Leo Gura

@PurpleTree It would be nice if you didn't resort to such cheap strawman arguments with me.

I dunno. Gamer culture behavior is quite toxic. I'd say Destiny is the perfect embodiment of the chronically online gamer. Which just goes to show how problematic that sub-culture is. I don't think Destiny is some unique predator. He represents typical online juvenile male behavior. This is how a typical gamer male would behave if you have him power, fame, and money. The disturbing thing here is not that Destiny is some exceptional online predator freak but just how typical and "normal" he is for that sub-culture. I think many young men would behave like him if only given the opportunity. Which is why these kind of scandals are common within the streamer community. Corruption as an online influencer is very easy because there are virtually no ethical standards, no one to oversee you, yet you have lots of power to exploit your followers sexually and financially, and most influencers are very immature and under-developed humans.

At this point it's hard to justify appearing on his show because the bad vibes will rub off on anyone who appears next to him without addressing his toxic behavior. It is a shame because he has very good political analysis.

Growing up means facing the just conseqeunces of one's actions. If he's keeping silent to avoid losing a case, that puts him deeper in the low integrity hole. He should settle with her, pay her some money and just admit he was wrong and will do better going forward. He's got money to spare. This would be a good use of it, to clean up his image a bit.

Coddling murderers is not some great moral achievement. Millions of people die each year needlessly. Focus your consciousness on them, not on the obvious psychopaths. Don't forget that we have finite resources and murderers don't deserve a priority to them.

No. Trump is the result of laxness, not strictness.

I don't see that. Shooting a mass shooter in the middle of his crime doesn't lower us. Neither does shooting him after a fair trial. Life is harsh and serious crime has serious stakes. People need to be more aware of the serious stakes for toxic behavior. Coddling a murderer does not serve consciousness.

Destiny is definitely in the wrong. He has a long pattern of very immature gamer-culture behavior: It would better for Destiny to just come forward and issue a blanket apology for his past, admit he was wrong and very immature, and that he intends to work on himself and evolve going forward. Destiny has some very good political positions and arguments. However his gamer immaturity is really holding him back. This is where he needs some deep actualization work, to shed that corruption from his psyche. Then he will be a powerful thought-leader. But if he refuses to outgrow it, it will hurt him.

I don't have a problem with death penalty for assassination or mass shootings with solid video evidence. It's a fair punishment.

Good work. Keep at it. Sober life is king.

Robbins is not a scam, self-help is not a scam, the problem is the corrupt way in which it is marketed and sold. And also the shallow materialistic versions of it. There is a grifty quality to Tony Robbins and his ilk. There is a fakeness to it, as you saw in that video. It's similiar to religion. Religion is not a scam but it is so corrupt. If McConaughey wanted to do a legit self-help course he could, but instead he got seduced by the Tony Robbins crew into this fake cringe grift. And the problem is that Tony Robbins' crew have deluded themselves into thinking this is an acceptable way to teach personal development. This is like preachers who tell you that God will give you a place in heaven if you just send a check for $100 dollars.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Remember, at the end of the day, Trump is just a hyper-capitalist neo-liberal who wants everything privatized for profit.

Yarvin is like American Dugin. Sounds intelligent on the surface but utterly depraved in substance and praxis.

Juvenile fascist BS:

By realizing that everyone starts life from a position of total ignorance and the only way to learn is to make mistakes and study the feedback. By realizing that being wrong is nothing personal. You did the best you knew at the time.

Yes, escalate.

That's very different. Black dancers are not the world's most powerful oligarchs.

@Jayson G You are misusing the news. You should consume news in bits to get important new developments. Not mindlessly clicking on every bit that some algorithm serves up for you to consume like a pig at the trough. Check the news once a week, and don't read anything about topics you already figured out. You know Musk and Trump by now, you don't need to consume any more about them. You don't need to consume every latest nonsense they said. And you don't need a bunch of more AI news. Either use the AI tools or don't. Enough reading about them. We know how AI works and you don't need the latest model, they are all basically alike. You have to focus your attention on what really matters. News is never what really matters.

