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Bernie actually likes Yang.

I just thought I'd add a little levity to this

Here's another reason why Yang has the right vision and Sanders is stuck in the past

He isn't?

Has Sanders ever reformed a racist into not being a racist?

I just finished watching @Leo Gura blog about why the media is corrupt and thoroughly enjoyed it. Later he talked about how he didn't want a million other Leo's out there shooting self help video and how we can all be leaders with our own unique talents and abilities and I resonated with that so much. Ever since I was a young child I always wondered why I was the odd one out. I never enjoyed school, sports, parties, socializing, smoking, drinking, loud music, even sex. I was always living in my mind thinking about possibilities and creating ideas in my own head of what a world with infinite potential for greatness would look like. Like dreaming of people being able to do whatever made them happy, having higher levels of intelligence, and figuring out the secrets of the universe. I enjoyed science, technology, and video games. I enjoyed these things because they were interactive and with video games I would always be taken into new worlds to explore them and it wasn't passive it was active because I was controlling the character with the controller. I was labelled as having ADD and Asperger's syndrome because I had trouble socializing with the other kids and I would always fall asleep in school. YET I always wondered if there was really something wrong with me or something wrong with society at large and how it marginalized and labeled people like me with out ever getting to really understand me. Then as I got older and life starting getting more and more unbearable I started wondering why things were as screwed up as they were. Why did was school so boring and uninspiring? Why did my teachers hate their jobs? Why was the media always paying attention to stupid shit? Why did the average man not aspire to be something more than a 9 to 5 employee? Why instead of creating a more awesome society that's fun and happy was there so much misery and unconsciousness? As I asked these questions all the responses I got from other people were "that's just the way things are" the most intellectually lazy and shallow answer ever. Then I was pushed to the margins just because I didn't fit the mold of regular society. I was always wondering if I was messed up or I just saw things that other people didn't. If I saw things the way other people didn't I always wondered why that was. As I dove into the online world to find like minded people I saw people who understood these problems too and had similar back stories as I had yet, none of us understood why it was happening. That is until I stumble upon Leo and his actualized.org videos. Now after watching this so much of Leo's content I have such an amazing feeling of validation and liberation. I used to be so mad that other people weren't seeing things the way I was always wondering to myself what was wrong with people. Now I look at them not as bad people or people who bother me I just say that on the cosmic universal scale of things they are infants and no one is going to get angry at an infant for doing something stupid because they know that the infant doesn't know any better. It's really hard to look at your parents, your teachers, your college professors, and your community leaders as infants but, that's just the way things are. The cruel irony was that the same exact people who were supposed to guide me and raise me when I was younger weren't guided and raised in the proper way themselves I (and a lot of others) were caught in a vicious cycle way before they were even born as Leo calls it generation after generation were programmed by these mind parasites as children we really didn't stand a chance. One thing I've never forgotten is how I enjoyed it so much when I got to express these ideas in speech form. I always remember the day I got a standing ovation from all my classmates when I spoke about how lacking the school was in helping students and how I had ideas to change that. I feel that now in my current situation I really have a path to being the leader I always saw myself as. I recently got a job at Best Buy and as trivial as it may seem to some people for me it's such an amazing development. As a child I always enjoyed going to Best Buy and I had so many fond memories of going with my parents and getting to feel all the technology and just being around all that tech made me feel great. Now that I've gotten hired there I feel like I can work my way up the ranks I can bring so much consciousness into a company like that by the way I interact with it. Best Buy's mission is to enrich people's lives through technology and I think that's great and I've attached what the company believes in. Already I feel great when I work there and I've really never felt this happy ever since I took that vacation to Australia and New Zealand. I feel like this career opportunity is opening up a path for me to do great things combined with my natural knack for wanting to lead and doing public speaking. The amazing thing is I have this forum and whatever goes on at work or if there is an opportunity for growth I can come here and talk about it.

