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  2. What do you even want from Palestinians at this point? The logical end point of your argument is that Palestinians (and Jordanians, and Lebanese etc) should just roll over and take it. Should they just abandon these regions that they have thousands of years of history on so a handful of far-right Israeli Zionists can be placated? If that happens, what’s stopping India from taking over Pakistan? Or China taking over Taiwan? Or hell, Germany taking over Alsace? Since the end of WWII humanity has operated (broadly speaking) on the principle that nations can’t unilaterally invade and take over other nations because they feel like it. It has meant a lot of frustrates nationalists, yes, but on the whole it has led to the greatest period of peace, trade and global cooperation in human history. No one is denying the reality on the ground of the shortcomings of Palestinian culture or material power differentials, but so what? There should be more to geopolitical affairs than “might makes right.”
  3. @Olaf Yes, it’s hard, especially if you’re a man.The odds are stacked against you. Very few people actually “make it” in the sense of becoming successful across all areas of life: health, wealth, happiness, and love. Everything gets more expensive every year, while salaries struggle to keep up. Loneliness is everywhere. Building wealth requires taking risks, and sometimes those risks cost you years of progress. There are no shortcuts. You have to work on yourself constantly. You have to become stronger, more disciplined, more capable, because life doesn’t get easier. In fact, it gets only harder if you refuse to do it. You have to become the kind of person who can handle whatever life throws at you. And that raises the real question: Are you willing to become that person? Because if you want to be in the top 1%, forget about the idea of a perfectly “balanced” life. There simply isnt enough time to maximize everything at once. You can’t simultaneously spend hours every day working on yourself, build a successful career, become wealthy, maintain a great social life, have a gf and give her the time she deserves, be there for your friends and family, sleep 8 hours, have multiple hobbies, travel, relax, and still have plenty of free time. Something has to give. At some point, you have to decide what matters most to you and be willing to sacrifice the things that matter less. You don’t get extraordinary results from an ordinary level of commitment. If you want an extraordinary life, you have to be willing to live differently from most people. And sometimes, you can do everything right and life still won’t reward you, at least not immediately. That’s why persistence becomes just as important as discipline. You have to keep going even when the results arent there yet, even when it feels like your effort isnt paying off.
  4. The first thing to understand is that there are two levels of ego. The first is the social ego, which is the internalization of certain conditions necessary to be sufficient, acceptable. The individual operates from a servile, negative position: "I do this because otherwise I am insufficient." This is what causes constant rumination. You can emancipate yourself from this and act from a completely sovereign position, without any inner judge evaluating your worth, but you are still trapped within the limits of the self. Here we enter what is called "mysticism," which is actually quite mechanical. It is the dissolution of centrality and the subject/object structure, the disappearance of the observer and the idea of "consciousness" in order to open yourself to total reality. This requires a high level of detachment and an undeniable intention of openness.
  5. @Karmadhi Russia is 750 times bigger than Israel. Israel has no strategic depth and is under much greater pressure to be powerful in order to survive.
  6. Here's a video of Kevin Hart roasting Meek Mill and his squad. The frame that he excuses is incredible, he's confident, unfazed and has complete control over the audience. Not to mention, he's only 5'3". Watch this for inspiration on what it takes to be charismatic and to lead others.
  7. Self confidence is something women can intuitively sniff out almost immediately. They don't want a guy lacking self esteem. If they sense that they will be taken aback. They want a man that is secure in his own skin otherwise how could they make them feel secure? It's a crucial component in being able to pick up a women. Keeping her requires it as well but they want to see you have your shit together . So keeping them transforms more from confidence to stability and that you got things and can handle things ongoing.
  8. Working in cybersecurity is pretty closely related to law enforcement. The goal is to increase the stability and order of a society. I think that's a noble goal. Nothing great comes from anarchy. It's something I'm gonna study myself since I'm launching some websites and apps for creatives that can be targeted by hackers. It's also one of the most future proof tech skill there is so you can always have it in your back pocket and combine it with another interest of yours to create a more cohesive life purpose.
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  10. Be careful with going too far down that route but a man that is comfortable with his sexuality and can turn on his sensual side in a calibrated way is very attractive to everyone as most people are indeed repressed.