Yes, you guys are way too chronically immersed in the news. Stop consuming news for 3 months and see how you feel. You're getting lost in a social narrative. Go outside, touch grass. When I started my first business in 2008, right in the middle of the market collapse, I didn't even check the news for 5 years. During that time I made a bunch of money and didn't even know or care what the economy was doing. If sat around watching the financial news every day I would have probably been so depressed and pessimistic that I wouldn't have even worked on my business. The news narrative -- regardless of what it is -- is NOT reality. Stop watching news and go work on something creative. Go make some art. You will see that all this news stuff is a stupid distraction. You are not improving the world by sitting around worrying about the news each day. Recognize that Trump's #1 goal is to leech your attention. Trump is an attention whore and he will waste your life by distracting you from the important work you should be doing rather than watching his stupid reality TV show. Same goes for Musk. These narcissists are just attention whores who are too pathetic to generate their own love so they steal it from you like vampires. Stop feeding the vampires.

The reality is that government has little impact on your individual life unless something very specific happens like a draft for WW3, or you get unlucky enough to get in some terrorist cross-fire. If you don't got to protests and you don't work in government, virtually nothing will happen to you. You can live in Putin's Russia or Saudi Arabia, and unless you are actively challenging political power or your country is at war, nothing bad will happen to you. How do you think most of the world lives? Most people live in peace even in a warzone. Even in Ukraine people mostly live in peace and go about business as usual. When bad stuff happens, it falls on a very small percentage of the population. Only those who are unlucky get hit. Realistically we are talking about a market crash and some bad inflation. That's mostly what I expect. Plus a bunch of media noise, chaos, and corruption. And of course the death of democracy. Death of democracy does not mean that you personally get a gun to your head.

Close to 10 years. You don't need some man-made chemical to have healthy teeth.

I don't see the point in that unless you are maybe an illegal immigrant. And even then it probably doesn't make sense. Our political situation is bad, but you should be careful not to over-react to it. Realistically you can look forward to a market crash, but even then it's not a reason to leave the country. And don't forget that you can still be successful in the middle of a market crash. I made lots of money in 2008-2010 when everyone was complaining about a bad market. Your individual performance has little to do with large average trends. The market could crash 50% but you could still have the best career of your life. People were making careers in the midst of WW2. So don't overreact. You should focus on being productive and creative, not wallowing in political doom and gloom. By the time Trump crashes the market you could start a business and earn a million dollars. Watch less news and focus on your creative work.

Of course it's wrongness relative to the light of your own consciousness. How else could it be? Your consciousness is the only game in town. But by the light of your own consciousness you clearly see things you've done in the past which were wrong. So wrong that you look back at it now and you cringe. But, there is more of this wrongness within you right now which you have not yet recognized, but you could recognize. To get grounded, start by deeply investigating examples of ways you've been clearly wrong in the past. And I don't just mean obvious things. You've been clearly wrong about many non-obvious, subtle things which took your years of life experience to realize and outgrow. Investigate that. Then you will have examples to help you identify more wrongness which is yet hidden within you. It is not futile at all. You should be able to make a list of 100 things you've been wrong about in your life. And not just trivial stuff -- profound, serious, subtle, important stuff. There are a lot more ways of being wrong than being right. So don't worry, you've got plenty of grist for the mill here. But also, it takes experience, suffering, time, and distance to start to see serious wrongness within you. You're too close to yourself to see all of it. But still, you should be able to see some. As just the tip of the iceberg you can explore all the ways you've been wrong just in your activity on this forum. Not wrong according to me or some Mod, wrong according to your own better judgment. Everyone one this forum should recognize things they said on this forum that were wrong, which you know you would not have said if you were more consciousness and less selfish. Of course I speak from experience.

The only realistic way out of this mess is a rude awakening. Either a market crash or some kind of geopolitical disaster like a war. Something ugly and nasty. People need to feel the consequences of the corruption and incompetence on their wallet or as some personal inconvenience. People won't awaken through logic or argument but through pain. We have exhausted all the reasonable options at this point, so only pain remains.