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To begin with, people don't become rich and powerful without having some moral corruption. Then once they have the power, they're nearly untouchable. Narcissists, lack of empathy, and abusers. These types of people have personality disorders.

Impossible. Trump is the peace president I thought? 🙄

Y'know, I've seen some opinion pieces about how Americans shouldn't have watched the video. That we've become too desensitized to violence and have lost our sense of humanity and soul. I'm of two minds about that. One is, yes, we shouldn't have ever gotten used to this kind of thing. But also, I don't think it's wise to turn a blind eye to the reality that we live in. This is a violent and unhinged country. Look at it, process it, accept it for what it is. Survival dictates getting acclimated to your environment.

Lol yep. You know you're a corrupt hellhole when Brazil outdoes you.

It's no guarantee that happens, right? Russia seems to have been stuck in their red/blue/orange stage for a very long time in comparison to other countries that rapidly evolved, like say, Germany.

That's what people say about Trump as well. The problem with far right/left rhetoric is that they're mired in falsehoods. They feed on divisions and appeal to the monkey brain. It's difficult for me to respect anyone that does this, because it's just inane populist BS that undermines democracy and can lead to a collapse in our freedom and systems. And for what? To feel good about your little ego, or perhaps grift the masses? It's nonsense and it's drivel.

He was nuanced about it. He marginalized certain classes and groups. Classic "treat marginalized people as subhumans, let the rest play out as it may" rhetoric. If you're not preaching peace, love, and unity, then you're giving way towards violence. This is what extremists do, and as Leo said, they fall victim to their own system that they're running.

These loons don't relate to children. They relate to the far right loon with political influence, therefore their identity took a hit today. But these people still don't have a strong sense of self, nor do they have much of an attention span. They're keyboard warriors and complainers. This will hurt them for a day or two, then they'll go back to scrolling on whatever dumb thing grabs their only two brain cells that speak the same language.

Yeah I mean, the man was a human virus that was going to have influence for a long, long time. Let's not forget that people these days have the attention span of a gnat. People are going to quickly move on and forget. The ones that will dwell were already radicalized and there was no hope for them.

Yeah I can't deny that we are in a soft civil war. It's just astounding to me, I suppose. But fortunately, most Americans aren't going to be causing any violence. It's the radicalized that will. But if they're weak minded enough to get radicalized, then they never had a strong foundation and have just been floating through life. Something untruthful and toxic would grab ahold of them one way or another. They're using the political discourse and chaos that has become normalized under Trump as an opportunity to lash out. Opportunists, they are.

Let them. They're all hat and no cattle. These people are soft and used to their little creature comforts. They don't understand what real life and struggle are like. They ain't gonna do a god damn thing but whine like they always do. I understand that political violence has greatly increased in recent times so yes that is concerning, but the majority of people aren't going to move beyond whining.

People need to, as the kids say, touch grass. I never even heard of this Charlie Kirk dude until today, and people are upset? Who the fuck cares? Put down the social media, put down the poison, go breathe oxygen. But these people won't. They're addicted to this drama and BS because they're idiots.

As the kids say, "touch grass".

Agreed, I'm rooting for it to hit hard and fast. Wake the fuck up people. Life and survival are more nuanced than what your lizard brain is ready to comprehend.

Good job America 👏 You get exactly what you voted for!

On the whole, most people are emotional, irrational little chimps, then. It's weird being more developed than most Americans, but honestly not that much of an achievement, I suppose.

This is true. A raging pandemic went on during WW1 and killed way more than the war itself, yet it was barely talked about. Medical science and diseases are something that most people don't really understand, it's an invisible bogeyman. But people beating each other with sticks (or guns or bombs) is more eye catching and easily understood. Make no mistake though, we do feel the societal reverberations from Covid. A lot has changed since 2020. It rapidly changed culture and behavioral norms to where "pre-pandemic" feels like a different era.

Honestly? Trump was pretty frightening for a while there. But now he looks weak, pathetic, and so incompetent that the threat of his authoritarianism is more hollow than it once felt. Just an annoying fly that wants to buzz around in your face. Shoo it away and forget about it.

Kindness is fine. The way I say it, our egos tend to feed us self-doubt and roadblocks. ChatGPT will reflect the ego but filter out the negative talk. Negativity honestly doesn't serve to help people. I wouldn't call it reinforcing narcissism, that lacks nuance. It's more like course correcting the shadow tendencies.

I think this sums it up well. Oafs gonna oaf, intelligent ones will seek to evolve.

Yes. Metal Gear Solid 2, a videogame released in 2001, accurately predicted the insanity that society would devolve into.

He should send himself. He is a felon, after all.

Pakman is intellectually honest and a necessary voice against the alt right media. I don't think it's right to call him a sociopath, nothing he has said has inclined as such, he's just extremely meticulous and thoughtful of the information he puts out there.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-is-annoying-unfunny-and-should-probably-take-a-drug-test-trump-officials-reportedly-say-2000587948 Poor little Elon. Who knew that people can't stand self-righteous, narcissistic nerds with a messiah complex?

I'll take a moment to appreciate how accurate Leo's predictions were in his October 25th blog entry, and how most of this came to pass in not even 80 days of Trump being in office. I mean sure most of it was obvious to anyone who pays attention, but I didn't expect all of this to occur at such a rapid clip. These are some of the things Leo had predicted in that blog post (with my comments in parenthesis): Expect war (Not yet, but feels like it's coming soon) violence (same as above) abuse of power at unprecedented scale (yes) loss of many freedoms (yes, getting there) Federal ban on abortion (feels imminent) white supremacy (yes) Christian theocracy (yes) criminals in the White House (yes) fraud (yes) corporate exploitation (yes) gutting of all good regulations (yes) a generation-long destruction of the Supreme Court (yes) erosion of the legal system (yes) concentration camps for migrants (yes) abuse of all types of minorities (yes) gross incompetence and mismanagement (yes) poisoning of the food and water supply (yes) pardoning of elite criminals (yes) stock market collapse (yes) crypto market collapse (yes) and perhaps the end of democracy and elections (TBD but looking very likely)