Joel3102

Exactly, that is pure privilege, the whole 'insurance will cover it' argument. It can take a lot of time, effort, emotional toll as well as lost business income and excess premiums, or they just aren't well covered in the first place. In the LA riots in Koreatown the Korean business owners were defending their property with guns because they had no other choice. See this thread from longtime Democratic donor. Rather than being a right wing white nationalist etc, I think he was just a misguided kid with an inflated sense of duty for the community and self importance. He was an EMT and fireman in training and was cleaning up graffiti etc beforehand. You don't have to like him, or the lax gun laws that allow this situation in the first place, but I think this case is a good litmus test for how well you can look past ideology and see the facts of the actual case

They’re two seperate questions. The gun laws should be changed and I don’t know why America feels the need to have so many guns. But in the context of the existing laws, what happened was self defence, he was literally chased down as he was running away and someone tried to take his gun off him. What do you expect is gonna happen?

the subsequent people rushing him may have genuinely thought he was shooting people unprovoked which would be justified from their point of view

Not to mention there was $50m in property damage from riots in Kenosha. People love to say “it’s just property” which is very privileged position. To some small business owners it’s their livelihood. I’m a supporter of BLM generally speaking, and early on its public support was very high however it plummeted once the riots started.

He’s almost certain to get off on self defence, there’s no real case for murder here. He was sprinting away from the people chasing he, he didn’t really want to use the rifle. He only used it when someone got their hands on his gun and tried to take it. Having said that, he’s still an idiot for going there, and as a non American your gun culture is looked at as insane by everyone else

Interesting but I wouldn't call Destiny a centrist or DPak a leftist. They're pretty close ideologically

Do you think it can work to improve social confidence?

Pickup will massively increase your overall social confidence which is massively advantageous in the real world. if you become confident enough to approach a group of 9s solo and sober, there’s not much else you can’t do socially

I think it depends on the person. My dad has been on keto for years and I don’t think he gets cravings

What do you think about the stage green glorification of sex work, escorting, onlyfans etc

Andy Cutler's book recommends hair test. He knows that the actual mercury reading isn't relevant, but he developed a system of determining if you have mercury poisoning via various rules determined by how the other minerals turn out, as mercury disregulates mineral transportation. He doesn't recommend the provoked urine test because the high amounts they give can often mess with you and transport metals into your organs because it's not following the proper protocol. The book also says, if you've never had amalgams, you don't even need a test. Just take ALA, and if you get any reaction (good or bad), it's a sign of mercury poisoning to some degree because it means there's something there that the ALA is binding to

I think it’s because the US is so states based and diverse. So a super green state like Oregon will be progressive as fuck

@Leo Gura do you intend to attain a more stabilised enlightenment/dropping away of the ego, seperate from peak experiences?

https://todayspractitioner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mercury-IMCJ113_Masley_32_40.pdf Just went through this study, that shows conclusively that high mercury levels are associated with lower performance on cognitive tests (4-5%). It seems as if moderate fish consumption increases performance as the Omega 3 effects outweigh the mercury, but for higher consumption the mercury outweighs the Omega 3. Note the study distinguishes between normal fish consumption and large fish (tuna etc), and >3 times a month for large fish was considered strongly correlated to mercury levels. I used to eat tuna like every day for years. I've actually ordered Andy Cutler's chelation book. Would recommend giving the study a read @Leo Gura if you haven't come across it already.

These videos show how much the logical and rational mind can be fucked with. You can see while D is a super rationally oriented person, his mushroom experiences have really opened him to questioning materialism. Obviously just stratching the surface, but interesting nonetheless

https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/ Whole subreddit is basically unexplainable and maybe paranormal shit happen to people. Some of it may be made up or delusions, but it's still interesting to read the stories. Curious as to your guys thoughts

The problem is if they started evacuating everyone ahead of time, you're basically communicating to the Afghan people and army that you know it's going to fall to the Taliban soon, and admitting that the ANA was a farce. That would have caused problems in itself and Biden probably would have been criticised for abounding the ANA and breaking down morale. There was no easy way of doing it

Man that sounds awesome. Get all the moral cred for advocating for social justice sitting in your room, whilst signing an exclusivity contract with Jeff Bezos owned Twitch then shitting on him all day. Then when people call you out on not doing anything with your 7 figure annual income off corporate ad revenue to advocate for your causes, you can just say I need to live in society, as if the choice is no house or a $3m house. Check out his Instagram, he’s extremely Orange lol with some green.

How’s he friends with them just because debated them? Lol Hasan probably is. He just wants to be a rich and famous e-celeb and trendy socialist happened to be his lane to get there

Never had a part time job during uni?

If you wanna know what level of approaching is possible, check out this guy who approaches non-stop in massively populated Japan Literally 300-400 approaches in one day....

Sums up blue, to orange to tier 2 nicely

Money in politics can have its problems, but the real reason there isn't more progressive change is because: - The voters just aren't as progressive as progressives think they are - Institutional bias of electoral system (electoral college, the senate etc) which favours Republicans, as well it's just really hard to get bills passed in the US https://www.vox.com/2016/2/9/10941690/campaign-finance-left

Honestly at this stage I think they should just be mandated. It's so bad that only 50% of the US is vaccinated

The leftists on twitter and YouTube who rail against woke corporations are mostly far left socialists and tankies. Your average centre left person who wants universal healthcare aren’t the ones railing against this all day....