Leo Gura

@Striving for more Have you gotten comprehensive blood work done? You need to check all your basic functions, vitamins, minerals, hormones, diseases, etc. There are literally dozens of things to check. Don't just sit around wondering. Start reading and doing research. And not just some free bullshit online articles. You need to do serious research and trouble-shooting here. You could have liver disorders, thyroid disorders, hormone imbalances, viruses, bacteria, gut disorders, vitamin deficiencies, mold, sleep disorders like sleep apnea, dozens of different autoimmune disorders, etc. All these things need to be checked and excluded conclusively one by one.

Trump could be raping your mother over Zoom and you'd be like: "It's looking shaky at the moment but let's see where this is going."

@Lyubov If you want to test your theory, create two identical Tinder profiles, same exact face with full head of thick hair, but photoshop out the hair for one of them. You'll see your Tinder matches plummet. Case closed.

@Etherial Cat I just don't see it happening with so little time left.

Of course Trump is one of a kind and not easily replaceable. And he's getting too old for this shit. But... He can still run in 2024. He can still troll on Twitter for a decade to come. And now that he's proven a market for MAGA ideology, some other young politician will emerge to seize on the opportunity. Looking at you, Josh Hawley. It's already happening. People are sitting around in offices right now strategizing how to hijack the MAGA movement once Trump is out. These guys will be thinking, "How can we do what Trump did, but this time without his incompetence, buffoonery, and outright vulgarity?" The billion dollar question is: Can the MAGA movement be led by someone who is not an outright clown and buffoon? Or is that inherently the appeal that makes MAGA so hot. If they can manage to sanitize it by making it not look so outright clownish, they will fool even more people into buying it. What does MAGA look like without Trump? Can it still exist? Or is the buffoonery and vulgarity the core appeal?

The first 2.5 minutes is classic stage Blue:

@Lyubov On some people it works better than on others. It all depends. Don't show me photos of models with perfectly symmetrical faces and flawless skin and breads and shit. That ain't real life.

A cornered rat will puff himself up and hiss and claw Remember, for Trump this is existential. After Jan 20th his legal troubles begin. He is not merely fighting for the Presidency. He's fighting for his entire life. He is not like Obama who can gracefully ride off into the sunset and enjoy his life of leisure.

Crazy can't be kept up forever. Things will temper out. When all these crazy conservatives lose a bunch of elections all over the place the lesson will be re-learned that crazy Republicans can't win. And so moderates will come to the fore like George W. Bush. And they will have much better chances of winning.

Don't bullshit me. Being bald is certainly a disadvantage in dating hot women. Don't use this as an excuse. You can still date hot women while bald. But it's harder. You will have to have better game. 1) Although I am very introverted I really enjoy deep intimate relationships. It's a bit of a paradox, but not really. Introverts like few relationships but they are deeper. We trade off breadth for depth. So while you may think that I don't go deep with intimacy, the opposite is the case. When I'm with a girl, I give her my full attention because I don't scatter my social energy around in 50 different ways. And I'm not with a girl often so it feels much more special. 2) As an introvert you need to make plenty of space for alone time. Don't constantly be together for long periods of time. 3) Dating an introvert is helpful because she too will appreciate her space and alone time and she won't be interested in highly social activities like clubbing or partying. Two deep introverts can make for a great combo. And there are plenty of introverted girls.

Women struggle with dating more than any man can fathom. It's just a different struggle. There is no greater myth than when guys believe: "It's unfair, women have it easy because they can just go to a bar and get banged by some random dude, but I as a guy can't do the the same with hot women." Lolz The self-bias in such logic is staggering.

Don't worry. Democracy is not so fragile. It's dictatorship that's truly fragile. The US' bureaucracy is too advanced to allow a coup or dictatorship to occur. That's my best bet. Of course we must still remain on-guard. Can't let the guard down. My biggest worries are what happens in 4 years if Biden is not successful and MAGA re-surges. MAGA might morph in ugly ways in the future. It really is like a cornered wild animal -- you don't know quite how to handle it and you can't just ignore it. I don't see these people just melting away like spring snow.

It's a good stress-test of our systems. I don't take the threat too seriously at this point. There will be a lot of huffing and puffing but little bite because I don't think Trump is competent or ruthless enough to pull it off. He's not harsh enough to be a dictator. He's a phony, reality-TV, con-man -- not a real dictator. Which is why I've never worried that he would stage a real coup. He's a buffoon and this is his ego's coping strategy. His MAGA cult is dangerous, though. They will not pull off a successful coup, but they can cause damage in other ways so they need to be carefully contained like a wild animal.

I would say no. Things could always get much worse. Nothing seriously bad has happened yet. This storming of the Capitol is ultimately just for show. It's not a serious threat yet. Things could be driven much worse if push comes to shove. Yes, MAGA are deluded. But it's important not to provoke a deluded person too much. Right now we have the moral and legal high ground. We need to keep it. Let MAGA make fools of themselves. Don't be too reactive. Simply uphold the laws. That's all we need. Starting a war with MAGA is what MAGA extremists would love.

