people use to fix some types of tinnitus, by the way, on youtube. I haven't tried them seriously. I wear hearing protection when I do anything loud, yardwork, power tools, I try to bring them to concerts even but usually forget. I got my girlfriend to wear earmuffs when she uses loud things around the house, lol. Hearing loss can often be cumulative from common things we deal with.

Earplugs hurt for me after a while, I would probably need to alternate between earmuffs and earplugs each night. Earmuffs hurt after a while too. Do you have any tinnitus?