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@Hardkill Trump ripping up USAID and the HIV prevention that Bush himself started alone will probably kill way more people than Iraq
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@Leo Gura In Australia we just re-elected our centre left Labor government in a historic landslide victory, partially driven by revulsion to MAGA style politics.
Why is America so fucking crazy lol?
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If it’s that inevitable, isn’t the way this thing ultimately ends is the cleansing of the Gaza population elsewhere? Are we prolonging the inevitable??
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7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:The difference is that China is not a failed state, it is massively successful, even in ways the US is not.
China has a sustainable hybrid system.
Perhaps. The Soviet Union lasted a good 70 years though.
They do seem to be killing it in renewable energy and AI though which is interesting.
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4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:Yes, that's a major factor.
But also, China is more collectivist, which means they actually believe government is good and they are willing to self-sacrifice for the betterment of society. This is a deeply correct principle, unlike America's absurdly self-defeating libertarianism.
Libertarianism and fundamentalism has ruined America.
You cannot have a great society where everyone only acts out of private selfishness.
That Americans do not understand this in principle is shameful and stupid. And it's why China will overtake America as the world's superpower.
Not that I disagree with a lot of America’s stupid preoccupations with rugged individualism etc, however this China romanticisation reminds me how a lot of the western intelligentsia fell for communism and had a soft spot for the Soviet Union.
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2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:Unfortunately even this isn't true.
Orange is badly needed because 50% of the population still lives paycheck to paycheck, with not enough material security to even have the luxury to care about the environment or trans people.
Our development is so much lower than Wilber says that we haven't even exhausted Orange.
And the Orange stage cannot just be handled by giving people free money and services. Orange is about learning to be an achiever. You can't skip Orange with socialism or UBI. 50% of the population needs to spend 10-20 years just actualizing Orange in themselves. That is our situation.
How do you account for the fact that Green has been around since the 1960s with The Beatles etc that has infiltrated so much culture but never really took over the masses?
Perhaps America needs a national divorce, it just seems unsustainable where you have a good ~30% of the population that basically wants a third world style autocrat in Trump, yet the coastal city folk are so much further evolved than that. I feel like something has gotta give.
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1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:Nothing surprising about it.
I will be surprised when they start just kidnapping their political critics.
At this point would that be surprising??? 😂 😢
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1 minute ago, integral said:Go to a Trump rally with him, father son bonding
How much do you want this? How much are you willing to sacrifice? (Joke)
I’m not even American 😂
United States politics infects Australia and everywhere else in the West lmao.
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1 hour ago, integral said:@Joel3102 you have to sit with him, drink a beer with him, make him feel like your friend and then you can start talking and exploring the world
Hes Not gonna listen to you when his guard is up and he’s defending himself
This is an emotional child like baboon you’re interacting with 😂
If you can get him high and make him feel good he has a far better chance of progress
The funny thing is he doesn’t drink 😂
Maybe I’d have more chance if we could shoot the shit over a pint
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@Leo Gura How do you deal with parents, specially my dad who aggressively spouts MAGA talking points.
if I’m empathetic and go spiral wizard, I feel weak and let him get away with the insane framing of the conversation.
If I go hard I’m a “Trump Derangement Syndrome” out of touch leftie who just doesn’t understand the “common sense” of regular folk
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5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:I know of him. Is he Yellow or just a smart neoliberal? Hard to say.
The problem is that a smart healthy balanced Orange/Green can seem like Yellow.
I’d lean yellow but hard to say. He seemed full blown green during his Vox days, so maybe he’s evolved upwards.
His recent interview on Lex was pretty good -
48 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:I removed a lot of names from the list of Yellow examples.
I was too liberal in classifying people as Yellow. It's quite hard to find pure examples of Yellow.
Dunno if you’ve been following Ezra Klein lately but I get a lot of yellow vibes from him. Progressive but has matured into a more meta and analytical progressive
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1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:Yes, certain specialized groups like illegal immigrants will have their lives changed.
But don't forget, they are here illegally. They took that risk.
Don’t forget innocent green card holders may have been deported to a prison in El Salvador
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9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:Foolishness is self-correcting as it plays itself out and necessarily fails.
Now we watch it play out and fail. Those who are incapable of educating themselves will be educated by the laws of reality in broad daylight.
My hope is their overreach is so bad that MAGA is completely discredited and indefensible. Then things will become more normal in 4 years time. If not it seems the US Republic may fundamentally become a semi autocracy
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@Leo Gura Trump episode? If Tate got one surely Trump is worthy
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To be fair to him, he’s basically sworn off gaming and immature drama since he’s been medicated for his ADHD. The allegations are prior to him being medicated
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He might be impeached if Dems take the house. He’ll have to do something really fucked up for the GOP Senate to convict him though. I reckon his approval ratings will start to plummet once the honeymoon is over
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4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:Keep in mind that the real work is happening outside of news headlines.
Right now Trump's cabinet of goons is furiously working to disable all checks and balances of the federal government, filling as many positions as they can with corrupt MAGA ideologues and loyalists. This will not be visible in the news. What you see in the news is just the tip of the corruption iceberg.
The corruption and rot will be staggering and beyond anyone's imagination. But it will take a few years to blossom.
Odds of Impeachment by the end of it?
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2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:It is sad to see Musk devolve into such low quality perspective and corruption.
If social media can rot his mind, what chance do normies and Gen Z have?
The online media social matrix is terrifying in its ability to create self-deception. It's like a mass self-deception machine and hardly anyone is aware of its epistemic distortion effects on mankind yet. And AI now throws gasoline on that fire.
The 21st century could go down in history as the century of the epistemic degeneracy of mankind.
It’s akin to the upheaval that the printing press caused in Europe, leading to the 30 years war etc
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Hmmm depends on your timeframe. If you’re investing for 10+ years S&P500 will be fine. Always goes up ~10% in the long run. If you need it in 4 years then maybe not
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3 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:Things are going to get much worse than people comprehend. The shit has barely begun.
Lol that helps 😂
The question is, will America learn its lesson that mindless populist rot isn’t actually superior in the end?
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@Leo Gura I’m in a cynical doom spiral right now after this Trump stuff. Astonishing that after everything he’s done (coup attempt), he got re-elected. The worst part is family members who you previously saw as reasonable go along with him and make excuses. Genuinely baffling.
Is there gonna be a reckoning?
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Why all this talk of “Russia’s backyard” without regard for what Ukraine actually desire. They desperately want to join the western sphere, via economic arrangements. And Putin wouldn’t let them, so his puppet in 2014 got overthrown by the people and he invaded.
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Whilst ignorant, I genuinely don’t think he had the horrific intentions of the current admin.