Dan Bilzerian is running for Congress

[Willy Phallicus]

Anyone one who stills has even a modicum of faith or hope in the political system either has a very thick skull or is an incredible masochistic glutton for punishment.
 

[Terell Kirby]

6 hours ago, Schahin said:

 

I am not talking about Stalin and other tyrants that disguised themselves as Communists.

Stalin was the greatest Communist that ever lived.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

2 hours ago, Terell Kirby said:

Stalin was the greatest Communist that ever lived.

Un ironically, China is the only country giving Communism any ounce of credibility. 

 

Without Communism and the Communist Party, what would China be like today? The answer to that is simple: India. China would be like India. 

Without the cultural revolution throwing out spiritual superstitions, China would be religiously superstitious and backwards. They would be less industrialized, less literate, etc...

Why India? Its because the two countries are incredibly similar and came from similar starting positions. Massive populations of over 1 billion people, incredibly religious and superstitious, dominated by western powers. 

As of today, its estimated that 19% of the population of India is illiterate, as opposed to 3% in China.

 

[Terell Kirby]

@Husseinisdoingfine

Modern China isn’t even remotely close to the kind of Soviet style Communism under Stalin. The reason I say Stalin is the greatest Communist is because he was quite serious about the destruction of private markets. This is not the position of modern day China-we can’t truly call it a Communist state.

Don't confuse me saying Stalin was the greatest Communist with me saying that he did anything remotely positive for the people of the country or world at large. He is responsible for the deaths of millions of his own citizens through war, famine, enslavement of rural peasants, labor camps and murder of many civilians, military commanders and political opponents through his private police state. But nonetheless he was a serious Communist- that should tell us a lot about the ideology and how it turns out in practice.

We see what’s happening in North Korea today, China & Russia were smart enough not to adopt the same strategy, at least not in its totality. Even then they are still backwards in many ways

Edited Sunday at 08:38 PM by Terell Kirby

[Ajay0]

9 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

Un ironically, China is the only country giving Communism any ounce of credibility. 

 

Without Communism and the Communist Party, what would China be like today? The answer to that is simple: India. China would be like India. 

Without the cultural revolution throwing out spiritual superstitions, China would be religiously superstitious and backwards. They would be less industrialized, less literate, etc...

Why India? Its because the two countries are incredibly similar and came from similar starting positions. Massive populations of over 1 billion people, incredibly religious and superstitious, dominated by western powers. 

As of today, its estimated that 19% of the population of India is illiterate, as opposed to 3% in China.

 

The cultural revolution came with the deaths of many million Chinese citizens, and the chinese government in 1981 has publicly acknowledged the many failures of the cultural revolution. 

While India has a democratic government, China has a communist dictatorship lacking transparency in media and press.

The Chinese Confuciean religion emphasizes order, stability leading to a highly structured society that values experience and continuity, and this influence is said to have played a part in creating efficient Asian societies in Japan and South Korea, and not just China. I am actually hoping Confuciean influence comes to India as well. 

Buddhism, which is a major religion in China, has also brought about an intellectual and disciplined culture and lifestyle amongst Chinese citizens due to its emphasis on philosophy and martial arts.

India and China were neck-and-neck in terms of GDP per capita and overall economic scale around 1980 to 1990, after which China accelerated significantly due to early economic reforms, massive manufacturing growth, and infrastructure investment.

At present India have brought about similar reforms and policies and is the fastest growing major economy at the moment.

Yes, I agree that superstitions can be a bane of religion, but most superstitions have been subject to heavy media criticism in India. Saints and scholars  like Prabhupada and Dr. Pankaj Jain have also objected to food waste as illustrated above, and this has brought reforms as well.

The Brahma Malai Temple has been cited as an example of a zero-waste system, redistributing food and recycling offerings, demonstrating that waste is avoidable. This temple is often projected as a model for other temples.

Rationalism in emphasized in both Buddhism and Hinduism (nyaya philosophy) and it is important to highlight and develop this further in religion.

