Leo Gura

#HumanePolicing The message needs to be uplifting and quasi-spiritual. You need to win the moral high-ground on this one. Stage Green's meanness is showing up here. Mean Green as Wilber calls it. There's definitely some truth to that. Green fails without compassion. Compassion for police is important. They do hard work for little pay and they are mostly good people. Blaming and demonizing cops is a bad move. Police should not be demonized any more than your child who got a bad grade in math class.

#HumanizePolicing That's the crux of what's needed. That's the solution. Who is gonna say NO! to Should we humanize the police? Do you want an inhuman police-force in your town? Check mate! Your political propositions need to resonate with positivity. If your message is easy to misunderstand or demonize, you've lost. I am progressive but even I cringed the first time I heard Defund The Police. And I still cringe when I hear it because then I have to clarify to people, "I am very progressive, but I'm not naive and impractical like those socialist hippies."

I know that. But some extreme progressives go so far as want more than that. Some talk of disbanning the police. The problem is that they few make the rest of the movement look dumb and nonsensical. This is similar to socialists screaming: open boarders. Welp, Covid shut them up real fast. And besides, the slogan is misleading and terrible. If what you want is to cut down on over-policing, then make that your slogan: Stop over-policing. Or better yet something positive like: Better training for police. Then police will be onboard with that. How are police gonna feel when you yell to defund them? How can police be supportive of progressives? They can't when you put their survival on the line like that. It would be like if I told a mother: Don't support your child. She would never listen to me again after that because it sounds so against her entire point of existence. When you create existential threats for people, expect them to react like cornered animals.

Cause Obama has good wisdom. Of course, because radicals don't like any moderation.

Hehehe... You don't need to research world traditions to realize that you have both masculine and feminine aspects to your psyche. This is like saying you need to talk to a French-trained chef in order to know that you enjoy sweet and salty food both, and that there is a complex and important interplay between the two in most dishes. Notice that every good dessert recipe calls for some salt.

Trump is a special case. Don't count on it when there is a more reasonable conservative running like Mitt Romney. They will go for a Mitt Romney type like a dog for a bone.

Just to be fair, those progressives calling to defund/disban the police are also hypocrites and fools. Today TYT is yelling about why the police didn't show up sooner. Talk about hypocrisy. If you defund the police, how are they gonna protect you from an armed MAGA coup? Police need to be well-funded and well-armed. But also well-trained. The progressive slogan to defund the police is probably the clearest example of stage Green stupidity. I understand that they mostly mean to reallocate funds to social work and the like, but a social worker is not gonna stop a crowd of MAGA idiots. That slogan -- defund the police -- is like political suicide.

In the biggest picture Trumpism is actually good because it will teach society important lessons about epistemology, democracy, social media, and late-stage capitalism. All of these lessons have still not been deeply integrated by most of society. Hitler served an analogous function. These are negative case-studies for posterity. Society learns what is right by fucking up for all to see. It is not enough for us to fuck up individually, we must also fuck up collectively to learn collectively.

Imagine if Hitler had access to Facebook, YT, and Twitter.

Yes, it's a perfect storm of shit: internet technology and late-stage capitalism with a stage Green shadow. Under capitalism businesses are incentivized to infect the minds of their audience with garbage because it makes such good money. Facebook, YT, CNN, and FoxNews are making a killing off all this ideological garbage and drama. Nobody at these companies cares about the epistemic and mental health of the country's citizenry. Because there's no incentive to care. In a democracy citizens need healthy, educational, high-consciousness sources of information. But under late-stage capitalism people are fed a McDonald's-like diet of garbage social media memes and drama. The information diet in our society has as much nutritional value as a can of Coke. I've talked about this problem in my video: The Deep Problem Of Marketing Very under-rated and under-watched video. I also talk about it these problems in Cult Psychology - Part 2

Yes, cults prey on the psychologically vulnerable, exactly as Trump did. But it was greatly exacerbated by the new technologies of the 21th century. Really, all this Trumpism and anti-vax stuff just boils down to humans learning how to balance out the new power afforded to them by the internet. When under-educated humans are allowed to create their own epistemic echo-chambers via social media in a capitalist system -- shit hits the fan. It's the same problem as allowing dumb people to mess around with their own DNA. Imagine if your average FoxNews viewer got a hold of DNA-changing technology like CRISPR? Imagine what kind of monstrosities they would create. The problem is that epistemology is such an abstract and intangible thing that almost nobody takes it seriously. At least with DNA modification it's tangible and easy to regulate and see its dangers. But no politician or TV pundit sees the very real dangerous of modifying one's epistemology. Think of it this: If you discovered your teenage son tinkering with his DNA or plutonium, you would freak out and stop him immediately. But what do you do when your teenage son is tinkering with his epistemology on his iPad???