  11. Your politiscales

    Schizophonia replied to Schizophonia's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    Yes that’s the reason why I was 0% capitalist to begin with before essentially becoming one myself lol. Capitalism fosters initiative and satisfies the thirst for money and autonomy among those willing to put in the effort to achieve it. Deng Xiaoping was aware of capitalism's flaws yet he created a mixed system after observing the immense benefits of economic liberalism for productivity. China is an interesting example of a pragmatic mixed economy.
  12. @Bittu Hey, that’s my past life!
  13. I saw him live busking at the Pearl in San Antonio last yr. Definitely is
  14. That is not very nuanced. Just imagine how you would behave if you were stuck in an open air prison like that losing your friends and family on a daily basis. Not being able to do psychedelics and your philosophy.
  15. @Carl-Richard @PolyPeter We've already talked about this, where are all the people who became masters thanks to psychedelics? Leo, Martin Ball, and Bryan Johnson are the most well-known 5 MeO DMT users and all three have exhibited poor health and pretty antisocial lifestyles. My theory is that psychedelics are pendulums like any other, so the power you give them is subtly power that you withdraw from yourself when sober. There is also the scrupulous dimension; like people a decade ago sometimes said “I’m playing a software program” because they were too snobbish to say they were playing a video game, I get the impression that some people are too snobbish to use psychedelics for pleasure, so they invent a “reason”.
  16. That’s the core of it. You so smart
  17. Anyone remembers this one?
  18. PLO are not terrorists from what I checked, no country designates them as so Hamas are considered terrorists but they represent only Gaza and FYI https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/6/hamas-announces-dissolution-of-gaza-governing-body I feel Gazans have realized that Hamas type leadership does not solve their issues and through the hell they have living perhaps will realize a new way must be found Or am I being too optimistic? I have seen a lot of interviews with people in West Bank and tbf they seem pretty chill I see more hateful attitudes from Israelis than anything else I feel that perhaps due to different degree of brutal occupation, Gaza and West Bank are not the same West Bank seems more moderate, less religious fundamentalist and more mature overall It is reflected in their government which is recognized as a viable government by most of the world So your concerns and reasoning can apply to Gaza but to me Palestine is more West Bank than Gaza due to the size in population and land area.
  19. @Olaf Thank you Mr Olaf
  20. No serious government wants to support terrorists.
  21. This is absolutely nuts: part 2!
  22. How do you determine that? Is it because you are from there? Seems very biased to me this response. No nation is more worthy than another to exist, only biases make it so. They are doing a good job surviving, yes. But they can survive just as well with a good settlement deal backed up by Western powers. The reason that has not happened is because Ukraine is hell bent on getting its land back. On getting its land back, they have not gained anything in almost 5 years. It is not looking like they will get anything soon either. So in that regard they are not doing well. And all that "worth trying" attitude has killed hundred of thousands of Ukranians and cost the West hundreds of billions of dollars. Reducing Palestine to that seems to be a bit Islamophobic, no offense. The idea of "brown backward islamist Arabs that all that do is terrorism and cannot do anything else" is a classical trick used by to downgrade the whole Palestinian issue. Cenk says the same and I agree with him on that. Palestine issue is fundamentally about land and colonialism. Not radical Islam. Palestinian issue has been on for decades and it has never changed.
  23. If Palestine got the support Ukraine got it would viable too.
  24. Ukraine is a viable state. Palestine is not. Ukraine is also doing a great job opposing Russia, so power-wise Ukraine is doing okay. Palestine is a terrorism and radical Islam issue. Ukraine is a classical war issue.

  25. Challenging Leo on women

    BlessedLion replied to Alexop's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    Actually it's super fascinating, because it's the same woman in every profile, and even in the tomboy one she shows clevage, so we can rule out attraction. The men were choosing based on who was the most likely to sleep with them with the lowest amount of effort or investment based on those personality types. Crazy I also think of all the guys, Vamp attracted the highest quality ones. They had style and vibe, TomBoy mostly attracted immature horny 20 year old gamer guys, Conservative girl got the absolute worst - red neck conservative guys, girly girl got guys basically just throwing money at her and gym bros (a reflection of the male version of stage orange) and I would say Vamp was the most "sophisticated woman" of them all.

  26. Challenging Leo on women

    BlessedLion replied to Alexop's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    I just finished the video, I think it's pretty fascinating. Would be better with more data though, also we have to factor in the creators bias but she seems pretty level headed and aware. Personally, I would've gone for the Vamp girl, I think women who are into philosophy and feel free to be edgy and a bit outside the box and embrace their dark side are hot af. The girlie girl would be a maybe because it's super stage orange and materialistic but they can also be cool and hot. Fuck no on the conversvative religious girl. And a major fuck no on the tomboy. I think the tomboy winning is telling because it just proves how many low maintenance low effort guys are out there and how they actually are afraid of interacting with feminine women because there is less of a threat. So she got the most engagement, imo. They see it as a girl they can play video games with and have low investment casual sex with. That's probably why the conservative girl got last, because those girls are high investment for sex, getting into a christian rural girls pants is difficult. That's also probably why girly girl was 3rd, they also are high maintenance and difficult to sleep with. This also proves why Vamp was 2nd, she seems more open sexually and finally why tomboy won , she seems the lowest difficult, most easy to have casual sex with. My theory from this video is therefore that it proves that men mostly care about sex, not commitment (until they are ready), that was their prime focus in the swipes
  27. The entire response is moralizing, saying how Russia is so bad and why they are bad and must be stopped That is not the point The point is how to resolve it Yes, Russia is on the wrong here. But this is not about right/wrong it is about raw power dynamics Russia can take Ukranian land and Ukraine cannot get it back, no matter how hard they try. If all the stars align, which they usually do not, they will not loose much more land. Not get back land. So, how do you resolve this? See, here you starting moralizing instead of having the "you are outmatched better submit" attitude you have for Palestine Also, fyi Israel does take Palestinian land and would eat it all up if allowed.They are currently lobbying USA hard to get a greenlight to kick out Gazans so they can annex it. Israeli government does not even recognize Palestine as a thing, calls it a myth and is taking land every day in the West Bank. They are as bold as Russia. My response also applies to @hundreth
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