Mahatma Gandhi had himself emphasized rationalism in his teachings and works for regulating religion and possible excesses due to superstition as shown in these sayings of his...
 

Quote

 

“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.”
 

“Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.”
 

“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

[Socrates]

Not an ideal choice, but considering the current state of the USA being Israel's whore, anyone willing to push against this is a warrior of good. I dont see why the filthy, fat israeli rat randy should be in Congress, let alone breathe after suggesting nuking Gaza, but Dan is the problem when he wants a sovereign nation and not a colony of Israel.

Im really surprised these scumbags havent face actual consequences from real patriots as they should.

[Schahin]

On 3.5.2026 at 3:25 PM, Leo Gura said:

They were Communists.

Own it.

 

They were psychopathic tyrants, the worst that the monkey human could bring forward. But they were not communists, as communism is actually very simple, the Word says it all, its about everybody being common and treated equally and therefore the destruction of a society with different classes.

Stalin was a mass murderer, a sick person, not a defender of a society with equal people with no class He, Kim Yong Un and all the other tyrants love to potray themselves next to Karl Marx, but they are like the absolute polar opposite, like  extremist Evangelical Christians pretending to be a follower of Jesus Christ teachings.

Edited Tuesday at 05:58 PM by Schahin

[Schahin]

On 3.5.2026 at 6:06 PM, Terell Kirby said:

Stalin was the greatest Communist that ever lived.

 

Unfortunately you americans are raised to hate communism, but have never understood the true essence of it. Call is communism, call it socialism, its about having a society with no class and total equality.

A utopia and not a dystopia that Stalin or Kim Yong Un created.

 

@Husseinisdoingfine

China ist another one of the bad examples of Communism, they are a total surveilled country with a sickening work attitude.

Not even mentioning that they hold 1 million Uyghurs imprisoned and do some nasty stuff to them. 

My friend was there and felt totally surveilled and people are totally smartphone addicted, allthough I love Chinese people, as they are great people but the system is fucked its not a Utopia, Communism is meant to be a Utopia which we havent had until now, Cuba could be some primitive example of that, but with the embargos and the political prisoners it's far from being that.

Edited Tuesday at 06:04 PM by Schahin

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Schahin said:

They were psychopathic tyrants

That's the only way communism gets enacted.

You have a fantasy of communists being these nice people. No. They are assholes just like everyone else.

The most bloodthirsty communist ends up killing the rest and leading the country. That's how politics works.

Edited Tuesday at 07:54 PM by Leo Gura

[Raze]

35 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

That's the only way communism gets enacted.

You have a fantasy of communists being these nice people. No. They are assholes just like everyone else.

The most bloodthirsty communist ends up killing the rest and leading the country. That's how politics works.

You can say the same thing about capitalists. The US’s foreign policy was just as brutal as the Soviet Unions often in service of corporate interests.

Edited Tuesday at 08:27 PM by Raze

[Lyubov]

Capitalism and communism lead to the same result if people are unconscious and corrupt. 

[Leo Gura]

48 minutes ago, Raze said:

You can say the same thing about capitalists. The US’s foreign policy was just as brutal as the Soviet Unions often in service of corporate interests.

In the gulag with you.

[integral]

We need one uncorruptible system that forces wealth distribution, the government is supposed to do this the problem is the government is easily corruptible.

Edited Tuesday at 09:44 PM by integral

[Ulax]

Oh my god.

I'm gonna apply for euthanasia if he gets elected.

[Starlight321]

16 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That's the only way communism gets enacted.

You have a fantasy of communists being these nice people. No. They are assholes just like everyone else.

The most bloodthirsty communist ends up killing the rest and leading the country. That's how politics works.

@Leo GuraNice stage green hippies mostly even can't get results because every now and then one needs a pause to care for his feelings and have weak structure and no efficient top down hierachy to create important things. Also they don't treat everyone equal even though they talk that way. They cannot treat everybody the same because it would create evil. You cannot treat a nazi like a stage green yogi. But that also creates its own evil. With this downside how should they implement communism in a goverment?! It's impossible.

