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  3. Posted

    2 hours ago, Roy said:

     Almost to the point you're an enemy and the potential for any friendship is gone. They might even report you to HR or try to get you in trouble somehow.

    This is just my personal experience in modern Canada.

    Surveys also show that conservatives are more open to being friends with a liberal than liberals are to being friends with a conservative. It’s a pretty interesting phenomenon. I think people on the left can have a smug moral high ground that can be a form of intolerance.

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    15 minutes ago, Roy said:

    Wait there are actual studies that show this? I was just going off my intuition and experience lol.

    How legitimate are these studies, at all worthwhile?

    I'm gonna guess it's an "ignorance is bliss" thing.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009265661100170X
     

    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/why-conservatives-find-life-more-meaningful-than-liberals/566105/

    https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/

    https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/10/Republicans-Happiness.pdf

  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Conservatives has always been more reactionary, hateful, closedminded, and fearful.

    Just look at Jordan Peterson. Does he look like a happy or relaxed person? He's in a full-blown moral panic. As conservatives tend to be.

    Care-free and conservatives are opposite things. If you were care-free you would not be flipping out over trans issues or "wokeness". How paranoid must one be to be threatened by wokeness?

    It's funny how wokeness is supposed to be so weak and emasculating, yet at the same time so dangerous and threatening.

    How do you account for the fact that studies show conservatives are happier in pretty much every country?

  6. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Very simply by keeping NATO off his front porch. Don't be so naive.

    Putin has been very clear about his motives and concerns. It's not like this appeared out of thin air.

    Putin obviously considers Western expansion into Eastern Europe a threat to Russian sovereignty.

    A country's sovereignty is not just its own boarder.

    I think it’s pretty clear Russia would be fucking with its neighbours with or without NATO expansion. NATO is just an excuse.

    2014 invasion of Crimea happened after his puppet leader in Ukraine was democratically ousted, nothing to do with NATO.

  9. Posted

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    Dropping bombs tactically is very different from launching an invasion with aims to grab land.

    Say what you will about all the US military manipulations abroad, the US never grabs land. Putin is at a whole higher league of assholery. Imagine taking land away from people who live there.

    True, the US doesn’t do that. Although they support Israel who has been doing that for 80 years 

  12. Posted

    46 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    That is the absurdity of it.

    He was barely able to read L G B T Q without slipping. Trump's handlers sure made him read it.

    Obviously even the Republicans are not conservative enough to criminalize being LGBTQ at this point. That would be like Saudi Arabia levels of conservative.

    It’s interesting that many conservatives are looking to Islamic societies for social values now

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    8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    I don't see any trends in our culture that would solve these problems. Our culture is still degrading. As you can see with the popularity of people like Tate.

    How do you reconcile that we should be moving up the spiral, however things seems to be getting worse and more nihilistic? 

    As dogmatic as traditional religion is, it probably makes people happier than Tik Tok and porn. 

  16. Posted

    31 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Death doesn't have a special status. Death is not a state of light-off as you imagine. That's something you're currently dreaming. Death is actually the freeing of Consciousness from having to be bound to any particular form.

    Consciousness under anesthesia is not highly intelligent at all.

    So what actually happens after death? Will “you” remember the human life? Choose what kind of next life to live? 

  17. Posted

    12 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    You can find plenty of articles on major news sites about the problem with single men and their inability to date. Do they offer you an actual solution? Of course not. But that's not their job. It is not CNN's job to get your laid or turn you into a proper man. CNN's job is to report major breaking daily news. It is not a self-help channel.

    If you want to turn yourself into a strong man, all those resources are easily available online. No one is stopping you but you.

    That’s true that there’s actionable advice out there. But the hardcore action required to change a serious incel isn’t seen as acceptable in the mainstream.

    But also, pickup isn’t really scalable as imagine how insane it would be if all guys were doing mass approaches on the street. 

  19. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    I just don't buy that Trump, Tate, or Kayne hate themselves. I think they are so unconscious that when they actually look at themselves they thing they are amazing, when in reality if we look at them objectively, they are cringe.

    If you’re truly secure in yourself why would you feel the need to lie about winning golf games etc like Trump

  22. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    And how would one ACT if it were true?

    The problem is you got a silly, strawman notion of what solipsism means.

    It's like you're saying, the Earth cannot be round because everyone ACTS as though it were flat. And even if it is round, it does matter in everyday life.

    It seems contradictory to talk about how unethical Andrew Tate is, and how he’s a big problem etc if solipsism were true. There’s no inflicting sufffering on others if it’s true? 

  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Tell her to move out.

    Don't allow distractions like that. Your space is divine and should not be given up for any girl.

    Living together is only gonna make you two hate each other soon.

    If you love a girl, the best way to ruin it is to see her too often. And everyday is the worst.

    This is very true. Ironically Once you live together you fuck way less, because attraction goes down so much. 

  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    The opposite point can also be made: regressive conservatives push Green into absurdity.

    When Andrew Tate and Kanye West say the things they say, can you really blame Green for cancelling them? Are we supposed to sit around and wait for Tate and Kanye to publically rape women and deport Jews before we call them out on their depravity? Is it gaslighting and virtue-signaling to ban Kanye West or Alex Jones from doing his right-wing rants?

    By its fundamentalist nature the right wing is not going to moderate itself. It will keep pushing for more and more regressive policies unless checked. If you let the right wing they will ban birth control and interracial marriage. And then they will start deporting people and reeducating the gays. And they will force their religon down everyone's throat. That's the anti-woke vision. You are not going to get "true liberalism" this way. Anti-woke reactionaries are precisely anti-liberal.

    Why do you think the American right has gone so crazy recently? The Bush era conservatives seem so reasonable in comparison, to the point where many of them are straight up Democrats now.