The ultimate problem is how do we deprogram all these MAGA members after Trump exits? It's the same problem as cult deprogramming. This is an epistemology problem. The right-wing has created such as deep and profitable ideological echo-chamber that I don't even know where to begin healing it. We see this with Pizzagate, anti-vaxxers, Flatearthers, etc. Go try healing one of these people. It's impossible. They got cancer of the mind. And not just one but a cluster of them. There is a very anti-mainstream mood in the air. But what these anti-mainstreamers don't realize is that being anti-mainstream can be WORSE and lower in consciousness than the mainstream! Which is why we have the word "cult". A "cult" is just a toxic splinter cell within mainstream cult-ure. The only difference between culture and a cult is that culture is proven by natural selection to scale and be sustainable whereas a cult is not. Culture is a cult which has proven itself sustainable and healthy over the centuries when others did not pass the natural selection tests. MAGA will obviously not pass the natural selection test. It is no scalable or sustainable.

Absolutely! The last 4 years have created a right-wing MAGA echo-chamber of epic proportions which has rotted the minds of at least 40% of Americans. This is the real problem. And this problem will not end with Trump's exit. The real problem is confirmation bias thanks to social media of unprecedented scales. People are literally using social media to cherrypick and construct fantastical views of reality, and no one can stop them. Ironically this is a consequence of an increase in democracy. The democratisation of epistemology is a very dangerous thing when people have no clue what epistemology is. I explain all this in my video: Understanding Democracy: https://www.actualized.org/articles/understanding-democracy

It's not just the physical guns. It's the culture and the level of inequality. In a country with a great social safety net, violence and its cultural glorification is not so necessary. In Finland those are mostly probably hunting rifles -- also a part of Finish culture.

It's just basic psychology of the ego. Nothing mysterious about it. The ego is very predictable in its tricks once you study the ego deeply enough. When you fully understand the ego-mind, people's behaviors become so predictable. People are like robots that way. Because they are just acting out cravings and fears. Nothing more. A person driven by craving and fear is very predictable. Truly original behavior requires Tier 2 cognitive development. The lower you are on the Spiral the more predictable your behavior is. Like an animal. Once you become ridiculously conscious your behavior becomes impossible to predict because you're so free, flexible, and creative. Your mind has been jailbroken.

There is a serious problem here that if all the people with integrity resign over this, only the biggest devils will remain. That is a very dangerous thing. Once that happens there will be no one to steer the ship away from the mortal blow.

My fave quote about this is ironically from conservative David Frum: That's been Frum's pinned Twitter for several years now and it's absolutely gonna come to fruition.

In a dream, is the body real? No. It's imaginary. Your physical body is actually just a dense form of imagination. Note: I'm not saying that your idea of having a body is imaginary. I am saying your actual body is imaginary. If you look at your hand long enough you will realize it is imaginary. You are imagining the entire backstory of your life right this second. Your parents, all your childhood memories, all your past trauma, and your birth of course as a human. All of it is imagined by you NOW You have a body in the sense that you are imagining it right now. But you can also stop imagining it -- at which point it will disappear. Of course the ego does not have voluntary control over how the body is imagined. So you cannot just imagine yourself with 5 nipples and it happens. No. Ego doesn't not control that. God is imagining that you have 2 nipples.

Because he's already in a fragile state.

Good for him. Most Republicans should come to their senses. They kept underestimating Trump's depravity for 4 years. Now they can deny it no longer. The Republicans have been like that cliche sorcerer in every fantasy RPG game who wants to open a portal to hell to spawn in a demon, thinking he will get to control the demon and it will do his bidding, but of course the demon ends up devouring or possessing him and going on a rampage.

Do not post Facebook gossip here. It is cancer plain and simple and I'm not going to waste my time debunking it point by point. It's pure shit.

Honestly, that split already happened 4 years ago with intelligent conservatives like David Frum, Bill Krystal, Nichol Wallace, Joe Scarborough. They knew right off the bat that Trump was an imposter conservative and they opposed him early on. But now that time has come for the rest of the conservative base who were not so bright and prescient. Now they must choose between MAGA and democracy.

Anyone posting news or information in this thread, be very careful that you are not spreading propaganda or falsehoods. Triple-check your sources before you post here. Don't post random gossip from social media. I am not going to be babysitting you guys through this. If you cannot demonstrate an ability to check facts and sources yet you post it here like it's news but it turns out to be fake, that will get you banned. Don't share random crap from Facebook or Twitter. Fact-check it first.

Conservatives are gonna fracture now between those who have integrity and those who do not. Those with integrity will stand against Trump. Those without it -- the MAGA crowd -- will go all-in on MAGA since they have cancer of the mind. Historically this will be remembered analogous to those who stood against Hitler during his rise and those who denounced him as the devil that he is. Now the line will get very stark.

Why are you listening to such right-wingers who have clearly demonstrated themselves to spread falsehoods and propaganda? Do not post random right-wing gossip here. Otherwise I could post, I've been hearing from some right-wingers that you are a pedophile. When you try to cast this obviously MAGA movement as somehow caused by communists and Antifa, you instantly discredit yourself. Communists are not contesting the democratic process here, MAGA are. And MAGA will try to blame anyone but themselves for their despicable behavior.