 

[shenanigans]

@Starlight321I think you're conflating the fanbase/masses from the core strategic leader.

Even if the leader of the movement seems like an idiot, they are very often incredibly intuitively intelligent when it comes to motivating people and systems—they couldn't be in that position otherwise. This is why most movement leaders come from rich or educated backgrounds, even if they make an appeal to the people.

 

It all depends on the level of corruption, but generally speaking, an effective strategist will do whatever works. If it's Nazism, they'll push Nazism. If it's communism, they'll push communism—whatever they think leads to a higher win rate and has a better chance of succeeding.

 

Fundamentally the masses are the most essential resource in a political strategist's arsenal. Apes in mass strong. They look more so to navigate in whatever direction the market seems to be going and where it can go rather than having any direct moral principles. Radical leaders exist and serve a useful purpose in stirring up the masses' emotions and rallying hardcore fans to the cause, but radical leaders usually suck at policy, so it's usually the strategist in the background that's able to win the kingdom and be the one to rule—although sometimes they can be both.

 

Without any morals or higher vision—simply the accruement of power for power's sake—there's nothing stopping you from stirring up die-hard crowds' emotions and lack of mission into chaotic vandalism and destruction. Destruction is FAR easier than being a long-term practical visionary and long-term systems engineer. The weaker the structure of the system and the less airtight, the easier it is to manipulate in your favor. Legitimately, it takes only one good leak around people without the morals and with the means to make that location their home. More holes means easier future access back into the system. If you don't make your system airtight, corruption will spread like mold, the rotten eggs will spoil the bunch, and the submarine will collapse in on itself.

 

On the psychology of strategists: The fundamental root drive and survival strategy of every strategist is to be at the top of every system they are in/have determined it possible to be at the top in—no matter how long it takes. The journey itself is in a sense deeply rewarding and fulfilling—even if it's only achieved when you're, say, on your last years as an old man. Interestingly enough, this actually leads to deep systems understanding in the process. Even if a political strategist is morally corrupt, they can still often run the country better than, say, a yogi without the years of deep systems understanding. If you ended up giving the throne to the common people, they'd end up running the country with the same mindset as watching TikTok or having to do homework. At least a strategic leader knows what fucking planet they're on, etc.

 

I myself resonate and identify with the strategist archetype myself, and I actually do legitimately want to become president one day—when I'm like 60 or something. Understand here it's not out of social visionism (Mostly) but out of ego ambition—I feel like I'd be wasting my potential and late-game position otherwise. I feel like that's how it is for most people. However, I must stress this integrity conflict. I am not sociopathic—although sometimes I feel like it would make my life way easier lol—but I am definitely a performer. Like everything I do is hyper-deliberate to get me maximum resource advantages. Every text message, every clothing choice. That could just be how I play, but idk. It's hypernatural. Looking back, used to lie and talk my way out of any situation when I was young lol.

I think only 2 things were able to save me: 

1) I'm actually very empathetic and have a lot of heart in my configuration—I lean more ENFJ than ENTJ, but it's roughly an even split. 

• Although note: I have done fucked-up things to my parents, even somewhat recently—egomania and seeing yourself as unsupported by others actually fucks you up and makes you crazy—kind of like the whole childhood lack of love thing child psychologists go on about, but you delude yourself into it. Even when I was meditating I was still having this problem. Could have been trama release stuff, but imma be real, my realtionship with my parents was kind of kind of fixed overnight with:

 