This is pretty cool. CSUN which stands for California State University Northridge is my Alma Matter and they've just been given a grant to study artificial intelligence. Now notice this quote. “At the core of the research center will be deep interdisciplinary collaboration,” Ho said. “In this day and age, researchers and scientists cannot stay in their boxes if they want to be forward thinking and innovative. We will embrace convergence research as a culture for doing research. This means that for all projects that we work on, we will connect expertise, methods and knowledge from different disciplines and create new approaches to solve complex problems motivated by societal needs.” That means that what we're talking about here that spirit of non-duality is beginning to manifest itself in the world. People are starting to notice that we just can't cordon off things from each other like science, mathematics, art, and humanity. They are all in a sense entwined with each other. I like where this is going. https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/education/csun-receives-3-million-from-nasa-to-study-all-aspects-of-artificial-intelligence/

How do we make sure we keep people from going insane and hurting others in such troubled times? How can we make sure people don't hit rock bottom and decide to do something detrimental to themselves and others? (I've thought about this a lot since I saw Joker.)

@Leo Gura with all due respect I see more childish and angry behavior when Bernie supporters talk about Yang supporters. On the Yang supporter side they've actually acknowledge the good that Bernie has done and don't really have a beef with his supporters.

Berners... like a pack of hungry wolves who found a bone. sigh....

I have to agree with him here Leo. I remember when I put on this forum several times how annoyed I was of not being able to find a job. I was frustrated and annoyed that it seemed no matter what I did I just wasn't getting my foot in the door and people were shunning me. I don't come from a "rust belt" state I live in California. All the time I put how frustrated I was at my jobless situation it felt like I was not getting empathy just being told "it's OK you have no right to complain just try harder" that's a terrible response! I'm just letting you know this so you can understand what a big deal joblessness and feeling you have nothing to do actually is. Even with a job you want that job to provide you with a sense of fulfillment and purpose instead of just feeling like a mindless drone and Yang seems to be the best one who understand that and it seems to me Sanders doesn't.

@Progress agreed.

Right that's what I think of when I think of Bernie Sanders. I just got so frustrated when he dismissed the UBI idea and talked about the jobs guarantee. He says we need this that etc. I even remember when Leo said he'd be driven to commit suicide if he got one of those boring jobs (i.e. postal worker) where you just had to repeat the same thing everyday with no variety and/or creativity and if those are the jobs that come with the guarantee then it seems that Leo doesn't seem to give a shit about those people that'll actually end up with jobs like that because if they'd refuse those jobs they'd end up impoverished and miserable.

So you think that we'll go extinct because technology takes all the jobs away from us. Why can't we just rethink the economy all together and what actual value means? Why not have a world of abundance and work will be obsolete and mankind can be free to create and explore to their hearts content. It can be a renaissance of the likes we've never seen before.

I know I guess that ever since I was at a certain age and all these frustrating things kept happening in my life, I was unhappy, and didn't know who to turn to for help or guidance I thought there was an ultimate answer. With this "ultimate answer" it would put an end to my problems, suffering, pain etc. and Leo looked like the person that I could go to to get the answer. Then with that I'd finally be "free" I just have to come to terms that maybe something like that just doesn't exist. Even before Leo I thought I'd get it from my Judaism but, when I went deeper and deeper into Judaism and how strict it was I just ended up getting more and more depressed. Then I thought it was with enlightenment but, even Leo says practical matters still go on after that.

@Raptorsin7 Agreed. This is so freaking weird. Looking at Leo for all this time as the most non bias non ideological pragmatic person that does his due diligence and keeps us in check when we are acting like devils and now having to look at him with the same kind of lens he looks at us. Anyway nobody is perfect. I think this is awesome because it shows how not culty this community actually is and how everyone is growing even Leo.

@Raptorsin7 I know he showed me this in a private message and I rebutted with this

$12,000 > $0 also it helps keep you afloat when you are transitioning.

Right Leo usually digs deep, does research and is usually in tune with certain "things". It's unfortunate that now he seems to want Bernie because he has an emotional investment with him rather than actually looking at hard facts and data.

Fair enough @Leo Gura we'll just have to see how they debate each other. I really want to see Bernie's response to Yang's criticism of the UBI vs FJG that should be in the month of November. I'm hoping if it is Bernie he adopts the UBI but, I'm still with Yang.

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/09/joker-todd-phillips-indictment-neoliberalism-violence/