Leo Gura

There is truth and wisdom in a policy of reigning in NATO. I just don't entrust Trump with such a sensitive and nuanced matter. He will find some way to clown it up. I also doubt to what extent Trump could actually alter or undo NATO expansion. But even if he could do all that it is not worth the cost of losing our democracy at home. I'm not going to support a corrupt authoritarian just because he might have a few good "anti-war" policies. Because authoritarians are not known to be peaceful people. Maybe Trump starts a war with Iran. You don't know. He's an agent of chaos.

Hermitage is an escape valve from human madness.

That's how its been for 10,000 years.

It's not that Trump does not have any positive qualities, it's that they are not relevant to his suitability for public office. I am biased against devilry, yes.

Liberals often register as Republicans in order to vote against them in their primaries, especially in red states where Dem votes are meaningless. So this registration doesn't tell us much.

@Karmadhi The situations in Ukraine and Gaza were and are too serious for Trump to make any positive solution to them. All he can do is blow hot air and spin bullshit, not solve intractable problems. Trump is too intellectually lazy to even read a book about Ukraine or Gaza. This tells you everything.

That is problematic too. But Iran did not invade anyone. And giving its own money back to Iran was part of a larger attempt to make a deal with them. Trump broke the Iran peace deal. So by your loigc Trump is responsible for the Gaza war. And Trump is responsible for the Ukraine war by being soft on Putin. Two can play such blame games.

That money belonged to Iran. I guess if you want the US to steal money then Trump is your man.

This makes no sense. The notion that world leaders are afraid of Trump is ridiculous. They view Trump as a useful idiot clown. Only a self-absorbed American could believe that Trump intimidates world leaders into inaction. As if Putin or some Hamas terrorist gives a damn that Trump exists. All they see is Americans acting like clowns.

Well, part of being intelligent is being able to see things from multiple perspectives and an appreciation for moral relativity. But he could also just be playing self-deception games. Probably both.

Woot! AOC needs more security around her. The MAGA lunatics are circling.

I think Destiny's rationalizations of Israeli domination of Palestinians is one of his weakest positions that I have heard. Destiny may be right on some technical points there but he is wrong in the big picture of what Israel is doing. Israel is engaged in domination and exploitation of a weak minority group through underhanded Machinavellian machinations and lies.

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That's why, on the whole, I have no problem with Distiny. He has better core takes than many Progressives who just parrot Marxist dogma. Destiny actually thinks about nuanced factors on both sides. He's not just shilling for one side. So huge points to him for achieving that much epistemic intelligence as a gamer. Destiny's problems are more in style than substance. He has an immature style.

Coming from that gamer culture background Destiny is just immature. Destiny can make a lot of sense at times, and he is skilled at debate, but at the core of his psyche is still that gamer boy who yells racist slurs while playing multiplayer Halo. That limits Destiny's development. He's kinda stuck in that role. This shows you the problemic influence of toxic gamer culture on young men in general.

They were radicalized with culture war issues. Of course the electorate is large so some people are voting for economic or policy reasons. I was speaking more generally. He's a cynical con-artist so he knows he's running a con on his followers. He thinks of his own followers as suckers who will buy anything. But also he's an egomaniac so he will believe whatever juices up his ego. I'm sure his ego gets juiced up from thinking of himself as savior of America from woke Communists or some such fantasy. So it's a combination of pure cynical Machiavellianism plus the delusions of grandiose narcissism.

An ant will find you in your bed. Ant knows where you live.

Hitting his ear is a good shot. That's like 3 inches off center. The Devil just has supernatural luck.

But it's a matter of great degree. Degree makes all the difference here.

The really scary thing is not drones with guns, but tiny insect drones who are so small they can poison you without you even seeing them. Imagine a drone the size of a dragonfly with a poison syringe flying right into your neck during a speech. That is coming. The best drone is a poison ant that craws up your leg. You won't even know what killed you.

That means police did their job well.

People who cast MAGA as economically motivated have been shown consistently wrong. They misunderstand the nature of this beast. This is A CULTURE WAR, it is not about policy or improvement of government, or a critique of capitalism. The people who support Trump are too ignorant to care about such sophisticated things as proper governance or economics. These people want MORE capitalism! And they will hang socialists like Chris Hedges from a gallows. Because this isn't about improving economics. You could give each MAGA ten million dollars and they would still be MAGA. They don't care about crafting fair economic policy. Hedges is projecting his socialist agenda onto this CULTURE WAR.

This video documents the Devil's sick game very well:

I'm not saying there won't be a few solid projects. But overall, on the whole, the crypto hype community is built on immature values, the values of libertarian man-children, theives, con-artists, and the lust for easy money. Investing your money with such people is a fool's game. Again, full disclosure: I own some Bitcoin. But if you want to do proper investing crypto ain't it. I say this because a lot of young people have gotten fooled by the hype machine that crypto is how to do proper investing.

Good! I will not spell it out for an AI to comprehend.