• Ironically enough, interacting with people from the viewpoint of manipulating them. This has actually lead to better interpersonal relationships in my life, not worse. Not even in a short-term sense but actually qualitatively and long-term. Like fixing long term family problems in weeks. It's like social engineering and being highly deliberate with every one of your actions is just something some people are designed to do. Some people are just built to be social machines who get everyone on the same page and feeling happy, etc. Whenever I tried lowering my guard and unnecessarily giving people the talking stick or high amounts of frame, it would always lead to weird tensions no matter how hard I tried. I TRIED, man—Like nonstop with every angle I could think of for a year. It just led to weird conversations, self-deprecations, low states, external pressure, and even physical violence between me and my father on THREE occasions within the span of a month—who, at worst, spanked me on the ass half-heartedly once as a joke once. But when I socially manipulate him in the way you would a magician or a girl; life just got easier—For all parties involved—and everyone's happy. No truth was sacrificed in the process. I'm not lying, I'm manipulating. Night and day difference. Sora from NGNL Manipulates every single character in the plot, yet he's still a good guy and has a moral high ground. What im saying is: Manipulation isn't problematic—being unconscious about it, is. Not owning (Even rocking) that part of you, is. I think the only 'perfect' solution would be to be so enlightened that even if you're going against your deply rooted personality and survival strategy nature , you're still bringing in high state, aura, and energy at a level that it doesn't matter, but then again, even Eckhart Tolle—The closest mainstream perfect example—has a major drinking problem, so like that would be like using a giant bucket in place of a hammer, but then it's not even working some of the time, etc—Even with clear case enlightenmet, people can still have real world practical problems, etc. Murder is not wrong—we need to murder if we want to have hamburgers and venison. People really just whine and moan when it happens to them. Manipulation is not wrong. People just complain when they're manipulated into serving another's goals if they don't get anything back in the process. People just hate getting cut out of deals, getting screwed, or having trust broken, etc. If you get manipulated, but it's for magic, hypnotism, a prank, or online entertainment, people don't give a shit and are, in fact thankful, etc. ["Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ] "Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths," — Everything other than absolute truth is kind of sorta false anyways. I get the whole idea of trying to shame people into being more truthful, and I think it's invaluable, I just think in the social context there are applications where manipulation is indeed incredibly useful—with legitament win-win-win. Although that is to say, lying is useful for society? No, we should strive to be as truthful as we can. It's more so that being highly deliberate with each and every one of your actions and being highly strategic with every little move to move the board in your direction can, of course, be invaluable and even in one's nature. Everything has its nuance, etc. You can be a hardcore manipulator and highly transparent, etc.

 

2) I got humbled HARD early in life

• Imagine Trump in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, basically that.
  • That was my middle-into-high school experience
  • Actually, I think Mark Zuckerberg went to my middle school for like 2 years lol
    • They had like 3 security cameras on every hallway and full-auto police inspections—in upstate ny!; you couldn't get away with shit there. Although I'mma to be real, it kinda made like everyone bitch-made. 
      • Actually, I always traveled from school and was ok with the girls, but like, I got so swarmed from day one I kind of developed light childhood actor syndrome from getting hyped on by all the bored collectivist kids; it was nuts.

In any case, in the pain of being under constant surveillance and unjust punishment—I was NOT kidding about the Cuckoo's Nest stuff——I was actively targeted and was at the principal's like every fucking day and was even sent there for breakdancing, which caused a riot in the cafeteria———I kid you not: Footloose.

In any case, in my depression from being singularly systemically targeted, I turned to personal development, and it's been a rocky road, but I'm now kind of here. I've been watching Leo's stuff for like 6 years, and I love the epistemology, but I've got to agree, @TJ Reeves the energy and social skills stuff is really lacking. I know, not Leo's niche, but like, come on! People need this stuff. My results did a like 3x once I started socializing and accepting more people into my life, but alas, we can always go to Owen Cook for that stuff. Speaking of which, I've got a seminar with him later this month, so wish me well. Anywho, this is my post on the Strategist archetype. The good and the bad stuff. It really comes down to morals, which really comes down to consciousness. There are intelligent formulations to everything, but it's good to be able to distinguish them apart and understand what you're dealing with. To whenever you are reading this, I hope you have a great rest of your day!
Anyways, PEACE! 