If Trump is kicked out early using some 25th Amendment, that will feed the MAGA paranoia of a coup against Trump. This will drive the MAGA extremists and conspiracy theorists wild as they will feel like all that Alex Jones stuff has come true. Not sure how wise that is at this late stage. Might be best to wait it out and have him leave under the classic conditions so MAGA have no claim of an establishment coup against Trump. The psychology here is very tricky. When you are dealing with a crazy person, if you completely disregard his crazy view of the world, it might come back to bite you. It is the burden of the sane person to take the insane person's insanity seriously in asymmetrical fashion -- which is part of what makes him sane and reasonable. So it's important not to totally piss off the MAGA crowd, precisely because they are batshit nuts.

Of course, the ability to make this distinction is what it all comes down to. Conservatives are often too blinded by ideology to be able to make it. And hence the tragedy of it all.

Some narrow criticisms are. But many of the criticisms of police that I hear from progressives are just coming from ignorance of how policing works. To truly criticize the police effectively one would need a lot of experience in the field. Because it's a management and training problem. Specific and laser-targetted reforms are needed, not vague slogans.

The Buddha did 7 years of hardcore yoga practices, all of which he aced. That's before his ultimate enlightenment. Jesus trained with John The Baptist. Baptism was a technique of holding your head under the water until you nearly drowned, and then in the last second of your life, pulling you out. That was Jesus' teacher. That was Jesus' analogue of a psychedelic experience. Jesus also did a 40 day fast and vision quest int he desert. I'm sure you've heard of it. If you hold yourself under water until you're nearly dead, you'll have some trippy experience Be careful what you wish for, though. If I told you guys to do what Buddha or Jesus did to attain enlightenment, you would call me a madman and a criminal. I'm coddling you here like puppies Psychedelics are what I tell you to do when you're too meek to do a 40 day vision quest in the desert.

In a certain sense, of course. Why else would you eat? You eat because you are attached to material existence and material existence makes certain demands of you. That's the cost of existing on Earth. If you are cool with existing elsewhere, then maybe you can stop eating. I doubt a DMT entity needs to eat, but it only exists in DMT space. You can't transcend all biological limits so long as you wish to remain a biological being. You can certainly transcend everything biological, the only question is what will remain of you? If you wish to exist on this Earth then you may have to put up with many biological limits, like having to take a shit. The limits we're most interested in transcending here are not biological but psychological. And many of those you can certainly transcend. Nothing crazy about that.

Haha! "Something happened" = "I imagine it did" What you're not grasping yet is that IMAGINATION = REALITY That's the backstory you invented to explain the present infinite unknown. It works exactly like in a dream. Whatever questions you have, ask it of your dreams. "Is that dog in my dream real? Does it exist when I'm not sleeping?"

The logic of this is very simple: Psychedelics are ultimately a distraction only if all teachings and techniques ever taught are ultimately a distraction. If you are going to argue against psychedelics, that's fine. But then stop being a hypocrite and apply all your same arguments to every book, video, guru, ashram, teacher, retreat, workshop, seminar, school, podcast, etc. Because all of these are technologies invented to speed up an otherwise nearly-impossible process. Without any of these technologies the odds of you awakening would be zero. You would have to be lucky enough to stumble into it by accident. Don't forget, even the Buddha and Jesus had lots of training. They used many radical techniques. They didn't just stumble into it.

Again, to be fair here, progressive protesters burn shit down, vandalize stuff, and occupy government property too. So it's more than just slogans. Civil rights riots do happen and property gets damaged and some people even die. But they are not equal to MAGA buffoonery. MAGA is in a league of its own. The difference is that Civil Rights is a legit cause to fight for. Overthrowing democracy just so Trump can have a 2nd term is not.

This is stretching it. Most police are professionals with integrity, not MAGA buffoons and degenerates. Sure, police generally skew conservative, but conservative != MAGA. It's very important that we don't make the cliche progressive YouTuber mistake of demonizing all conservatives as MAGA idiots because conservatives will be around for another 1000 years, and we need to leave room open for a healthy and reasonable conservative party. The conservative party cannot be eliminated. But MAGA buffoons can. We need to build a pathway out of MAGA and back into healthy mainstream conservativism because these people will definitely not turn progressive. I know it's shocking, but conservativism and idiocy can be independent variables. You can be conservative without being batshit crazy.

I would frame it as: Getting rid of police is like trying to cure a tree from pests by ripping out its roots. This analogy properly shows the foolishness of the strategy. The cure should not be worse than the disease. Getting rid of pests requires a delicate touch, not a chainsaw.

@Star Don't get confused. Shiva (the dark figure above) is NOT the devil nor evil. Shiva is the masculine/Emptiness. The darkness of the image can be misleading to Western-centric minds who associate dark with evil.