Edited 10 hours ago by shenanigans

[Schahin]

@Leo Gura

Well there is not a single system in the World, call it Communism, Capitalism, Democracy, UNO, whatever names you want to give it, that doesnt bathe in blood.

The USA is one of the greatest mass murderers in the World, and its Capitalism, just thinkn of the 4 Million people killed in Vietnam, 1 Million in Iraq, the public Racism and Apartheid that governed your country until the late 60s or the liberal Weapon laws that are responsible for daily killings. Or the desastrous Prison conditions that are in place, with people spending their entire lives in prison many times for just minor things.

And if the Capitalists dont kill the people they kill the animals, and torture them in mass concentration camps, where they have no space to move an inch, just to be able to produce and export more meat, and make places like McDonalds Burger Kind and all those other places that sell tortured animals, even richer and more powerful. The USA and the European Union are world champions in exporting meat from tortured animals, the europeans export it even to China, what a disgrace.

And I dont even want to mention again, the enormous hypocrisy of USA and Europe, that call themselves the free World trying to hide their complicity in the Genocide of Palestinians and Lebanese and in so many more innocents that were killed through their weapons. These countries are hypocrites, thats the only name that suits them, because they boast about their superiority and how they are amazing, but at the same time they are bathing in blood and have no shame about it.

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Schahin

[shenanigans]

Note, I might be delusional—legitimately. So correct (or rather, critique) me if I'm wrong or I'm missing something important, etc.).

The right idea can be extricated into the wrong direction, etc. I may be confusing the meanings of strategic communication vs. manipulation, although in a sense fighting is fighting, be it a martial art or a street gang brawl. Both are beautiful and equal in Gods eyes, yet both are treated vastly differently based on the context—which is really just Survival, etc.

Also @Leo Gura help me out if you can—Your psychology knowledge would be most useful here, etc. There might be something overarching analysis I fundamentally can't quite see in this, etc.

Maybe the difference comes down to whether the words you're saying you actually believe in and mean, regardless of how strategic or deliberate they are, etc. Someone could be manipulative but just be like really bad at it, etc. While someone could just be really strategic and charismatic in their communication and mean every word, while considering other people's responses and then planning around those predictions to get the message across as effectively and irresistibly as possible, etc. Could simply be moreso a kind of "with great power comes with great responsibility" kind of distinction rather than an actual structural difference, etc. That's what I'm kind of trying to figure out here, etc — If it is moreso use wisely then own it and rock it to your heart's content untill maybe you've put yourself in a better position?, etc. I may be fundamentally mistaken, etc.

Later:

Actually, I suppose even if you're really good at socializing or fighting, it's technically not necessary to reach God even if it can massively improve your life. I guess this is the journey of going from material and personal development success, to transcending your humanity. There’s a time and a place for everything, etc. — I guess this conclusion is the synthesis, etc.

Have a career and know your strengths, but understand that God and Truth are an honest man's game. Regardless of how you play and relate to others, you can only really grow in spirit and consciousness through your true relationship to Truth. THAT is the takeaway here.

Edited 10 hours ago by shenanigans

[Schahin]

I think the topic here derailed very quickly. Coming back to the main topic.

My personal opinion is Dan Bilzerian is the right candidate, he is a necessity, regardless of his previous lifestyle and that he is wrong on some issues obviously. Its not about stupidly worshipping a person and proving that one has no brain, its about recognizing him as a necessity to finally have a move forward on this Genocide.

While most people are still debating and getting pushed into non-sensical discussions about Antisemitism drinking a cocktail or a beer meanwhile little Children are massacred for them being Arabs with the full support of the hypocritical Criminals Western Countries, with no way to escape their slaughter, day by day, without a single day that it does not happen.

So Dan is the most correct candidate in this context and his controversial style of talking is a total necessity, there is unfortunately no other way

Edited 2 hours ago by Schahin